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" Sega has claimed that its audience are on Nintendo platforms. The exclusive partnership announced earlier this year between the two publishers &amp;quot;just made sense&amp;quot;, according to Sega.  Sonic games released exclusively on Nintendo consoles in the past have apparently performed exceptionally well. &amp;quot;If we trace Sonic&amp;#039;s third-party roots all the way back to just after the Dreamcast, we released Sonic Adventure 2: Battle on the GameCube and it did phenomenally well,&amp;quot; Sonic brand manager Aaron Webber told Polygon. &amp;quot;We think that&amp;#039;s because there was a lot of overlap between the Sonic/Sega and Nintendo crowd at that time, and we just found historically that Sonic performs really, really well on Nintendo platforms.  &amp;quot;Sonic Colors did great, Sonic and the Black Knight did well and Sonic and Secret Rings did well - all Nintendo.   &amp;quot;When we look at the numbers, we thought, &amp;#039;This is clearly where our audience is&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; The next three Sonic titles will launch only on Nintendo platforms, starting with Sonic Lost World, which will be released in Europe on October 18 and in North America on October 29 for both Nintendo 3DS and Wii U. Mario &amp;amp;amp; Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games will be released this year as well, though the third Nintendo-exclusive Sonic game has yet to be revealed. Watch a trailer for Sonic Lost World below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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