Team Asobi, the Tokyo-based developer behind Astro Bot Rescue Mission and excellent PlayStation 5 pack-in title Astro's Playroom, is expanding and moving on to "bigger" projects. The studio confirmed the news itself over on the official PlayStation Blog with a rather wholesome post, detailing the team's origins and hopes for the future. Team Asobi also has a brand new logo, which looks lovely.
"Following the release of Astro’s Playroom for PlayStation 5, Team Asobi is now spreading its wings and growing bigger! This is a very exciting time for the team, and we are very much looking forward to this next chapter. We wanted to take this chance to thank all of you, the PlayStation fans, for your kind words of support over the years," reads the aforementioned blog post.
What's more. Team Asobi now has its very own Twitter and Instagram accounts, if you're keen to keep up with the studio through social media. Hopefully we hear more about the developer's next project in the near future.
Indeed, it'll be interesting to see where it goes next. There are certainly reasons to believe that Astro Bot could evolve into something bigger, but we'll have to wait and see. We also know PlayStation Studios boss Hermen Hulst has a lot of love the studio, as per a recent interview.
What do you think the future holds for Team Asobi? Make room for another PlayStation Studio in the comments section below.
[source blog.playstation.com]
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As annoyed as I am with some of the news coming out today, I can't deny it warms my cold husk of a heart to see Astro becoming part of the official Team Asobi logo.
Astro's Playroom is a masterpiece too. I just feel like throwing that out there for the billionth time.
A full sized Astrobot platformer? Yes, please.
Best reason to own a PS5 and makes the experience playing Astro with Dualsense, something I thought only nintendo could do.
Bring me more adventures of Astro and friends!!
Give me a huge Astrobot title please!
Astro Bot Rescue Mission 2 for PSVR2, please. Love the logo, by the way — very WipEout!
Well, time to update the Logopedia article!
But really, I'm excited for the future of Team Asobi, and I love the new logo.
I got platinum on Astro's Playroom the first week of launch. Im thinking of playing through it again as my brain is starting to forget it.
My only thing is that you can only have 1 save file and it took me what felt like forever to get all the pieces of the mural and artififacts. So like i dont want to start it over. I guess i can make another system user. I always forget about that
I hope they make a full non-vr astro's playroom. It deserves a full fledged game.
This is extremely exciting news. I can’t wait to see what they come out with next. Astro’s Playroom is a charming masterpiece.
I'm just really disappointed that Japan Studio had to shut down for this.
They're expanding so Japan Studio can die.
@HeeHo @Nepp67 I Look At This As More Of a Phoenix Being Reborn Out Of It's Own Ashes But That's Just Me.
Our dedicated PSVR2 studio
I hope asobi team can make astro full game, astro vr game for psvr2, and of course new ape escape 😃
I like their logo, it just feels PS1 or PS2 fun to me.
I hope they do a "Full Size" version of Astros Playroom!
Astros playroom is still one of my favorite PlayStation 5 games by far. I would absolutely Fork over $70 for a full-blown AAA sized Astro game
Oh hell yeah! Asobi are one of my favourite dev teams!
@HMazzy111 It's called Astro Bot Rescue Mission, and it's on PSVR
In the spirit of U2 and Apple, will we soon consider Astro's Playroom the best selling Sony game of all time? It and Rescue Mission are fantastic platformers and I am very much looking forward to what this team comes up with next.
I think this is the first piece of good news from Japan Studio I've seen for 5 years.
@get2sammyb Oh now you're talking. It seems like it would be the perfect first party launch title doesn't it?
Yes please.
@Royalblues Gravity Rush is an interesting concept, but the execution was quite bad. As an open world game, it was bland, grindy; progression and story were sometimes slow and tedious. It would need a big overhaul IMO.
@get2sammyb you hit the nail right on the head there rescue mission was amazing I'd like one on psvr2 but I also want the first one to be backwards compatible
Probably one of the best teams Sony has ,they make sublime gameplay ,its about time Sony threw some decent money at them,they're like sonys own in house nintendo studio.
Both Astrobot rescue mission and Astro’s playroom were a joy to play and I’m here for whatever Asobi wants to do next, day 1 purchase 😍
@Octane I've played it and as good as it is it's not the same. Playroom is much better.
Deserved, exciting times ahead:)
@Royalblues Didn't the creator of Gravity Rush leave Sony | Playstation back in September. Along with the character designer, animator, art director? That franchise is as good as buried at this point...
Playroom was wonderful. What a fantastic thing to include with the PS5.
@Dreman99 @HMazzy111 @wiiware @Odium @GigaGaia @DeepSpace5D @Futureshark @Luigia @Voltan @RBMango Same here guys, hopefully they were working on a full length Astro Bot game next!
Either that or another brand new IP, I'd be okay with it.
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