Rumor: Crash Bandicoot 5 Was Cancelled - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 August 2024 / 4,335 Views

Former Toys For Bob character designer and illustrator Nicholas Kole revealed Crash Bandicoot 5 was in development, but it ended up being cancelled.

Kole first stated a game they have been working on for the last three years, called Project Dragon, had been cancelled. Responding to a fan they said the game was not a new Spyro game, however, that people will eventually hear about a Crash Bandicoot 5 that never happened.

"It is not Spyro, but some day folks will hear about the Crash 5 that never was and it’s gonna break hearts," said Kole.

Kole in a different reply stated that Project Dragon and Crash Bandicoot 5 were "two totally separate cancelled projects at two different studios."

Developer Toys For Bob left Activision to become an independent video game studio in February of this year and recently signed a partnership with Xbox for its next game.

A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.

12 Comments

KLXVER (on 15 July 2024)

That sucks. Crash 4 was awesome.

haxxiy (on 15 July 2024)

A-B keeps on raking those Ls.

shikamaru317 (on 15 July 2024)

Crash 4 sales weren't amazing, but they were still decent. Activision's handling of all of their non-CoD IP's has been abysmal, they were pretty much only working on CoD by the time the Xbox acquisition closed it sounds like, we have now heard that both Crash 5 and Tony Hawk 3+4 remake were cancelled in the final years of independent Activision, and possibly a remake collection of multiple Skylanders games was cancelled as well, if it was ever truly in development (they sent out a marketing survey about possibly making one). Possibly this Project Dragon reference in the tweets above that was cancelled is the Skylanders Remake collection from the marketing survey.

Not much of a surprise that Toys 4 Bob asked for their independence once Xbox took over, hard to blame them for not wanting to stay under that (mis)management structure at Activision, even within Xbox. At least they have now signed on with Xbox for their next game, whatever it is, be it Crash, Spyro, Banjo, new IP.

zeldaring shikamaru317 (on 15 July 2024)

it sold 5 million that's pretty good.

shikamaru317 zeldaring (on 15 July 2024)

5m lifetime is indeed pretty good, but Activision was reportedly disappointed by the full priced $60 sales, which were said to be quite alot below Crash N.Sane trilogy's first few weeks of sales. So I guess most of the 5m were late life discount sales.

Signalstar (on 15 July 2024)

Life sucks :(

CaptainExplosion (on 16 July 2024)

Fucking Activision. -_-

160rmf (on 16 July 2024)

Sad, but not surprised. I am actually surprised they even started these projects considering the sales of crash 4 weren't stellar... oh well

SuntannedDuck2 (on 15 July 2024)

I had wondered if it was Toys for Bob or Beenox (if they weren't doing COD related stuff) as Vicarious Visions are with Blizzard now.

Well ever since the split and ending of Crash Rumble I had wondered they don't have access to the IP anymore I assumed at least. That or if balancing projects was possible. Either way whatever they have planned now.

Getting Crash 4 was at least enough I think then just oh 2 remakes and going welp wonder what a modern Crash would look like. Crash 4 at least delivered on that for players. Spyro 4 I doubted would happen anyway due to sales and the scale of the project. Also with so many 3D platformers many have been eh anyway in some cases so I had wondered what safeness Spyro 4 could have had of gameplay ideas.

It's unfortunate but still.

I like I assume many didn't pick up Crash 4 because it was too hard, or they were satisfied with the N Sane Trilogy already. As not a Crash fan but never played anything but PS1 CTR (only got Twinsanity in the last few months) playing 1-3 was something for me to finally experience.