Its good to dream.

I night and day dream everyday.

So do I and everyone, if they have any imagination.

Doesn't mean they come out to be true though

Ask Neversoft/Activision, I guess.  Really, there were a ton of Crash games after Sony.  Like most mascot based titles, the novelty wore off and gamers moved on.  Nothing but the big boys remain.  No nIghts, Aero, Adventure Island, etc.  Even Sonic and Donkey Kong are struggling.  I even expect LBP to do poorly.

Spyro became Skylanders and seems to be doing just fine, though.

they were profitable when Naughty Dog and Insomniac were making them and I don't think that's a coincidence.  The quality dropped well before the profitability became a problem.  Look at those crappy Crash and Spyro games on PS2 and they still sold over a million usually.  Once people realized the drop in quality then the sales stopped.  If the quality increases again it's reasonable to think (as long as advertising is adequate) that sales will follow.

I don't think Nintendo had much of a choice with Rare, as someone mentioned. Also I believe at the time Ninty sold them Rare's output was lagging pretty bad- SFA was taking forever and the dev time + sales of Conkers I think added to their woes. I'm pretty sure they can still make handheld games for Nintendo- they could do a Banjo port surely if they wanted, and see how it sold? IMO Banjo was their main loss from the Rare deal, but it wouldn't have been worth it to keep the thing. Shame BK3 had to kill the franchise.

As for Crash, I think he peaked on the PS1, same with Spyro. If I remember the PS2 versions didn't sell as well? and yeah it's for the better that ND moved on, I think they had more room to breathe with Jak and Daxter

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.

I know

I meant, I would sell the other 49% but I would've tried to keep the Banjo IP as part of the agreement.

Things cost $$$, you can't bring things back based on love.

In the case of Crash, Sony never owned them. Naughty Dog sold it and something else to Activision to escape bankruptcy. Sierra was bought out from Activision.... Thus, Spyro.

Nothing Rare worked on in it's own time was owned by Nintendo... hell Nintendo didnt even have a controlling stake, they did have a large stake in Rare. Microsoft bought out 100% of the company

Crash and Spyro were never SONY IPs. Vivendi owned them. Once Activision and Vivendi merged, SONY wasn't needed anymore.