(2014) is frequently cited as one of the most significant "failures" in modern gaming history, not necessarily due to a lack of ambition, but due to a catastrophic misalignment between developers, publishers, and hardware. I. Development: The "Synergy" That Never Was
: Midway through development, Sega signed an exclusivity deal with Nintendo. This forced developers to port a high-fidelity CryEngine game to the significantly less powerful Wii U, which the engine was not designed to support. Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric
Originally developed by , the project began in 2011 under codenames like Project Apollo and Sonic Synergy . (2014) is frequently cited as one of the
