Board Thread:Sonic News Channel/@comment-31564869-20170330203146/@comment-1669199-20170331005722

Ogsonic wrote: We know that there is goin to be a new character. Sega confirmed that dreamcast sonic and future sonic will not be in this game, How would you guys feel if boom sonic was in this game and the third gameplay style. I would probably loose faith in sonic if that happened. Then they'd have to explain how the Sonic Boom incarnation of Sonic is appearing in a game outside of his universe, on top of also having to explain the original Sonic's past self reappearing in the new game. Basically, they'd have to find a way to explain a plot that involves dimension hopping and time travel without causing one too many headaches for the average player, because at the end of the day this is a standard Sonic game we're talking about.

I think that'd be far more trouble for the development team to deal with than it'd be worth.