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They both suck, but at least Activision still makes great games.

Wait, so Toys for Bob, the creators of the incredibly succesful Skylanders series, one of the most succesful and most profitable IPs of the 7th gen, and the studio that has brought Crash Bandicoot back into relevance, is now relegated to a support studio for CoD? How is that a logic business decission? How much support does CoD need to function, anyway?

COD makes a ton more , warzone has + 100 monthly active players.

So Activision is going to be publishing only CoD games going forward? And here I was thinking franchise fatigue was going to be settling it at some point lol. I don't see any different Activision games in development. Doesn't seem very AAA publisher like to have so few games. Crash, Spyro, Tony Hawk, suddenly dead again. Probably because they weren't infinitely profitable. Only game in recent years that was different that Activision published was Sekiro.

It's so sad seeing this. Gaming is driven by creative freedom to make something new, innovative, and exciting.

Studios can't be idle, so if they don't have nothing better to do, then better support something that brings money meanwhile.

Activision: You will enjoy your Cod developed by Toys for BOB!

But my names Billy!

Activision: IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOUR NAME IS!

They aren't the studio who did that, though. That was Vicarious Visions with their Crash Trilogy remaster. All Toys For Bob did was co-develop the port to systems outside of the Playstation 4. Crash 4, which was made by Toys for Bob, barely made any splash at all.

People acted like Activision was stupid for not bringing Crash back ... but then all people ended up doing was supporting the nostalgia product and not the actual continuation of the series. As expected. 

I don't think so.

Superdata is very inaccurate. IIRC they predicted Three Houses sold like 800k digital units in it's launch month despite only being out for 5 days and despite Zhugex posting something on Resetera that basically made this an impossible accomplishment, even with the voucher program (which to be fair, I can't find the post because I don't have the bookmark anymore and it was a very obscure post, but nevertheless...) 

Crash 4 also did 80% worse physically in the U.K. than Crash N.Sane Trilogy, which to be fair does have to do with the digital ratio difference between the two years, but even then the increase in digital sales was most likely only around a 35% increase (because iirc, digital sales on PS5 were at an average of about 45-55% in 2017/2018?) AT BEST. Meaning that at best that's a loss of 45% of sales. 

I also think that N. Sane Trilogy is just way better as a bargain bin purchase than 4 and will have had much better legs when all is said and done. You get 3 games in one and on top of that it's a nostalgia grab. 

So eh, while I think Crash 4 did "decent", I think "pretty well" is a bit of a stretch. It's really not surprising that they put the developer on something else. It just seems like all take and little backup from the fanbase. While there is certainly still a healthy community, a lot of the casual fandom is content with just living in the trilogy they grew up on. And that's fine. 

AngryLittleAlchemist said:

They aren't the studio who did that, though. That was Vicarious Visions with their Crash Trilogy remaster. 

They were remakes