Astro Bot is getting replaced by a bear with insomnia.https://x.com/i/status/2088344915197522230
Astrobot... had a hard life... I miss Sackboy, bros...
>>745360274left: soullessright: soul
but i was told that Astro Bot was successful....it won GOTY, No...
>"we have chiikawa at home"lolso this is... the power of... snoy...
>>745360274Astro Bot is very much fashioned to look like early 00's design.
>Sony already had a mario-like utility where Astrobot could be themed to different things>throw it away for a 1 Yen mascot you wouldn't even find in an anime gag because you need to win back the japs wew lad
Oh no, Astroturfbot is dead...
>>745360274why don't they just use that lil nigga cat they have?
>>745360274He just like me fr fr.
>>745360274I never liked Astro much, but the new one is such a nothing design. It's kinda cute, but doesn't feel like Playstation at all. It's just a Line Sticker character.
>>745360274Sony was never good
>>745360274And once again Nintendo's competition shoots themselves in the foot for no reason
>>745360274>one that could rival Hello KittyGood luck lmao
>>745360274>rival hello kittythat shit couldn't even rival karumi.
>>745360274WW3 soon, eh?
>>745360274Sony has no idea how to make a mascot. What is this literal baby shit?
>>745360274It's funny how sony keeps finding new ways to sink themselves lower
>>745360274let's not pretend anyone cares about funko bot
Damn, I liked Astro Bot. Just another reason to boycot the PS6.
>>745360274Kek it couldn't copy Nintendo so now it's coping the smiski and chikawa crazeSnoy is so shameless
>>745360931>karumiWho?
sweet a new tdm game
>rival hello kitty
Sony are so bad at getting behind a mascot.
This looks like a cheap mascot in an anime gag
>>745361006exactly
>>745361120Exactly. It looks like something Gintama would make up to shit on Sanrio mascots.
It'll be so funny to see astrobot getting goty age more and more poorly the more people forget about it.
THE NEW FACE OF PLAYSTATION
>>745360274I'd have insomnia too if my favorite game company had no games
>>745361236>The face you make when Sony discontinues physical media.
>>745361236The ABSOLUTE State
ah yes can't wait for sony's new mascot to lecture me on the war in ukraine, the genocide in palestine, transphobia and anti-semitism
Lmao I've seen more original concepts for a mascot as tertiary characters in random manga
>>745360274So what youncan only have one mascot?
>>745361179No, seriously. Who the fuck is karumi?
MOVE OVER, MARIO...
>>745360274this sounds like desperation to get back the japanese audienceit really shows they have no idea what they are doing
Makes sense. When I see modern Sony fans, the first animal I associate them with is usually “bears.”
>>745361236He cute>>745361387Human men?
>>745360931This is a Kurumi board!
>>745360274
what the fuck are those fags doing
I always hated that shitty robot
>>745360274B-but /v/ told me Astro was the new face of gaming after raping Mario o algo
>>745360274Why not just have both?
>>745360274Bold move Sony, I'm sure this will turn out to be A-OK.
sup guys I heard there's some job for a bear that doesn't sleep much?
>>745361556For me it's Culomi
Astrobot is a bad design
In before the sperg post the brown blonde hebe girl.
>>745361615This. They had the perfect mascot, but of course "it was too cute for America and didn't even had a gun", right?I literally think this is the biggest mistake Sony has ever made. If they used Toro, maybe made some game with him that can be translated into English, like platformers and so on, I'm sure it would become popular, and Sony wouldn't feel the need to "westernise" itself any more, leading to the current wokeness, because they would see that players from the west can accept Japanese culture.
>>745360274>Museum Bot... will end up in a museumBRAVO NOLAN
>>745360274You know snoys are reading this and thinking "Great, now I can stop pretending to like Astro Bot".
>>745361393This, a good company has multiple mascots
>>745361931KEK, yeah
>mascot>has no game on its ownthat's fucking nonsen->ps5o never mind it's perfect.
Great, now I can stop pretending to like Astro Bot.
NOOOOOOO BUT WHAT ABOUT ALL THE ASTROBUTT PORN!?!?!?!?!?
>>745360274>wins GOTY >immediately abandoned by own companyLol
ENOUGH... FROM THE BOT.
>>745360274this doesn't scream 'sony' it looks like mobile shit
>>745360274>>745361236He looks just like me....I...thank you Sony...
Doesn't this continue the trend of Sony getting a new mascot each generation?
>>745360274Sony wants to appeal to it's tranny fanbase
My friend said sony made the bear to start a not-sanrio division which has nothing to do with vidya and that dexterto is clickbaiting
>>745360274Playing a single sony modern game would knock that bear out lmao.
>doesn't sleep because of terror attacks from all the genocides and war and all forest burning downshouldn't a mascot present positive values??
N E M U 'S B O A R DN E M U 'S W O R L D
A mascot with no games suits Sony perfectly
>>745361564I have fucked 3 of these that had boyfriends. They didn't miss out on being a whole, they're just secretive
>>745360274remember when they gave astro slop goty?
>this will totally click with the dudebros that want more TLOU, GOW, Wolverine and GTA mature games
>can't sleep because he still holds on to hope that his Japanese Digital only PS5 will eventually get a game added worth playingSad.
>>745362117Wins? more like bought.
>>745360274lol if true>>745361868i can not imagine wanting to fuck this. insane behavior.
WE FLY HIGH, NO LIEYOU KNOW THIS (BALLIN')SUP BITCHES ITS CHADWARDEN HERE TO TALK ' BOUT DAT NEMU BEAR THAT SHIT IS THICC
>>745362269It's only standard of useful idiots to lose sleep over matters that they have no agency over. Perhaps they might make a Facebook group over it. It has like 40 members, that's pretty significant pressure for Putin to withdraw from Ukraine entirely, don't you think?
>>745362389Those dudebros will buy a pos6 anyway
>>745360274Was Astro Bot ever a mascot? Did they even use it for anything past winning GOTY?
