Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Initial Sales Didn't Meet SEGA's Expectations 1

In a report from November 2025, SEGA revealed a little bit more about the sales performance of its big kart racer, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds.

At the time, the game had reached a worthy milestone of 1 million units sold, but it seems the publisher had higher hopes.

"We recently announced that worldwide cumulative sales have surpassed 1 million units," the report states. However, it adds that "initial performance did not meet our expectations," obviously suggesting its internal targets were not met.

The publisher is "aiming to sell approximately another 1 million units within this fiscal year," by which it means the end of March 2026.

It hopes to achieve that by "encouraging players to enjoy the game over time through the continued support of the title including ongoing release of additional downloadable content".

Indeed, since its launch in September of last year, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds has been updated with several free characters to race as, and multiple premium DLC packs have also been released, adding more characters, cars, and tracks from other brands.

There are still a couple of DLC packs to come, introducing Nickelodeon's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Avatar properties to the colourful kart racer.

Whether SEGA has plans for much more after that remains to be seen. It's also unknown at this stage how close the game is to its target of 2 million total sales by March.

As reported by Eurogamer, its main competition, Mario Kart World, has sold 9.5 million copies as of last September.

[source segasammy.co.jp, via resetera.com, eurogamer.net]