Kagerow said:
Nathan Drake rose as a mascot where? Rise of Uncharted series is not same as rise of Nathan Drake the character. Just as rise of Splatoon doesn't mean Inkling suddenly became a relevant character in the main stream. I don't have to fathom anything because there is nothing behind it. Banner carrier game and 'Banner Carrier' character - Mascots are not the same. Nathan Drake never rose. Uncharted is the one that claimed to the top. They didn't had Kratos. No sane marketing strategist would put Kratos as a face of entire Playstation brand. Especially not in US. Maybe I don't have enough knowledge on these issues. Can you tell me an example of a mascot that became a main stream as soon as it hit the market and stayed relevant without strong, continued support? Maybe Darth Vader? |
Actually, i believe Kagerow is right. Nathan Drake is indeed very popular in the PlayStation family but mainstreamly speaking, like go out and bring a poster of Nathan and ask just anyone about who he is, im sure not many people would know him.
As for Kratos, Sony does support him a lot with 4 games on PS3 and a remasterd on PS4 and 2 games on the PSP i believe. Not to mention of other collections. And God of War 4 is just around the corner i believe.
Kratos is very popular in the gaming world, im sure :). But is he a PlayStation mascot ? i don't know. Cause when i think of PlayStation characters, i think of classic & iconic characters like Crash, Cloud and Snake. The big 3 Heroes of the very important PS characters dat no longer exclusively to the PlayStation systems...