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Activision cancelled Crash Bandicoot 5 to make room for more online live service games, claims reportBinned-off sequel might have featured a Spyro team-up
Binned-off sequel might have featured a Spyro team-up
Image credit:Microsoft
Image credit:Microsoft
I find it bizarre that people still really likeCrash Bandicootgames in this, the year 2024, two decades after the decline of the platform mascot warz. I have ample nostalgia for the old marsupial myself, with his second Naughty Dog-developed outing being a particular obsession, but come now, we’re all about deckbuilders, soulsliking and battle royale nowadays, right?
Still, I’ll admit to a twinge of disappointment after reading that a Crash Bandicoot 5 was once in development at Crash 4: It’s About Time developers Toys For Bob, and might have featured an interdimensional team-up with one of Crash’s old rivals. No, not Mario.
But then along came the axemen of Activision, with their brutal talk of Crash 4 ‘not meeting sales expectations’ and online live service games being ‘all of the rage’. Crash 5 was apparently cancelled in the very early days of development to make room for another live service-me-do. Team members were moved to other projects such as Crash Team Rumble, released last year, which didn’t exactly set the world alight.
Toys For Bobwashed their hands of Activision and went independent earlier this year, following a round of layoffs. Back in March, studio heads Paul Yan and Avery Lodato declared that they were “in the early days of developing our next new game and a ways away from making any announcements”. I wonder if any of those abandoned ideas for Crash 5 have made their way into the studio’s current projects.
