every time I see stuff on the recent Spyro and Crash stuff and then sales on it on how people mostly buy said titles on the PS platform
I also feel that Sony screwed up BIG TIME by not buying the rights to the Spyro and Crash franchises
nostalgia was with the original games but even now the remakes tossed away Sony having that advantage (as people can play the remakes instead of the originals... of course the originals still have some merit/use though for big fans)
I know that "buying" said IPs would've been ridiculously costly and is just a pipe dream since even before the revival of Crash and its current success I remember hearing that trying to add crash into PSABR was too costly due to Activision asking for a large sum of money just for him to be in said game.
But nevertheless one could dream. People still associate the two brands with PS. Other titles don't have that extreme connection as much as those two. Sony really doesn't need to buy studios beyond trying to protect their interest if said studio was going to be bought anyway by a competitor. They can even hire certain game devs to try and make genres that they lack in and build up from there but the spot is always empty in their massive rooster or feel incomplete without Spyro and Crash being there.
rant over... lol I hope they give more budget to the next AstroBot
I also feel that Sony screwed up BIG TIME by not buying the rights to the Spyro and Crash franchises
nostalgia was with the original games but even now the remakes tossed away Sony having that advantage (as people can play the remakes instead of the originals... of course the originals still have some merit/use though for big fans)
I know that "buying" said IPs would've been ridiculously costly and is just a pipe dream since even before the revival of Crash and its current success I remember hearing that trying to add crash into PSABR was too costly due to Activision asking for a large sum of money just for him to be in said game.
But nevertheless one could dream. People still associate the two brands with PS. Other titles don't have that extreme connection as much as those two. Sony really doesn't need to buy studios beyond trying to protect their interest if said studio was going to be bought anyway by a competitor. They can even hire certain game devs to try and make genres that they lack in and build up from there but the spot is always empty in their massive rooster or feel incomplete without Spyro and Crash being there.
rant over... lol I hope they give more budget to the next AstroBot
