Activision reportedly canceled a Crash Bandicoot 5 that also starred Spyro because it wanted more live-service games
Aug. 25, 2024Activision didn’t think Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time had sold well enough to garner a sequel
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A new report claims thatActivisiongreenlit and canceled a single-player Crash Bandicoot 5 while it continued to chase more live-service games.
YouTuber and gaming historian Liam Robertson (Did You Know Gaming?) just released a new video report investigating what happened behind-the-scenes at developer Toys For Bob, where he alleges that a Crash Bandicoot 5 was in the early stages of development, but was soon scrapped based on what Activision considered to be underwhelming sales for Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time - which sold over five million copies, according to its design directorToby Schadt.
“Crash and Spyro were intended to be the two playable characters,” the report claims, though it doesn’t seem like Spyro would just be backpacking into Crash’s solo adventure. It sounds like the two would essentially share the game, as both their worlds come under a multiversal threat.
That version of Crash Bandicoot 5 was sadly canned around the same time as Activision’s alleged cancelation of a single-player Tony Hawk Pro Skater game, while Toys For Bob were then put to work on short-lived multiplayer spin-off Crash Team Rumble.
Toys For Bob have since become an independent studio followingMicrosoft’sActivision Blizzardbuyout anda round of brutal layoffsfor the company, but it did recently announce it hadsigned a deal with its former owners at Xbox to develop a brand new game. A differently shaped follow-up to Crash or Spyro is definitely not impossible, then.
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