Why didn't Sony really have a mascot?
>>736502527They had Crash Bandicoot and Sackboy.
>>736502527all of their best platformers in the ps1 days were third party
>>736502527Crash Bandicoot. Until they dropped him.
>>736502527>Master Chief >mascot Maybe if we time traveled back to 2010.
>>736502527Halo is raped and dead, not sure if that’s better
Kratos
>>736502527Kratos has been their rep
PlayStation does have mascots but they don't rely on them as much as Nintendo amd Microsoft. They're always making new IPs. >Lara Croft >Crash Bandicoot>Kratos>Sackboy>Astrobot
>>736502684He's their mascot whether they like it or not. Halo is responsible for xbox ever having been competitive at all and Halo's decline is directly tied to Xbox's.
>>736502527Halo has been a dead franchise for over a decade, you stupid fucking retard.
Sony doesn't care about IPs like that.>didn't secure Crash and Spyro>never localized Doko Demo Issyo>most of their IPs get dropped after a console generation
>>736502527>mascotSony has gaming ICONS.
>>736502527>Halo >implying mascot>implying this isn't just more Marathon, a PC franchiseAll the companies that were essentially publishers and also ewaste toy manufacturers had mascots, all the companies that were exclusively ewaste leeches had nothing permanent.
>>736502527John Spartan wasn't an official mascot, just the de facto one since he was from the only Xbox exclusive anyone really cared about.
>>736502527Bearded nuKratos which also reflects their target demographicWhy xbox never established themselves as the console for actual men as opposed to children(nintendo) and faggots(sony) is beyond me.
We have KINGtos
>>736502527Reach was the last good Halo game, when was that 2010? I don't even own a switch and haven't played a Mario game since the first one on PC but I am assuming there have been many good Mario games released since 2010.
>40+ year olds on /v/ still think Master Chief is a mascot in 2026
>>736502527They had several,Sweet tooth/crash during ps1 eraJak/ratchet/ape escape apes ps2 eraKratos/sackboy ps3 eraAloy ps4 eraAstrobot ps5 era
>>736502527>ditched crash, spyro, sly, ratchet, jak, sackboyat this point their mascot is fucking Spiderman
>>736502527 Their official mascot was that dumb cat thing that nobody cares about dumb Japs.But outside pedoisland we all considered Crash Bandicoot to be their mascot, even though they didn't own the rights for the IP.Cloud was a secondary mascot at one point, like Bamco wanted Cloud representing the Playstation in Soul Calibur 2, but Squaresoft was full of shit so they had to change to Heihachi at the last minute.
>>736502527Because they were too autistic.
>>736502527Baz and fat alloy
>>736503073its either master chief or nothing take your pick
>>736503251Then it's nothing. Halo hasn't been relevant in over a decade. Teenagers and young adults today don't care about it at all.
>>736502681Do they really have anyone else?
Officially they didn't have or want one, because that would give the PS1 a certain stigma that its only for kids.
>>736503391No, which puts them on the same position as Sony. OP is a fucking retard.
>>736503391They tried with Blinx.
>>736502527Sony unlike most other companies seemed really against capitalizing on their IP's until the more recent stuff. Like they just outright abandoned so many things until Horizon and TLoU came along.
>>736502807This is the correct answer but this thread was made by a toddler who wants to console war.
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>>736502527The concept of LGBTQ(sodomy) is their mascot
>>736503073The OP is past tense, dumb fuck
>>736502527Master Chief hasn't been the mascot of Xbox for years, zoomer, Microsoft's IPs are generic slop. Sony did have mascots, but the Xbox rot made them vault them. Now that Xbox is kill, they will come back. Also, Astro Bot is a PlayStation mascot. You should replace the green prick on the left with either Gordon Freeman or an Aperture robot. Stop trying to force the Xbox, it's Nintendo, PlayStation, and Steam now. I swear, Atari and Sega fans didn't act like this, what's wrong with you Xbots?
>>736502829Xbox is dead and buried, you should do the same. Microsoft sees IPs as an asset, that's why they can't ever be Nintendo, Sony when the west isn't in control, or Valve. Microsoft shouldn't even be involved in video games, honestly. Capcom was right about them during the 6th gen.
>>736502527sigh...
>>736503251It's nothing, Microsoft stopped promoting Master Chief alongside Xbox the moment Infinite bombed. Microsoft is just a multiplatform company now. Xbox is on its way out, given to OEM partners, and Microsoft doesn't have a face.
>>736503473Microsoft never tries, when Rare was with Nintendo, their IPs sat right next to Nintendo's own IPs, the moment they went to Microsoft, because they weren't Mature or fit what Microsoft wanted, they were crossed off the Excel sheet and never looked at again. Fuck Microsoft.
>>736502527All of their best games in the formative years were 3rd party
>>736502527Crash Bandicoot was their mascot for a while. They sold the rights off and now have nobody. I guess Nathan Drake was the mascot for a while, but it's hard for a mascot character to look like someone in a Wal Mart, and they sure aren't making more games about him.
