Console Mascots

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Sony wanted a mascot from the beginning, they had that polygon face that went nowhere and hit a homerun with Crash but the problem was is they didn't own him. Sony was not happy they lost Crash and he was going multi-platform, luckily for them that IP crashed and burned, pun intended. They tried making a new mascot with Ratchet&Clank, Sly Cooper and especially Jak and Daxter but that didn't work out too well for them but they kept funding sequels anyway which was good for platformer fans. Personally I only cared for the Sly Cooper series. Sony realized they didn't need a mascot and haven't cared about it since. Kratos and Nathan Drake aren't mascots and are just marketed with the brand like Lara Croft and Solid Snake before them.

Microsoft did try to get a mascot and no it wasn't Master Chief, they had that weird platformer with Blinx the Cat, they tried marketing him and even funded a sequel but it didn't work out and realized they didn't need a mascot around the same time as Sony and Master Chief worked well enough to market the console. Blinx was a horribly designed mascot and the marketing was terrible for it but the game actually had a very interesting mechanic which was later seen a year and a half later in Prince of Persia:Sands of time.