What are reasons Crash Bandicoot failed to find any mainstream appeal but settings like Sonic are a cultural milestone for all ages and generations?

>>713549787 (OP)
japs understand how to make something with broad appeal far better than westerners

>>713549787 (OP)
Game quality.

Bad Crash games were worse than bad Sonic games. ND and Insomniac moved on to new IPs after the PS1, leaving Crash and Spyro to rot.

>>713549787 (OP)
Crash never takes itself seriously. Sonic takes itself very seriously. It’s impossible to get invested in the world of a punchline.

>>713549909
>Bad Crash games were worse than bad Sonic games
There isn't a single Crash game thats as bad as Sonic 06 or Forces lets not get ahead of ourselves with the fanatical delusion.

>>713549787 (OP)
The IP was sold multiple times to increasingly greedy jews that never understood what makes it good, only wanted Mario-tier profits with a minimal effort (all while the platformer genre was in decline), and trashed the IP the moment it didn't meet their unrealistic expectatives.

>>713549787 (OP)
Each time he's about to make it big, the rights owners shoot themselves in the foot by trying to modernize him. He can never catch a break.

>>713549857
Yeah that must be why the top seller charts are mostly western games

>>713550029
The PS2 crash games look worse than any sonic game except maybe boom

>>713549787 (OP)
Like everything else in this industry, most publishers got bored of mascot games because they aren't selling like hotcakes anymore so they stopped making them (except for the occasional nostalgia cashgrab).
Most Sonic and Crash games are terrible, sure, but Sega was the one who didn't just give up on the IP to chase a different trend (and now Sonic fans not only will buy anything Sonic-related, they will defend and even fix the series' bad games for free).

Didn't they literally cuck Crash almost immediately?
No one wants a cuck for their mascot

>>713549787 (OP)
The characters are ugly and uninspired and it has no identity, how do people not realize this instantly. Coco and the other furry babes may be cute but they’re generic maid Marian/gadget hackwrench cute AKA forgettable uninterestingly generic furbait. Sonic has a unique memorable cast with a cool identity, music and settings.

Only actual mentally ill deviantart types latch onto Crash beyond playing the trilogy once and forgetting about it after.

Sega has made an ongoing effort for rougly thirty years to keep Sonic in the public consciousness with games, tv shows, movies, merchandise, collaborations, and so on. That's how all the biggest IPs in the world operate, and say what you want about Sega but at least they figured that much out.

Crash simply hasn't been taken care of to this degree and Activision doesn't have the experience needed to handle it the way Sega handles Sonic.

>>713549787 (OP)
even at it's worse sonic had style, lazy crash games didn't

>>713550405
>remakes all sell in the tens of millions
>could've easily rode off that hype and saved resources by hiring the people who made those remakes
>freely hand over the IP to a company who destroyed Spyro and then question why Crash 4 didn't make 10+ million in sales
Its not even incompetence it feels like an actual disassociation from logic and success.

>>713550029
Sonic 06 was bad but at least it was ambitious
Most later Crash games are just shit shovelware

>>713549787 (OP)
>What are reasons Crash Bandicoot failed to find any mainstream appeal
It didn't. Microsoft (formerly Activision) just doesn't care about that much.

>>713553746
You can't compare any of Crash's worst games to 06 or the endless laundry list of bad spinoffs or mainline games. Crash is the jock getting a D+ in every grade, games like 06, Frontiers, Forces, Free Riders, Boom are the actual special needs children of vidya. You need to be impartial or mildly intelligent before you post.

>>713549787 (OP)
Snoic barely can sell 4 million copies even after big movies
Crash outsold it easily with 20 million copies lmao

>>713549787 (OP)
Pretty much every "why did x series die" question has the same answer, GTA3 came out and people stopped caring about animal mascot games for babies

>>713549787 (OP)
??? It didn't its just naughty dog went lol we dont care anymore soyn heres the IP. And every game made post PSX was fucking trash after trash. Till some shit studio decided to reboot the series in 2006?. Creating the worse game in the series, then releasing another shitty game sealing crash's fate.

Crash was fucking huge the 90's early 00's, its just bad games ruined the series. Samething happened to tons of series spiro also got fucked over, the most famous case being gaylo. Soyn/Xbone bought the IP the studio behind it moved on to other titles. Soyn/Xbone gives X series to hacks who only made bad games and forever reason kills a series that made lots of sales and money.

Its insane how many times this has happened I swear it has to be on purpose some head hates X series or is trying to sabotage some other head by saying why yes giving this money making IP to this studio filled with mouth breathing retards is a wonderful idea you know this budget is too small your idea is truly amazing we should ask for the studio to get more funding so they can make a new amazing trilogy that will absolutely 5-25X the sales of the first trilogy

>>713553780
Voting with your wallet is such a fucking meme.

>>713549787 (OP)
They always had an amateurish level design philosophy that's always trying to trick or prank the player, which constantly interferes with the platforming. The hitboxes suck too, which makes all the traps feel even more disingenuous. Basically the dictionary definition of dishonest game design.

>>713550505
The top seller western games are realismslop or f2p multiplayer games. None of them are pppular because of their character designs

>>713549787 (OP)
Because Sonic is a super powered hedgehog and Crash is just on crack.

>>713549787 (OP)
Sonic has way more compelling characters and world. also more waifus while they tried to ruin Tawana

>>713549787 (OP)
Sonic's character design is just much better than Crash.

>>713549787 (OP)
The people in charge of Crash (even during the Naughty Dog era) are retards. Say what you will about Sonic but his brand is nowhere near as mismanaged as picsreel.

>>713553780
>>713556770
You know what's sad about this? That, put into chart form, shows a steady decline in sales overtime. Executives don't take kindly to that.

>>713562276
Execs should set themselves up for more realistic expectations instead of thinking every game should make Candy Crush numbers.

>>713563594
Even by that standard, it doesn't work. Add in Crash Team Rumble into the calculation and its dead. No way around that.

That aside, they cancelled Crash 5 after a month more than likely cause they expected continued declining sales.