>rival Hello KittyHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHJAHHAHAJAHHAJAJAAHAHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAJAHAJHAAAAHAHHAHAAAHAHAAHHAHAHHHHAAAA
>>745360942They are speedrunning their bankruptcy any%
>>745360274>>745360415>>745360476>>745360514>>745360517i think we can just admit that japan is superior to every culture on earth at this point. nemu looks very nice and is obviously emulating japanese aesthetics. sony will never obviously go towards japan for their aesthetics because they sell nba 2k machines for niggers and mexicans, but it is a look towards a future if they did go for that pivot.
>>745362348I remember it kneeling for Touhou.
>>745360274I'm not stressed by the world's problem because I don't read the news, I don't watch the news and I don't care about the news.
I didn't know eric was a bear
>>745362624You only like Japan because it provides you with a harem of .jpeg cartoon women that will never be real.
>>745360274I never cared for astro and the bear also looks meh
>>745362734yes and i also like that everything from there is nice
>>745362624Japan is not a flawless utopia no matter how many times you masturbate to pokegirl hentai, sorry.
>it's fucking 2026 and Sony STILL hasn't decided on a mascot
>>745362796compared to any other country on earth, it is a flawless utopia.
>The Hello Kitty killerSo how long is the bear going to last before they ditch him?
>>745360274Assuming this is true (Dexerto is ass), neither Astro Bot nor that thing are anything like what you'd broadly associate Sony's current output with. What notoriety Astro Bot had was in large part specifically because his games are so unlike the vast majority of games they've published since the latter days of the PS3, even. Of their recent options their best, most representative option for a mascot would unironically have been Drake in that blue shirt from Uncharted 4 (for the colour-brand synergy a la Mario and/or Master Chief), but even that would have issues because his games' story focused nature means you can only drudge him up so many times before it's played out, which come to think of it is probably part of why they struggle to maintain mascots. Him or Sly, if Sly as a series was much bigger than it was and hadn't been taken out the back of the shed ages ago.
>>745362856If you say so.
>>745362698Same but you can still feel the enshittening everywhere whether you are told of it or not
>>745362884i do say so, and i am also right.
>>745361393If you are dog shit incompetent like sony isYes
>>745362903At the moment I live in the country and do contracting work writing so all I see outside are sheep, mountains and sea. It's good.
>>745362624>japan is superior to every culture on earth at this pointJapan's culture is being a corporate bootlicker.
>>745360517>>"we have chiikawa at home"When is the existential dread and island trip involving cannibalism?
>>745360274>ditching something I kind have heard of due to them spamming it everywhere for something I havent at allarent mascots meant to be well known?
>>745363005Western culture is being a jew golem.
>>745363046Both are capable of existing at the same time.
>>745360274I find this bear very relatable.
>>745360517Given his movie is beating Spider-Man, holy shit it really just a naked attempt to make Chiikawa clone
>>745363012You heard of it now thoughbeit? Now buy the merch and 10 ps6 ok? you want insomnia bear to beat hello kitty too now right?
Sapari cat or Momo from PostPet are way better Sony mascots
>>745360274Their new mascot should be a plate with a giant shit on it.
>Even Sony is admitting Astro Bot is a failure
>Astro Bot represents how good Sony used to be>replace himReally makes you think.
Do they really think this will win back Japs
>>745362878I was a little surprised they didn't try harder to make Kratos a proper brand mascot, he's visually distinctive and actually has some connective tissue between "old" and "new" Sony. My only guess is they were put off at some of the less "tasteful" stuff in his older games and thought they could make something better in a test tube.
Why is it so hard for these retards to stick to a single mascot?Never played Astrobot, but the design is something easy to recognize, this new shit could be from any generic art drawn online. I can see it being forgotten about within a year. Even then, they could have just used the cat mascot they already had.
>>745360514It was propped up as "being" successful* after Concord was abruptly pulled due to Bungie's shenanigans. Keep in mind that it was Sony's decision to kill Japan Studio going into the PS5 generation and only formed a refugee studio when the Japanese government was about to investigate the closure (you can't just delete an entire company of Japanese employees without raising a few eyes)
>>745362698You don't have a choice, news reaches you regardless.
So we all agree Sonny set up Tommy and he's fucking with him throughout the entire game, right?
>those cat things>Sackboy>AstrobotAm I forgetting any other failed Sony mascots?
>>745363413That's only because I have friends. If I did not I would literally be completely ignorant to the world around me.
>>745363393>buff macho male>mascot material
>>745363470Do you wanna count Crash and Nathan Drake?
>>745360274it's funny that the original report makes no mention of "ditching Astro Bot" or even using this bear character as a mascot for the company, but the tweet says it so everyone accepts it as unconditionally true
>>745360274it is hilarious how Sony has never produced a iconic, beloved character.
>win GOTY>get immediately ditchedDamn, how high were Sony's expectations for this shit?
>>745362806Their mascot is Spider-Man but just like with PS1's mascots they don't actually own that IP
>>745363520Sony never owned Crash. And Nathan Drake is a regular realistically styled human he can't really be a mascot.
>>745363523sometimes the reverse happens where /v/ will have a meltie about something not true and then some respost account will put it on twitter and have it treated as gospel
>>745362795Japan has literally all of the same shit you chuds hate the west for.
>>745360274>dropping thematic mascot for generic fluffy animal because they want to pander to womenand you know jap women will go crazy for that shit
>>745363561Honestly I feel like the only way Sony would settle on a mascot was if they managed to make a live service game that finally paid off all their excesses and wastes. Doesn't matter if it was the most horrific character design to grace our eyes, they'd just chart some means to market themselves around whatever success they can grasp. If Marathon didn't shit the bed, one of those runners was gonna be their mascot, etc.
>>745360715Yeah I don't know why they aren't using Toro and Kuro. At least it's not Knack or something.
>>745360517Get this fucking disgusting imposter out of here! Justice for the real Momonga!
>>745363461Originally? Yes, Sonny was going to whack Tommy but he ended up going to prison instead (which worked for Sonny). In Vice City? No, I think he decided to use Tommy as a disposible tool to get them into the drugs business. If anything came back to the families, it's as simple as blaming Tommy as some rogue and have him whacked.
