Sony Worst Moves in History

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platformmaster918 said:

Mmmfishtacos said:

platformmaster918 said:

brendude13 said:

Getting rid of all their IPs from the PS1 days. Playstation needs its own "Mario" more than ever now, but anything that came close to that status like Crash or Spyro was sold off.

crash was the one that got away for Sony.  He was Mario huge during PSone.  He had an awesome Kart racer too so the spinoffs were starting.  If they can buy Gaikai they can buy Crash back.

But at this point will it ever be as big as it once was? I mean activision destoryed him. I don't think there is any savign him with out Naugty Dog taking controll back, and even then it's iffy.

I think with the right marketing (wishful thinking with Sony) they could make it big again.  Obviously the game would have to be good, but if they got ND or someone else who they could market past games as examples of the quality it would really pay off.  Think about the commercial "The makers of Jak & Daxter, Uncharted, and the Last of Us return to their first Playstation classic *crash music kicks in as he falls in or some other clumsy move*" show some levels and show the crash dance of course.  Show it off at E3 maybe and make sure everyone knows this is different from those games as you introduce it.  I feel like there's a lot of old Crash fans, like myself, who bought the old ones in droves and will come back for the new ones.  I mean 2 and 3 sold over 7 million each so there's a lot of old fans willing to come back I think, and with word of mouth and good review scores (I assume it will be good if its made by ND) it could be huge again.

Nostalgia is one of the best salesmen you can ever have. Look what it did for the New Super Mario Bros. franchise.