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they fumbled it with crash. that was suppose to be the one...
Soo... Sony wants a Mario level IP.
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cyndaquil
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Unfortunately that robot is not gonna hit right.
Sony gotta understand Mario hits cuz he relatable for all audience ages.
1. He's an actual biological organism not a robot
2. He small so children can relate to him
3. He an adult so adults can also relate to him
4. He charismatic
5. His design is very unexpected and unique. nobody can copy him
Honestly mascots like Mario and Sonic are products of their time. With lots of creativity and risk being allowed. For Sony to get something like that they'd need to focus on making a game that is 10/10 fun for both kids and adults and let those kids grow up on it so they can stan it.
Ratchet and clank or Jak and Daxter could have been that but they fumbled.
Especially with Jak and Daxter the fact there is still no Jak 4 is ridiculous
Sony gotta understand Mario hits cuz he relatable for all audience ages.
1. He's an actual biological organism not a robot
2. He small so children can relate to him
3. He an adult so adults can also relate to him
4. He charismatic
5. His design is very unexpected and unique. nobody can copy him
Honestly mascots like Mario and Sonic are products of their time. With lots of creativity and risk being allowed. For Sony to get something like that they'd need to focus on making a game that is 10/10 fun for both kids and adults and let those kids grow up on it so they can stan it.
Ratchet and clank or Jak and Daxter could have been that but they fumbled.
Especially with Jak and Daxter the fact there is still no Jak 4 is ridiculous
Space Cowboy
Allahu Akbar
I didn’t say they owned him. Obviously they didn’t own him if he was brought to other systems, dork. I’m saying they’re dumb for allowing him to be taken. Essentially Sony should have bought Crash. To now be saying 20 years after the fact “we need a Mario like IP” when you had one on your system and used him as a marketing tool against Mario at his height is to be tone deaf and a little bit re re.
Humble yourself, fakkit.
Anyways, Sony stopped investing in games like Mario esque games and one of their biggest strengths has also been one of their biggest weaknesses: their reliance on third party. The fact they don’t own Drake or Crash is a travesty. They have mascot games but they didn’t really push those games. Ape Escape is one of the few mascot games owned by Sony and they let it rot and now Japan Studio is dead. That is massive amounts of fukking up.
How there hasn’t been a new Jak game or Ape Escape game is insane to me. Sony really let Jak fester for two decades. Like I said: tone deaf.
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Gizmo_Duck
blathering blatherskite!
Sony's mascot could've been Sackboy but they bullshytting.
Well put. This is a big reason as to why it probably isn't going to happen for the foreseeable future.
On top of that, the desire here isn't to best Nintendo. They just want a franchise milkable to that level. On the contrary, Sonic was made to beat Nintendo at their own gimmick. Success for Sonic's eventual widespread likeability came through the games first and foremost, just like Mario. Not some envisioning for a 100 Year IP.
Sony is already on the wrong footing with this article. Not as unhinged as Spencer talking about his career moment being buying Nintendo, but still out there.
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Deezay
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Something about the Sony branding in Astrobot breaks the immersion for me. It feels more like an Ad than a game.
Most of that works for mario because he's been around for more than 40 years consistently. That's not a recipe for success that can be easily replicated. Add to the fact that Mario and his crew has been consistent across all nintendo consoles, and Mario has versatility by being in more than just platformers as well as cameos in games that aren't Mario styled games at all, and it really comes down to the hard work nintendo has done to make Mario a prominent mascot. You look at Mario's contemporaries and rivals and it becomes obvious why Mario worked and the others fell off in other ways
sonic - marios first rival and possibly his biggest. came up in the attitude 90s era and 5there would be a lot of clones of this type at the time. incredibly successful, but managed by a company that didnt seem to either know or care what they were doing. missing the jump to 3d with no big showcase fukked up sonics momentum until after sega became a third party where hes doing better now than he was during the late 90s
mega man - one of capcoms mascots and the longest running a simple design and consistent games quality made him relatively popular at the time. unfortunately, the blue bombers mainline games stayed relatively the same over the course of his existence. the other mega man games have their fans, but theyre divided amonst franchises, which kinda diminshes blues overall popularity. combine that with its inconsistent release schedule and its not suprising hes on the downturn. although not an mascot, ryu seems to be doing a lot of the things youd expect from a franchise character. to the point that they seem to be merging other franchises into the street fighter one to seeminly try to fill it out
pac man - video games first mascot, an overly simple design along with games that have that simple yet challenging gameplay, pac had the games, cartoons, toys, cereals, all the shyt that would hit for the 80s. problem is, like a lot of the gaming mascots is that he never really evolved for the times he was in. he appears in things from time to time, but its never anything longstanding. and i think namco is ok with that oddly enough
konami cavalcade of mascots - konami is an odd one, because while they have a lot of characters different ones have been different mascots at different times. penta the penguin, twinbee, vic viper, kid dracula(alucard), goemon, a damn moai head, tako the octopus and his family, simon belmont, and recently solid snake and thats not counting the hudson acquisitions. which is a whole other can of worms. i dont get the reasoning behind why they did this, especially since its just a confusing mess, but konami doesnt seem to care about that.
Agree Mario works because he been around since the 80s. With consistently good games throughout multiple genres. Mario is literally the standard and godfather of the platformer genre. His popularity doesn’t have anything to do with what bruh typed up.