>>745363713Japs don't give a shit about Sony after the PSP to 4 debacle
But why?
>>745362856Ask literally anyone who lives in Japan and they'll you otherwise.
>>745362795Contrary to popular belief, if you visit Japan you will not immediately be swamped by four dozen schoolgirls with balloon tits all begging you for sex, sorry.
>>745360274We already knew Astro Bot flopped.
>>745363713Playstation is basically dead in Japan. So is Xbox. Sony just sells them tech products and nothing else at this point.
>>745363461why though? i never got his motive. i thought the mafia rewarded goons that go to prison for them and don't sing
Sony mascots suck and always have
>>745361473>kill the mascot made by ther last remaining japanese studio to win back the japanese audienceI see?
>>745360415Astro bot is better than every LBP game though>>745362624Astro bot has a better design than the other one
>>745360274I think I miss Wipeout... and Kat.
What a fuckin mess.
>>745363523The mascot has been around since April 2025, Sony just wants to pump money and make it an icon like Chiikawa or anything from Sanrio while trying to not look like a corpo plant like pic related.https://tsumupapa.tokyo/charactor/yofukashikumanonemu
>>745362702Yeah, the eric dumpster brear
>>745361120It looks like some random temu pencil case design>image search cute pencil case with bear design
>>745360274>SONY IS DITCHING ASTROBOT FOR A CUTE BEAR MASCOT>look inside>sony are just looking into going for someone else>the bear isn’t even really their “top pick”, it’s the only pick made publicI suppose it gets clicks, but it’s not exactly representative of the facts
>>745363490Works for Master Chief
astrobot was dimeless, I'm not surprised they dropped it
>>745360274Sony switches Japanese mascots every other generation who remembers Toro?
Not like this, we still need a sequel...
>>745360274Why did Astrobot flop?
>>745364246Isn't the holographic waifu 10x more popular than John Halo? At least when she was cute?
>Hello Kitty is the second biggest franchise in the world behind Pokemon.why is Sony still so arrogant after everything they have been through?
>>745364174The more important part is ditching Astrobot, doesn't really matter what they replace it with. It's absurd that they're already ditching it despite Astrobot being (supposedly anyway) very well received.
>>745363570>Disney owns their mascot.
>>745364174also Astrobot is Playstation's mascot, right? so even if this bear would become Sony's mascot, that doesn't mean Astrobot is getting ditched
>>745364174Yellow journalism at it's finest, where would /v/ be without it?
How is sony so mismanaged. Games and Movie department are literally run by retards
>>745360514Shilled trash.. Game was memoryholed
>>745363697japan doesnt have niggers or trannies fucking shit up>>745363802no, they would say its a good place.>>745363806i would
oh we've got an actual delulu
>>745360274inb4 Nintendo funds the next Astro Bot game like they did for Bayonetta
>>745364392>Anpanmansweet jesus what? Unless it's popular outside of japan, every japanese kid would need like five thousand dollars of anpanman merch. I guess it's lifetime sales but still
>>745360274How the hell is le stress bear a kids mascot?
>>745363561Probably cause it didn't sell well enough to be a household name despite buying GOTY, bundling the demo with every single PS5 purchase, and plastering Astro Bot all over their social media. The only official non-estimate slop figures were 1.5 million 3 months after release.
Ypu now remember snoygroes subhumans spamming this dogshit bot for a year lmao
>>745364746Because they had nothing else going for them.
>>745361564>Millennial women>not cock carouseling in their 20sYou cant be serious dude, millennial whores are the first hypergamy generation of foids
>>745360274So… will Astrobot launch on Steam?
>>745360517>>745363008>>745363126i want to get into chiikawa so i can watch this supposed kino, from which end do i begin?
B-b-but what about our GOTY ???
>>745364830Looking at the absolute shitfest that is that Wolverine game they still don't
>>745364939that wolverine game is just embarrassingi don't think a single person involved actually thinks they're making a good game and they're just doing as they're told instead
>>745364705Merch definitely includes snacks somehow because japs love snacks and snack collabs.
>>745364624>Japan doesn’t have trannieslollmao even
>>745364939qrd? Aside from obvious uggos and the basic bitch gameplay what is new?
>le sony doesn't have a mascotWho the FUCK cares about a mascot except tendie manchildren? Lmfao
>>745364839Boomers, zoom zoom. You’re thinking of boomers. Are you stupid or did you just forget that the sexual liberation movement was a product of the 60s?
>>745365062https://x.com/kaiser_drago/status/2088079859134140436Apparently they can't even make original boss fights
>>745365207Mario saved gaming.Say thank you.
>>745360274This shows that the retards at sony today dont know what they own. They have 3 mascots. The white cat Toro.Astro bot and Sack boy. Holy shit these people... PS6 will ruin them fully. Lmao
>>745362624>Soulless bugmen that slave away for nothing.Ehhhhhhh
>>745365207not keeping their recognizable and popular characters around is part of the reason Playstation is dying. Even Microsoft has Master Chief.
>>745365207Sony does, you giga retard. Why do you think they've been trying to find one for the last 20 years?
>>745361108sackboy aesthetic and britfag narration was shit, I don't see why retards keep going on about it literally the only good thing was the game engine
>>745365356Not for much longer after the latest debacle. Halo is dead as a doornail.
>>745365062it's just a mess.everything about it is bad.the combat is bad.the story is bad.the graphics are bad.the characters are bad.wolverine looks weak.they've just thrown in pace-shattering stealth sections and detective sections because people liked them in arkham asylum and can't seem to tell the difference between batman and wolverine.
>>745365518Minecraft Steve is the Xbox mascot now.
>>745365553That shit was in The Witcher 3 and Monster Hunter World too, and everyone loved those games.
>>745365663yeah i just gave arkham asylum as an example because it was the first one that i thought of
>>745360931>>745361556>>745361868Did she really need this many knock offs when she had a multiverse of others and a doppelganger already!
