I'm sorry, but I don't see any correlation between these two things.

Unless you mean people will spend the bucks they had saved for the Pro buying Astro Bot instead, which makes just as much sense to me.

It's pretty simple.

People talking good things about a game make other people want to play it as well, when a good envyronment is created around it, it can start selling better and better because of that.

Now, not only people talking about Astro, as influencer, will likely stop doing it and start talking about the PS5 Pro, the attention is diverted away from it, so it losses the benefit of being the center of attention, and a good one.

Not only that, but now Sony, the company that made the game, will be hated online, and deservedly, by those same influencer and other people, and Astro Bot may get in the bandwagon because now for some people all about Sony is to be hated.

I don't know to which extent it will affect Astro Bot, but it will, even as the game itself will not be the cause, it will at suffer together to some extent.

People on the fence about buying a PS5 to play Astro Bot might now simply do not buy it anymore too because Sony is in full greedy mode.

That logic is absurd. It's like saying people will hate Ford and not buy a Focus because the Mustang exists, or that the 1TB iPhone and the RTX 4090 damage Apple and Nvidia's entire line. Someone should have warned Huang when he launched the first Titan...

(All of these have profit margins substantially higher than the PS5 Pro, I'd bet).

If anything premium products tend to increase the perceived value of a brand. It's not like the PS5 base model increased by $200 in price.

The thing is about the PS5 and Sony, both directly relevant to the game sales.

You can already find people on this very forum saying they will not a PS5 anymore (not the Pro, the PS5 in general), and making a poll if Sony image is now stained to people.

I don't see what is absurd about it at all, I'm sure there will be an effect, the question is the magnitude of it, be it very small or considerable, and Astro Bot being released 5 days before this brand blow Sony will be taking probably means it will directly eat up in the good will some people would have towards it.

Just keeping my scores close so I don't have to go digging for them again. 

Silent Hill 2: 79

Reviews are in for the Silent Hill 2 Remake and they are looking very solid at 87, matching the highest predictions placed in here by myself and @Kyuu (basicly my first good prediction since Rebirth), not bad at all considering some of the skepticism surrounding the game.

We cooking.

And you would have gotten Astro Bot 94 too if didn't change in the last day xD

Most adjustments I made wrecked me. Thankfully not Silent Hill 2.