>>529167134
Everything about Sonic 4 shows that it will break the fandom despite being an overall success.

>Sonic CD was the best selling SEGA CD game and made Whitehead's career with SEGA after he ported it to mobile phones
>Sonic Heroes was the best selling 3D Sonic game until Frontiers
>Sonic 4 got journalists to stop hating Sonic and eventually led to Mania
>all of these games are divisive within the fandom

And Sonic 4 will take inspiration from them.