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RetuenOfDevsman posted...

The games dropped off in quality HARD the exact moment the sixth gen started. Wrath of Cortez was eh, Nitro Kart was ehhhhhh, and everything after that you could tell from the title or boxart alone was gonna be total garbage.

Same thing happened to Spyro, and Ape Escape, and Sonic had sorta the same thing but in slow motion. I think mascot gaming was just going out of style and publishers/devs were basically playing hot potato to make sure someone else was stuck with them.

I know at least with sega, they started using low budget Sonic games as a cheap ways to raise money. I think they flat out said that Sonic and The secret rings was basically shovelware but they use that money to fund making Sonic unleashed. Mascot characters became a fairly reliable way to make a decent amount of money by pushing out a mid effort game aimed at children.