A few days ago, the first trailer for the upcoming live-action movie of Sonic the Hedgehog hit the internet. In this scenario, we don't need punishing overtime hours to fix Sonic because Sonic is already fixed. Maybe the PR team knew that we'd see a quick and aggressive backlash to the current Sonic design? Maybe the pushed out a weird-looking Sonic design knowing they had something better in their back pockets, ready to go? I still think option 1 is the most likely: they'll change the teeth.

Source: Forbes May 03, 2019 14:03 UTC