User blog comment:Sonicarchie18/Sally's redesign-Good thing or bad thing/@comment-68.59.197.100-20121016235248/@comment-1986314-20121017000143

While it would be an interesting take on the series, in my opinion the appearance of Archie characters should be reserved for a Spinoff game, one that doesn't relate to the main series. Adding SatAM/Archie characters to the main Sonic series is not necessarily plausible, considering all of the other crazy characters that were implemented throughout the timeline. The thing is, would fans be able to accept the sudden turn in plotline to simultaneously accept the sudden heap of new characters? Judging by the way SEGA would treat them, they'd be left for single-purpose games much like Yacker from Sonic Colors. The other issue being that Archie has rights to the characters they create, and I have doubts Sonic Team would display total interest in the meantime. As far as things go, Archie is its own canon, and SEGA confirms the latter.