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SONIC LOST WORLD

DEVELOPER: SONIC TEAM

RELEASE: 2013

After experiencing success with and , Sonic Team decided’s awesome globes, but this experiment was too uneven to match those glorious heights. This game formed part of an exclusivity deal between Sega and Nintendo, so the Wii U has the only home console version of the game – it did also appear on PC, and there is a 3DS game of the same name with different stage designs. The Wii U was infamously unpopular to begin with and Nintendo platforms often attract a price premium amongst collectors, so this could be one to watch in the future as the platform transitions from being merely old to being regarded as retro.

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