Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24270839-20131212055952/@comment-24252369-20131224053913

Or they just couldn't decide on a new age, or didn't need to specify what his new age would be.

We know he's older now, (than 15/16) and that's all the developers wanted us to know.

I'm happy with that. Now they just need to clean up the mess they've made by removing all of the characters' ages on Sonic Channel, and from here on leaving the ages as something that doesn't matter or something that could roughly be estimated based on the characters behavior- just like in most other video games.