Why PlayStation mascots always fall from grace?

[Turbo Kid]

I think Astro Bot is the best choice they've ever had. I would go all in on him as my mascot right now if I were in charge of the Playstation brand.

 

[Jayonnaise6105 Jayonnaise6105]

I thought the mascot of Sony Playstation is Ape Escape or Parappa the Rapper

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They were spoilt for choice on mascots, and seemingly couldn't decide

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Yeah, surely there's room for BOTH AstroBot & Sackboy

I'm legit mad at Sony for telling "we don't have any IP" while showing a ton of them in the Astro Bot games...

I thought Sega had Segata Sanshirou

That was for the Saturn's ad campaign, there's also Nights but Sonic is ultimately Sega's mascot.

 

[nobitakun]

That was for the Saturn's ad campaign, there's also Nights but Sonic is ultimately Sega's mascot.

What a pity, it was the best mascot I've ever seen in videogame history lol.

 

[Ferik]

So what? Nintendo didn't ditch Pokemon after all these decades. Pikachu is still a popular mascot.

Nintendo does own Pokemon. Rather they own 2/3rd's of it. The Pokemon company is a joint venture co-owned by Nintendo, Creatures Inc., and GameFreak in a 3-way split, but Nintendo own Creatures now so they just have a majority stake in Pokemon.

 

[KenShjIN]

Wait.....Playstation has Mascots ?

 

[TinRattler]

Mascots are so passe

 

[semyaza]

big guy VII did all the work for them

 

[iamthemilkman]

The one I really miss is Sly Cooper. At least we still have Crash and Ratchet & Clank games.

 

[Turbo Kid]

The one I really miss is Sly Cooper. At least we still have Crash and Ratchet & Clank games.

He'd probably be my second choice for best Playstation mascot after Astro Bot.

Honestly, I just miss games like Sly Cooper in general. Those types of platformers aren't very common these days.

 

[Jayonnaise6105 Jayonnaise6105]

He'd probably be my second choice for best Playstation mascot after Astro Bot.

Honestly, I just miss games like Sly Cooper in general. Those types of platformers aren't very common these days.

Yeah, most of the ones I can think of are either AstroBot or something from nearly 10 years ago. Hat in Time, Super Lucky's Tale, etc,

 

[iamthemilkman]

He'd probably be my second choice for best Playstation mascot after Astro Bot.

Honestly, I just miss games like Sly Cooper in general. Those types of platformers aren't very common these days.

I loved the graphical style of the Sly Cooper games. I thought they were pretty consistent in quality as well. I even liked the PS3/Vita one that the fans are a bit more divided on. I thought it was really good for a new studio (Sanzaru, I think).

I definitely preferred Sly to the Jak games. While I loved The Precursor Legacy, my interest started to fade the more edgy and open world those games got.

 

[Turbo Kid]

I loved the graphical style of the Sly Cooper games. I thought they were pretty consistent in quality as well. I even liked the PS3/Vita one that the fans are a bit more divided on. I thought it was really good for a new studio (Sanzaru, I think).

I definitely preferred Sly to the Jak games. While I loved The Precursor Legacy, my interest started to fade the more edgy and open world those games got.

Yeah, most of the ones I can think of are either AstroBot or something from nearly 10 years ago. Hat in Time, Super Lucky's Tale, etc,

I agree 100%

 

[KittenLikeYou007]

To me, it seems obvious that the mascot should have been Crash Bandicoot. In my opinion, Sony made a huge mistake back in the PS1 era by not choosing him as their official mascot.

As a result, Sony never really had a true mascot, unlike Microsoft with Halo or Nintendo with Mario. I will never understand Sony on this.

It's also unfortunate that Naughty Dog abandoned Crash Bandicoot back then, because I think he could have been a mascot, and it would have made more "sense" given his success at the time. The other games that followed, like Ratchet & Clank, Jak and Daxter, or Uncharted, couldn’t serve as a "mascot" because they came too late. To become a mascot, a character needs to appear on the console right from its beginning, like on the PS1.

 

[Jayonnaise6105 Jayonnaise6105]

To me, it seems obvious that the mascot should have been Crash Bandicoot. In my opinion, Sony made a huge mistake back in the PS1 era by not choosing him as their official mascot.

As a result, Sony never really had a true mascot, unlike Microsoft with Halo or Nintendo with Mario. I will never understand Sony on this.

It's also unfortunate that Naughty Dog abandoned Crash Bandicoot back then, because I think he could have been a mascot, and it would have made more "sense" given his success at the time. The other games that followed, like Ratchet & Clank, Jak and Daxter, or Uncharted, couldn’t serve as a "mascot" because they came too late. To become a mascot, a character needs to appear on the console right from its beginning, like on the PS1.

Yeah, it always seemed like Playstation kinda accidentally had mascot characters. I suppose even today, there are a bunch of characters I associate with Playstation, even if they are third party now.

 

[Turbo Kid]

Yeah, Crash Bandicoot was even directly calling out Mario! Remember these?

 

[Burzuru]

Crash was mad popular in japan as well

 

[Turbo Kid]

Crash was mad popular in japan as well

Yeah, I've heard this as well. He was ridiculously popular over there. He definitely could have been the mascot in Japan.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Yeah, Crash Bandicoot was even directly calling out Mario! Remember these?

Well, it was courageous yet it's clear that Super Mario 64 stomps on Crash Bandicoot gameplay wise.

 

[Ferik]

Well, it was courageous yet it's clear that Super Mario 64 stomps on Crash Bandicoot gameplay wise.

They're very different games. I would agree though that the first one is extremely barebones and doesn't really compare to how breathtaking Mario 64 was in 1996, but I'm a much bigger fan of Crash 3 than Mario 64 personally. I find the time trials really addicting.

Really though despite that ad it wasn't even Crash that was selling PlayStation in the face of Mario 64, it was Resident Evil and Tomb Raider that year. Crash was more of a long tail seller for the console. Continuing to sell fairly well even into the early PS2 era.

 

[Turbo Kid]

I actually liked the straightforward gameplay of the Crash games, much more like old school Mario than Mario 64 was. Mario 64 also used to drive me crazy with its camera.

Crash had cooler characters too. Mario 64 never impressed me, though some of the later 3D Mario games are pretty awesome.