On November 7, 2024, Sega announced that it was delisting over 70 of its classic games across the Xbox, Steam, PlayStation, and Nintendo storefronts, including a few entries from the Sonic the Hedgehog series. While the majority of these titles were old ports of retro games like Alex Kidd and the Enchanted Castle, Golden Axe, Shining Force 2, and Ecco the Dolphin, one of them was the Sega Genesis Classics Collection, which only came to consoles about 6 years ago. Sega didn't provide any explanation as to why these games were being removed from sale, but many speculated that the Sonic the Hedgehog publisher might have plans to release a new Sega Classics collection in the future.