I know this is pages old, but I wanted to at least put you on to the idea that most active Sonic fans these days might just be the very Nintendo fans that you're talking about, and Izuka is trying to hard to please with Sonic Lost Mind. I mean really, have you ever noticed all the people saying Sonic should be like Mario just because "his games are actually good"? I mean, if you were a Sonic fan, why would you need him to be like Mario, the guy he was suppose to be the anti-version of? Also, many of these "Sonic fans" share the exact same traits of Nintendo Drones that Blackb0nd has ranted on so much on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ditX4DYzaOI