If a million dollars was enough to fund a $50 game for Sony, I'd automatically avoid buying it at launch. No chance a game with that budget would be worth that price with a company used to AAA launches. I mean, they can barely get games like Sly 4 to sell with budgets at the absolute minimum five times that.
And like others said, Naughty Dog wouldn't want to do it. They've openly said they aren't going back to cartoony.
Lastly, Banjo fans just want a an old school rare game. Mega Man fans want a game by Inafune. Crash fans want Crash, that's pretty much it. Even if we could convince the masses of casuals who want Crash to buy Splash Mandicoot, we'd need the original core group to develop it, none of which work at ND anymore, thereby defeating the purpose of Sony doing it.
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