Kresnik said:
Made an account just to post in this thread, hello everyone :)
I remember reading back in the PS1 era, Sony saying they "didn't want a mascot" for the Playstation. I think it was to do with the fact that their rivals at the time, Nintendo and Sega, were both led by platforming characters - Mario and Sonic respectively. Eventually they ended up with a ton of 'unofficial' mascots - Lara Croft, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro etc, so I guess it didn't quite work out how they'd planned.
Anyway, they've kind of continued this attitude ever since, in my opinion - which is why I was so surprised that now of all times they decided to make a mascot-based multiplayer game.
They probably wouldn't have carried any of their platforming 'mascots' over into this generation given the choice, at least that's how I see it. Insomniac (third party) made the new Ratchet games and Jak and Sly haven't seen any new releases this gen - the new Sly was a response to the positive reaction of the HD collection.
They're different from Nintendo in that they're more than happy to ditch mascots in favour of creating new ones for each generation (Crash -> Jak -> Drake, for example) while holding on to them very occasionally (Kratos from God of War, I suppose Sweet Tooth from Twisted Metal as well), but maybe we're seeing a shift from that mindset with the new Sly game on the horizon. I'd be quite interested to see how Sackboy goes into the next generation - he's a very versatile character to have as he can literally be anything they want him to be, which is going to work well for them.
Anyway, I've waffled a bit but hopefully I got a few points across :)
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Back when I used to have the time to make long posts.
