System mascots

What are your opinions on mascots for current consoles. The PlayStation hhad Crash Bandicoot and Spyro, back when Sony made them and they were good, and I think the Sony still has the coolest mascots, and the most suited. Nathan Drake from Uncharted and Cole McGrath from inFamous are perfect mascots, because people can relate to them. And if your not after mascots to relate to, theres Jak and Daxter or ratchet and Clank, and probably the best mascot, Sackboy. Xbox has Master Chief, who isn;t a very good mascot because hes a mutant space guy in a suit, and he doesn't look very original. Mario have proved a good mascot for Nintendo, but nobody relates to a short Italian plumber, unless of course you are one. Even then you dont chase a princess everywhere. So i think that Sony wins the mascot contest, with so many awesome character. What do you guys think of mascots??

i think the whole mascot thing stopped being relevent 10 years ago.

What are your opinions on mascots for current consoles. The PlayStation hhad Crash Bandicoot and Spyro, back when Sony made them and they were good, and I think the Sony still has the coolest mascots, and the most suited. Nathan Drake from Uncharted and Cole McGrath from inFamous are perfect mascots, because people can relate to them. And if your not after mascots to relate to, theres Jak and Daxter or ratchet and Clank, and probably the best mascot, Sackboy. Xbox has Master Chief, who isn;t a very good mascot because hes a mutant space guy in a suit, and he doesn't look very original. Mario have proved a good mascot for Nintendo, but nobody relates to a short Italian plumber, unless of course you are one. Even then you dont chase a princess everywhere. So i think that Sony wins the mascot contest, with so many awesome character. What do you guys think of mascots??

jackdaniel594

Er, what?

Let's see... Sony has Ratchet and Clank, Jak and Daxter, Nathan hale (an upstart), Nathan Drake (also an upstart), Cole (the infamous one... did you REALLY list him up there?), and Sackboy (an upstart, but intruiging nonetheless).

Nintendo, on the other hand, have Mario (a character more recognisable than Mickey Mouse!!!), Link (the template for all your heroes in fantasy games today), Samus Aran (the coolest and hottest chick in a video game, ever), Pikachu (the most recognised fictional character the worldover, as per a recent poll, will post link when I find it), Fox McCloud (the template for Ratchet, just in case you didn't know) and the Miis (which played an integral role in elevating the Wii to its current status)... you really think it's a contest?

Fanboys. Pfft.

Sony doesn't believe in Mascots, but they do have Sackboy to Gran Turismo to Killzone 2 to Uncharted to Jak to Ratchet to Infamous to Resistance to God Of War and more if they were into that.

They are more broad though.

Being a character that is exclusive to a game on a certain system doesn't make them a mascot. Say your school has a bulldog mascot, are the students who go to that school also mascots just because they only attend that school? No.

Being a character that is exclusive to a game on a certain system doesn't make them a mascot. Say your school has a bulldog mascot, are the students who go to that school also mascots just because they only attend that school? No.

Sweet_Genocide

Depends.

At my school, our school mascot is "The Mascot", so all of us kids are called Mascots.

That's only because most of the people on your schoolboard are weekend alcoholics. But seriously, this whole thread is just wrong. Kind of like that guys school.

Nathan Drake from Uncharted and Cole McGrath from inFamous are perfect mascots, because people can relate to them.

jackdaniel594

Xbox has Master Chief, who isn;t a very good mascot because hes a mutant space guy in a suit, and he doesn't look very original. Mario have proved a good mascot for Nintendo, but nobody relates to a short Italian plumber, unless of course you are one. Even then you dont chase a princess everywhere.

jackdaniel594

My opinion on the mascots (in terms of the gaming divisions of the companies) are:

Sony: Ratchet & Clank (with 3 installments on the PlayStation 3 by the end of this year, I don't think there's any argument. Of course, this is just my opinion, though).

Microsoft: Master Chief

Nintendo: Mario

A masco in my opinion is that the developer can put them in other types of games like Mario for example racing and RPG games thats a mascot.

Sony doesn't believe in Mascots, but they do have Sackboy to Gran Turismo to Killzone 2 to Uncharted to Jak to Ratchet to Infamous to Resistance to God Of War and more if they were into that.

They are more broad though.

SolidTy