Mario Kart World Has Me Worried We're Never Getting Another Crash Team Racing

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Mario Kart World is great. I’ve played so much now that I’m afraid to check in on the vague hour count Nintendo has carried over to the Switch 2. However, no matter how much I love the new entry in the series, its success, coupled with the other kart racers coming our way this year, has me pining for a new 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Crash Team Racing.

Even though 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds will attempt to compete with Mario Kart World - and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Kirby Air Riders will be here too, I guess - there is nothing on the same level as Mario Kart. Nintendo perfected the kart racing genre a long time ago and has been cashing in on its success with subtle iterations ever since. However, if there was ever something that came close to snatching Mar🤪io Kart’s crown, it’s Crash Team Racing.

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Nothing Has Come Closer To Beating Mario Kart At Its Own Game Than Crash Team Racing

Crash, Coco, and Doctor Neo Cortex racing in Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled.

Between Crash Team Racing and its remake, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled, there’s a real chance I've spent more time on Crash’s race tracks than Mario’s. Not just because I was a PlayStation kid who didn’t discover Nintendo until later in life, either. The Crash Team Racing games are good, and ꦬafter the success of Nitro-Fueled, I’m a little surprised there 🍰hasn’t been a follow-up.

When I say Cras🧜h Team Racing games are good, I mean the original and its remake. Not the so-so attempts to make something more of CTR that cam🐠e between them.

That’s not me waxing lyrical about the good old days and claiming everyone loved Crash when in reality it was just me and the same seven people in every online lobby. There👍 are literally millions of us.

Activision recently celebrated Nitro Fueled hitting ten million players via the Crash Bandicoot Twitter account. So even the publishing giant that holds the keys to the Crash gates is aware of how popular the Bandicoot kart racer is, and how muc🍸h of a money spinner the first new entry in the series since 2005’s Crash Tag Team Racing could be.

Okay, I guess I did just refer⛦ence one of those other CTR games, but that’s it now, I’m done.

Perhaps Activision Is Waiting For The Mario Kart Hype To Die Down

Mario rail grinding around a corner on Mario Bros. Circuit in Mario Kart World.

Maybe there is a grand plan to revive Crash Team Racing, and the celebration of ten million copies sold is the first, very vague indicator of that. I mean, even at its best, Crash Bandicoot’s racing game is always going to be overshadowed by Mario’s. That’s why I fear the worst for CrossWorlds. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Despite the glowing previews and launching three months aꦺ✤fter Mario Kart World, it’s still going to struggle.

Activision and Xbox might have a secret Crash Team Racing game waiting in the wings, and as soon as Nintendo confirmed a new Mario Kart was on the way, it put the new Crash kart racer on the back burner until things die down. Unfortunately, the treatment of the Crash Bandicoot IP as a whole lately makes me doubt that. Despite selling north of five million copies, Activision was reportedly unhappy with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Crash Bandicoot 4’s performance, and the less said about 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Crash Team Rumble, the better.

Crash Bandicoot in the foreground and Coco Bandicoot in the background in a promotional image for Crash 4. They are both surfing in the air.

I'm not holding out much hope either since we've already lived through reports of a canceled Crash 5 game ༺that would ﷽have broken our hearts if we knew what we could have had, and even 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a Crash and Spyro team-up game that was also canned. All pretty bleak, but there is hope. Toys For Bob, the studio responsible for most of Crash’s modern-day victories, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:is working on something with A﷽ctiv🐻ision after going independent. It’s probably not a Crash Team Racingꦫ game, but 𝄹hey, give me anything with the world’s most famous marsupial in it at this point, I’m starving.

As long as it’s not more Crash Team Rumble

The Longer We Go Without More Crash, The Less People Are Going To Care

My biggest fear is that we’re already in a vicious spiral, and the longer we continue to spiral without more Crash, the worse it will get. The longer we go without a good new Crash game, the less people are going to care. That will result in poor sales, and then Activision will become even less likely to🧜 devote time to the Bandicoot in the future. Worst of all, if there isn’t a super secret Crash Team Racing game ready to go once everyone's done playing Mario Kart World, then that means tꦇhe next game in the series, if there even is one, is still years away.

There were fresh rumors recently 168🦩澳洲幸运5开奖网:suggesting Nitro Fueled will be getting an update that adds more characters and a new track to the game. That sounds gr💃eat, and I look forward to it if it's the r💙eal deal.

If Mario Kart is so much better than anyt♔hing other platforming mascots can muster in the kart racing scene, then so be it. Nintendo isn’t the kind of studio that will cheap out on a project because it doesn’t have competition. Mario Kart games will always be fantastic. It’s just a shame that Crash Team Racing, the series that came the closest to doing what Mario Kart does best, is currently showing no signs of life, particularly in a year when we’re getting more kart racers from platforming’s biggest names than ever before.