Sega has Sonic, Nintendo has Mario, Xbox has Master Chief, even the Turbografx-16 has Bonk. Who does my beloved PS has?

Spyro? Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away...

Crash? He was bringing it to Plummer Boy but eventually even he went to where the money is.

Jax & Daxter? When's the last time you saw them?

Rachet & Clank? Maybe but Clank is too much of a killjoy

Snake? He has a love/hate thing with Nintendo.

Kratos? Best option out of all of them but when I think of him I think of mass murderer. I don't want to think mascot (or Hot Shots Golf,wtf)

Every successful modern video gaming system has had a mascot & a defining game or game series, except for the PS. Ask 10 random gamers who should be the mascot for PS & you'll probably won't get the same character more than 5 times. Ask them about Xbox, Sega or Nintendo, the answer is going to be pretty obvious. Not only that, in the gaming world a mascot is based on exclusiveness, popularity, longevity & it's ability to move systems. Which PS game has all 4 of those attributes?

Personally, I don't see a problem with that. What's wrong with having a library so large, so diverse that you won't get a uniform answer as to what character defines the PS? So what we don't have a mascot, I don't want to see Kratos in a go kart anyway. (Looking at you Master Chief) Nope, the PS doesn't need a mascot, they've been kicking ass & taking names for over 10 years without one. PS doesn't have to rely on a mascot to sell systems.

Then Sony went & introduced us to Sackboy (or is it introduced Sackboy to us?)

Since Little Big Planet was announced, the world has gone into a Sackboy frenzy. Then rumors about Sackboy being PS's mascot started flying. Tears of joy fell from the heavens, life size Sackboys were being made (I know there's some people out there that can't wait until Halloween) t-shirts were printed, websites were created, custom box art was being published on the web and people started planning levels months in advance. It's being called the game of the year & nobody played it yet. I didn't understand it. People were going crazy over a childish, cute character that was able to make its own side scrolling level. My thoughts? "A side scroller, WTF. Maybe I'm narrow minded, ignorant, a Xbox fanboy in disguise. What's the appeal to this game, to this character? This is a child's game, with a childish character. What was up with that stupid skateboard & volleyball that's in every video? And they're making a mockery of Kartos & Nariko"

Then I realized, this is a video game, not every game has to be a CoD or a GTA. Besides, I have Lego Indy in my closet, can't get more "childish" than that. So I searched the web & found a lot of cool stuff. The more I read & the less I saw that damned skateboard & volleyball, the more I started to like LBP & Sackboy. This game wasn't childish at all. This game is a techy's wet dream. I went from having no interest to picking this up the week it drops. OK so I greatly "misunderestimated" the game (so far) but the question remains "Does PS need a mascot & should it be Sackboy?"

Actually, Sackboy would be the perfect Mascot. Sony is probably only thinking in terms of marketability, likability & mass appeal. There is more to Sackboy & LBP than that. The truth is LBP is the PS3. Revolutionary, innovative, customizable, unproven hype surrounding it, a lot of untapped potential, you can be anyone you want to be (so the Kratos & Nariko costumes make sense & introduces the characters to people who might not know them) & they're both extremely powerful.

Despite all of that, I don't think PS needs a mascot but I wouldn't mind if they made him into one. I just hope LBP lives up to the hype.