Yeah it's become a cult classic amongst sadistic platinum hunters who just love pain. You know the type that stick a dildo on their gaming chair.
Sad day 
Crash 4 sold over 5 million copies. Quite a feat for a non Nintendo 3d platformer. Doubt the cancellation of Crash 5 had anything to do with 4 being difficult and turning people away.
I'm sure people bought it, but did they complete it? There's more to consider than just sales. If say 90% of people that bought it never made it past the 4th level, how likely are they to buy a sequel? A game can have great sales and bad reception. The impact is usually felt on the next game.
X gon give it to ya
I get what you're saying, but when it comes to Crash 4 specifically, the game didn't have a bad reception, and the complaints about the difficulty weren't this huge thing. The cancellation likely had more to do with the fact this industry is fucked and publishers only care about AAA blockbusters and the Crash IP doesn't fit in that category.
150 hours? What?
I am in that catetory. I liked the game, which is much better than the previous games gameplay wise, but the difficulty was a bit too high for me. A similar game with a easier difficulty (or only difficult for 100% the game) would be much better. But I like the non linear parts in the game, the artstyle, the controls, pretty much everything. I think they really should have done a sequel and improving on players feedback. The game sold well by most accounts.
Sadistic difficulty? It was the only platformer in recent memory with an appropriate difficulty considering how most platformers these days are embarrassingly easy.
I'm away from home so can't check maybe it was a little less. But I would have just mindlessly played them without the platinum in mind. Does the 100% include all the gold time relics?
Yeah, you don't need platinum relics. Just all gold relics for the platinum trophy. It's basically just get all gems and gold relics and you're done.
What’s there to like?Or do we just hate Xbox anyway, regardless?
I think the average completion rate for mainstream games is around 15% so I don't think this would be a metric for a studio/publisher to cancel a sequel. I might be wrong tho.
Nicolas Cole's modern cartoon art was fine for Spyro, but it ruined Crash, who was always more Bugs Bunny/Taz inspired.
What?! Are you telling me Microsoft bought Call of Duty factory to make Call of Duty? That can't be true! What about Heretic and Hexen T-shirts that Philbo wore?
Do you own one? What a silly question.
It should be noted that Crash never was a PS property, really at any point. Naughty Dog (basically two guys at the time) said they wanted to make a mascot platformer for PS1. Sony said sure, go on ahead. It became a bigger thing than it should have, perhaps (although tech-wise it's still solid, what they did with the hardware is commendable). But Sony never owned the rights to the IP. It wasn't until PS2 onwards that ND was bought by Sony and became a first-party studio.
Another victim of Microsoft:
It seems that they were canceled before the acquisition of Activision by Xbox.
Checks out. Crash 4 on Steam has a 16.4% completion rate.
Love how you skipped Crash 4, and then claim the IP is now 'dead' less than a year after the acquisition closed.
Don't worry, they'll do CoD. In fact, with recent developments inside MS, I think soon ATVI will be nothing but yearly CoD and Diablo/Warcraft in some form.
You're writing this as it's a good thing.
Sold, or "sold"? As it was given away freely on PS+, and those are likely counted as sales. Sources show it sold fewer than 500k copies during launch month.
