Sega announce new voice actor for sonic and others, while eggman remains the same

[Chris]

Ahh yeah i loved Sonic X. I watched every eppisode. Sad i know.

[GommeInc]

So there isn't actually any proper reason, they just decided to change it?

Sonic supposedly cottoned on to Ivo's look so he calls him Eggman instead of Robotnik, and Robotnik himself adopted the name affectionately because Sonic uses it. I think the Sonic Comics reflect this, but it could be for the simple reason PaulMacC said

[Sharon]

Ahh yeah i loved Sonic X. I watched every eppisode. Sad i know.

Same. I hope it's not too diff

[Southe,]

Does anyone know why Dr Robotnik had his name changed?

His name was changed from Robotnik to Eggman as an insult to his egg shaped look and it wasn't until after Sonic Adventure where the term Eggman was used rather than Robotnik

Robotnik was his JP name.

Eggman was the Japanese name and was changed due to the voice acting in the adventure series. His name is robotnik, but he was always called eggman in the jp manuals. Always have the jp voices on given a choice but I didn't mind his recent voice hopefully his new one will be decent
Either way I'll still buy the games

Using iPod so might be few mistakes.