Me whenever someone suggests a AAA publisher use Kick starter. 

Pretty sure Kickstarter defeats the purpose of Kickstarter. I can not believe that people allow that greed to exist

Excuse me?

I think Sony's moved beyond being interested in making new platformer ips. Even the last few of their established plaplatformers seemed to disappoint them

I don't think Kickstarter will even allow Sony to make a project there.

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.

Sony should buy the crash IP and give it to SCEJA to reboot the franchise with ND overseeing the design. The reason I say that is because Crash - during the PS1 days - was one of the rare instances where a western game sells well in Japan. ND obviously overseeing the reboot as they have moved on to Uncharted/TLOU/Mature, story driven games (and personally I want them to stay there).

MS spent $2.5B for Minecraft and rumored to have paid hundreds of millions (or less than $100M if you believe Pachter) for Gears of War IP. Sony doesn't have the money chest that MS does, but the MS game division does not have the money chest the rest of MS does either. At this point, Crash would probably cost dozens of millions of dollars, at most IMO. A worthy investment for Sony to bring the little guy back home. Activision would have to be willing to sell it, of course.

This doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Kickstarter is for teams that don't have the funds to make a game. Sony could fund it themselves.

Yet another pointless or flawed question. Crash is owned by Activision like what others pointed out, The only way to kickstart this, is by third party game studio licensing Activision's IP Crash. There must be agreement between the third party and Activision before the kickstart campaign. We need a game studio wanting to make crash and have enough time.

Please not. I don't want Publishers to make us pay even more.