Summary
- Toys for Bob, known for Crash & Spyro games, wants to make a new Banjo-Kazooie game.
- Toys for Bob studio head Paul Yan recently claimed that Banjo is the “first one that comes to mind” for characters he’d like for the studio to work with.
- Unfortunately, Toys for Bob is busy with its current project – rumored to be Spyro 4 – so Banjo fans will have to continuing waiting for now.
There are a lot of platformer mascots out there starved of the attention they deserve, and it just so happens that Xbox owns a few of them. While we have had new games in the Crash Bandicoot series, both Spyro the Dragon and Banjo-Kazooie have been dormant for so long that some people are convinced we’ll never see them grace our consoles ever again.
Banjo-Kazooie is definitely a series that could use some TLC, with the last game being the infamously controversial Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, which was released all the way back in 2008. We’ve heard rumblings of potential projects in development, though nothing concrete has ever emerged from them, but there is one studio with close ties to Xbox that wants to bring the bear out of hibernation.
Crash Bandicoot Developer Toys For Bob Wants To Make A Banjo-Kazooie Game
Toys for Bob is a studio that’s almost single-handedly been keeping our favorite 90s platforming mascots alive in the modern day, having released two massively successful titles in Spyro: Reignited Trilogy and Crash Bandicoot 4. It’s currently heads down working on its next project, which is heavily rumored to be Spyro 4, but it was recently asked in an email interview with YouTuber Canadian Guy Eh which properties it would like to work with now it’s an independent studio.
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“There’s so many, and that’s one of the exciting possibilities of being independent,” says Toys For Bob studio head Paul Yan. “One company we’d like to work with is one we’re already working with – Team Xbox. They’ve been a great partner and they also a very interesting roster of characters that Toys for Bob could have a lot of fun with. The honey bear is the first one that comes to mind. I think we all can agree Banjo’s been hibernating long enough, right?”
Of course, that doesn’t mean anything is signed and sealed with Toys for Bob, and it’s extremely unlikely the studio is working on one since it’s busy with its current project, but it’s nice to know that a developer with some serious talent in making platformers would be down to bring Banjo back. Now we just need to convince Xbox to make it happen.
Banjo-Kazooie
- Released
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June 28, 1998
- ESRB
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E for Everyone
- Publisher(s)
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Nintendo