of the coolest titles around" but said that it also fails to reach classic status because it was "not enough of a challenge". GameSpot described it as "one of the better Xbox games to date" and disagreed with IGN, claiming the game "offered a serious challenge". The publication named it the second-best video game of February 2002, and it won the annual "Best Platformer", "Best Music" and "Best Graphics (Artistic)" awards among Xbox games. It received a nomination for the Xbox "Game of the Year" prize, but lost to MechAssault. Despite positive reviews, this was not followed by high sales. It was nominated for GameSpots "Best Game No One Played on Xbox" award, and landed the title of the most unfairly ignored game in the OXM UK Awards the year of its release. In 2009, Edge ranked the game at #44 on its list of "The 100 Best Games To Play Today", writing: "The sound track is peerless, and whether grinding vertically down a 200-foot dragon, leaping across Shibuya's handrails, or just cruising the wrong way down a one-way street, there's nowhere else that's so exhilarating to simply travel through". The game was also featured in 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die. Sales Jet Set Radio Future sold 80,000 units in the United States in its first six months. It sold a total of 28,433 units in Japan, Legacy and fandom Jet Set Radio Future was briefly featured in the music video to "Hella Good" by American rock band No Doubt. Kuju Entertainment presented Sega with a concept for a new Jet Set Radio game for the Nintendo Wii, but Sega was not interested in developing new games in the series. In 2017, Dinosaur Games created a visual proof-of-concept after Sony expressed interest in their work at GDC 2017. This project, Jet Set Radio Evolution, was turned down by Sega for largely unstated reasons. In mid-2020 Jet Set Radio lead designer Kazuki Hosokawa told USGamer that he and his team were "too old and experienced" to create a new Jet Set Radio game with the "same energy" as the original. While Hosokawa still admired the work he and his team did on the first game on the series, Sega's continued reluctance to green light a new Jet Set Radio project have made a sequel near impossible. The character Beat and stages based on Shibuya Terminal, Rokkaku Dai