Activision on Crash 4: 'Evaluating Additional Platforms' - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 July 2020 / 2,394 Views

Publisher Activision and Spyro Reignited Trilogy developer Toys for Bob yesterday officially announced Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The game will launch on October 2.

Activision is looking into releasing the game on other platforms in the future. "We are still evaluating additional platforms for a future date," an Activision representative told PCGamesN. "Stay tuned for more information."

Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy originally released for the PlayStation 4 in June 2017, followed by a release for the Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and PC a year later in June 2018.

View the announcement trailer for Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time below:

Here is an overview of the game:

Neo Cortex and N. Tropy are back at it again and launching an all-out assault on not just this universe, but the entire multiverse! Crash and Coco are here to save the day by reuniting the Four Quantum masks and bending the rules of reality.

New abilities? Check. More playable characters? Yep. Alternate dimensions? Obviously. Ridonkulous bosses? For sure. Same awesome sauce? You bet your sweet jorts. Wait, are they actually jorts? Not in this universe!

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15 Comments

curl-6 (on 23 June 2020)

Switch/PC next year probably, same as Spyro.

Chazore (on 23 June 2020)

aka "we'll release on Switch and PC a year later for another £60 and hardly any patchwork" (because they still didn't fix that stutter issue on Crash trilogy on PC, let alone the framerate issue on Spyro).

Chazore Chazore (on 23 June 2020)

Activision has done this around 2-3 times now and it's getting annoying. They have more than enough cash to make it happen on same day release. They just think they can maximise profits, when really it's just them screwing two platforms over a year later, for nothing extra.

VAMatt Chazore (on 23 June 2020)

They exist to make money, and for no other reason. They may make mistakes sometimes. But, Acti in particular is a mega-business that doesn't just make these decision on the fly out of emotion. The math tells them that releasing on Switch and PC on day one don't make sense for one reason or another. They're not out to screw people, they're just doing the math.

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Chazore Chazore (on 24 June 2020)

Then it's poor maths on their pat then, because others out there seem to make just as much money on those two platforms. Maybe if Acti stopped treating them with disdain, they'd actually make a little more money?.

VAMatt Chazore (on 24 June 2020)

Maybe. I'm just saying, businesses of that size make these decisions by the numbers.

Chazore Chazore (on 24 June 2020)

But we've seen time and time again, how the "math" people can and will screw things up, even PR folk screw stuff up, let alone devs. These numbers they have in their head aren't always right, because we keep seeing a delay each time, and it's been just over a year since CTR and it's still not on PC, so there's no "numbers" to crunch and pop champagne for at all there.

You can't even do math if you're not selling the product to begin with. This is just Bobby being a cunt. The man has always been like that, and he's never once cared about video games. I'm well aware "money, money, money", but I'm also aware of "cunt, dumbass, greedy fucker" as well.

VAMatt Chazore (on 24 June 2020)

Sure. They make mistakes all the time. My point is just that they don't have anything against Switch or PC. It isn't out of a desire to screw people, or something like that. They just don't see the money there. It is clear that they sometimes wrong.

VAMatt Chazore (on 24 June 2020)

And it may well be that the decision makers are idiots. Stupid people climb company ladders all the time.

Chazore Chazore (on 24 June 2020)

Which is why anyone else releasing day 1 for both, as well as the other platforms are proving them dead wrong, and many other companies numbers aren't lying either.

This is one entity vs hundreds, if not thousands, and no amount of hired monkeys at Acti are going to Stephen hawking the fuck outta this stupid arrogance of theirs, in thinking they have this perfect sales pitch.

Like they aren't the only ones that are insanely rich af, that make tons of money, but at the same time, those that do?, well they're making money on both platforms as well, whilst Acti just isn't, because of neglect, which is entirely of their own doing.

If it's not somehow selling well on two platforms that are known for good game sales for multiple genres, then they need to ask themselves as to why and look at their mistakes (yes, again, all on them, because you don't blame the customer, for not buying your shit, you need to figure why you couldn't make a sales dent, that's your own issue to sort out, not us).

The way I look at it, is in 2 ways:

They are greedy and arrogant, or
Someone they hired has suddenly consumed far too much bleach and lost the ability to do math. It's one of the two.