Can somebody explain how a company can just abandon their franchises like this?

[Blob]

Ka-pi96 said:

Blob said:
Sony never owned crash or spyro, just moneyhatted them.

And Nintendo never owned rare, then microsoft became majority share owner. Nintendo basically had to sell their shares at that point.

This was back when PlayStation was dominating and Nintendo were saying to 3rd parties 'do what we say or fuck off'.... no moneyhat was needed...

Haha yeah thats probably true, I have no proof that sony ever payed any money.

Dominating might be a tad strong a word fo back when the first spyro/crash came out .To me it's just very strange that pretty much every other platformer made it's way over to N64/game boy except Crash and Spyro. Im sure sony would have had to have done something to keep them considering how big the mascot platformer market was on Nintendo systems. Note that im not saying theres anything wrong with paying for exclusives or necessarily that it 100% happened, just wouldn't shock me if it did.