>>736510250They had many mascot for each generation, now their main Mascot is Astro Bot. Microsoft are generic trash that never had a mascot. It's a wonder why all of Microsoft's IPs are forgettable. Microsoft shouldn't have ever purchased Rare if they were never going to even use them properly.
>>736502527snoys were always soulless
>>736510415Remove the ten can, Microbot, I rather the Aperture bot and Astro Bot replace him. Halo has been dead for years. You retards need to get over it already. Master Chief doesn't sit with anyone, he's forgettable and led gaming down a dark path that's just now healing.
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>>736510542astro what?
>>736511268Master who?
>>736510408If you had many you have none
>>736503074lets see merch sales
>>736511682Microsoft doesn't even have one
>>736502807>Crash BandicootNot a mascot Sony ever owned, just associated with briefly during the PS1 era. >Lara Croft Same as Crash. Hell you could've named Jak, Ratchet, The Hunter from Bloodborne, Kat, Slayer of Demons, or Sly but you chose ones either not affiliated or that people don't give a shit about like Astrobot.
>>736511869Doesn't change the fact that theyre PlayStation mascots
>>736502527Crash and Spyro were owned by universal and sold to activision. They had ever chance to create their own characters they just never made any that stuck.
>>736503391They literally own Banjo-Kazooie which held its weight alongside Mario and fucking Donkey Kong, they just did fuck all with the character. Had they still released good Banjo titles i could see it being a second banana to Mario, easily.
>>736511937No they really arent. PS cannot use them in a collage or to promote their media. They never even owned them in the first place.
>>736502527The overwhelming majority of games people popularly associate with PlayStation are third party and their brand in general has been third party-driven since its inception. They've clearly pushed for Astro Bot a bit (he was even supposed to integrated into that car project they recently cancelled), but I would imagine it hasn't caught on because (among other reasons) his games are so heavily divorced from the type of games the average Joe associates with PlayStation. Their best bet in terms of both being representative of what people associate with the wider brand and colour choices synchronising with it, as with Mario and Master Chief (despite what much of this thread is suggesting in the latter's case), would unironically have been Nathan Drake in his blue shirt from U4. But relatively "grounded" story-driven human characters tend to not be great mascots because you can only use them for so long before they start feeling played out, and their increasingly heavy reliance on those types of characters is another part of it.
>>736503391Marcus Fenix, I guess Blizzard characters but thats a more recent buyout, Fallout characters, TES characters.
>>736502527They relied on 3rd parts devs for their flagships and when given the chance to actually buy Crash they turned it down.
>>736512120Imagine if Banjo Kazooie got the Crash It's About Time treatment lol
>>736502527They dont need one
>>736512220Master Chief isn't a mascot, if Microsoft can care less about Halo, a bunch of non-gaming normal faggots don't get to dictate what Microsoft (a company who doesn't give a shit about gaming) considers to be a mascot, Microsoft sees Xbox as a way to sell Windows and when that fails they will just sell their games in others storefront. Halo doesn't lead anything for Microsoft anymore. Master Chief isn't there promoting the box and Microsoft thought about getting rid of him at one point in Halo, so Xbots, how the hell is Master Chief a mascot. If he was, he would have made it into Smash Bros. even the Doom Slayer somewhat made it into Smash Bros.
>>736502527Mascots are fun and Sony, well... they don't do fun
>>736502527They have Astrobot, he's way newer though so he's not really as ingrained in the public consciousness as John Halo and Mario Mario
>>736502527Their mascot is wokeness
>>736512190Want a tissue?
The Oni chick would have been a better Xbox mascot than the green robot. God, Master Chief is as generic as the Security Officer in the 90s. Did Bungie really need to repeat the same mistake they made with Marathon with Halo when it comes to the main character?
>>736512678However he was a mascot for two generations and only lost that status when Microsoft gave up, keyword being was.Sony never had even that because it relied on 3rd party companies to do the heavy lifting. Which it did to great success since the PS2 flourished under that mentality and its let the company keep evolving to meet the audience, while Microsoft's focus on dudebro games pidgenholed them into ieerlvance.So yeah Sony never had a true mascot, but that's not a bad thing unless them going from Platformer and Sports Box to a Moviegame and Spots box between generations is a bad thing to you.
>>736502527Didn't they always put Kratos into promotion material? And they tried to turn Sackboy into one for a while.
>>736502527They did. They simply traded their soul for movie games
>>736502527crash pretty much was their mascot. still weird they never owned him
>>736513391Sony has one now though
this thread really triggered the snoids
>>736512431Nuts n Bolts killed the series.
>>736513629True enough
>>736512306Fumble of the century right there. But maybe for the best, can you imagine how badly Druckman would have mutilated the series if he got it in his head that he could 'improve' it?
they gave up Crash and Spyro. Crash could have easily been their mascot, but they decided they didn't want to go that route for some reason. They still have Parappa too. Whatever it is they're trying to do now, Ellie is not iconic.
