User blog comment:GraveEclipse567/New Sonic game rumor: Possibly having about ten playable characters/@comment-4533965-20130202164042

I'm going to go with 58SlugDrones on this one: I think it's false.

Why would Sega make another Sonic game with 10 playable characters? They clearly saw the amount of praise given from Colors and Generations. Heck, I can even consider Sonic 4: 2 on this, even though you could play as Tails. Besides, if it IS going to be a mainstream Sonic game, why have that many playable characters. If I can recall, Takashi Iizuka said that the spin-off Sonic games are going to have characters like Shadow and Knuckles. If a game like this is going to have 10 playable characters in it, I say that it's a spin-off game.

On the other hand, Sega said that after Sonic 4:2, some sort of reboot to the series will happen. Could this be the reboot? Only time will tell.