I am not saying any of that, that is all you. My only point was that the dude was comparing apples to oranges. Like comparing diesel fuel to solar power and saying the former it's better simply because more people know about it.

Comparing apples and oranges? I don't think you know what that means. 

Comparing the popularity of Nintendo and Sony mascots is not comparing apples and oranges, no matter how unfair that comparison maybe. That saying has nothing to do with unfairness, it has to do with comparing ideas that upon close examination aren't that similar. Mascot to Mascot is a pretty direct comparison, especially when they're in the same industry. 

The saying is perfect, both apples and oranges are fruits, but they are completely different kinds of fruits. In this case the guy was comparing mascots, completely different kinds of mascots, and saying the mascots owner (Nintendo) was the "king of video games" simply because more people recognized its mascots.

Edit: These are the original comments where this small debate started.

Thats not very impressive considering nintendo has been milking the same 10 characters for over 20 years. Imagine if Sony started making 3-5 Kratos games and spinoffs every generation, what would happen in 20 years? Anyways all of Nintendos characters are kid friendly so they can make tons of toys and other merchandise, so of course more people will know of the characters. Yet this means nothing to the king of video games title, now if it was the king of video games merchandise or king of video game toys or maybe king of reusing IPs, then I would agree. Just did I quick search and since 1981 and there are around 300 video games featuring the character MARIO.

I believe! My good Bristow, I believe!

I have 3 from 4 PS4 home consoles (I didnt own only PS3), and I didnt had idea who are Sackboy, Aloy and Cole MacGrath.

"I have 3 from 4 PS4 home consoles (I didnt own only PS3)"? Excuse me? Sorry not sure what you were trying to say there, none the less I understood the rest of your sentence and it is why I said most not all. There are obviously many who didnt play Infamous 1 and 2(good games) or Horizon which is fairly new, but I would say a very large portion of PS3 users know who sackboy is as he was the mascot for the little big planet franchise which was fairly popular at the beginning of the PS3 era and had a few spin offs/sequels.

Sony would sacrifice goats for a character as iconic as Mario. This is basic business sense. If your product is hot, you use it as often as you can. There is nothing wrong about that.

What do you think is the reason they simply don't do it as much as Nintendo does? Why is Sony not trying to establish a character who could scratch on Mario's popularity? I'll give you a hint: they tried, and they can't.

I agree. To me, he's still a Playstation character.

Point that only because I missed one Sony console and didnt still play one of newer PS4 games (Horizon) means that I dont know who are those characters, means that characters cant be mention like strong characters in any case. Not to mentione, that we have Infamous and Big Planet game on PS4 also, but you need to play those game in order to know who
Sackboy, Aloy and Cole MacGrath, on other hand you know who are characters like Luigi, Toad, Yoshi, Kirby, Donkey Kong, even if you didnt played those games.

You should have bought the PS4 verson instead. I thought you owned one, no?