Astro Bot has bought 1.5 million copies thus far, Sony has introduced.
As a part of its newest monetary outcomes, Sony revealed that the PlayStation 5 unique platformer bought 1.5 million as of November 3, simply shy of two months after its September 6 launch date.
Astro Bot, developed by Sony-owned Team Asobi and printed by Sony Interactive Entertainment, is the sequel to 2020’s Astro’s Playroom and the third recreation within the Astro Bot collection. It launched to essential acclaim, with IGN’s Astro Bot evaluate returning a 9/10. We mentioned: “A fantastically creative platformer in its personal proper, Astro Bot is especially particular for anybody with a spot of their coronary heart for PlayStation.”
While Astro Bot’s gross sales aren’t up there with a few of Sony’s huge hitters (Helldivers 2 stays the fastest-selling PlayStation Studios recreation of all time with an unbelievable 12 million bought in 12 weeks), it compares favorably to different lately launched household pleasant platforms. In Europe, launch gross sales of Astro Bot had been 34% greater than these of 2022’s Sonic Frontiers and 52% greater than these of 2020’s Crash Bandicoot 4.
To put Astro Bot’s gross sales success into more moderen context, Sega’s Sonic x Shadow Generations hit the a million bought mark on its launch day of October 25, in line with Sega. But that recreation launched throughout a number of platforms and generations, whereas Astro Bot is a PS5 unique. Astro Bot gross sales will certainly proceed to develop as we head into the essential vacation purchasing season and players look to purchase a PS5 or the lately launched PS5 Pro.
Team Asobi has continued to help the sport since launch with numerous updates which have added speedrun problem ranges and new cameos to rescue. At launch, Astro Bot featured 173 bot cameos from PlayStation video games previous and current (try IGN’s function, Astro Bot: Every PlayStation Character – Easter Eggs, for extra).
However, iconic Final Fantasy characters had been conspicuous by their absence — an omission followers had been fast to choose up on within the context of Final Fantasy’s long-standing affiliation with PlayStation. That means no Cloud from Final Fantasy 7, or every other character from the well-known role-playing franchise.
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