Sonic sales hit a low with Sonic Boom on Wii U and 3DS

Sonic the Hedgehog’s starting to resemble washed-up boxer Jake LaMotta in the final scene of Raging Bull.

The once-great gaming mascot just pulled in some seriously disappointing sales figures for Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric on the Wii U and Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal on Nintendo 3DS, which released November 2014. The games only sold 490,000 copies combined, as revealed in Sega’s latest financial report. That makes Sonic Boom the lowest-selling major Sonic titles ever, according to Eurogamer. It’s a low point for Sega’s iconic mascot, whose image used to sell hardware in the great Sega-versus-Nintendo console war of the 1990s.

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