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pikashoe on 28 November 2025
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Sephiran said:
Signalstar said:

Every single PS5 comes pre-installed with Astro's Playroom. You can't ask for better exposure, advertisement, or audience building than that. Players who don't check out Astrobot for $60 are the ones missing out. Sony has done a great job promoting it. Astro Bot merchandise is becoming more ubiquitous.

PS is going after a mass market audience, people buying PS do it to play mainstream stuff such as EA sports, CoD and Fortnite, not niche stuff like Astrobot.

Just as people buying Switch doesn't do it to play Xenoblade.

Are platformers really that niche? It takes 2 over 23 million, split fiction over 4 million in 2 months, nsane trilogy over 20 million, mario odyssey 29 million, reignited trilogy over 10 million. I'm not sure how you can compare a easy pick up and play platformer to a very difficult to get into jrpg series. 

I don't think it weird to expect astro bot to have sold a bit better. It's not like there isn't any overlap between Switch owners and ps5 owners, millions of people own both.