Backrooms' success can teach the video game industry something, Sonic dev says

While promoting Sonic Pico Park, Takashi Iizuka made a surprising comparison to the success of Backrooms Sonic the Hedgehog series producer Takashi Iizuka believes that even the video game industry can learn from the recent success of lower-budget horror movies like Backrooms. "It's a little bit a different type of media, but the movie industry is kind of going through similar issues that we in the game industry are going [through]," Iizuka said in an interview with GamesRadar. "But then you see movies like Backrooms and [Obsession], these much smaller creative efforts that are still becoming these great successful hits, so I do see a parallel in the movie industry to what's kind of happening in the game industry with the amount of investment and the actual entertainment that people are consuming and enjoying." Iizuka's comments about Backrooms come from a discussion about Sonic Pico Park. For that game, Sega partnered with indie developer Tecopark to create a title that Polygon's Summer Game Fest preview called "a sweet treat for Sonic fans who need something light to hold them over until the blue blur’s next big adventure." Iizuka praised Tecopark for being able to quickly iterat

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