There are strong rumors going on that crash bandicoot rights are bought back by Sony from activision and it is said that crash is or will be underdevlopment for Ps4.
News editior at a site Videogamer.com twitted this Earlier today I asked Activision whether it still held the rights to the Crash Bandicoot license. Answer: "No comment."
What do you think about it?
IGN article stated things as below.
Famed studio Naughty Dog -- the developer behind Uncharted and The Last of Us -- created Crash Bandicoot back in 1996. Naughty Dog worked on four Crash games, all released on the original PlayStation, before moving on to PlayStation 2’s Jak & Daxter. The franchise was owned not by Sony, but by Universal, until it was sold off to Activision in the early 2000’s. The last game in the series, Crash: Mind Over Mutant, was released on PS2, PSP, Xbox 360, Wii, and Nintendo DS in 2008.
However, Reddit editor cocobandicoot has put together a post chronicling the last few years for Crash Bandicoot, culminating in some mighty compelling information that may indicate that Sony’s original mascot may be returning to the PlayStation fold.
Via Reddit.
The most interesting evidence comes by way of the picture, seen above, from Sony’srecent launch commercial for PlayStation 4. On the white, circular sign with a red outline, a silhouette of what appears to be Crash Bandicoot is seen, with an arrow pointing towards a gold diamond, which just so happens to be the logo of Sony Computer Entertainment, the PlayStation brand’s home company.
Even more interesting is that Activision’s Crash Bandicoot website has been taken down (an http://village.crashbandicoot.com/splash/">archived version can be found here). Any references to Crash Bandicoot seem to have been removed from Activision's web properties.
We’ve reached out to Sony for comment and clarification, and we’ll update if and when we hear back. In the meantime, let’s slot this story as a rumor, albeit an interesting one.