>>745364705The "merch" is like half of the domestic snack market in their country. The only things that sell more are foreign brands like kitkat and coca cola
>>745364624>japan doesnt have niggers or trannies fucking shit upFucking LOL
>>745361236KWAB
>>745360274Astroshart was never a mascot
>>745364727Playstation stopped being a kid-friendly brand with the $600 PS3. Even Astro Bot was a memberberry game for 90s kids.
>>745362734And?
>>745360274>Hello Kitty killerHow many times have Sony tried to pull this "X killer" move??????
>>745360274So the next pack in game is Nemu's Playroom?
>>745366242It was more of a placeholder for sony to say "hay remember all those games we used to make?"
>>745360274>Astro bot series finally gets recognition>Eh time to replace himUh, ok? Why? I never thought Astro bot was a particularly endearing design, but tossing him out immediately is a strange move. Especially if they're considering replacing him with a very distinctly japanese design. Sony doesn't do japan anymore, what gives?
>>745361868That's just Jack Frost for girls
>macaco keeps using astroflop to shitpost>Ziony kills off astroflopkarma strikes again
Didn't astrobot flop in japan; no surprise they don't want him as their mascot.
>>745366862>Sony doesn't do japan anymore, what gives?They don't but they are adamant on keeping one foot in the door. Remember last year when they did state of plays and on purpose shoved japanese themes/people but then see this year and it's cali trannyism all over again? Yeah that is their MO.
>>745366862isn't Toro still sony's japan mascot?
>>745360274>Our mascot is a modifiable robot able to represent all our games>But boss, we don't makes games>Oh right, change it to depressed bear to be more relatable to millennials
>>745361236>sony's new mascot is literally DenkoWhen does he start stalking women (´･ω･`)
>>745367204Milennials with no actual challenges and commitments in their lives are also the only ones deciding to lose sleep over matters that do not affect them and are not that which they will ever have any agency overBecause for them, blaming any kind of personal failure on the palestinian genocide is a completely normal thing to do.
>>745360274do mascots even matter? the only thing I knew about Astrobot was that his game was like the spiritual successor to Mario Galaxy apparently? and his threads here are really just off model wide-hipped femboy art dumping. I thought ORIGINALLY japanese playstations mascots were those little white and black cats anyway. I only knew that cuz they were in PS all-stars.
>>745367331>Denko-chanOh my God, that was a read and a half!
>>745364624celebrity that got own his own guest special on GnT:
>a character so stressed by the world's problems that he can't sleepSounds like an incredibly anti-fun character already.
>>745367614They don't use the word "fun" after all
>>745367697they also don't use the words "success" "profit" or "progress" but a lot of "sorry" "failure" and "layoffs"
>>745360274>Have all the Japan Studio IPs>Ignore>Have Crash and Spyro>Throw those two out as well and let competition buy your first recognizable mascots>Jak and R&C, Sly, etc.>Throw them all away>Little Big Planet's Sackboy?>Throw them all away>"Heh, our buttons are our icons!">Slaps realistic humans as marketing material>Desperate attempt with skinsuit Astrobot>Throw him away the instant he doesn't make billion dollars day-1Who can even like Sony these days?
>>745367332Millennials have plenty of challenges, like the abysmal economy, housing market, job market, and inflation.
>>745367974which only confuses me further on why they concern themselves with matters like the war on ukraine or the incurable african starvation epidemic
>>745367614its literally me but i dont want it i prefer astrobot not the sum up of sony moviegames
What about toro?
>>745360274I thought Alloy was their "mascot."
>>745368395I have no idea what Guerilla Games has been doing since Horizon Zero Dawn 2
>>745360274Sony fumbling Toro's mascot-status at every possible moment is completely baffling to me. They are complete retards.
>>745360274>Mario: Colored red for brand loyalty. Happy-go-lucky platformer represents the core values of the company.>Master Chief: Colored green for brand loyalty. Stoic, fantastical gunman represents the core values of the company.>Sonic: Colored blue for brand loyalty. Rebellious attitude against trends represents the core values of the company.>"Nemu the Night Owl Bear" or whatever the fuck: uhhhh this thing literally tells me nothing
>>745367078This really surprised me because Japan loves corporate mascots like Baby Yoda and that shark from Marvel Rivals.
>>745368517I still can't believe there's no Toro gamesCOME ON SONY!!
>>745361907Lived in Japan for almost a year and Toro still gets a lot of merch, popular both for nationals and people from other countries, ranging all ages. The craziest thing is that nobody associates it to PS, is more it's own thing.
>>745363470Obligatory.
>>745368540Exactly.It represents PlayStation.Nothing.
>>745368540>"Nemu the Night Owl Bear">cute, non-offensive, and represent cozy feeling of watching a movie
>>745368540Nemu: In a constant state of worry over what BS Sony may pull next. Doesn't even really want to be the mascot
>>745363345Only if nintendo shoot itself like sony
>>745363345Second GTA6's launch window has passed Nintendo is going to carpetbomb Japan with all the stuff from Pokemon Wind Waves and all its new creatures to collect and buy shit with.Nobody will even remember Sony made an attempt at a new mascot.
>>745364624>tranniesForgot the one that's eric shills?
>snoys parading astrobot like the second coming of christ>this happensyou love to see it
>>745360274>First time?
>>745365485what a trash opinion
>>745360274They want to make a mascot for Sony as a whole (which is still headquartered in Japan), not just PlayStation.
>>745369926Astro Bot got 2 games before it was thrown to the side like a cheap whore.Sackboy honestly got off easy.
>>745367953Sony's problem is they want the quick buck. If they were as consistent at cultivating their IPs over the long run as Nintendo their numbers would follow
>>745360274Wow he's stressed just like me he's so heckin relatable I can't wait to see marketers flood the catalog with him
>focus tested mascotnice company bro
>>745361236Can you blame him?I would make that face too if i heard that Playstation made me the new mascot. You know that you will be taken to the backrooms within a year and executed for a new mascot attempt.
>>745370153>If they were as consistent at cultivating their IPs over the long run as Nintendo their numbers would followThere's a parallel world out there where Sony went all in on keeping their legacy IPs going and it put them as the number 1 for gaming forever.
