PS3 Still Searching for "Defining" Title !!!!

[Onyxmeth]

S.T.A.G.E. said:

Onyxmeth said:

The defining game of the Playstation is Gran Turismo. The problem with that being the defining title, and why it never gets properly pegged as such, is because you can't put a face in a game about 700 cars. Case in point, people want to say God of War, with it's underwhelming 2-3 million in sales over a game that has consistently sold over 10 million for 10 years and running, because Kratos is a personality and Lamborghini is not. There is no contest though. Gran Turismo cannot be the "mascot" of the Playstation brand but it is 100% assuredly the defining game series of it.

 

Which is why the OP had in the post that Crash Bandicoot was the first true 1st party game that did the full job of being a mascot and was a great platformer for the system. It also had great sales.

That's all fine and dandy if we want to speak of the Playstation brand in terms of only the original Playstation. I'm talking about the brand's image as it has been since Gran Turismo was created. It was easy to put one of two faces on the PSOne, either Crash or Cloud, but there was never a true one face to rule them all on the PS2, but a smattering or lords vying for an empty throne. That's because the cars can't fill the seat, but they are the real image burned into the average consumer's head when they think of Playstation. No Ratchet, Kratos, Sack Boy, Nathan Drake, or any other exclusive personality, just the title Gran Turismo.