Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24165717-20141017023407/@comment-679780-20141114171749

Burpy's dream wrote: I kinda liked Orbot and Cubot in Sonic Boom, so far, in "Can an Evil Genius Crash on Your Couch for a few Days?", where Eggman flat-out insults them when Sonic asks them if they're tired of Eggan's antics, when Cubot inquires about himself and Orbot when Eggman says he's never lived with other people, and turns them down when they want in on the roommate group hug. You like them in Sonic Boom because Sonic Boom is a cartoon where such characters belong. Orbot and Cubot are Sega's equivilent to Scratch and Grounder, Sleet and Dingo, Decoe and Bokkun, etc. My guess since Dr. Eggman has developed as a character since the Dreamcast era that Sonic Team needed him someone to talk to for character development. Instead of asking "Do we have any old characters we could use?" They just decide to make brand new ones.

Seems Sonic Team can't make a new Sonic game without adding someone new to it.