It is official; Netcraft confirms: Sonic Retro is dying

Shocking findings state obvious

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Sonic Retro community when IDC confirmed that Sonic Retro market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Sonic Retro has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Sonic Retro is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [badnik.net] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

You don't need to be a Phugolz [x-cult.org] to predict Sonic Retro's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Sonic Retro faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Sonic Retro because Sonic Retro is dying. Things are looking very bad for Sonic Retro. As many of us are already aware, Sonic Retro continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

Sonic Stadium is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Sonic Stadium developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Sonic Stadium is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

TSSZ News leader Tristan states that there are 7000 users of TSSZ News. How many users of SFGHQ are there? Let's see. The number of TSSZ News versus SFGHQ posts on forum is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 SFGHQ users. SSRG posts on forum are about half of the volume of SFGHQ posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of SSRG. A recent article put Sonic Stadium at about 80 percent of the Sonic Retro market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Sonic Stadium users. This is consistent with the number of Sonic Stadium forum posts.

Due to the troubles of Green Hill Zone, abysmal sales and so on, Sonic Stadium went out of business and was taken over by Dr. Eggman who sell another troubled OS. Now Dr. Eggman is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

All major surveys show that Sonic Retro has steadily declined in market share. Sonic Retro is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Sonic Retro is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. Sonic Retro continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Sonic Retro is dead.

Another study simply states that 97% of the Sonic community is brainless zombies, but this has not been verified or fact-checked.

We will continue to update as developments warrant.