Sony says Astro Bot is contributing significantly to the widening of the PlayStation user base

[BroodCorp]

To be fair, the game was “marketed” for years due to its unique circumstance as a free tech demo for PS5.

Still it’s clear the company should put more time into family friendly titles. Sackboy’s Adventure will not be enough. A very loud sector of us want full commitment to these kind of games.

 

[YeezyDude]

It does indeed and I hope Sony makes more games like it for example!

 

[DarkLordOtaku]

It does indeed and I hope Sony makes more games like it for example!

Yep! It seems like this was a well received game both critically and comercially. I'm happy for those who have enjoyed playing it!

 

[YeezyDude]

Yep! It seems like this was a well received game both critically and commercially. I'm happy for those who have enjoyed playing it!

It did yeah and I got it day 1 which I don't do a lot... So I hope this encourages Sony/Asobi to do more games like it and do it the right way too like Astro Bot and I'm sure that it'll do well enough to get a couple of sequels at least.

 

[arvfab]

To be fair, the game was “marketed” for years due to its unique circumstance as a free tech demo for PS5.

Still it’s clear the company should put more time into family friendly titles. Sackboy’s Adventure will not be enough. A very loud sector of us want full commitment to these kind of games.

I miss the times when Sony made games like Buzz or more recently stuff like the PlayLink games.

 

[Gediminas]

I miss the times when Sony made games like Buzz or more recently stuff like the PlayLink games.

Yeah, they made a huge shift in around 2019.
Playstation change in worse possible way.
It isn't For The Gamers any more.

 

[Old Gamer]

Yeah, they made a huge shift in around 2019.
Playstation change in worse possible way.
It isn't For The Gamers any more.

It started even before. When they killed Singstar.

 

[arvfab]

It started even before. When they killed Singstar.

That's the only one I can understand they did:

You find every kind of karaoke online/on YouTube and the new GaaS model they introduced was still very limited in the selection of songs and features.
If at least they added some kind of customization for the songs (pitch, tempo), it might have been worthwhile as a user.

 

[AllBizness]

Herm short sighted, I wouldn’t put it past Herman to release the Horizon Monster Hunter type game that has the Valorant/Fortnite art style on Nintendo Switch 2 day 1 but somehow skip PS4. It would also explain why it’s been taking so long for it to be reveal

No other consoles will get either of the online Horizon games, lets not get carried away here.

 

[Neversummer]

No other consoles will get either of the online Horizon games, lets not get carried away here.

Are you sure? He & Guerilla Games the studio he previously ran are the ones that push the first PC port & the first Nintendo port day 1 & I expect it to continue till PS6 sees massive decay from the action made the last 4-6 years

 

[quest4441]

I mean who is cross checking if new people bought the game, Sony can come up with some arbitrary x% of people bought the game and we have no proof whether it is false or as "true" as atleast 2 yrs between pc ports Hulst stated. Every piece of data these dipshits present in a PPT is mostly false, Any data that is not on the P&L statement should just be discarded

 

[arvfab]

I mean who is cross checking if new people bought the game, Sony can come up with some arbitrary x% of people bought the game and we have no proof whether it is false or as "true" as atleast 2 yrs between pc ports Hulst stated. Every piece of data these dipshits present in a PPT is mostly false, Any data that is not on the P&L statement should just be discarded

It's also a bit of an ingenuous value, as even a long-running Sony fan not into GaaS and superheroes would have skipped the only 3 (of which 1 discontinued shortly after launch) 1st party titles they launched in the 2 years they are counting.

 

[Old Gamer]

It's also a bit of an ingenuous value, as even a long-running Sony fan not into GaaS and superheroes would have skipped the only 3 (of which 1 discontinued shortly after launch) 1st party titles they launched in the 2 years they are counting.

There's lies, there's damned lies, and then there's statistics.
Especially vacuous meaningless "engagement" numbers.

 

[arvfab]

There's lies, there's damned lies, and then there's statistics.
Especially vacuous meaningless "engagement" numbers.

That's why I have to laugh at people trying to make any arguments with MAU.

Each time I turn on my PC and my Steam client autostarts I count as an active user... yet I haven't bought or played a game on there for over 10 years.

 

[CrackmanNL]

I mean who is cross checking if new people bought the game, Sony can come up with some arbitrary x% of people bought the game and we have no proof whether it is false or as "true" as atleast 2 yrs between pc ports Hulst stated. Every piece of data these dipshits present in a PPT is mostly false, Any data that is not on the P&L statement should just be discarded

There's severe punishment as in jail time for misleading investors, in a strict country like Japan up to 10 years with fraud.
Do they use stat padding to their benefit sure, MAU is meaningless unless they spend money, but in another sense someone who owns 4 Switch models but only plays one is of a different value in console sales.
But I would argue nothing special was said here. Astrobot appeals to different audience, outside the typical cinematic base, what a surprise.

 

[Gediminas]

There's severe punishment as in jail time for misleading investors, in a strict country like Japan up to 10 years with fraud.
Do they use stat padding to their benefit sure, MAU is meaningless unless they spend money, but in another sense someone who owns 4 Switch models but only plays one is of a different value in console sales.
But I would argue nothing special was said here. Astrobot appeals to different audience, outside the typical cinematic base, what a surprise.

punishment. maybe, where the law is uphold. not in US if you big enough.

 

[quest4441]

There's severe punishment as in jail time for misleading investors, in a strict country like Japan up to 10 years with fraud.
Do they use stat padding to their benefit sure, MAU is meaningless unless they spend money, but in another sense someone who owns 4 Switch models but only plays one is of a different value in console sales.
But I would argue nothing special was said here. Astrobot appeals to different audience, outside the typical cinematic base, what a surprise.

That is all well and true but as I said who is cross checking Astro Bot had x% of sales from new people, the investment firms just dont have Sony stock in their portfolio. The P&L and cash flow statements are what these firms look at and what external auditing agencies look at, no one sits around and confirms whether Sony really had 39% new players from astrobot. Its the same as meaningless stats we get from the green camp as well.

 

[CrackmanNL]

That is all well and true but as I said who is cross checking Astro Bot had x% of sales from new people, the investment firms just dont have Sony stock in their portfolio. The P&L and cash flow statements are what these firms look at and what external auditing agencies look at, no one sits around and confirms whether Sony really had 39% new players from astrobot. Its the same as meaningless stats we get from the green camp as well.

If it's something you bothered by and don't believe Astrobot appeals to different audience I won't stop you. I wouldn't put it in the meaningless camp tho, cause diversifying your library to appeal to new audiences for more revenue is a good signal to investors.
They need steady content to grow that base from a 1st party perspective (looking at you Media Molecule). Either way, does not take away from the 1,5 million sales and hopefully it does more over the holiday.

 

[Kokoloko]

Each time I turn on my PC and my Steam client autostarts I count as an active user... yet I haven't bought or played a game on there for over 10 years.

Really? Has this been said somewhere?

 

[Kokoloko]

To be fair, the game was “marketed” for years due to its unique circumstance as a free tech demo for PS5.

Still it’s clear the company should put more time into family friendly titles. Sackboy’s Adventure will not be enough. A very loud sector of us want full commitment to these kind of games.

More LBP, More Astrobot, more Ratchet, more Sly, more Jak.
They can definitely organise to have studios make these games so there is 1 of these franchises every year. 1million+ sales in fine for titles like this