No Crash: Activision Jealous of Naughty Dog & Sony?

Hey Guys ClassicAli94 here to talk about Crash Bandicoot and Activision

The Crash Bandicoot IP has passed through many different developers over the years. Starting off as Naughty Dog’s IP and making a name for the developers. This was back in the late 90s, Naughty Dog had managed to develop a 3 spectacular games that consisted of Crash’s ongoing battles with Cortex in addition to these 3 games they had created a spinoff in Crash Team Racing which was a Kart game that bore a lot of resemblance to the Mario Kart games but it was just as fun as the Mario Kart games in my case i enjoyed it more than any of the Mario Kart games (is that even possible?).

[MrSwankSinatra]

All I'm saying is that Activision better sell Crash Bandicoot before the interest in the IP starts to taper back down. At this point they can sell Crash for a good chunk of change because let's face it, Activision WILL NEVER... EVER make money off this IP. The fans have already stated that they will not buy another Crash game unless it's with Sony only.

[LightDiego]

Also Activision doesn't have any competence to make a good game for the series.
What they pretend by the way, turning Crash into a Skylander's character? Ridiculous...

[Majin-vegeta]

Pika pika pika pika Pika Pika!!

Translation:Shhh don't give them any ideas

They either need to do something with it or give it back to SOny

[breakpad]

for some reason i think Sony have bought it back ...remember Ryu in the PS4 launch trailer??->SFV exclusive... now the Crash B. sign is not there for no reason ...probably is E3 announcement ..if it is not the story ends there ,Sony and ND dont have it and Activision will never sell it

[Noble90]

Well said

[joab777]

Why the hell wouldn't they partner with Naughty Dog? They couldn't possibly lose? They ed be riding the hottest developer in the business to critical success.

At the very least, like Bungie, they would sell a ton of copies at launch.

There must be another reason b/c it's a guaranteed money maker.

[KnownAsEpic]

Because Naughty Dog is a first party developer owned by SONY unlike Bungie.

[SpiralTear]

This is just a stupid game of keepaway. Activision knows that Sony will make bank if they get the license back and make a new Crash game. Just give it back to Sony, Activision. You have Call of Duty. You'll be fine.

[Relientk77]

Crash needs to come home to Sony and PlayStation

[GokuSolosAll]

It's business. Activision doesn't have a use for Crash and Sony probably isn't willing to pay for Crash. Get over the dead mascot and his generic games, it's never gonna happen.

[mixelon]

What do people imagine a new Crash actually being like?

Genuinely curious. Do you think that it would sell with the current generation of gamers?

Would be cool to see him back.

[slate91]

IMO people are speaking more nostalgically than realistically. I dont believe it will do that well if it comes back. I had my fun with crash back in the day. But i dont think it aged well just like spyro. Just speaking my opinion

[mixelon]

My thoughts exactly.

I think Spyro has a bit more potential for modern games because it's always had a relatively open world and a fantastical setting that can be easily elaborated on and modernised. (Like happened with Rayman)

Crash is so caught up in 90s cool, much like sonic.. Bringing him back would be flirting with disaster, but I'd love to see someone try anyway, it's probably doable.

[DragoonsScaleLegends]

I think it would sell great if it's a good game. The original is really outdated but a new one could easily be made popular if it's got a good developer and funds.

[mixelon]

*notices your avatar* A new Medievil would be better. :)

[WeAreLegion]

I'm not sure. That's the biggest problem here. Do people want a $20 downloadable sequel or a massive game? Level based or open world? They can't mess with the formula too much without upsetting people.

[XtraTrstrL]

Crash may end up dying of old age in Activision's Maximum Security Prison with no chance of parole. Hopefully enough pressure can get put on Acitivision so that they take an offer for him.

[TenkoTAiLS]

I don't think this guy has done his research very well, Crash has ALWAYS belonged to what is now a portion of Activision. Boot up your copy of the original Crash Bandicoot. It was bankrolled by Universal, which then became known as Vivendi in it's later life, which was in turn brought out and then merged with Activision.

Naughty Dog may have created and developed it, but they didn't EVER hold the rights to Crash Bandcoot. It always belonged to Universal who are now part of Activision. You see a lot of people on posts about Crash Bandicoot saying "Sell it back" or "Give it back"...but the truth of the matter is, it was never Sony's or Naughty Dog's in the first place, they can't "give back" something that has never changed hands in the first place, bar the Universal Interactive company buyout, but even then that doesn't involve Sony or Naughty Dog at all.

[hkgamer]

its a little annoying that sites dont do any research at all. im pretty sure people who create forum topics do more research than this site. a simple wiki search would have been enough.

also activision only officially created one game and that game sold around 2 million across 5 platforms. not bad imo.

[BABY-JEDI]

Well said, good interesting points. The something else would be the bitter loses on Activisions part

[Toiletsteak]

I think the only way Sony can get it back is if they offer Activision a lot but, Sony can't afford it right now, if Crash comes back it will most likely be multi-platform which will suck , i think Naughty Dog could do a good job with it again but chances are it won't live up to the hype.

[Iceman_Nightmare]

Just like Nintendo with Rareware, Microsoft bought it. But still we not seeing any Conkers, Perfect Dark, Banjo Kazooie, Jet Force Gemini, etc.