A new report has claimed that Crash 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 Crash 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 Crash 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 Crash franchise. This would eventually lead to Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time.

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 Crash Bandicoot 5. This would have been a single-player 3D platformer, and a direct sequel to Crash 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 Crash team up with Spyro, following an interdimensional threat to both worlds. According to the report, “Crash and Spyro were intended to be the two playable characters.”

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

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

Makes sense

My life between 6-10 years old revolved around riding bikes with my friends and playing crash bandicoot on the rainy days. I loved that ****! But there's no way I would play it now at 32 years old

Seems like a good choice. I’ve never heard anybody say “crash bandicoot” before. Not sure who they think their market is. I think their demographic of methhead boomers is long dead by now. Nobody is playing crash bandicoot.

THPS 3+4 getting cancelled was a far bigger blow. Activision deserved to get bought out by Microsoft, such a terribly ran publisher. Only thing they cared about in the end was COD.

Crazy how we viewed Crash as Sony's Mario.

what are you brahs on?

the N.Sane remasters were amazingly well done and still hold up to this day, 4 was a really good new entry

shame they canned the plans for 5



so much this

1+2 is probably one of the best games from the last decade, the OG's have always been in my GOAT list and I was a bit skeptical when the remakes got announced but FUAAAARK they are insanely good

looks and feels 100% like a modern game but with a lot of love and respect to the classics, 11/10 remake srs

I was hyped to see 3+4 in the same style but OF COURSE we can't have nice things

sad af srs