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GOWTLOZ on 04 September 2018
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Miyamotoo said:
fauzman said:

I would agree with you. I think Drake has been the most recognized character for sony in the last two gens. Habing said the Drake seems to have had his day and has retired so he doesnt seem like a good choice going forward.

I guess that is the advantage of sony in that they have many syrong characters to choose from. I would say the current mazcot seems to be Kratos for this year. 

Exactly, Uncharted combined on PS3 sold 19m copies while GoW was at around 5m, and on PS4 Uncharted 4 and Uncharted Collection sold more than 15m. IMO only reason why people are choosing Kratos is because last GoW game, if actually Uncharted 4 was released after GoW I think more people would choose Nate, so I totaly agree with you that Kratos is current mascot for this year.

I dont think that Sony has many strong characters, at end currently everything comes to Nate and Kratos, others are not nearly strong enugh to be mascot (for instance Ratchet and Clank) or didnt had so much presence (maybe Ellie and Joel).

You are wrong in so many ways:

1. God of War on PS3 sold over 13 million units. Yes its behind Uncharted on PS3, but Uncharted had 3 mainline games on the PS3 which were heavily bundled. God of War had 1 mainline game, 3 collections of older games and 1 spinoff all of which were barely bundled at all, so it sold entirely on its own strength.

2. Its not sales of all the games combined that counts, its the individual sales which count and God of War on PS4 is far outpacing the fastest selling Uncharted game and that has nothing to do with which game released when and everything to do with the popularity of the series. GOW has been iconic since the PS2 and Kratos has been recognised for a long time.

3. Kratos has made appearances as a playable character in more games outside of the GOW series than Nathan Drake has outside of the Uncharted series. It shows that he is more popular as guest characters in games are chosen based on their popularity.