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Sonic 2006 was only a PS3 launch title in Europe where the system came out a few months later, it launched on 360 earlier and the release was slightly after the PS3 launch in NA and Japan. Everybody knew how bad it was by then.

However, anybody hyping it was already all the way in on Sonic. Sonic had three 3D games that were mediocre at best and a 3D spinoff in Shadow the Hedgehog that was bad. Despite them using the title as a way to imply a reboot, it was clear from the marketing that this was a continuation of the Adventure games and Shadow. I remember the trailers for it, they looked terrible. It was never going to be good, the question was how bad it would end up as. I am not even sure it was what finally eliminated all hope of a good 3D Sonic game, as Secret Rings came out a few months later and wasnt awful, then people hyped Unleashed and the sequel to that accordingly only for them to be bad, then Colours was good and Generations was okay which led people to hype Lost World and so on.

It wasnt a bad launch it was just a terrible game. Anyway, the answer is XIV as it nearly killed the franchise which none of these other games can claim really. No Mans Sky was just bad communication, and Fallout 76 was an early access game released as an actual launch instead.

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