Are Sony or MS capable of creating a cultural phenomenon like Pokemon Go?

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GOWTLOZ said:

mountaindewslave said:

Minecraft is popular but not on a cultural level really. People like playing the game but they're not going to cons constantly cosplaying as them and you're not seeing a kajillion shirts and toys everywhere the same way as you see with Pokemon

Sony and Microsoft lack powerful IPs that the public is strongly connected to. They have nothing on the level Mario, Pokemon, Zelda

Gran Turismo, Halo and Uncharted are as big or bigger than Zelda. But Sony and MS have nothing like Mario and Pokemon, every gamer and non gamer knows about them. They are cultural icons, Pokemon mainly due to the popularity of the anime and games and Mario by its first few games that at the time were revolutionary.

Sony and MS haven't been long enough in this industry to do that, they don't have that many people who played their games from childhood, and Sony keeps bringing new IP's over making games in the same IP for decades with only few exceptions, and their biggest IP has cars made by other companies.

I dunno if any of those IP will have the longevity of Zelda. 

Gran Turismo is pretty much declining massively. 

Zelda is 30 years old and still a big deal to a lot of people, not sure where Halo or Uncharted will be when they're even 20.