That's a lot of dedication to a company that carelessly produced garbage for the last decade. With dedicated fans like that a company can produce a shitty product and get away with it.
Sonic is one of many eternal piglets that suck at the teat of the idiocy of mindless fans, like this, who buy this stuff over and over again. Sega has made a greedy science out of sucking.
I wrote a long diatribe defending Sony and how people blindly hate them but give no reasons why, but then I realized how stupid and pointless I was being by doing so.
Thanks for proving to me that I can still be trolled, Mother Lumper.
The Sonic fandom is super-sad and incredibly creepy and d-bag infested as well (I think there were a few PoE exhibits that were good proof of this) it's practically a cult that was virtually unrivaled in it's status amongst all of the sad, sad fandoms and one that had taken years to...ferement until the recent sudden, swift emergence of the you-know-whos.
Well, there's also all of the comic/manga series and the cartoon shows and books and such that introduced all kinds of extra characters and other shit that have helped attract weird fans.
Also from what I've heard apparently everyone who writes for the comic book series have been, for awhile, both furries and obsessive Sonic fans themselves, so a large part of the official media is essentially official fanfiction.