With Umamusume taking the world by storm.
How much money did SEGA miss out on by not making their Chao game. Complete with Chao Races and the Chao Garden and whatever other facilities they could add considering it'd be a standalone game.

Or would it never succeed because the Chaos are cute fantasy creatures instead of sexy anime girls?
I know sex sells, but cute sells too. I think Chao Racing really could have been huge, but now Horsegirl Racing kind of ate up all the market shares first.

>>715292890 (OP)
they missed out on a lot of money because chao are cute. if they tried to make something luke sa2+chao garden though, new sega would fuck it up beyond your wildest imagination though

Horse girls are horse girls.
What even are chaos? Ghosts?

>>715292890 (OP)
It would have failed because Sega would have made a half assed mobile gacha game that nobody actually liked.

>>715292890 (OP)

https://chao-island.com/downloads/pc-mods/chao-world-extended/

>>715296483
The most prevalent theory is that chao(s) are related to chaos from SA1. Which as of frontiers is an alien.
Even in SA1 we see him protecting them in the past, and they hang out around the master emerald. Also if they reincarnate enough they end up looking like this.

>>715298214
Are those tiny water-river hands like Chaos? That's cute.

>>715298567
Yeah. They're called "chaos chao" by players, but I don't think that name every officially comes up.
I suppose you could argue they are just mimicking chaos' appearance, since tails/amy/knuckles chao all exist too. But it feels a bit more deliberate than that given the SA1 stuff.

What if the Chao were actually hot anime girls instead

>>715298062
Their goal is to conquer the world after they've matured, isn't it?

>>715292890 (OP)
>How much money did SEGA miss out on by not making their Chao game
It's obvious that Sonic team have no interest in recreating the Chao system and are also too stingy to outsource it to someone like Hardlight.

>>715292890 (OP)
Sega are innovators in fucking things up, it would've been a horrific failure and would shatter your heart for having ever placed trust in them.

>>715299298
i find chao sexy enough already.

>>715299549
do not the lotus

>>715299678

>>715299736
ESPECIALLY do not the baby lotus

>>715299450
this

>>715298093
>https://chao-island.com/downloads/pc-mods/chao-world-extended/
Is this a big upgrade?
Worth starting a playthrough for this alone?

>>715292890 (OP)
this but Monster Rancher

>>715301459
https://chao-island.com/downloads/pc-mods/chao-world-extended/features/main-package
Here's the feature list of the main module.

You can click all this other shit to see what they add, too.

>>715301459
NTA but its a pretty big overhaul. SAmodmanager is piss easy to set up too, at least for SA2.
Just get the mod manager and grab it here: https://gamebanana.com/mods/48840

>>715301459
I genuinely cannot imagine playing Chao Garden without CWE. It's like comparing F2P servers to Members servers on Old School Runescape, if you'll excuse the faggy comparison.

>>715299420
yes

>>715292890 (OP)
Forget SEGA, it's been more than 20 years, why haven't the fans made a chao game yet?
The devs of Sonic Adventure probably made the chao game on the side of making the actual game, it's not exactly a complicated minigame

>>715306067
There are a couple or a few in development. But I have no idea which one is the most promising or likely to end up releasing a complete product.