User blog comment:Rainbowroad6w/An unreleased skateboarding Sonic game intended to be for XBox?/@comment-10603955-20110430042705/@comment-10603955-20110430051039

A development gap, I've seen this so many times with video games. I believe Sonic Riders was originally going to be this game but got stuck with the storyline (or the proper way of putting it would be development hell) because of involvement of characters seemingly impossible to appear without thpoilerth and so they puted it on hold for a couple of years (2-3 years maybe) To get the functions and gameplay mechanics to work properly without screw ups. Due to at the time of 2006 (Sonic Rider's release date), there was alot of more extreme than usual games (Uncharted, Dynasty Warriors Gundam, etc) and so they had to pitch in to something we probably gotten an interest in (extreme sci fi racing) at that time, and so this replaced the idea of Sonic riding a skateboard with Sonic riding an extreme hoverboard from classic sci fi franchises (Back to the Future, Ratchet & Clank, Jak II, etc.)