Crash Bandicoot Almost Returned To PS4 (Inside Uncharted 4)

Did you catch the Crash Bandicoot 'leak' that happened back in May? It looked to be a fan-taken snapshot of a presentation by Naughty Dog, ending on a silhouette of the orange marsupial and the text "He will rise again" underneath. However, whilst that was almost immediately proven as fake - although the knowledge that Sony don't own Crash any more should've given it away - now Naughty Dog's Bruce Straley has conducted a new interview with AV Club. He confirmed that despite the fake teaser, the team were actually intending on including Crash as a playable easter egg inside Uncharted 4 regardless. The quote is as follows:

"Well, there€™s actually been a conversation about if it were at all possible - which it€™s not, let me emphasize - but we wanted to put a Crash Bandicoot game inside. Not gonna happen, though. Don€™t worry."

He then went on to confirm that ND "don't have control" of the IP any more since it was sold off to Activision, although they were looking into how to pull of this rather amazing idea. How Crash would've manifested, which of the games would've featured and whether the entirety of their runtime would've been playable is up for speculation, as providing Straley isn't simply trying to kickstart a new rumour mill, he seems pretty definitive Crash isn't coming back any time soon. What do you think? Would you want a new Crash Bandicoot game in 2015, and who do you want to develop it, considering how far Naughty Dog have come since their platforming days? Let us know in the comments!