I genuinely hope Sony talks with Microsoft for selling Crash and Spyro IP to them.
Sony has had every opportunity to buy Crash and Spyro. It's never happening, especially now. Even if Sony still owned Crash and Spyro, we probably wouldn't see Crash and Spyro games, just as we don't see Jak and Sly games and have seen 2 Ratchet games in 2 generations, one being a remake.
TBF they almost botched that one up in 3 months time with the PSN account linking fiasco.
Though I'll keep saying, them wanting account linking wasn't the problem. Them reverting the mandatory linking wasn't the problem. It's 100% how they handled it, from the announcement to the rollout to the walk-back.
That's an exaggeration. They miscalculated PC gamers reaction to the most benign of things.
The reality is Steam users sensed exactly what was happening, that this was Sony's first salvo into making their own PC launcher, one that will compete with Steam, and that's the last thing they want. That's why they not only dug in but collaborated on driving reviews down.
Sony caved because Helldivers 2 is the golden goose. In just 2 months it became the 7th most successful Sony published title in the US... That's actually insane.
Sony has massive PC plans, but they don't need PSN registrations from Helldivers to accomplish that.
When they launch the PC Launcher, they'll just give away free features and goodies to players who play it there rather than on Steam and eventually Sony's PC storefront will have exclusive PC games including Sony first party titles.
Between the PSN registration mandate, the PlayStation overlay in Tsushima, and the PSVR2 support that's coming, I don't think the PC storefront is that far away. We're probably talking 2 years tops.