Back in 2018, the original Crash Bandicoot collection arrived on the Nintendo Switch in the form of the N. Sane Trilogy. It seems many years on, we've now got a sales update for the global sales across all platforms including the Switch, and the game has now topped 20 million units globally.
The official social account for Crash issued a message to fans thanking everyone for this "memorable milestone". It's also resulted in multiple fans requesting even more revivals and new entries in the Crash Bandicoot series. Most recently, Crash fans got the fourth major title 'It's About Time' in 2020/21.
The Crash Bandicoot series is now technicially owned by Microsoft after it acquired Activision Blizzard last year. The series first made a name for itself on Sony's PlayStation platform during the 90s. If you haven't played this original remastered trilogy, be sure to check out our review here on Nintendo Life. Here's a quick sample:
"Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy is a ruthlessly faithful recreation of some of the earliest successes in 3D platforming. Levels are slick, gorgeous to look at, and recreate the feel of the originals superbly."
What would you like to see next from the Crash Bandicoot series? Let us know in the comments.
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Can we get more Crash Bandicoot and Spyro for Switch and PS5?
Would like to see either new games or remake from older games.
They did a great job with these remakes. I just got it along with Spyro for only $26. Such a great deal.
@Jiggies Same!
Never played either one before but after trying them both out, I can see why people love them and I found that Spyro is actually quite a nice palette cleanser for the (sometimes) ruthless Crash Bandicoot stages!
And yeah it was something like £23 for the both of them which was an absolute steal!
Looking forward to diving into them more
That’s nuts, Spyro was great too wish they would make a new game in that style
I really need to return to these games. I dove back into Link's Awakening, and took a chance on Rise of the Ronin. Glad I revisited them..
Happy to see the success of this collection. I had a great time playing these games again, really appreciated the challenge. Also enjoyed #4, but thought levels were just too long, which made it a bit tedious to collect everything in the end.
Definitely in for a #5, using the creativity of #4 and the structure closer to the first three.
But poor destitute Activision couldn't be bothered including the entire Spyro trilogy on a cartridge.
Better throw the devs in the Call of Duty mines
Never liked this game, i really tried, but its not for me.
I've always felt like I waste my time breaking boxes and collecting apples in these games.
@DiggleDog
They were thrown to the Blizzard mines years ago.
Love to see it and really should get back to playing it myself (played part of the first game, but then stopped for one reason or another - funnily enough also played the original version of that as a kid at my dentist's)!
Is he back, or did they just hit at the right time with the nostalgia? Let's see what happens with the next game
Tough as nails platformer. I very much doubt I’ll ever 100% it without tearing my hair out.
Completed it back on PSOne and it never occured to me back at that age that it was difficult. Bit of a rude awakening when I went back to it for the remake.
Glad to hear my boy doing well!
@Jiggies I bought the same bundle! What a bargain! I started with replaying the Crash games (I had all of them back in the day) and these remakes do seem really faithful and good at least as far as my memory can tell. Enjoy these games a lot, I definitely recommend them to anyone into traditional platforming games.
Never played Crash and probably won't ever at this point but I'm happy for the fans.
@Divinebovine What next game? They put the devs on Call of Duty then got rid of them.
@InnerSound
I’m with you for the second and third game, they are still fun to play and totally functional in their original form.
I’d say that the first game can only be enjoyed in it‘s remade form though at least if you‘re going for all the emeralds. With checkpoints that don‘t save your progress the original quickly becomes so frustrating that you stop bothering to continue.
How much more sold on switch than other systems?
Is part 4 considered a flop?
Honestly well deserved since they’re really fun to play.
@beartown hate to be that guy but they’re called wumpa fruit.
@Greatluigi that's okay. I haven't played Crash in ages.
@link3710 Aw
@Duffman92 That's basically why I stopped playing the first one, yup. Way too jank and frustrating
@outsider83 I don't think so. Crash 4: 5 million copies sold.
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