Mnementh said:
I would argue Rayman and Lara Croft are quite iconic. But true, Nintendo has a great talent to develop lasting characters. Maybe because they don't give up on them and jump to a different series. Sony abandoned Spyro and Crash, maybe if they had stick with them they would be as iconic today as Mario. |
Yeah, I thought of Lara Croft after I made that comment. She might be close to the Master Chief level. I don't think I see Rayman in that group though. Regardless, non them are Sony properties.
If I had to choose one publisher right now, and could only play games from that pub, I'd have to choose Sony. They're making a lot of great games. But, they just don't have the right types of games or characters to move into that Mushroom Kingdom conversation. It doesn't matter how many great God of War or Uncharted games they make. Those properties will not make it into the conversation. I think that category is mostly reserved fro cartoony-type characters like Mario (and his cohorts) and Sonic. I think the main reasons that Master Chief is in this conversation (and, to be clear, he's nowhere near the level of the Nintendo properties, or even Sonic) is that Chief has been a popular costume, there has been some expansion of the universe outside of gaming, and Halo was a mega-popular gaming franchise right around the time that gaming became a socially acceptable entertainment medium for adults. If Halo just came about today, I don't think it could make it to that level. We could probably make a similar case for Croft - the timing was right. She probably wouldn't make it to that level today.
