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Fun Club They should put Astro Bot on Switch 2

Should they put Astro Bot on Switch 2?

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I'm really curious if Sony would be open to this. We're getting Horizon, afterall. But I do wonder if it would actually work design-wise. Astro's playroom was so intrinsically tied to the dual sense controller that I'm not sure it would work (similar to why I think Prime 3 is not getting a remaster, but I digress...)

Derachi said:
ok this thread is “fun club” but seriously who votes no on “good game should be more accessible”
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In that case shouldn't Nintendo games be on other systems?
 
I'm not going to beg, but I wouldn't be against it. Astro Bot is the first game that's got me looking at the PS5 like

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carbvan said:
No it won't. It's filled to the brim with references to the PS5 hardware and accessories. Nintendo would never let something like that on their system and it would be a nightmare to port because how do you make it Astrobot flying on a PS5 controller make sense to someone playing on a set of Joycon?
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There's a PS Vita in Persona 5 Royal for Switch
 
You took PS5's only game.... now it's gonna starve [camera pans down to a disgusting pile of revenue]
2025 Year of the Cute Mascot Platformers, or I riot!
 
Derachi said:
ok this thread is “fun club” but seriously who votes no on “good game should be more accessible”
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I like it when exclusives exist because it means console manufacturers are incentivized to publish a variety of games to sell us on their platform instead of selling us "services".

If Nintendo games were on PlayStation then they'd have less of a tangible reason to publish more niche stuff like Famicom Detective Club and Bayonetta 3. A big part of why games like that exist in the first place is so they can have a consistent library of releases across genres that you can't get anywhere else.

It also gives me assurance as a customer that I didn't waste hundreds of dollars on an ecosystem that I don't actually like more than Steam, and only put money into because I assumed based on precedent that the games wouldn't come elsewhere.
 
Well they can keep that Lego horizon for this. This game will bomb in Japan so maybe put it only in Japan if they want sales in there.
 
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Obviously I’d want it because I’ll have a Switch 2 and not a PS5, but Sony would be unbelievably stupid to do it. Sure it would sell, but they already devalued their exclusives by putting them on PC and putting them on Nintendo too would be completely shortsighted and ruinous
 
I mean, sure - why not? But what I would like (or wouldn't mind) and what will realistically happen are two different things. The odds of Sony putting this game on Switch 2 are virtually 0.000001%, at best.
 
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Aleh said:
they already devalued their exclusives by putting them on PC and putting them on Nintendo too would be completely shortsighted and ruinous
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Devil's advocate, but one could argue they've already broken that seal with Lego Horizon launching day and date on PS5/PC and Switch

Like, you could also argue a million ways that it shouldn't "count"; it's a spin-off, Lego may have pressured them to put it where Lego games sell best, it's co-developed by the 3rd party Studio Gobo and isn't a solo Guerrilla project, and so on. Plenty of ways to see it as not "really" Playstation putting one of "their" games on Nintendo

But let's be frank: You wouldn't see a Lego Mario game (or any Nintendo licensed crossover for that matter) on PS5, full stop; they wouldn't even let Samus in Fortnite because she'd be "playable" on other systems. If Nintendo ever did something like that, it'd be a major talking point for weeks if not months. Meanwhile nobody's really batting an eye at one of Playstation's biggest IP having a game that launches day 1 on Switch in a few months because it already doesn't feel that far from "normal" for how Playstation operates these days
 
BlackthornOrion said:
Devil's advocate, but one could argue they've already broken that seal with Lego Horizon launching day and date on PS5/PC and Switch

Like, you could also argue a million ways that it shouldn't "count"; it's a spin-off, Lego may have pressured them to put it where Lego games sell best, it's co-developed by the 3rd party Studio Gobo and isn't a solo Guerrilla project, and so on. Plenty of ways to see it as not "really" Playstation putting one of "their" games on Nintendo

But let's be frank: You wouldn't see a Lego Mario game (or any Nintendo licensed crossover for that matter) on PS5, full stop; they wouldn't even let Samus in Fortnite because she'd be "playable" on other systems. If Nintendo ever did something like that, it'd be a major talking point for weeks if not months. Meanwhile nobody's really batting an eye at one of Playstation's biggest IP having a game that launches day 1 on Switch in a few months because it already doesn't feel that far from "normal" for how Playstation operates these days
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I get what you mean, and I’m not gonna say it doesn’t count, however there’s different levels of importance between titles and Astro Bot would “feel” a step too far
 
Aleh said:
I get what you mean, and I’m not gonna say it doesn’t count, however there’s different levels of importance between titles and Astro Bot would “feel” a step too far
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I get that. And to be clear, I'm not even saying Sony will or should put Astro on Switch 2 (I mean I am, but in a facetious "I want to play it but don't own a PS5" way)

But I guess I'm thinking like, 5 or 10 years down the road. When Playstation first started putting games like Days Gone and Horizon Zero Dawn on PC, I think most people would still have said something like Spider-Man or God of War coming to PC would "feel" a step too far because those are more important to the core PS identity. But nowadays that all feels totally normal and expected

So again, not assuming or expecting it'll definitely happen. But with Lego Horizon being a day 1 Switch game, I don't think it's totally implausible that at some point during the next generation, things could have progressed to a point where "Astro on Nintendo" doesn't feel a step too far anymore and instead feels as "normal" as other PS icons like Kratos and Ratchet do on PC.
 
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I don't want Sony to lose their already few really great exclusives. I think this is honoured competition, even if I cheer for Nintendo.
 
Aurc said:
Mario is dead and he's not a good role model. I said it in the Astro Bot review thread, but if you folks wanna revive him, you need to support Astro Bot. That's why I do think it should come to Switch 2. It's also worth noting that it's not a $70 game, it's a $60 game, as it should be.
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Mario is dead?
 
Listen to the chill penguin Sony.

I really hope Lego Horizon Adventures sells massively on Switch in particular and sends a very strong message. We can only hope.
 
The whole dual sense thing and trojan horse of Sony IP marketing, might make Nintendo slightly antsy.
 
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We, the Nintendo fanbase, do not want Astro Bot on Switch 2. We already have Mario and Zelda.
 
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Nintendo ought to make an Astro Bot-like for the Switch 2.

No, I don't mean Mario Galaxy, Smash Bros., or even NES Remix, but rather a game that actually revisits classic Nintendo properties, characters, and worlds in a modern, joyful, single-player adventure.
 
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