Crash Bandicoot 4 Sales Reportedly Surpass Five Million

Oh, great.
I have Crash Bandicoot 4 too on Switch, but I still haven't finished the game yet. 😅
Maybe the PS4 version for double dip will give me some confidence to finish the game as the game get 60 fps boost on PS5.

Supposedly that's good if it's selling that many. But the game just...doesn't catch my interest or anything. Crash Bandicoot was a series I've never gave as much as a glance up until I've played Crash: Wrath of Cortex. That's the game that drew me in.

None of the others did. Just THAT ONE game alone...Weird.

I have this on PS5. Glad it’s doing well. Toys for Bob is a great studio with a good silly name and I want it to stick around.

Good. I’m glad this game is getting recognition. Hopefully the reports of Toys for Bob working on a new Crash or Spyro game are true. Of course, they would possibly skip Switch/whatever Nintendo platform is current since Microsoft owns them now, but those games would fit well with Nintendo, so I could see Microsoft pushing them there as well.

@Shepdawg1 Toys for Bob, about a month+ ago, went indie. They aren’t owned by MS, but they are supposedly in a deal with them to make a new Spyro (since Activision owns that IP, if I recall correctly).

@TotalHenshin Yeah, that’s what I meant. Microsoft owns Crash Bandicoot and Spyro (due to the Activision acquisition), so they control where the IP goes.

Fantastic news! I remember early on people were saying it wasn’t selling well, but 5 mil, that’s pretty good.

Fantastic game, I love it to bits.

I must do, I went through the torture of 106% completing it. Still one of my proudest achievements

You don't have to go PS5 for 60FPS, a PS4Pro does the same and gives the same smooth experience - can't speak for the base PS4 though.

Considering it's a multiplatform release, those aren't terrible numbers, but they're not exactly amazing. I wouldn't be surprised if ActiVision was very disappointed with those sales, knowing how they are. They probably said, "Yep, this isn't doing Call of Duty numbers, so we should shelve it for the next 10 years." Hopefully Microsoft is rectifying this, as shortly after the acquisition and T4B went indie, Microsoft is rumored to have commissioned them to make a new Spyro game.

I bought it and I liked it. but not as much as the original trilogy games. I am a fan of crash bandicoot platforming and racing games. i wouldn't mind going back to it to increase the percentage completion sometime though as I am a fan

Crash Bandicoot 3 Warped for PlayStation 1, is still the ultimate Crash experience. 4 is great and really challenging. What I did not like is, how the game forced me to play as the villains. Thankfully they are on the heroes side this time. And I did not like stuff, like the new Tawna.

@Alpha008 Congrats! Funny how that number 106 also got stuck in my brains. I also went and collected everything (except the super relics and the best times at time trials). I thought the levels were just too long for that. But otherwise really fun game, and lots of creativity for a new Crash game. Happy for their success, and nice to see we've all enjoyed it quite a bit.

Good to hear about the sales number, sad to think that most of the creators of this title were put on the unemployment line when MS acquired the company along with Activision

I dunno, for a franchise that's meant to be iconic that's also on the PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series, Switch and PC I would say 5 million sales is just OK, especially compared to other big game franchises. If Crash was to go fully Xbox Exclusive it will fail to even reach 1 million sales.

And thats probably still short of what Activision want...

@Shepdawg1 Gotcha. My mistake.

@HandheldHaunter @Not_Soos Activision made Toys for Bob into a CoD support studio shortly after Crash 4 released, so yes, you are right that these numbers weren't good enough for Bobby Kotick.

Much as I hate seeing so much industry consolidation, I think things are going to be better overall in this case.

game characters like crash over time have started to look like those "real homer simpson" et al memes where they've redrawn a cartoon character but now they have realistic skin texture, eyes and lighting 😬 i really miss the days when characters were represented as cartoons or paintings instead of CG "art."

Crash 4 was incredible. Every platformer fan should play it for sure

Great game but frustratingly difficult. To the point that I never completed it.

@DanijoEX-the-Pierrot To put it into perspective, 5 million is equivalent to the lifetime sales of Guild Wars 2, FF VII Remake, and Monster Hunter World or the original release of Kingdom Hearts, and outsold every Kirby, Fire Emblem, and Metroid game.

Not a CoD / Pokemon / Animal Crossing level success, but still a huge amount of sales.

Indeed, this development presents promising prospects for revitalizing other beloved 90s platform mascots, such as Spyro or Banjo-Kazooie. As for Crash 4 itself, while I was initially inclined to purchase it, two significant factors dissuaded me. Firstly, the alterations made to Tawna for the sake of political correctness raised concerns. Additionally, the deliberate increase in difficulty level, seemingly fuelled by internet memes comparing it to the notorious challenge of Dark Souls, detracted from my enthusiasm.

I would have totally bought this if only there was a physical release in Europe.

@Jhena Warped is stellar! I played it so much as a kid!

Personally, my vote for GOAT goes to 2. That was the first game I ever played, and something about it still draws me back in to this day!

Good. Now gimme a Spyro 4!

They nailed pretty much everything you could hope for in a Crash sequel but they could have easily made this into two games. Levels could have been shorter and they could have removed some of these hard-to-find crates. That kind of missing refinement keeps the game from being a classic.

HOORAY FOR CRASH!!! Crash Bandicoot 4: Its About Time was the best in the series IMO. Well deserved success and bring on Crash 5!

I did not like CB4. I've gotten full % on CB1-3 a few times but the challenges in CB4 were too hard, imo. And tumblr Tawna was cringe.

@link3710 WTF? I think you got some of those numbers wrong, FF 7 remake has sold 7 millions while Monster hunter world has sold the monstrous amount of 25 millions of copies.

@JohnnyMind
It's very weird indeed. The only physical copies I've seen in France were imports.

@RareFan care to elaborate on the alleged PC Tawna?

Hopefully we'll get 5th installment but please tone down the difficulty to Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze level, that game was just the PERFECT balanced for a collectathon platformer

Yeah no wonder we have not got a new mainline Crash game since then. They probably wanted at least 10+ million sales. Yes I’m aware the teams have since got assimilated to different areas.

@fenlix Honestly I pulled them off wikipedia, my bad.

@Nameless_Shame

• strong and independent
• punk hairstyle
• does not interact with Crash (the male lead) once alone