Astro Bot was so good it almost "outdid Nintendo at its own game", says Reggie Fils-Aimé

PlayStation platformer Astro Bot impressed former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé.

[Levii_92]

Oh yeah it’s certainly a special one. I think Astro Bot 2 is gonna be a big one, the one for the books as they say.

I also hope Team Asobi expandes thanks to the massive success of Astro Bot and works on another IP, they are just too good.

[porkChop]

"I also hope Team Asobi expandes"

That's kind of a double edged sword for me. On one hand it would be good for Team Asobi. On the other, Sony shut down and laid off all the other devs at Japan Studio. It would just kind of piss me off that they shut down the rest of the studio only to now build it back up after screwing over those devs.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

They probably should have kept Japan Studios, they could really use them now that they realised they need to revitalise some old IPs, or make something other than Live Service/GaaS.

[IRetrouk]

They recentered japan studio around asobi because some of the main staff left after sony wanted to increase their budgets to make bigger aaa games, I thought this was well known.

[Cacabunga]

They need to give us a PSVR2 version.. the first one is still glorious to this day on PSVR

[Profchaos]

Or at least a port

[gleepot]

I would agree. It stands toe to toe with Odyssey.

[Good-Smurf]

I think Astro Bot outdid Odyssey in terms of pace and level of interactivity immersion it gave.
I mean look at how many charming animations they make for each of the 300+ Astro Bots in the game scattered around at crash site home base, just the sight of that alone never fails to give you a huge smile and joy.
Astro Bot is also the first ever platform game I played that never made the post-game activity felt like a boring drawn out collect-a-thon challenge mode feel and was actually still as fun as main game to collect them and played them all throughout.
Even Odyssey felt like a collect-a-thon in post-game after credits rolled.

[Doge]

Agreed honestly. Odyssey’s mechanics/gameplay wise was the best Mario’s been. But the moon collecting became hella tedious down the line.

[Smellsforfree]

I'm fine with collect-a-thons so long as there is an actual platforming challenge to overcome in collecting the thing. Those are fun. I feel like Odyssey had such a mix of interesting to collect moons compared to just moons on the ground you grab -- they could have done a lot better.

Astro Bot and Odyssey both shine for different reasons. I agree with you on the interactivity immersion of Astro Bot -- but the skill wall of Mario's move set, for me, makes it a bit more interesting as a platformer and game to speed run through.

[Reaper22_]

When you do something wonderful people will imitate it.

[mkis007]

Easier said than done. Plenty of imitators of successful games out there. It rarely stands on its own.

[neutralgamer1992]

That's not easy though. If you remember during 360 days mahy tried copying halo and especially gears of war and came up short

[8bitAssassin]

The best game that did anything remotely close to Gears, was the incredible game Binary Domain.

[neutralgamer1992]

And not enough people played it. Such a great game

[Armaggedon]

The imitators normally fail.

[GotGame818]

It's true! Sony literally took the very best of what Nintendo did and put their own take on it. I have acknowledged that, but Sony fans act like Sony came up with it all on their own. It's hilarious! I'm going to get a bunch of down votes for being honest. Astro Bot, is AMAZING, but come on now! Hey, I don't care, Astrobot is a fantastic game, and I replay it, because it's fun.

[-Foxtrot]

Yeah, just like how Nintendo saw the Outfoxies and were inspired to do Smash Bros...

OH WAIT...if we go by your logic then Nintendo just copied them, right?

There was even a couple of kart racing games out before Mario Kart, I know you may like to believe different but even Nintendo found inspiration or weren’t the first to do something, they just put their spin on it and did it better.

[CrashMania]

The alt won't be happy with this comment lol.

[anast]

The hustler has spoken. He knows what he's talking about.

[PRIMORDUS]

"Mama Mia!" 😮

[Traecy]

I was never really into the Mario platform games but Astro Bot was really something special. I may try a couple of the current Mario games to see how they are.

[Reaper22_]

Well, if you like astrobot you'll like the Mario games because Astrobot basically copied Mario. That's basically what Reggie is saying. That just proves the impact that Mario has on the industry.

[mudakoshaka]

Mario is awesome! But the Mario game they released in 2024 was mediocre.

[badz149]

Sorry Reggie, Asrobot now stands alone as the most awarded platformer of all time. Mario needs to catch up

[MDTunkown]

Well it’s probably easier to get many awards today than during n64 era

[badz149]

you must be joking if you think Mario64 is better than Astrobot

[Kneetos]

This site threw a massive hissy fit in 2017 through 2018 when Zelda won game of the year, it probably would have imploded completely if Mario odd won

From what I remember "kiddy games shouldn't be in the same running as other games" is all you said.
Funny how minds change when Sony does it

[Doge]

Kinda wish it didn’t take Sony 30 years and several console generations to release a game that outdoes Mario.

[Sitdown]

Ah yes, the obligatory divisive comment. Congratulations.

[mudakoshaka]

I really hope this is a wake-up call for Sony. A game that they published just to get something out of the door during 2024 and it becomes game of the year! This is what you get when you do something from the heart. Not whatever live service they are trying to make into the next Fortnite.

[MetroidFREAK21]

Still need to finish this, but man. Every time I play, it's a pure joy every time I boot it up

[lellkay]

It was better than Odyssey

[Agent75]

At the same time, Nintendo is behind with the times when it comes to console tech. I don't think Switch 2 will be much of an upgrade. You look at Horizon Dawn for example, that's what we'd expect from Zelda. I understand Nintendo will never ditch consoles and go multi format, but they're in this business for the money and that's all that matters. The cost of consoles now, the industry can't keep going on like this.

[gold_drake]

i think they cam both co exist just fine

both are excellent at what they're doing