“I think you PlayStation dudes need to chill…”: Astro Bot Fans Are Getting Rightly Called Out for Hypocrisy in Recent Years
Astro Bot's immense popularity faced a roadblock, as Nintendo Switch players claimed that it was copied and asked PS gamers to stop slandering.
- PlayStation fans suddenly faced mockeries and sarcasm, as Astro Bot evidently shared features with Nintendo-exclusive games.
- A lot of Astro Bot features are similar to Super Mario, which Nintendo Switch players pointed out to ask PS gamers to stop being hypocrites.
- Amidst this controversy, Days Gone's director is unhappy with the protagonist appearing as a bot in the latest PS5-exclusive game.
Astro Bot was released with loads of expectations and hype. Fortunately, the game completely satisfied the PlayStation players and provided Sony with the taste of success after the great fall of Concord. This colorful 3D platformer game takes players to a relaxing gaming world without too much intensity.
A Metacritic user score of 9.5 clearly shows how much players enjoy playing this game. Where even renowned games suffer to get this much user score on Metacritic, Astro Bot’s success has rightly invited curiosity from Nintendo Switch players.
Astro Bot Shares Similarities With One Renowned Nintendo Game
In the console gaming market, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo have been fighting for years. When the fight is hard, there will be disputes for sure, and a similar scenario appeared after the latest 3D platformer game was released.
Since announced, Astro Bot has been preparing PlayStation 5 players for a new galactic adventure. Now that the adventure is on, one Nintendo Switch fan brought to light the similarities between Nintendo’s Super Mario and PlayStation’s Astro Bot, and asked the PS5 players not to be hypocritical.
PlayStation players often slander or troll Nintendo and other consoles for even silly reasons; this time, with Astro Bot, Nintendo Switch players got the upper hand as the clip reveals that the 2024 PS5 game shares multiple similarities with the Super Mario series, including the colorful world and some of the moves. Even a few other Nintendo games share some similarities with this latest PS5 game.
Though some Astro Bot fans argued that it’s inspiration, it seems like the Nintendo players are not ready to listen to this.
As they got some chance to troll PlayStation, some Nintendo fans expressed that Sony was never good at making original games.
Well, not only Nintendo players, but someone else is also not happy with PlayStation and Astro Bot.
Days Gone Director John Garvin Isn’t Happy Seeing the Bot Version of His Game’s Protagonist
Astro Bot has brought a lot of interesting gameplay aspects to players, and among them come the bot cameos. PlayStation has added little bot versions of loads of renowned characters, including Kratos, Jin Sakai, Atreus, Mimir, Joel Miller, etc.
Among them comes the protagonist of Sony’s 2019 action-adventure game, Days Gone. It received average reception from PS players, and to date, there’s no news of the game getting a sequel. While cameo characters are nothing exceptional, Days Gone‘s director John Garvin wasn’t ready to find Deek as a bot.
On September 7, the director of the game expressed his sadness for the protagonist becoming a part of another game’s promotion. He even congratulated Bend Studio sarcastically for this.
When players started mocking him for being harsh because the game didn’t get popularity like Astro Bot and hasn’t yet received a sequel, he clearly expressed his resentment about his character getting reduced to a bot.
