Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24270839-20131212055952/@comment-24252369-20131222231332

That's true. These kind of contradictions in the story could be why Sega has recently not been giving ages to the Sonic characters. Heroes proved that the developers can make these changes whenever they want to.

After looking over all of this evidence from Generations and learning about the developers' past and recent decisions in this area, it seems reasonable and fair to conclude that Generations does indicate (and make it obvious) that the modern Sonic is older than his former self, which is also supported by him having a birthday in that game. This would also have to be applied to the other characters too.

This evidence (and proof) found in Generations also officially contradicts the ages of the characters as listed on Sonic Channel, so the best thing for Sonic Channel to do now would simply be to remove all of their ages for the characters completely. This would also support Sega's recent actions in not having ages.

The new question that fans might start asking now is how old the modern Sonic is in Generations. The developers might not answer this in the future because they might have permanently stopped giving the characters ages and/or it doesn't matter. As long as they make it obvious that the characters are now older (which they have successfully done) then I don't think it matters anyway.