Pikkachu mascot. No Samus will be better. Unless Pokemon start chaning its fomula or feel like your playing a ddiffrent game or start making the main line titles have 6 years in between and keep quality in your spin offs, Keep up with crossovers,be simplae easy to play and have fun local muiltplayer, That require one game. Be a huge hit on consoles.
Fact is,Pokemon will have to do alot to become mascot. Sure the sereis is branching out beyond the gaming border. But we are talking about consols.
Also Nintendo=Mario You take one away in the equation. Than the other on falls fast