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They polled gamers, for sure. Non gamers are only gonna recognize part of this list, and thats what makes them truly iconic - being known by people who dont even care about video games.
Thats gonna be mario, sonic, pikachu, pacman, and maybe Zelda (but probably not Link). The average person will know those but would have no clue who Lara Croft, Nathan Drake, or Solid Snake is. Kazuma Kiryu?? I’m an avid gamer and wouldn’t recognize that name.
It would be a picture of Link under the title Zelda...
And they'd say "Oh, Peter Pan!"
I thought the same thing. The only thing I'll disagree with is Lara Croft being unknown. She was huge in the '90s and '00s. She was even featured in Playboy and once the first Angelina Jolie movie came out she was a part of the general consciousness. Probably not more recognizable than Mario, though.
Fair enough, its not that she’s unknown, just not as popular as the others. I actually forgot about those movies! Man they were not great…
They polled game publishers. The list is more like "which game publisher is paying us the most."
So gamers, and a non-trivial but not even remotely representative group size
Wasn't link only the official in-game name starting with botw? Not saying it wasn't link before, but previously they asked for your name first and only used Link if you didn't give one, so many casual players wouldn't have known it's Link.