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sabby_e17 said:
CGI-Quality said:
sabby_e17 said:
Also why did Sony sell away Crash Bandicoot? It would be great to see ND make another Crash game.

Read the above posts, they wanted to expand their horizons. They're not all about milking the same franchise over and over....

I thought it was a buisness problem and they had to sell away Crash, otherwise I'm sure they would still be making Crash games.

Naughty Dog/Sony never owned Crash, Universal did. ND had a three games contract with Universal, once that was over they didn't have anything to do with Crash anymore. Because Crash became so popular Universal allowed them to make one final game as a farewell to their fans. Naughty Dog didn't want to work more on Crash, and the price for the IP was probably absurd anyway. Sony might not have wanted to pay the price for it, but my personal theory is that Universal didn't want to sell it. Probably because they thought they'd make much more money keeping it, which they probably would, if they kept the quality up.