The Legend of Zelda is rated +12 though.

All of them have big ears? XD

I also think that the sack-boy must be the kirby/shang-tsung/doppleganger, etc ;)

I think that in order to Fat Princess be a game that can bring new childy audience to the PS3, needs a single player / story campaign, just like mario, kirby, and other nintendo games.

But they're not the same type of characters. Jak is a true badass, while Daxter is a smartass. Rachet is righteous,adventurous  and a bit of a hot head while clank is methodical and more rational than rachet. I don't know much about sly but I assume he's mysterious yet witty.

They may be targeted towards the same audience but they are definetely original.

what exactly is the question here? no offense but your grammar is very bad.

The reason Sony doesn't have many cartoony mascots is because they are't trying to go after the younger gamers too much. They are focused on the older ones.

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If some reason I though Crash needs to be besides them.

But yea Sony icons ranges from sackboy to kratos so its hard for them to have a defiant audience.

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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 :)

I don't really understand your post? Do you want more comicky characters or what? Playstation is not defined by one simple brand like other consoles, it uses a variety of characters. Sackboy and Sly for the younger crowd, Kratos and Sweettooth for the older crown.

The worst thing you can do is to try and force the "cool" factor on a character; that's how you end up with abominations like Bubsy. The Playstation characters in the OP, while nowhere near that bad, just come across as a bit generic to me. They don't suck, but I could take 'em or leave 'em.

That's why I truly hope that Sony realizes what a gem they have with Sackboy, who is by far the best candidate at becoming the Playstation's "Mario" IMO. He/she is very lovable and has a lot more character than any of Sony's others of this type of mascot.

I have to go now. My planet needs me