Yeah, Spyro is not even close to Terminator on the pop culture scale.

Maybe not in the general public, but you have to remember that the followings for any one video game franchise are, by current records, smaller than any following for a movie franchise, even Mario and any military shooter. The proportions could actually be bigger than that, but it's not known because the players are shy to admit it, maybe even after the effects of the Crash of 1983 and maybe because the news press tends to view games as a pass time that gives detrimental effects.

The differences in production values for the mediums might be another factor. For movies, it's mostly about style vs substance, and trying to balance the two. For video games, it's different, because you can get away with style, but I guess the mass public is used to wanting substance, which is probably why the majority of the public are alienated by video games and why some of the good video games simply get ignored just because they don't have the kind of substance movies or even books do. I can see why Spyro's ignored today just for this very reason, but for the industry to have us wait this long is almost a crime. I can forgive it just a little bit, as it's not as big as the Half-Life 3 crime, but it's still a bother.

But no, this doesn't mean anything. Comparing the Terminator movies, which everyone has at least heard of if not seen, to LoS, which no one outside this little fandom on the Internet cares about? It's just wishful thinking.

If a new TLoS game will never exist again, what in the core Spyro series will?

i just assumed nothing, as unfavorable as that sounds.

I dunno, it just still kind of boggles me that one of my favorite franchises can still run while the other's left in a crystal. If a new TLoS game will never exist again, what in the core Spyro series will? I don't mean something that is merely a slap-in of many Spyro games at once, but one that innovates on every aspect of what a dragon protagonist-focused video game is supposed to do. Seriously, I'd kind of like something over the top when it comes to air battles these days, and I think dragons are the perfect candidates for these scenarios.