Crash is irrelevant since Vicarious Visions and Bobby Kotex are involved, they have not only destroyed the franchise both critically and sales wise.
The ND crash games were selling between 6-8 million and with high 88-91 metacrtic vs the lows 60s to high 70s with a ton of crash games, Wrath of the cortex was the only decent selling though it was the first crack for VV and many gave them the benefit of doubt and after that's sales less then a million and onward dipping into the 400Ks the quality of content was apparent games were getting rated in the low 60s and high 70s not exactly reaching the heights ND achieved.
the only reason N'Sane Trilogy sold well and got rated well was due to it being Naughty Dogs assets and work slapped with a fresh coat of paint, the Naughty Dog blueprint was there and so was the pipeline even Silicone Knights made a decent Metal Gear but then came too human.
Prior to the N'Sane Trilogy for over 15+ years VV has made some very mediocre games, fans started believing Crash is dead until the hype train started when he was missing from PS All Stars and the constant begging for ND to return to the franchise since then.
The only way this would be a betrayal if Mark Cerny Produced/Directed and Naughty Dog developed it and put it on other platforms but yeah that wont be happening any time soon everyone is stuck with Activision and Vicarious Visions.