Astrobot was a very forgettable design and his theme was a Muse rip-off
>>745370057the humor was marvelshit before marvelshit was a thing
>>745370153trueI didn't think I'd ever see the day animal crossing outsold zelda
>>745360274>one that could rival Hello KittyThis won't even rival Sonic.Seriously Sony been snorting fentanyl for the last month or something, wtf is happening in there
Toro was a better mascothttps://files.catbox.moe/xzy7ue.png
>mascot>how does it help us sell PlayStation and our games?>games?>PlayStation?
Why would I care about the newest mascot of a dying brand?
>>745370484i am pretty sure you can elaborate lol
>>745361909Wow, an article I can agree with
>>745368965Our FUARKING HEROES!!
>Astroshitters thought they would be safe from snoylol
>>745360274what the fuck is this chikawa knock off dogshit, it's so blatantwhy couldn't they have stuck with sackboy
>>745360274>in favor of one that could rival Hello KittyDid some dumbass executive say this or something?
>>745361280>I'd have insomnia too if my favorite game company had no gamesExplains a lot then
>>745365485allow me to explain, you simply lack a soul
They should release Astro Bot on PC or Switch 2 before it's too late. Give that little guy a new home.
>>745371264>KatExhibit Z of "Sony deserve to go bankrupt"
>>745360274Do they even know what the real modern appeal of hello kitty is?
>>745370721Thanks for drawing this anon
>>745360274Don't Sony own ape escape? That seems the obvious mascot choice to me, are they too spooked by the funny posting?
>>745370153Let's be real the only really huge first party seller that Sony had for the PS1 and PS2 was Gran Turismo and Crash Bandicoot on the PS1 because it was the 90s and that was still when platformers were king. Otherwise the bulk of the PS1 and PS2 audience was buying third party stuff like Tekken, Final Fantasy, Metal Gear Solid and GTA3/VC/SA. And sports games.The only reason people really started giving a shit about Sony first party was halfway through the PS3's life when Uncharted actually sold decently and which was also around the time when Don Mattrick was just letting all of Xbox first party die off because he figured nobody would buy anything besides Xbox so they could just be the place to sell COD and sports and take it easy. It wasn't that people suddenly cared about these games it was because when the libraries were so similar it was the one bit of leverage the PS3 sort of had over the 360 in the latter half of 7th gen. The numbers were never there to actually mean anything. That's why Sony's latest hard pivot is to be a prestige house, now everything has to be some super GOTY candidate and cultural watermark in lieu of being an interesting video game and you end up with embarrassing shit like that Aloy statue.Even now the recent previews for Wolverine are basically a passable shrug to being the embodiment of the worst excesses of cinematic AAA games and people are immediately leaping to a "you just won't be able to play it" defense from people making fun of it.It's never actually about the games it's about using the Playstation to be a performative faggot. If they could do it with the PS5 just sitting in a closet unplugged they would.
>>745360274Reeks of desperation
>>745371845Considering their playerbase, isn't that a little insensitive?
>>745371845They haven't made a new Ape Escape in 20 years. They'd sooner make Aloy a mascot even if it would be financial suicide
>>745360274>Astro Bot is a "Celebration" of Sony video games>Ends up being a walk through a graveyard of IPs, dead, abandoned, sold off, multiplat>It joins them in their gravesMorbid.
there are lot of nintendo fanboys in this thread for some reason
Man, SEGA really were fucking stupid for losing the european market.
>>745372404I hope Nemu the Night Owl Bear game has an astro bot costume.
>>745372493Did Sega fought their European division like they fought their american division?
>>745371441>Switch 2Well how demanding is Astro Bot? From what I can tell it doesn't look like the prettiest game in the world, but it has a ton of crap flying around.
>>745372445don't be stupid
>>745360274>finally have a kino game franchise >literally saved them from concord pr>throw him under the rugwtf
>>745360514GOTY should have been canceled in 2024. Nothing deserved to win.
>>745372579Switch 2 can handle that when all gameplay takes place in narrow hallways.
>>745363310They're realized Astro Bot made the normies remember how good old Sony used to be and they didn't like that
>>745361868Something something lust provoking image.
>>745360274Is this an onion article? The fuck is wrong with Sony?
>>745360274Both will be faggots magnets anyway
>>745372687I stand by that the Zelda game was great.
>>745372803looks on par with most mario games
>>745372687And 2025...and 2026...
>is actually from Nikkei https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOUC217NH0R20C26A7000000/?n_cid=SNSTW001&n_tw=1786589122>they are trying to make an IP with 10 billion yen investmentcan you just throw money at it and make a popular IP?
>>745361108For some reason they think they need to throw everything away every generation. Now, losing Crash, sure, I get it. They fucked up letting another company own the rights to him. But they haven’t held on to anything else.
>even the shitposts making fun of Astroturfed were way too optimistic about it's future compared to reality.
>>745362679I miss when the famitsu thread was usable for its topic. It's literally just the goldenface spam but from ninshitters now.
>>745361393Sony is completely incompetent. Toro is still their main mascot. Do you know where he was seen in the west over the past 20 years? A single Vita F2P game and in Playstation Stars as rewards. That's it. Meanwhile Asia got monthly themes for being subscribed to PS+ and he thrives in Japan.The Ape from Ape Escape is iconic and outside of him swinging through a forest to remind you Ape Escape exists he hasn't been seen since the Move game. MGS3 remake if you want to be pedantic.Ratchet and Clank are one of their mascots. How many times have you seen him outside of the immediate PS5 launch? He was used a lot during the PS3 era, then barely during the PS4 outside of when the movie released, and then PS5 it was just for Ripped A Fart and nothing else.Sackboy was the face of their brand for over a decade and they let the entire brand languish and just die on the vine for little to no reason so they can't even use him for anything anymore because they simply got lazy.Sony is so bad at using the mascots they do have it's so frustrating.
>>745372602A tall order for a snoy.
>>745362679absolutely based Touhou
>>745373546ehh it was arguably more of a dlc than elden rings since it reused the same damn map.
