Activision Scraps Planned Crash & Spyro Crossover Game
- Activision canceled Crash Bandicoot 5 early in development.
- Crash 4's poor sales led to the cancellation.
- The game would have featured a crossover with Spyro.
- Toys For Bob worked on Crash 5 for 3-4 months.
- Activision shifted focus to online games.
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Activision Canceled a Crash Bandicoot & Spyro Crossover Game
Activision canned Crash Bandicoot 5 to focus on multiplayer and live-service games.
By Zack Zwiezen
Published Monday 5:45 PM
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A new report claims that Crash Bandicoot 5 was greenlit by Activision but was then canceled very early in development.
This was due to Crash 4 selling poorly and the publisher wanting to focus more on live-service titles like Call of Duty Warzone.
Interestingly, this game would have seen the wumpa-fruit-loving marsupial cross over with another platforming mascot, Spyro the Dragon.
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According to a new report from gaming journalist and historian Liam Robertson, formerly Activision-owned studio Toys For Bob began working on a multiplayer Crash Bandicoot game after it had wrapped on the Spyro Reignited Trilogy.
But then the company took some of that work and began developing 2020's Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time.
That game was well-liked by fans and critics, and Toys For Bob began planning a follow-up.
This new game, known internally as Crash Bandicoot 5, was planned to be a direct sequel to Crash 4 and would be a single-player 3D platformer like previous entries in the long-running franchise.
Robertson's video includes concept art and possible story ideas for this never-finished Crash sequel.
At one point, the developers were planning to include Spyro in the sequel, with the report claiming that the two would have worked together to save their respective universes from a giant cataclysmic event.
Both characters would be playable, and players would even see both characters' universes in this multiverse pitch.
Streamers Visuals has reached out to Activision about the report.
According to the report, Toys For Bob only worked on Crash 5 for around three to four months and largely focused on concept art and early environments.
In the winter of 2020, Activision canceled Crash 5, reportedly due to Crash 4's low sales and the publisher wanting to focus on online games over single-player titles.
Toys for Bob then worked on Crash Team Rumble, a short-lived and not very popular online game that you probably forgot even launched.
Thankfully, Toys for Bob was able to survive all this.
In February, the company announced that it was going independent and would work alongside Activision-owner Microsoft on a new project.
It's now rumored that Toys For Bob is working on a new Spyro game.
