Crash Bandicoot still the mascot?

[ManShowBoy]

Nintendo has Mario. Sega had Sonic. Xbox has Master Chief.

 

Crash Bandicoot still considered Sony's Mascot or was that just for PSone? Did Sony ever embrace the whole mascot thing? PS3 needs a new Crash game from the likes of the old playstation 1 games.

 

What do you think?

[xenomorpher]

I always considered Sweet Tooth as Sony's mascot. But I think they are going for Daxter maybe.

[Gregory DG]

Sony doesn't own Crash (do they?) so how can he be considered their mascot?

 

I don't think Sony cares one way or the other. Just so long as they have games with a mascot-type character in it. Like Spyro, Jax, Crash, etc. No one character can take the spotlight from their "superior" technology. That's the real mascot!

[Tan]

Crash has had games on the GBA, Xbox and Gamecube as well as the PS2. Mario, Sonic and in the past Crash were all characters that didn't use guns, weren't overly violent or mature rated so they had a broad appeal. There aren't any SCEA characters that fit the bill anymore.

[Jess Ragan]

Crash Bandicoot is owned by Universal Studios, aka Vivendi-Universal, aka Sierra Online. Geez, I can't even keep up with all these mergers and corporate brand shuffling!

 

Anyway, you could call any one of a number of characters the Playstation mascot back in 1997. Crash, Spyro, Blast-O, that big-breasted tomb explorer... take your pick. However, over the past decade, the market's gotten broader, and hardcore gamers have gotten older, so cute fuzzy animals and chubby plumbers are no longer essential to the success of a console.

 

JR

[Atari-Jess]

Crash Bandicoot and Master Chief are not mascots.. -_-;

[n8littlefield]

I would say that Master Chief isn't their mascot, but that Halo is arguably Microsoft's flagship franchise for the Xbox that people immediately connect with their console. Sony doesn't really have a mascot. I'd say that maybe Grand Theft Auto or Gran Turismo would be the titles that really go hand and hand with the Playstation brand.

[Gabriel]

Thankfully, we have moved beyond the era of stupidity where console sales were driven by cutesey cartoon mascot characters.

[Needles Kane]

Back in the day I would have said Sweet Tooth was Sony's mascot, but not so much anymore.

[dalton4life]

Sony did embrace Crash as an unofficial mascot back in the PS1 days, but that was a long time ago. I don't even think Nintendo cares about Mario being their mascot as much as the once did or they would make sure each new system launch with a Mario game. That hasn't happened since N64.

[Bill Brasky]

Here's their new company mascot:

 

 

 

His catchphrase: "Everything's fine!"

[+remowilliams]

Thankfully, we have moved beyond the era of stupidity where console sales were driven by cutesey cartoon mascot characters.

Yes. Definitely.

 

 

 

 

Seriously though, I always thought Crash sucked.

[Shannon]

Doesn't look a single bit like Mario at all....

 

Link is just passing out tissue for all the Sony and Microsoft fanboys because they are upset that they do not have a mascot.

Edited March 2, 2007 by Shannon