>>745373558>>745372803>astroflopeverything in that game had already been done on much weaker hardware, decades prior
>>745373886Tears of the Kingdom was 2023
>>745373886
>>745373953shouldve patented them
>>745374019>>745374043he meant fucking echoes of wisdom? i can't even fathom that being a goty candidate, it didn't even factor in for me lmao.
>>745374101>>he meant fucking echoes of wisdom?why are you asking me
>>745360934Explain schizo
Is there any actual source for this besides some Xwitter tranny?
>>745373808>Sony is so bad at using the mascotsit's so weird, like they want to have a mascot but also don't want it to be the face of the company, as if it would disrupt "playstation" somehowlike, what the fuck man
>>745374271that what happen when you kill your userbase and have NBA and FIFA game to sell (YUCK ANIME MASCOT IN MY COOL GAMING ???)
>>745374259>Is there any actual source for this besides some Xwitter tranny?Yes it's called the entire history of snoy killing "mascots".
>>745374045No need to patent any of those gameplay system when astroflop dies on the vine. It's not like it's actually a threat to Nintendo's business
>>745360274No way this is real.If they can't be bothered to keep one mascot, what makes them think people will care for a new one? They'll just replace that one too eventually.Snoy is so fucking retarded.
>>745363470Piposaru(Ape from Ape Escape)
>>745374334Couldn't they at least make a mascot that wouldn't repel ball and gunners? Sports teams have mascots and everyone loves shit like Gritty (orange crack addict) or previously Boltman (actually a fan that the team hated)
>>745363713>generic fluffy animal because they want to pander to womenI wish them luck. They're competing with Sanrio(Hello Kitty) and Chiikawa. They're fucked.
Isn't Aloy officially the mascot for Sony?
>>745374259source: 30 years of sony sucking ass
>>745374602The mascot for obesity maybe
>>745364624The cope is unreal
Part of my is glad that they killed off JapanStudio and saved Kat from getting DEI claimed or whatever the shit. It's better this way.
>>745368540Alright anons, design a new mascot for Sony that represents the core values of the company (or pick an existing one if it exists already in Sony's lineup)
>>745360274>so stressed about the world's problems that he can't sleepAre those world problems the lack of games?
>>745360274JUST BRING HIM BACK YOU GODDAMN RETARDS HE'S PERFECT HE'S LITERALLY PERFECT
>>745372493And the Brazilian and Mexican ones (for some reason, Dreamcast was popular in Mexico, which helped Sonic be popular there).
Sony's western fanbase is made up of insecure men in their thirties and forties who reject anything cute or whimsical because it's "childish".It's a dying breed, and Sony's consoles will die with them
>>745360517Mononga brat sex impregnation
>embrace macaco and divegrass>lose
>>745374602no one played her game
>>745373563Hornet…
>>745374259>>745373654
>>745374785Ape with an alarm in top of their heada white robot because they changed color theme to white for new gen console
>>745374856>Dreamcast was popular in Mexico, which helped Sonic be popular thereNo it was not. You are thinking of Argentina. And Sonic might be direcly responsible of their therian pandemic and their economic collapse.
>>745374872Sony has a western fanbase?
>>745374558Where's the snake one from MLS? And I don't even asking for NCAA ones (Philly has six schools, right?).
>>745375057
>>745375163my favorite gamesport sport bloody bloody sport fucking sport
>>745374785Does Sony have an exclusive SwordGuy McJRPG? Whenever I think of Playstation I immediately think of RPG's and cinematic games. Closest I can think of is maybe a FromSoft character but they don't seem too terribly marketable.
>>745375163what ever happened to pro evoI remember it was more popular than fifa for a while
>>745368605I think it's a difference in reach. Baby Yoda was accessible through streaming services and movies for a small entry fee while Marvel Rivals is free to play on most platforms. Both Marvel and Star Wars have a pretty well-established fanbase in Japan as well.To get immersed in Astrobot you needed a PS5 which was right at the time Sony was initiating a huge price hike for them in Japan, tanking hardware sales.>PS5 19% Price Hike in Japan: September 2, 2024>Astro Bot release date in Japan: September 6, 2024Digital sales in Japan were supposedly "okay" but physical sales were underwhelming.In theory Sony could've maybe generated more interest with more PR like merchandising and toys but they pretty much let them get fucked.
>>745375241Legend of Dragoon
>>745375279Konami killed it for efootball as a perpetually updated live service game.
>>745375279probably got raped by ea like every other sport property
>>745360274Here's your reminder that there are no real Astro Bot fans.
>>745375241Odin Sphere/Dragons Crown/White Knight Chronicles/Tales of Rebirth (MC is even voiced by OOT Link)
>>745375372Grim.
>>745375285Astro Bot was going to be sent out to die until it became a convenient excuse to be a PR pivot after the history-making disaster that was Concord. If Concord had even a fraction of the success of something like Overwatch in 2016 or even Helldivers 2 the only people that would have given a shit about Astro Bot would've been people desperate to fill out charts whenever somebody says the PS5 has no games. There was never a longterm strategy for multimedia reach.
>>745375361false
>>745375642>those yellow teeth
>>745373669PlayStation kinda had the right idea making each successive console more mature than the last, like what naughty dog did with its ips. But now they are at the peak of Hollywood ‘maturity’ and can’t move anywhere else but places that they already abandoned.
>>745374912But Nintendo embraced Brazilian Portuguese and has soccer games and didn't lose.BTW, Nintendo's localizations (like Ledrão and Toni Trombada) are better than PlayStation's (Spider-Man™ rather than Homem-Aranha).>>745375043You're the one confusing things. Argentina, Chile and Mexico are the only countries in Hispanic America that likes Sonic more than Japan, with the rest of it going to the other way around. And Mexicans do like Sonic, they were the only country to get the IMAX print of Sonic 3 and Monterrey, NL has an official Sonic restaurant.https://youtube.com/ar5CeTara5U?si=vq7tpAb60HuVNKG3
>>745375163>No 2010 or 2014 World Cup games.
