I WIPE MY ASS WITH A SACKBOY PLUSHIE
SteelAttack said:Yeah GG. How could you not see all the sackboy merchandise flooding the streets. Movies, cartoon series, comics, t-shirts...
oh wait.
ASS. 
Dvader said:ASS.
You're confusing Steel with the marketability of Sackboy.
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Dvader said:Do you live in an alternate dimension where LBP is not a big seller?
Sorry, I was being glib.
SteelAttack said:I WIPE MY ASS WITH A SACKBOY PLUSHIE
But he's brown already, how can you tell that you're wiping anything off?
I have a Sackboy/LBP t-shirt.
... it was a present 
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Surely Rabbids fit this perfectly. They might have lost their lustre very quickly, but for awhile they were probably the closest thing to a mascot we've had this generation.
They had games based on them, games with them attached to them for no reason, and were as much a part of the marketing (if not more) than more major aspects of the game were. The same can't really be said about the likes of Little Big Planet.
Rabbids, I guess so.
I'm not sure if groups of animals fit the bill like angry birds and rabbids. I suppose they could. Can anyone think of any more?
BTW, with MS it's Master Chief, with Nintendo Mario, with Sony what character would be their defining mascot? They have a lot of characters but which is the ONE.
If you know what I mean?
Sony has always avoided having a mascot in the west, right from the PS1 days they have assiduously avoided it. I don;t know why, I could speculate that it is because in those days they were targeting an older age group and perhaps wanted to represent a body of work, not just get behind one character.
Wasn't Crash a 3rd party game?
gamingeek said:Wasn't Crash a 3rd party game?
No it was Naughty Dog which is more like 2nd party.
robio said:That's not entirely true. In the early days of the PSOne they made a push with Crash Bandicoot. I remember they had one commercial featuring a guy in a giant Crash costume standing outside of NOA's headquarters mocking them for Mario or something like that. I'd say by 1998 those commercials and Crash as a mascot were over and done with.
I considered that memorable ad when I wrote my post. I really have not considered that as a concerted effort to push forward a mascot. I mean, they had a literal mascot in one of their ads, but I don't remember them pushing Crash the way Nintendo does Mario or Sega with Sonic.
They did have a mascot in Japan they they used in this manner, but not in the west.
Fair point. I suppose they never went the Mario or Sonic distance with it, but I do remember seeing Crash on a lot of their early marketing material. He was a close as they got here and pretty much the last serious attempt for a gaming mascot... well maybe Blinkx the Cat gets that honor.
robio said:Fair point. I suppose they never went the Mario or Sonic distance with it, but I do remember seeing Crash on a lot of their early marketing material. He was a close as they got here and pretty much the last serious attempt for a gaming mascot... well maybe Blinkx the Cat gets that honor.
Crash was EVERYWHERE. He was absolutely their mascot.
aspro said:
I considered that memorable ad when I wrote my post. I really have not considered that as a concerted effort to push forward a mascot. I mean, they had a literal mascot in one of their ads, but I don't remember them pushing Crash the way Nintendo does Mario or Sega with Sonic.They did have a mascot in Japan they they used in this manner, but not in the west.
That's the best default PSN avatar too.
Blinx 
I remember him.
I used to have Mainichi Issho installed, even though I never understood shit. A localized version would have been cool but it wasn't meant to be.
Just about everything in Minecraft is iconic for the MC brand.
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Yeah GG. How could you not see all the sackboy merchandise flooding the streets. Movies, cartoon series, comics, t-shirts...
oh wait.