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Sony Denmark reposts 15 year old Crash holiday image on Facebook, CONSPIRACY?!!?!?!?
- Thread starter shinobi602
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sixteen-bit
Member
isn't that art from like Crash 3 or something?
Eh, it gets the character out there so no one forgets about him by the time they eventually release a game.
Crimsonclaw111
Member
Inside the Naughty Dog crate is their new IP. Crash is only here for the ceremony.
revolverjgw
Member
Sanzaru
You clearly never played the Uncharted games.
No, I want something that pushes the PS4. :O
Thomas_Daly
Banned
Shin-Ra
Junior Member
A shocking revelation indeed.
Krusenstern
Banned
Stop with the Crash teasing if you can't deliver.
revolverjgw
Member
So there's still love for Crash even though he's been turned out.
I love his expression in the last one, like somebody is just out of view pointing a gun at his head
Poor Crash
Yep, it's noobasuar.
speculawyer
Member
I miss the Crash game in the older Burnout games.
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
Would love a new Crash from ND.
Would give less than zero fucks about more Last of Us.
Would give less than zero fucks about more Last of Us.
CriterionDog
Member
God, all of these teases...I really hope Sony obtains the rights. Crash was such a powerful franchise.
KOMANI
KOMANI
some of the quotes in this thread sound ignorant.
"going from Last of Us to Crash is tragic"
"Naughty Dog going back to Crash is a waste"
Do you know what Game Developers do? That's right, they develop games. Do you know it's boring for game Developers to keep producing the same genre of game, over and over again? You only grow as an artist by taking risks.
I'll go one further, if Hideo Kojima would have taken a break from Metal Gear Solid, and did more stuff (Policenauts, ZOE) I guarantee MGS4
wouldn't have felt like burden.
This is all hearsay, but Crash is Naughty Dog's creation. Despite the fact none of the creators are at Naughty Dog, Crash is still in the company's DNA. Don't go writing them off. It would be nice to have a solid platformer, that doesn't involve shooting people in the face.
"going from Last of Us to Crash is tragic"
"Naughty Dog going back to Crash is a waste"
Do you know what Game Developers do? That's right, they develop games. Do you know it's boring for game Developers to keep producing the same genre of game, over and over again? You only grow as an artist by taking risks.
I'll go one further, if Hideo Kojima would have taken a break from Metal Gear Solid, and did more stuff (Policenauts, ZOE) I guarantee MGS4
which i love
This is all hearsay, but Crash is Naughty Dog's creation. Despite the fact none of the creators are at Naughty Dog, Crash is still in the company's DNA. Don't go writing them off. It would be nice to have a solid platformer, that doesn't involve shooting people in the face.
huehuehuehuehue
jackissocool
Member
This is driving me FUCKING INSANE
DangerMouse
Member
Gah! I would want this so much! (And a real next-gen J&D too)
Please get those rights Sony...
Please get those rights Sony...
Yeah pretty much what I would want...with a noncontrollable camera they could make the visuals rival Despicable Me
KOMANI
KOMANI
that's fine, and not entirely true. Me beef is with claiming that for Naughty Dog to develop a Crash game is a step back. It's like claiming Dr. Strangelove is a setback after Lolita or Psycho a setback after North by Northwest.
"Oh, yay, another Crash game!"
ND ain't going back to that stuff again
TheRealTalker
Banned
infiniteheteroskdasticity
Member
I hate to be the cynic here but I'm stunned people think that Naughty Dog or anybody that big would put in the effort on a big AAA platformer. Let's get real, 2013 had some absolutely fantastic platformers come out. With the possible exception of 3d Mario (it will have legs) not one of them saw commercial success. Rayman Legends, Puppeteer and Tearaway are all critical successes, fantastic games and commercial flops. If there were any plans for a AAA Crash/Jax/Banjo revival they've been put on ice super quickly. They just wont sell and make absolutely zero sense for a studio like Naughty Dog to make. Why make a game that might sell 1m at most when you could make Uncharted/TLOU/new IP that would sell 5m+? The audience just isn't there on consoles anymore - most of those gamers are on mobile platforms which is why platformers do well on the ipad and the 3ds. Even console Mario seems to have lost a little steam. The best fans of these series can hope for is a downloadable PSN/XBLA game.
Let us dream Infiniteparagraphman.
EightBitNate
Member
So, to review:
Andy Gavin, co-creator of Crash Bandicoot, said in May, 2013:
In August, an Activision rep accidentally said that the Crash rights no longer were with Activision and had returned back to Sony. They eventually claimed it was a mistake.
Then, the PS4 commercial with this sign released:
Then, Kevin Pereira leaked info that Sony was bringing back a "classic" Playstation franchise at the PS4 release event. However, only Uncharted was announced as making a comeback, so no announcements relating to classic franchises were made.
In November, a Reddit user reported seeing a Crash Bandicoot page for PS4 on Amazon.fr. However, he claimed the page was taken down soon after posting. (decent chance this was fake):
Later in November, the official Crash Bandicoot website was taken down, and all references to the series was removed from Activision's website.
On November 21, the phrase #BringBackBandicoot began to trend on Twitter, making it to the front page of IGN. Sony made no comment.
On November 22, when asked whether they still owned the rights to Crash, Activision declined to comment.
Later, GameInformer issued a statement from Activision concerning the franchise (damage control?):
On November 26, Playstation Brazil tweeted the picture:
with the statement
The original Tweet has since been deleted.
And now, this:
lol this is the worst kept secret ever
Andy Gavin, co-creator of Crash Bandicoot, said in May, 2013:
In August, an Activision rep accidentally said that the Crash rights no longer were with Activision and had returned back to Sony. They eventually claimed it was a mistake.
Then, the PS4 commercial with this sign released:
Then, Kevin Pereira leaked info that Sony was bringing back a "classic" Playstation franchise at the PS4 release event. However, only Uncharted was announced as making a comeback, so no announcements relating to classic franchises were made.
In November, a Reddit user reported seeing a Crash Bandicoot page for PS4 on Amazon.fr. However, he claimed the page was taken down soon after posting. (decent chance this was fake):
Later in November, the official Crash Bandicoot website was taken down, and all references to the series was removed from Activision's website.
On November 21, the phrase #BringBackBandicoot began to trend on Twitter, making it to the front page of IGN. Sony made no comment.
On November 22, when asked whether they still owned the rights to Crash, Activision declined to comment.
Later, GameInformer issued a statement from Activision concerning the franchise (damage control?):
On November 26, Playstation Brazil tweeted the picture:
with the statement
The original Tweet has since been deleted.
And now, this:
lol this is the worst kept secret ever
Insomniac? Ewww.