My younger brother just started playing Spyro 4...

[Killette]

I think that the sony never owned exclusive rights to the mascot so when they put out a new game they made it multi-platform and got more money than sony was willing to pay for the exclusive rights. I'm not sure but its what I heard.

[Dylan]

I think that the sony never owned exclusive rights to the mascot so when they put out a new game they made it multi-platform and got more money than sony was willing to pay for the exclusive rights. I'm not sure but its what I heard.

This is Sony's fundamental problem: 3rd party dependence. Nintendo and Sega are the only consoles I've seen survive without it (though even Sega eventually bit the dust). 3rd party developers don't care much how any one console is doing, they just sell to the highest bidder. They're like mercenaries in the console wars, and whoever's at the top gets their loyalty. That's what's hurting the PS3, some marketing mistakes were made and they lost a lot of ground.

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

I think that the sony never owned exclusive rights to the mascot so when they put out a new game they made it multi-platform and got more money than sony was willing to pay for the exclusive rights. I'm not sure but its what I heard.

This is Sony's fundamental problem: 3rd party dependence. Nintendo and Sega are the only consoles I've seen survive without it (though even Sega eventually bit the dust). 3rd party developers don't care much how any one console is doing, they just sell to the highest bidder. They're like mercenaries in the console wars, and whoever's at the top gets their loyalty. That's what's hurting the PS3, some marketing mistakes were made and they lost a lot of ground.

Creepy baby doll ads.

[Dylan]

Creepy baby doll ads.

Yeah, that probably didn't help.

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

Creepy baby doll ads.

Yeah, that probably didn't help.

I'm glad they brought the good old 'PlayStation' chant back to the end of their ads recently though.

[Reverend]

I played Spyro season of Ice for the GBA awhile back. SO BAD. The only good part was dragon fly minigame.

[Dylan]

I played Spyro season of Ice for the GBA awhile back. SO BAD. The only good part was dragon fly minigame.

Absolutely. Bizzare how this series began to drop off severely after Year of the Dragon, of course that was the last one handled by Insomniac. Whoever bought the rights to the series was obviously just looking to cash in on its popularity. I remember the exact same thing happening to crash bandicoot too, after the 3rd one the series changed ownership and from there it went downhill. Interesting that after these titles left the Playstation they began to suck.

[RyaNtheSlayA]

Spyro 1 still is up there with my favorite 3D platform games of all time, Croc and Crash Bandicoot are in that list as well.

[newt42]

I played Spyro season of Ice for the GBA awhile back. SO BAD. The only good part was dragon fly minigame.

The first Crash game they ported to the GBA wasnt so bad. I kinda liked having the basic element of that platformer on the go. The Spyro GBA games werent that great though. The whole thing were they merged Spyro and Crash into a GBA minigame clusterfuck was also pretty bad.

Spyro 1 still is up there with my favorite 3D platform games of all time, Croc and Crash Bandicoot are in that list as well.

Croc was beast.

[blackmagepwns]

I can't remember how many times I beat the first Spyro and Year of the Dragon, those games and MGS were the defining games of my PS1 childhood.