Following the release of Activision Blizzard’s successful Q2 results, the company held an earnings call where they were asked if they saw any opportunities to remaster nostalgic titles, like they did with Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy.
The question was answered by Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg, who admitted that Crash Bandicoot has surpassed all of their expectations (it was the biggest game in June 2017), they’re considering remastering other titles, and they’re also thinking about bringing some of their older properties to new platforms:
So first, we knew that there was a passionate audience out there for Crash. Full disclosure, myself among them, but we had no idea… it’s hard to tell whether that’s a vocal minority or whether that’s a real mass audience until you put something out there. And Crash has surpassed all of our expectations by a pretty wide margin. And a couple of stats that underscore that point where it was the number one selling console game in June based on units, even though it was only available for two days during that month. And Sony reported this morning, well timed, I guess for this call, that Crash is the most downloaded game on the PlayStation Store in July. So as to your broader question, I think this is just another example of us really listening to our communities and our fans and offering them great content where they want to engage which is one of our core strategies. So we think we have other g...