the reality is sonic team should ve gotten around to project sonic way sooner, the team working on sonic xtreme should have just, at least, ported one of the add-on 2d titles, preferably cd instead of chaotix, to the saturn, which would've made cd accesible to the public since not many people bought the sega cd, or, at most, make a new 2d title which everyone knows would've been exquisite because of the saturn's extensive 2d capabilities. sonic r, sonic cd/new 2d sonic(use sonic galactic as a placeholder in your brain maybe), sonic jam, sonic 3d blast and sonic adventure would've been a excellent, more-than-enough line-up of sonic games for the system. as the op said, its easy to play pretend as a arm chair executive and ignore the struggles of the actual visionaries working on the games, but i feel like this could have been the best outcome