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PlayStation Will Make More Games Like Astro Bot

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:James Lucas

Published Feb 13, 2025

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Sony is "planning to expand" into the family genre further given the enormous success of Astro Bot.
Herman Hulst teased last year that PlayStation is looking to bring back "legacy IP", so perhaps we'll see some classic platformers return.
Fans are holding out hope for the likes of Sly Cooper, Jak and Daxter, and Ape Escape.

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Astro Bot was a huge success for PlayStation, selling over 1.5 million copies and wi🦩nning Game of the Year at TGA 2024. But Sony is far from done with family games.

"In addition, the live service game 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Helldivers 2, which was released in February last year, won Best Ongoing Game and Best Multiplayer Game," Sony president Hiroki Totoki said in an earnings call, as reported by . "The fact that titles in genres we are planning to expand in🍰 the future, including titles for families and live service games, have received these awards, is a major stride towards building a broad title portfolio."

Fam♍ily games are one genre that Sony is "planning to expand in the future".

Not many classic family series from Sony's back catalogue have survived into the PS5 era. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Sly Cooper, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Ape Escape, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Jak and Daxter haven't had new entries in over a decade, while PS1 icons like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Crash Bandicoot and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Spyro the Dragon are now in the hands of Xbox, leaving only stragglers like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Ratchet & Clank and Little Big Planet to carry the torch.

And I guess Knack.

Whether any of these legacies will ever r🐭eturn remains to be seen, but Totoki stressed that Astro Bot is "very, very important to Pl🅷ayStation".

"Deep Cut Old IP" Is Reportedly Being Brought Back

There is some hope, however. Ape Escape is back in the spotlight, not only with the dedicated Astro Bot level, but also in the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Metal Gear Solid 3 remake which is 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:bringing back the classic Ape Escapꦜe-theme🍷d mode from the original. VGC editor-in-chief Andy Robinson also teased on his podcast that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Sony is "working on the deep, deep-cut old꧟ IP", ♚which he hinted would be "smaller games supplementing their big releases."

PlayStation Studios boss Herman Hulst said as much in December, confirming that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Sony is looking to utilise its "le🐲gacy 🍰IP". We've seen classics like Sly Cooper and even the Ratchet & Clank PSP spin-offs added to PS Plus, be🐻coming among the highest-rated games on the PlayStatioℱn Store, sꦦo there's definitely an audience waiting ꦅfor these series to return.

Maybe we'll see new Sly Cooper and Jak games one day soon, we'll just have to wait an📖d see. But at l🔯east we know there's more Astro Bot on the horizon.