I don't think that's true, I'm pretty sure Tomb Raider was in the mainstream a lot more than Crash ever was. Crash doesn't have a blockbuster movie. Regardless if quality, people who weren't gamers knew about Lara Croft.
Is a movie the measure of being iconic? Or even general public awareness? I don't think so. There's a Rampage movie but I think, e.g., Samus is more iconic than any of the characters in that film.
Sony pumped out multiple commercials for Crash Bandicoot and were clearly trying to push him as the face of PlayStation when the system first came out. Some commercials had references to Mario, suggesting they saw Crash as PlayStation's Mario. I don't recall anything like that for Tomb Raider.
Tomb Raider's ultimately had more sales though, especially with the newer games, so you could be right. I still think Crash was more influential in establishing the PlayStation brand, and I find Croft too generic to be "iconic."
Thanks for actually providing reasons for your disagreement, by the way.
Edit: I guess I wrote known quantity when originally the discussion was about being iconic. Bad choice of words.
Even back then, Crash Bandicoot was more of a known quantity than Lara Croft.
This is completely false.
I don't think that's true, I'm pretty sure Tomb Raider was in the mainstream a lot more than Crash ever was. Crash doesn't have a blockbuster movie. Regardless if quality, people who weren't gamers knew about Lara Croft.
Is a movie the measure of being iconic? Or even general public awareness? I don't think so. There's a Rampage movie but I think, e.g., Samus is more iconic than any of the characters in that film.
Sony pumped out multiple commercials for Crash Bandicoot and were clearly trying to push him as the face of PlayStation when the system first came out. Some commercials had references to Mario, suggesting they saw Crash as PlayStation's Mario. I don't recall anything like that for Tomb Raider.
Tomb Raider's ultimately had more sales though, especially with the newer games, so you could be right. I still think Crash was more influential in establishing the PlayStation brand, and I find Croft too generic to be "iconic."
Thanks for actually providing reasons for your disagreement, by the way.
Edit: I guess I wrote known quantity when originally the discussion was about being iconic. Bad choice of words.
I'm going to guess that BAFTA isn't going to pick a character that's big in the gaming world and not necessarily outside of it.
It all depends on how "iconic" is defined.
Not even close lol
This simply isn't true.