Eh. We've gone back and forth on that but I stand firm that there's genuinely no difference (academically, legally, etc.) between a company selling their foreign product locally or granting a third party the right to do the very same thing.
Otherwise Phantom Dust is not an American game since Microsoft didn't publish it here but instead let Majesco do it. It was Microsoft's own game and they pretty much wanted nothing to do with it in America. And, it also means that when Square sold their Japanese OSTs in America it magically became an American release.
I feel the leap required to justify Sonic as American is a lot further and harder to make than the opposite because of all the loops you have to jump through in order to hold to Sonic being American while eliminating all the other things that are in the same situation. This should really be a pretty simple matter at heart and the fact that there has to be so much mental gymnastics to justify Sonic tells me something is fishy.
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