Astro Bot Restricted Version DualSense Wi-fi Controller – PlayStation.Weblog

Hello everybody! It’s a pleasure to be again right here to make one other Astro Bot-related reveal.

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If in case you have been following Astro information as of late, then you realize Crew Asobi have been laborious at work on a brand-new sport popping out on September 6. The sport options over 50 planets, new powerups, a lot of enemies, secrets and techniques and PlayStation-infused characters to gather. And it additionally incorporates a DualSense wi-fi controller was a dwelling character and serving to Astro on his mission.

Right this moment, it’s an immense pleasure to announce that it is possible for you to to cost into Astro’s new supersized journey together with the cool new DualSense wi-fi controller – Astro Bot Restricted Version.

We all know a lot of you have been hoping for this after seeing the sport trailer. So, we rapidly requested our beautiful bots to engineer this magnificence and tada! No, no, I’m simply kidding; it had been within the making for a while, rigorously crafted by the superb groups at SIE. And what splendid work they did.

The controller’s design options Astro’s signature blue accents on the handles and buttons, carved-in, sci-fi traces in addition to the trademark playful pair of eyes on the contact pad.  It’s a true murals, and we couldn’t be happier with the end-result at Crew Asobi. 

With this dynamic addition to your set-up, a supersized house journey awaits… 

The DualSense wi-fi controller – Astro Bot Restricted Version might be accessible in restricted amount in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, and Vietnam for SGD 114 / MYR 399 / IDR 1,449,000 / THB 2,690 / PHP 4,590 / VND 2,299,000 and can launch on September 6, day-in-date with the launch of Astro Bot

Pre-orders might be accessible via native retailers ranging from Friday, August 9, 2024.

I’ll take this opportunity to suMMArize a number of the cool issues this new Astro Bot sport does with the DualSense wi-fi controller

First, as a lot of you anticipate from an Astro sport, you may really feel the surfaces that Astro runs and slides on, from grass, sand, metallic to extra squishy textures or water. That was already the case with Astro’s Playroom, however we now have elevated the variety of textures you may really feel via the controller.

Subsequent, we doubled down on the adaptive triggers mixed with haptic suggestions, by tying them tightly to Astro’s new powers. For instance, when utilizing Barkster, the bulldog Jetpack, you may really feel the thruster ratting in opposition to your finger in synch with the animation, giving a really dynamic and immersive feeling. Each new energy up has been given that very same particular remedy so it is possible for you to to expertise numerous expressions via your fingers.

Lastly, given the variety of enemies and boss battles we added to this new journey, it was necessary to work on battle and impacts by combining all the above. Whether or not it’s stretching, pounding or pummeling laborious surfaces, there are various new kinds of impacts that may be skilled in Astro Bot. 

And naturally, we couldn’t end this submit with out mentioning the Twin Speeder, considered one of Astro’s most recurrent devices, permitting him to fly into numerous planets. The Twin Speeder makes full use of movement management, adaptive triggers and haptic suggestions. Here’s a piece of very early idea artwork and the way it seems to be within the closing sport.

That’s all from us! We’ll be again quickly for extra information round Astro Bot. Till then, please inform us within the feedback what you consider this cool DualSense wi-fi controller – Astro Bot Restricted Version!

Astro Bot is out on PS5 on September 6, we’re ready for you all to affix Astro for his first huge new journey.

Crew Asobi out.