Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is Sega’s arcade-style kart racer, and it just got $30 cheaper for new buyers. The Standard Edition dropped to $40 today, with the Digital Deluxe falling to $60, in a permanent cut Sega paired with a fresh look at the back half of its Year 2 DLC.
Year 2 officially starts on November 3 (Sega had previously announced the Godzilla and Evangelion packs). The three new paid packs, per a Sega news post and VGC:
- Segaland Pack adds a track based on classic Sega games and three vehicles drawn from the Out Run, After Burner, and Super Megalo arcade cabinets.
- Midgar Pack brings crossover content from the Final Fantasy 7 Remake series (details still to come).
- Reload Revival Royal Pack pulls in content from the Persona games, also still to be detailed.
Year 2 also includes free DLC characters, not just paid packs. Bayonetta joins on November 3 as part of a new Rival Duel mode. A McLaren Racing pack with an F1 car and a suited-up Sonic follows later in November. Aigis from Persona 3 Reload arrives in early 2027 with a car called the Palladion Dressy (Atlus confirmed the Aigis addition separately).
Year 2’s paid DLC will be sold individually or as a $29.99 Season Pass, which adds Genesis, Saturn, and Dreamcast controller decal packs now and console-themed vehicles when Year 2 launches. Owners of both Season Passes get Super Shadow and the Super Dark Flare vehicle as a bonus.
The new $40 sticker is the bigger story for anyone who skipped the launch. Sega’s initial Year 2 reveal only covered Godzilla, Evangelion, and the Sanrio Puroland pack; the Segaland, Final Fantasy 7, and Persona packs were all held back for today. The $30 cut is a meaningful concession: at $40, the racer is now priced closer to a budget port than a current-gen live-service launch title, even with another year of DLC ahead of it. Most players will probably ignore the paid packs and just chase the free character schedule: Bayonetta, McLaren Sonic, and Aigis. The full October 2026 release calendar is what they’re really competing with.
Edited by Kerwin Stewart, Editor-in-Chief · How we report
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