Quote:Regardless, Legend of Spyro's fanbase has gotten far smaller compared to its heyday, and is proportionally a lot smaller than the rest of the fanbase.
How do you prove that though? This implies that people who were fans of LoS actively stopped liking it on a wide scale, which I don't necessarily see how that could be the case. Reignited wasn't a magic switch that made anyone stop liking LoS simply because another Spyro game was on the market. Didn't happen to me, and I am SUPER nostalgic for the Classic trilogy.
Just because they stopped releasing more games in the series, doesn't mean people stopped liking it or wanting to see more from it. By that logic, Reignited Trilogy would not exist - nobody was talking about Spyro outside of the hardcore fandom until the rumours of the remake started surfacing, which was after N. Sane Trilogy ("whatever happens to Crash, happens to Spyro"). Most of the sales of the game came from people silently waiting on some sort of nostalgic comeback, not necessarily people who had been consistently playing these games or playing.
The same realistically applies to LoS - yes, very few people have been talking about LoS since 2008. But that's just because LoS hasn't had much in the way of new content at all. It was the same for Classic Spyro until Reignited Trilogy was happening - Skylanders was just THE relevant Spyro series for a while (if you could even say that).
But even then...it's not like Activision forgot the LoS series entirely. They recognised Cynder and Malefor as popular enough characters to integrate them into Skylanders. Cynder in particular was playable from launch IIRC in the first Skylanders game and has been playable in every game in that series, and she was included with the Starter Pack in Skylanders Giants, and continued to appear in the comics and Netflix show (as far as I know, Malefor isn't in the games but he is in the comics and Netflix show). It's not like her popularity is strictly limited to the "failed series" of the LoS games - she was also a big part of one of Activision's biggest money makers for the last half a decade, and was included in that series because she clearly had enough fandom from the LoS series alone anyway to be included in Skylanders in the first place. Hell, even her moveset in Skylanders pays homage to her LoS roots.
If anything, I would argue that there has been potential for the fanbases of these games to grow a bit. The existence of Skylanders means kids end up looking into the histories of those characters and naturally they will discover the origins of Spyro and Cynder respectively and may pick up their games pre-owned/digitally or watch them on YouTube.
I don't quite think a remake or even a remaster of the LoS games is in the cards at the moment, and I (personally) don't need one even as a fan of the series mainly because I can emulate them in 4K 60 FPS on my PC already (obviously not everyone can do this of course, so I still support the idea of a remaster if it were in the cards - plus I might pick up Switch ports of them anyway). But I feel people like to downplay the possibility of such a thing, as well as the fanbase of said series, more than they ought to.
I mean, you can't seriously look me in the eye and say LoS has "no chance" of getting some kind of collection when
DEADLY PREMONITION got a Switch port in 2019, AND is getting a full-on sequel early next year. Like, that game is the definition of a game with a cult following. LoS is at LEAST on that level (and that's just me being overly cynical for the sake of the argument, LoS obviously has more people who know about it especially by association with Spyro AND Skylanders).