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The Quest for Sony's Mascot

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Having a mascot is a fairly common practice when it comes to building a brand of any kind. Everything from restaurants to sports teams, and tech companies utilize the power of mascots, the main reason being that they are symbols and are meant to be instantly recognizable characters that we associate with a certain name brand. Just the sight of a mascot can immediately put emotions of happiness or hatred into the minds of an audience. Video game companies through the years have been one of the biggest users of mascots, especially the company that revitalized the industry when it was nearly gone.
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Z501 - 18 days 6 hours ago
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1 - Don't think it needs one, but if i had to chose
1.KRATOS
2.Nathan Drake
3.Some random hot chick
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GWAVE - 18 days 6 hours ago
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Sony has many mascots. Simply choose the one that fits your interest.

Kratos, Nathan Drake, Sackboy, Ratchet and Clank, Jak and Daxter...

It just goes to show that Sony is all about variety.
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himdeel - 18 days 5 hours ago
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1.2 - Agree with GWAVE...
...SONY fans probably each have their character they'd consider the SONY mascot. That in itself is quite a feat and I do not think they need nor could reasonably just have a single mascot.
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Raoh - 18 days 5 hours ago
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Sony doesnt need a mascot, it has an entire animal farm of characters to pull from.
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mcgrawgamer - 18 days 4 hours ago
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Don't need a mascot when you got Kevin Butler....
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sunil - 18 days 4 hours ago
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cmrbe - 18 days 4 hours ago
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4 - Why should Sony limit themselves?
As Gwave said. Sony has many mascots and it depends on your age, the type of game you like and where you are from.

If Sony picked a mascot then it would have stereotype the PS brand as well as its gamers which would be a disaster for Sony.

Every time people think of Nintendo they think of kids because of Mario. Every time people think of xbox they think Halo and shooter nuts. Everyone = Playstation , including soccer fanatics, car fanatics, RPG lovers, music game lovers, action adventure fans,platformer fans etc etc. Thats the way it should be.
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Unicron - 18 days 4 hours ago
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That guy Halo is the best mascot. He wears green and doesn't afraid of anything. I love Halo. He's almost as good as the other green guy Zelda. Go Zelda!

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paladin_veltron - 18 days 4 hours ago
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6 - SACKBOY!!!!
I think sackboy needs to be the mascot, hes loveable and can be dressed up as any of sonys big characters
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SPECTER - 18 days 4 hours ago
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7 - gave the article a chance
but, sorry Crash was a great series and mascot. saying crash was a copycat and games weren't good is just stupid, Warped is in the top 20 PS1-3 games.

I would have to stay with good old Solid Snake as playstation's mascot, with Kratos & Drake as very close seconds, then sackboy and Helghast
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unrealgamer58 - 18 days 3 hours ago
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as long as people don't say the cat..................the cat scares me.

http://i.pbase.com/o4/36/65...
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