In the current gaming industry, certain practices are done to promote upcoming titles. One of them is letting gaming outlets like websites, magazines, and particular streamers get a chance to play the game and showcase footage or talk about their experiences. The hope is that this will get people more excited for the upcoming title and thus will drum up buzz about it. Then, when the game is really close to launching, the dev team will send out review copies to a bunch of sites and outlets so they can try to “win over” their own fanbase potentially with their review score. But for Sonic Frontiers, we might not be getting that.

On Twitter, gaming writer and insider Kirk McKeand made a post that noted how he talked to several other people in the industry and that only a few of them got review codes for Sonic Frontiers. But, of course, that’s not what you’d expect for a AAA title like that. Or, as he said in his tweet, “not reassuring.”