Astro's Playroom PS5 Dev Team Asobi Staffing Up for its Next Game

Be very surprised if it's not something that will be launching alongside psvr2

So... it won't be a PS VR 2 game? Or is it compatible with it?

I hope it's a full $70 astrobot ps5 games or ape escape 😃

I’d love a new Astro Bot game. I’d prefer the style of Playroom with various linear paths rather than just a series of levels though. And honestly, would rather a flat game than VR.

Will it be a story rich full game or just a tech demo for new hardware like all their previous works? (Yes I'm still butthurt over Japan Studio 🙃)

@Milt The new PSVR controllers have haptic feedback and several VR games also allow for standard controllers. Could go either way here, tbh

Please don't be VR-exclusive 😑 Astro's Play Room is incredible and I want to support these devs without a pricey gimmick.

If this isn’t for PSVR2 I’ll be mightily disappointed. Astro Bot Rescue Mission is one of, if not the, greatest platformer of all time. Astro’s Playroom just cannot compete with VR, as good as it is.

If it's indeed a full new Astrobot game I'd love it if it was essentially set up like Mario 64 where the levels are all different Playstation themed from their history. From Metal Gear Solid to Gravity Rush to Bloodborne, that would absolutely blow me away!

Astro Bot Rescue Mission was right up with the best games of the generation. Can’t wait to see what they can do with PSVR2.

I’m here for whatever they decide to make

@Korgon I miss Gravity Rush

Just make a 30+ hour version of Astro Bot and take my credit card!

The first was a fantastic VR game. I know the flat screen ps5 one will be good when I get the ps5 and get round to it, but hope this next one is also VR compatible.

Make a full version and you can have $70

Did not have a PSVR so never played rescue Mission - but loved PlayRoom, and the little guy!

More Astro the better

@AK4tywill
Me too man me too.

Yeah I’ll buy it no matter what it is to be honest. Hoping for a cool hybrid game where you can play VR or not. But honestly, I’ll buy it either way

I'm hoping it's a full length game with no peripherals needed. And given how well Ratchet has done, there's absolutely no reason this can't do well with decent marketing.

I'm hoping it's a full blown Astro game.

What ever they're doing it gets my support this team deserves it although I do hope it's not a VR project I could do without having buy a 300 quid plus peripheral

Would love a fully fledged outing of Astro Bot. The first game in years to rival Mario's 3D adventures. The VR version was truly mind blowing and a great ,fresh gameplay experience.

If it is for the new VR set, it's a little late to start development for release of that isn't it?

Having not touched astro's playroom since December, how have I still got some of the tunes in my head?!

I would be gutted and shocked if its not Astro bots 2 in full VR. Astro bots is up with the best Platformers of all time. Behind Super Mario Galaxys and Super Mario World for me.

Everyone asking for a “full game”... they made one it’s called Astro Bot Rescue Mission.
I think it would be great if they released a ‘flat’ Astro Bot game, but if resources allow for one or the other, they continue in the space where they are best in class — VR.

That’s exciting. I sure hope it’s not a VR only thing though.

Full Astro game please. HUGE levels all based around different genres of games but still in essence a platformer. Can't come soon enough!

@redd214 I agree

@wiiware
I hope it's a full £40 or less game...talk about turkeys voting for Christmas 🙄

@feral1975 £40 isn't a full game on PS5, however much you want it to be. That's a AA at best, and Astro deserves the AAA treatment.

@theheadofabroom
Total nonsense, stop enabling greed by normalising overpriced games.

@feral1975 I'm not saying it can't be heavily discounted, but that's their pricing structure, and if you're demanding a £40 game you're demanding something half-baked, rough around the edges, and short. If it's not those things, they'll charge £70. You can choose not to pay it, and that might put pressure on to discount early, but a AAA first-party title will release as £70 for at least the next couple of years and wishing it ain't so isn't doing to change a thing.

@Broosh Rescue Mission was even better than Playroom IMO!

