Sonic Team is already working on its next Sonic game.
Series producer Takashi Iizuka confirmed the unannounced project in a new 35th anniversary interview with 4Gamer at Tokyo Game Show 2026. He stopped short of revealing a title, platforms or release window, but spoke directly about where Sonic Team wants to take the series after Sonic Frontiers.
Asked what kind of evolution lies ahead for Sonic, Iizuka began with the confirmation fans have been waiting for:
“I can’t talk about the specifics of the new game currently in development, but I’m convinced there’s still plenty more we can do in terms of how the series can evolve.”
He pointed to the Color Powers introduced in Sonic Colors as one example of a mechanic that significantly changed how the series played, before turning to the much larger shift brought by Sonic Frontiers.
“I think there’s still more beyond the systemic evolution opened up by Sonic Frontiers.”
That wording is important. Iizuka is not announcing Sonic Frontiers 2, nor does the interview establish that the next game will simply reuse the Open-Zone structure. What he does say is that Sonic Team still sees somewhere further to go after the changes Frontiers introduced.
He then described a broader approach to getting there:
“Through different approaches to characters, story and game systems, we’ll create new kinds of play that haven’t existed before, so please look forward to it.”
Earlier in the interview, Iizuka called Sonic Frontiers one of the three Sonic games that has meant the most to him, alongside Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Sonic Adventure. He described Frontiers as a major test that helped determine the future of the series and said he had wanted to make an open-world Sonic game for roughly a decade.
Getting there was not straightforward. Iizuka explained that Sonic’s core appeal had always been built around running through designed courses, which made the idea of dropping him into a huge open space difficult to solve.
“There’s no way Sonic standing alone in a huge, empty space would be fun.”
According to Iizuka, director Morio Kishimoto eventually found the answer with the Open-Zone format, something he described as a major step forward for Sonic’s future.
The next game is not the only direction Sonic Team is interested in developing. Iizuka also told 4Gamer that the team wants to keep evolving both the 2D Classic Sonic games and 3D Modern Sonic games, pointing to Sonic Superstars and Sonic Frontiers as examples of those two sides of the series continuing in parallel.
“We don’t just want evolution through technology. We want to continue evolving both the 2D Classic series and the 3D Modern series.”
For now, Sonic Team is keeping the new game’s identity under wraps. There is no announced name, platform lineup, release date or trailer. What Iizuka has now confirmed is that development is underway, and that the team is looking beyond Frontiers rather than treating its ideas as the end point for modern Sonic.
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