>>745375642>I don't care about your stupid Astro Bot speed run
Enter
>>745375360EA Sports literally lost the FIFA license.
lol lmaoAstro(turf)Bo(ugh)t GOTY
>>745360274>Sony in charge of picking a mascot and sticking with itWhat is this now, failed mascot number 6?
>>745374101It takes two and dragon age inquisition won their respective goty, eow is at least as creative as the former and has production value of the latter.
>>745376151At this point the trex from the 1994 demo is their best bet at this point.
>>745375585They barely even marketed Astro Bot. I didn’t know it was coming out until critics started raving about it. Concord literally stole Astro’s marketing budget for it to die in two weeks.
>>745361856Sorry buddy, Sony are trying to attract a new audience, not their existing one.
>>745376008>screaming his balls off>no wrinkles anywheredo these incompetent fuckers not know how a human face looks like?
>>745361976Sex with hylian womenSex with human villager womenSex with animal villager women Sex with inkling womenSex with Italian women
>>745362056Valve delivery girl doesn't have her own game, maybe they should have whipped one up for her
>>745362251It's gonna crash and burn either way, you swing at the king you best not miss>>745362252Heh
>>745376023
>>745362734As opposed to what the west is providing?
>>745376023>lostnot quite, didn't renew the licensefifa thought they could outjew the jews, ea said lol noi think fifa asked a couple billion dollars, it was some really outrageous numbers, ea walked away
>>745360274>Chiikawa but SonyAs if they have the soul to replicate it
>>745360274Imagine being replaced so soon after such a well-made game. Sony just wants to guarantee no legacy for fans to grip onto.
>>745364327The mascot isn't necessarily the most popular character.
>>745360984Why would a computer have an endoskeleton?
>>745363008The Mermaid Island arc? A movie for that just came out.>>745364903It doesn't seem too hard to find eng sub episode compilations on youtube if you look for it. You could do that or find the original manga in whatever language you want and read it, I imagine its gotten so popular now that it wouldn't be too difficult.
>>745377010you dont think machines have internal components?
>>745376857Sony could never
>>745371845now that i thought about it yeah, that would probably bite them in the ass
>>745377007Case in point: Woody Woodpecker outside Brazil.
going back through the game awards threads regarding this game is a fun time
Do you remember when the Xbox mascot was some cat?
>>745377587I do now but IIRC it was unofficial until they could see if his game could compete with the Nintendo mascots and he was promptly shelved after they very quickly saw it couldn't
I remember a big marketing push for that Brute Force game, often billed as the 'next Halo'. It didn't have to be a Halo-killer though, as it was Xbox exclusive as well
>>745378067What is his name again?
wish they would just die already
>>745378357Blinx the Timesweeper
>>745373808The Ape Escape one makes me so mad. Like, why is it so hard to make a new game? What, the story? Easy, some chuckle fuck gives Specter another helmet and he gets up to his bullshit again, just make some levels set in cool place around the globe or fuck it, new dimensions, get Soichi Terada to do the soundtrack again and we're set.
>>745374785Lemmings.Perfectly representative of the suicidal question of Sony's business decisions.
>>745360274Why can't Sony let us have both? Also the robot is literally fashioned out of the ps5 so it makes more sense for a tech entertainment company. Bear is cute tho and I too have insomnia.At least Astro bot can keep Sackboy company.Also Sony are fools if they think they can take on hello kitty
>>745374384so reading between the lines, palworld is an existential threat to nintendo?
>>745378636BTW, who's(re) Rockstar's mascot(s)?
>>745360274>Push mascot for years>Finally get a foothold with a genuinely soulful game starring them>decommission them at the first opportunity to chase a trend they have no chance of getting a cut fromI'm convinced this is all part of some kind of scheme to tank the company as hard as possible to reduce it's price for an eventual buy out by the saudis or china or some shit.
>>745378726The horse balls that shrink in cold weather desu
Someone should tell Sony that the best way to build an identity/mascot is to not change lanes every three years.Also it helps if it is even fucking slightly related to video games.
I heard once they were planning to replace Sonic with Earthworm Jim back in the 1990s.
>>745364624>the place where futanari got its start as a porn tagLmao ok anon.
>>745374785I would like to offer Flame Hynard. A true representative of Sony's mentality in the game's industryBURNBURN TO THE GROUNDBURNAHHHHBURN TO THE GROUND
>>745379052Kek.
>>745360274Outside of the big 3 Publishers, how come every time Sony tries to establish a mascot it falls flat and everyone chooses to just associate a character they don't even own with Playstation?Halo's been shit for years, but people still think of Master Chief as the mascot of Microsoft like how Nintendo has Mario
>>745360274Astrobot > this trash.
>>745379161For Crash it was specifically the fact Sony marketed it so hard as a rival to Mario.
So instead of focusing on a proven character, they're going to gamble on being able to compete against hello kitty
>>745379310A proven flop
>>745379310Well they could try competing with Chiikawa but I don't think that'd work out well. Chiikawa is too edgy for modern Sony.
>>745379052kek
>>745363008>cannibalismno such thing. They were eating fish.
Fuck you guys, Sony has mascots. They had Crash-, no wait that was Universal. They had Cloud Str-, no wait that was Squaresoft. They had Spider-ma- no wait, that's Marvel.
>>745379461They had PipoSa... Oh wait they killed Japan Studio.
Astro Bot is a fun game.It's the only fun thing thing they made in a long time. Since the original R&Cs, Sly Racoons and Ape Escapes perhaps.
>>745377587It made a lot more sense for Captain King to represent their brand.
>>745377587 No?
>>745378958they give their IPs 10 years, so it's not like they don't give them enough time
>>745361387Sexo
>people honest to god sad about losing astrobotDude it was like if a fucking funko pop was their console's mascot, it looked horrible.This one looks bad too but come on, stop acting like that shit was good. Anyways it hardly matters since this is a corporate mascot and astrobot was, at best, a mascot for PlayStation, not Sony.
>>745379461Wait, Crash was owned by Universal?