@theheadofabroom
In the mid 90's the publishers tried to charge up to £80 for some games, and people stopped buying them new and they had to reduce prices, it was still the same AAA titles.

Price does not dictate the quality of the game, publishers have historically tried every now and then to try and push the boundaries to see if customers are stupid enough to fall for it. They need to be slapped down each time, they still make plenty of profit on £40 games so don't help to pedal that misinformation.

@feral1975 Nah, I want it to be like mario odyssey kind of games, with a lot of worlds, gameplay, and secret, I don’t want budget astro or ape escape. Make the game worth $70 is what I want.

@Octane Nice! Sadly I'll never get to try it but these two projects demonstrate these guys know what they're doing.

@wiiware
You can still get it for that £40, that extra money doesn't get added into making the game.
Publishers will allow the same budget either way, they still make huge profit at either price.
You're just petitioning to give them extra money for nothing, and it's not like the developers get rewarded and see a bonus if the game price is increased, it just goes to shareholders. 😆

Instead of hope for it to be a VR game or not a VR game. Lets hope it will include both versions! Regardless of its play modes it will be a day one must have for PlayStation for me.

people assume its going to be an astro bot game , which it could be , i could see them bringing back ape escape or a new ip. i would love to see a ps5 ape escape game. it would take advantage of the ps5 controller.

Imagine an Astro's Playroom 2 but instead of just referencing iconic PlayStation characters, have Astro constantly hop between the worlds of these PlayStation Franchises but remade to suit the platforming gameplay of AstroBot.
For example: Infamous, imagine a side-scrolling level version of Empire City, jumping from rooftop to rooftop, being shot at by cute little ReaperBots from the background, grinding on rails, then at the end you fight the Beast.
Another example: getting to explore the Streets of Yharnam from Bloodborne, even altering Astro's playstyle so that Astro may fight the enemies similarly to Bloodborne's Combat but with AstroBot's signature charm.
At the very least I hope they continue with the Easter Eggs & References, there were plenty of PlayStation Franchises that were not referenced in Astro's Playroom, like Twisted Metal, Legend of Dragoon, WILD ARMS, Dark Cloud, Demon Souls, The Mark of Kri etc.

If not a new AstroBot game, I would gladly take a new Ape Escape game.

Astro's Playroom is the closest thing PlayStation have to Nintendo's Mario right now. That is very special. To take the game to the next level, one of the things that Team Asobi should work on is creating a iconic villain to Astro, like Bowser from the Mario's game.

@feral1975 I don't care if it's developers or publishers that get the money, I just want a bigger scope games like mario odyssey, there's no way publishers want to make games with big scope like that for only $40.

And of course gamers can wait for a discount if they don't want to pay $70, or buy it and sells it again, or buy a 2nd hand games.

@feral1975 Are you deliberately misunderstanding me, or do you truly not get what I'm saying?

The price does not dictate the quality, the quality dictates the price. I agree that we don't want games to be £70, but I also know that wanting it to be so isn't going to change corporate policy overnight.

If you want a full AAA game on PS5 in the next couple of years, it will release at £70. There's nothing at all we can do about that. All we can do is refuse to buy the games until they're discounted to an acceptable price, and then do so (first-hand) once they reach that point. If enough people do this, they'll stop releasing so expensive, or will at least be discounted within the initial months, because they want to get sales.

You keep confusing cause and effect in your arguments, and either you're not thinking things through, or you're trolling. Unless you can give a well thought-through argument, this will be my last reply.

Edit: perhaps to spell things out more plainly: I accept that things currently are the way they are, while wishing they were different, and hope through my spending habits to influence change. Not accepting reality doesn't change it

@Broosh PSVR isn't that expensive anymore, and maybe it'll be compatible with the PSVR 2. I hope so at least.

@Korgon This is exactly what I need in my life. Bad guy destroys playstation history and astro has to rescue playstation gems from years gone buy to restore games to their rightful place on the timeline.