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Who is Sony’s mascot?
- Thread starter Blue Skies
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Yeah, it's Toro, but they're not really used at all outside of Japan.
Other than the fact the franchise has been dead for like a decade, the Pipo Monkey is probably the best 1st party character that they have who is popular worldwide, and easily marketable.
Other than the fact the franchise has been dead for like a decade, the Pipo Monkey is probably the best 1st party character that they have who is popular worldwide, and easily marketable.
Really? he is the official mascot since the PS1 days.
Its Toro... in Japan at least. Here they don't give a crap and that's fine. I love Pipo though.
Sony's last stab at an actual iconic mascot would have been Sackboy. But they didn't run with that well at all. A middling kart game, a trilogy of iterations. Could have been so much more. Everything now seems to be angled towards big experience games where the character is part of the background.
In my heart, it'll always be Crash. Although I agree that Uncharted is very representative of what Sony is.
Interesting, did they say why? Did they not want to use Toro or...?
No one outside Japan cares about Toro, so the answer is clearly the Nissan Skyline from Gran Turismo. That's Sony's mascot.
It's probably currently Kratos, but their mascot generally changes based on their current major release. Ellie from The Last of Us will probably be the PlayStation mascot once TLoUP2 releases.
They don't have one. They prioritize showing off multiple of their most iconic characters in ads rather than have one character be the umbrella mascot, if that makes sense.
Doesn't PlayStation Japan have the black and white cats as their mascot though? Is that still a thing?
edit: imo the closest thing they have to a mascot outside of Japan are their buttons. Triangle Square Circle X/Cross. You see those four shapes together, you know it's PlayStation.
Doesn't PlayStation Japan have the black and white cats as their mascot though? Is that still a thing?
edit: imo the closest thing they have to a mascot outside of Japan are their buttons. Triangle Square Circle X/Cross. You see those four shapes together, you know it's PlayStation.
Glad we have this straightened out.
It's Kat, though.
It would be Spider-man, note the PS3 font, if the meddling MCU didn´t happen. I prefer Kuro on the right but the cats are it, only in Japan of course:
Why didn´t they just buy Crash in the 90s? It´s like owning Poochie!
Why didn´t they just buy Crash in the 90s? It´s like owning Poochie!
Anyone who still has their PS3 hooked up should buy the Chinese version of Toro! Let's Party with the Eng subs included. The translation quality is woeful, but it's a fun game otherwise. Toro and Kuro are charm personified.
'Tis true. Kat is probably the best protagonist to ever emerge from a Sony first-party game.
This has been on my mind lately... They don't really have any character that can be elevated to Iconic status. I think that is the main reason PS All stars failed.
Why Sony can't make a recognizable character?
Why Sony can't make a recognizable character?
Clealry Kratos, Sony and ND could get rid of Nathan at any time replace him with any otehr character (and they did it with Chloe) and no one could get, neitehr Sony, nor ND nor PlayStation nor Uncharted itself. They could even drop Uncharted at some point and they will be fine.
GOW and Kratos, taht's anotehr story. Kratos is so iconic for every Playstation generation that Sony can't get rid of even if any GOW director wants to. He is the one that many identify PlayStation with. In fact ask your father, your uncle even your grandfather and grandmother whether they know Drake they will say nope while they surely know Kratos' person and his name too.
They didn't just reboot him, make im another person to get rid of him so soon.
GOW and Kratos, taht's anotehr story. Kratos is so iconic for every Playstation generation that Sony can't get rid of even if any GOW director wants to. He is the one that many identify PlayStation with. In fact ask your father, your uncle even your grandfather and grandmother whether they know Drake they will say nope while they surely know Kratos' person and his name too.
They didn't just reboot him, make im another person to get rid of him so soon.
You mean Nate right? Because by now Kratos is almost 750 years old (and 8 feet tall too).