Toys for Bob has seemingly teased some kind of Spyro the Dragon-related announcement for 2023 as the popular purple platforming mascot celebrates his 25th birthday this year. Spyro the Dragon and its sequels were some of the premiere exclusives for the PlayStation 1 console, though the franchise lost a lot of its quality when the IP left Insomniac Games. Despite this, sales remained high enough to justify new main series Spyro the Dragon games coming out on an annual basis until 2008.Spyro went on hiatus after The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon, only to be used to push Activision's new Skylanders franchise a few years later. While Spyro continued to be featured in the Skylanders video games, the main platforming game franchise remained dormant until 2018 when Toys for Bob produced Spyro Reignited Trilogy. Spyro Reignited Trilogy collected the original PS1 games together in a remastered collection with vastly improved graphics and gameplay improvements, with many fans holding out hope that it would lead to a proper revival of the franchise.No Spyro 4 video game or any new project since Spyro Reignited Trilogy has been announced, but Toys for Bob's latest tweet does have some fans cautiously optimistic about the franchise's future. Toys for Bob recently released an image hinting at what the studio has in store for the new year. The image references the Crash Team Rumble multiplayer game that's set to launch later in 2023, but it also included Spyro the Dragon with "25th" floating above his head, hinting that some kind of announcement related to the franchise's anniversary could be on the way.
Insiders have denied that brand-new Spyro the Dragon games are in development, so fans may not want to get too excited that this is leading up to a Spyro 4 reveal. It's possible that Toys for Bob isn't hinting at a new game announcement at all. If anything, this could simply be a port of Spyro Reignited Trilogy to PS5 and Xbox Series X platforms, but even that might not come to pass.
2023 may or may not see the reveal of an official new Spyro the Dragon game or port of one of the franchise's older titles, but there is some evidence to suggest that Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure could be making a comeback. Leaked surveys from Activision suggest that the company is looking to release a Skylanders collection that would collect the first three games in the series in a single package and no longer require users to collect real-life toys for use in-game. While it may not be the big Spyro comeback fans are hoping for, there is at least more proof that project exists versus any other kind of Spyro the Dragon game.