Crash Bandicoot 5 was cancelled in favour of live service games, it’s claimed

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****** Bandicoot 5 was cancelled in favour of live service games, it’s claimed

A new report has claimed that ****** Bandicoot 5 was in development at developer Toys For Bob, but it was canceled due to Activision pulling back on funding single-player titles in favour of live-service multiplayer titles.

According to a new report from gaming historian Liam Robertson, the game, which was in the very early stages of production, was cancelled following what Activision considered as muted sales for ****** Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time.

Around the same time, it’s claimed Activision shot down pitches for other sequels to single-player titles, such as Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater. 

The report claims that following Toys For Bob’s work on the Spyro Reignited Trilogy, the company conceptualized a multiplayer ****** title, before deciding to take the work they had done on that multiplayer title and use it to build a new, single-player entry in the ****** franchise. This would eventually lead to ****** Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time.

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Following this release, Toys For Bob set a small group of developers the task of envisioning the future of the series, a project that would be referred to internally as ****** Bandicoot 5.  This would have been a single-player 3D platformer, and a direct sequel to ****** Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time, it’s claimed.

The report contains alleged concept art and proposed story concepts for the unannounced game, which include the game taking place at a school for villainous children, featuring returning villains from previous games.

One supposed concept even saw ****** team up with Spyro, following an interdimensional threat to both worlds. According to the report, “****** and Spyro were intended to be the two playable characters.”

Last month, a former Toys For Bob artist claimed that a fifth ****** Bandicoot game was cancelled at the studio.

****** Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy was added to Game Pass earlier this month.