>>745363697i will be ashamed of this site (more than i already am) if this passes without bitching about a duplicate file
>>745360274peach and gomabubu and dudu
>>745381838Yes
>>745360274TOTALSNOYHUMILIATIONRITUALLOL
>>745360274maybe Nemu Bear could be comfortable if I didn't have to download a game and update it on the servers to play it.
>>745360274Nemu will be the adorable, lovable face of an all-digital future at Sony. God bless that bear!
>>745360274>so stressed by the worlds problemslike evil profiteering entertainment companies rinsing their customers of every single cent of disposable income they have?like dogshit companies that steal ideas from society and then proclaim it was all their plan all along?i actually fucking hate japan i hope two nuclear warheads fall on their fucking country.oh wait
>>745360274that little sheep is super cute
>>745362624>nemu looks very nice looks like the sea of stupid shit that floods temu and any other asian fashion brandyou are an actual creatively devoid bug person and you should kill yourself (the beloved japanese past time)
>>745382245Need to add “made in China” to US Thing.
>>745382245I can tell by the art style whoever drew this is genuinely fucking homosexual
Someone is seething for no apparent reason
Why is Nintendo the only company that seems to understand that having a recognizable mascot is a good thing, and that it's possible to have more than one?
I bet Herman Hulst killed Astrobot out of petty jealousy, to try and eliminate competition for his daughter Aloy.
reminder
>>745385036It's not that Nintendo is the only company that understands, it's t hat Nintendo is the only company out of the big three that is competent enough to know how to keep their mascots relevant.
>>745360415Astroturf had a privileged and easy life, they rolled out the red carpet for this nigger and then bought him a GOTY award.
>>745360274Lol remember when they paid Geoff to make this shitty game win?
>>745360415I really can't comprehend the thought process on not having multiple mascots. Little Big Planet 4, Astro Bot 2, bring back Modnation Racers, Uncharted Prequels when Drake was a teenager or you play as a young Sully. Sony is the most braindead company ever and they just make billions from fucking Spider-Man and their stupid TVs. It's so annoying. I NEED Nintendo to rape them just so they can stop being so fucking gay and start trying again
>>745379836It's taking longer and longer to make games for studios.
Sony tries creating a new mascot every decade.
>>745385036Not only that, Nintendo can have multiple mascots coexisting with each other.
>>745361236>mfw I have to represent Sony
>>745379461They had Mega Man- no that was CapcomThey had Alucar- no that was Konami
>>745385036ehh I know this will sound retard, but nintendo are icons not mascots. hear me out link, mario, pikachu are icons, SEGA have a mascot Sonic.Sony is missing both
>>745379461They had Sora- no that was Square/Disney
It's fucking over for PlaystationThe desperation is palpable
>>745379052TRANSFORMATION
Team Asobi is next in the chopping block isn't it
>>745374785Shaq-Fu
>>745386404>>745386459It's bad when you can pick a Sony era of popular characters and pick out who is truly owned by Sony.
They already have the perfect mascot though.
>>745372687Unicorn Overlord tho
>>745384316Can you elaborate?
Bought a used ps5 for gta6 which i will sell after i'm done with it, also got astro bot after trying the playroom thing, and it's pretty good and quite charming in many ways, but god damn do most of the designs suck ass, including astro himself. Looks like something you'd see on a generic crappy toy for 8 year olds in a toy store that none of the kids want
>>745386807By the PS3 era you start to see the colorful characters fade away for gritty brown army men explorers, PS3 in general consisted of very drab looking games.
>>745377010>>745377089It is clearly a Medievil reference
>>745386807PS4 era is okay I guess?There isn’t one of these for PS5 and probably never will be.
>>745360274this feels like one of those parody articles, are we sure this is real?
>>745387695He was on a different level iirc
>>745360274I didnt know what Astro Bot was until maybe late last year. Total WHO character
>>745360274Remember when astroboy won goty KEK
>>745360274Funko bot is fucking gay
>>745360274Wasn't that supposed to be their next big series? It was one of their best reviewed and selling games.
>>745361037Show By Rock is the better Sanrio property.
>>745388505Outside of pack-in sales, the series never took off in a huge way. The one that got GotY was actually the third game in the series IIRC.
>snoys shill astro bot for free>sony gets rid of himhumiliation ritual lol
>>745360274who the fuck will tour Astro Bot's grave if Astro Bot gets abandoned? Who buries the undertaker?
>>745360274>sony causes problems and stress worldwide>adopts mascot that reminds you of this constantlykekgotta admit their shitposting level is quite high
>>745361564I am the man child but I have no gf because reality
>>745388804>Who buries the undertaker?Sony
>>745360274Oh no, not Astroturfed
>>745360274Astrobot was a Sony mascot? In that case, he should've remained.
B-but game of the year...
>>745365207A mascot is brand recognition which makes money for a company. Thanks for telling us that you are actually retarded.
>>745373793Nice gaslighting, faggot. Did you miss yhe deranged snoy monkeys deraining threads with their old reposts, 3DPDs and fake threads? They forget to remove their trips from time to time in all their samefaggimg action, too.
its okay guys marathon will totally make up for it
EMBRACE THE CUTE
>>745363005>>745365354You don't know what culture is, faggots.
>>745363697"Oh no, there are things that we can buy in Japan!"Meanwhile, I've been there and it was nicer than most countries I've been to. But you wouldn't know this because you haven't even gone out of your pisspoor state. Do you even have a passport, you uncultured swine?
If Sony didn't sell audio and visual equipment, they would be dead in the water. The only creative thing they ever hit with is Spider-Man, it's actually insane.
>>745363470In early 2020s they had Travis Scott as their mascot, but after someone got killed during a nigger stampede during one of his concert Sony pulled him.
>>745376920>Sony just wants to guarantee no legacy for fans to grip onto.With legacy comes expectations. Playstation just like to jettison all their IP that can't fit the current zeitgeist as they chase trends and only make what is currently popular.
>>745392551It makes me glad I only had passing encounters with their brands. I'd be really sad if I grew up a devout Spyro or Crash fan or something.
>>745367331>>745367459He's called Shobōn fucking newfag
>>745362856Okay, I'll bite. What makes it better than other countries?