>>736502527>J&D>R&C>Sackboy>Sky Cooper>Ape Escape They've had plenty, but were too stupid to do anything with them because they fell for the immersionfag moviegame meme, with bonus points for gay, fat, and/ or ugly androgynous characters
>>736513873>they gave up Crash and SpyroThey never owned them
They don't have a mascot, but they do have a placeholder
>>736513652It triggered everyone, nobody likes Xbox here. Not Tendies, Snoys, PC Vegans, idorts, no one. Microsoft has done too much damage to the entire gaming industry that no one can praise or defend them anymore. What a complete shitshow of a company.
>>736514006They chose not to own them. It's not like Naughty Dog and Insomniac were big back then. Sony could have bought them and chose not to.
>736514164notice how I said nothing about xbox or nintendo and yet I get a reply seething about microsoft in particular
>>736514031I wish that statue was Bazz.
>>736514210Why are you just repeating what he said in a redundant way with pointless detail?
>>736514347Look at the OP image, Xbox is being forced here, lol. It's Nintendo, Sony, and Valve now. Microsoft is no longer a part of this. Microsoft going third party couldn't even bring out excitement.
>>736514457because I'm listening to an audiobook and not really paying attention to what i see here
>people keep crying over the Gravity Falls protagonist being outright ignored by Sony>throw a couple of dollars at it when it's on sale to try out>played for all of 3-4 minutes because of a long non-interactive intro cutsceneTrash. Also Sackboy absolutely sucks and isn't iconic at all. All of Sony's icons from Lara Croft to Ratchet and Clank to forgotten series like Jack and Daxter have undergone transformations to make them awful. So that's why Sony can only boast about a library of characters. It's quantity over quality. I mean just look at that awful Last of Us series And look at what they did to Uncharted. Or the Final Fantasy series which the fanbase has devolved into making the most popular protagonist of the franchise into a BBC addicted homo like Link. It's all down hill from here.
>>736502527>hy didn't Sony really have a mascot?Because every time one seems to get traction, Sony executes them in a back alley, never to be seen again.
>>736514563Enough time has passed that the kids who grew up in the 2000s and saw Master Chief plastered on all the gaming magazines as the Xbox face of "The Big Three" despite knowing that modern Xbox is a walking corpse are still nostalgic for that time and treat Master Chief as such.
>>736502527Certainly not for lack of trying. They have tried to push Crash and Sackboy but didn´t really stick.The problem with Sony is that most of the iconic characters that have been on their consoles are third party, like Cloud, Sora or CJ.
>>736514991During the ps2 era i always thought as a kid that Ratchet and Clank were the mascots.
>>736514967Too bad Bungie and Microsoft never treated Master Chief with enough respect to be a mascot. The fact that when Bungie flew the coop, Microsoft decided to bring the Spartans back from the dead showed that Microsoft seriously never gave a shit. .
>>736515154Blue Team was always alive, they just had the sense to keep them in the books for the lore nerds.
>>736514164everyone can tell by your posts that you're just that one same severely autistic snoy
>>736510408They're not a mascot if they were important just until some other game came out. I guess Kratos has been the Sony mascot for a long time, though they went from making entirely too many God of War games to making so few it's hard to care. Astro Bot mattered for about a week when they hoped he would sell a PS5, then he went back to the closet with all the other characters Sony forgot about.
>>736516834Who the fuck is Blue Team?>>736517181I'm an idort, you monkey, I think the Nintendo vs PlayStation vs Steam wars are stupid and plan to get all three of their handhelds next gen. I simply just don't like Microsoft and Xbox, I gave them a chance and they only made video games worse and destroyed the games I used to play growing up for generic brown realistic military shooter dudebro shit over making fun video games. If they actually helped the console and PC games industry instead of setting them back, I would actually praise Microsoft. But I can tell they simply don't care about the medium. They are the worst competitors to exist.
>>736517478Halo and Gears are fun games dude you just got shoved in a locker in high school or something and turned out weird
>>736517337Astro Bot is about to become far more important than he was. Astro Bot is being considered the standard set for all Sony's studios. Japan is taking over again and they don't want this western slop anymore. You're not just going to start seeing less PC releases, we're about to start seeing less of that live-service and woke movie crap too, and that's a good thing. PS1, PS2, and PSP was Sony at their best, I liked PS Vita for what it was, and the Japanese side of the PS3 and PS4 were great. Sony wants a lot of their Japanese, and western IPs from PlayStation generations before PS5 to return, the gameplay-focused ones. Rumors are they want to build up on mascots and return to family friendly with both new and old IPs because of the Canis.
>>736517568They're repetitive, I don't even care that both are on PC and coming to PlayStation, it's just not the same for when other companies stopped making hardware and went third party. Xbox just feels dead. I'm just not interested anymore. I didn't turn out weird at all, I woke up from the Xbox delusion. Xbox has a way of completely draining you of caring about their games and consoles after you own one. Leaving, Nintendo, Sony, and PC gaming for this shit was a mistake on my part. I realized that when I finally left Xbox and returned home.
>>736509081I'm glad someone actually posted Toro Inoue...
