Det var i første omgang meningen at studiet bag Sonic Mania, Christian Whitehead, skulle have udviklet det kommende Sonic Superstars, men de forhandlinger faldt fra hinanden. Så nu er ansvaret havnet et sted som mange klassiske Sonic-fans kender.
Det er nemlig Arzest der skal udvikle spillet, og det japanske studie ledes af Naoto Ohshima, som krediteres som den originale designer bag Sonic-karakteren. Faktisk leverede han art til de tidligste spil i serien, men har ikke haft med Sonic at gøre i over 20 år.
Arzest har dog udviklet spil som Hey! Pikmin og Yoshi's New Island, og ifølge Sonic Team-chef Takashia Iizuka, så er han perfekt til jobbet:
"I'm friends with a lot of my old coworkers and I was having a conversation with Ohshima-san about how we should make a Sonic game together and if he'd be interested. He's the original creator of Sonic the Hedgehog, and so we had a conversation about whether his company Arzest would be interested in working on a Sonic game. So there were ideas with Chris and the team that fell through. Sonic Superstars is really all developed by Arzest, but Sonic Team in Japan is working with them on design and some other elements. Arzest and Ohshima-san are 100% developers of the game."
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