Sonic reference in Ion Fury!

So Ion Fury, the new retro style FPS, has a lot of references to movies and pop culture, including Evil Dead, The Room, Hackers and more. I was a bit surprised and delighted to hear a Sonic reference: sometimes when you kill a cyborg, Shelley will say "Worthless consumer models!" A reference to E-123 Ω's line in Sonic Heroes. I guess this means Sonic fandom is officially a mainstream pop-culture phenomenon?