{"id":249171,"date":"2024-07-30T10:02:57","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T10:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/30\/playstation-reveals-adorable-astrobot-controller\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:13:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:13:37","slug":"playstation-reveals-adorable-astrobot-controller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/30\/playstation-reveals-adorable-astrobot-controller\/","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation reveals adorable AstroBot controller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-30-at-2.14.09%E2%80%AFAM-900x487.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\">PlayStation is known for stylish versions of its DualSense 5 controller and the company <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.playstation.com\/2024\/07\/29\/first-look-astro-bot-limited-edition-dualsense-wireless-controller\/\">revealed its plans<\/a> for a cute dual-analog gamepad in the style of Astro Bot, who is <a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/playstation-state-of-play-may-2024-trailers-videos-announcements-everything\/\">coming back later this year<\/a> in his own game. It\u2019s very cute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It helps that Astro Bot and the DualSense both have a white plastic shell, so that was easy to replicate, but what nails the look is the touch pad, which resemble\u2019s Astro-Bot\u2019s eyes. It\u2019s hard to describe, probably best to show it in this video.<\/p>\n<p><noscript><iframe title=\"Astro Bot DualSense Controller Reveal | PS5\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gRsl2Gs7_4A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIt is a true work of art and we could not be happier with the end result,\u201d said Nicolas Doucet, head of studio at Team Asobi (which is making Astro Bot.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Who is Astro Bot?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Fun fact, Astro Bot began life in 2018 the main character in a PlayStation VR game (then for the PS4) designed to showcase and demonstrate PS VR\u2019s capabilities. In that game, he and his friend live inside of the older console\u2019s DualShock 4 controller, so there is something of a history here.<\/p>\n<p>He returned in 2020 in the pack-in game Astro\u2019s Playroom which showed buyers of the PlayStation 5 how to use that console\u2019s gamepad and its features.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Since then Astro has emerged, however unlikely, as a console mascot in the mold of Mario or Sonic in the old days of the early 1990s. He\u2019s returning again on Sept. 6 with the self-titled Astro Bot launching for PS5.<\/p>\n<p>The game will <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.playstation.com\/2024\/07\/29\/first-look-astro-bot-limited-edition-dualsense-wireless-controller\/\">star more than 30 \u201cVIP bots\u201d<\/a> who resemble Astro but are in fact callbacks to PlayStation exclusive titles over the past 20-plus years, including Uncharted, PaRappa, Sly Cooper, and even Killzone and Ghost of Tsushima.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The AstroBot DualSense 5 launches Sept. 6 and will cost $69.99 along with the game, pre-orders will open in select markets (mainly western Europe, the United Kingdom, and the U.S.) on Aug. 9.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/playstation-ps5-astro-bot-controller-preorders\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] PlayStation is known for stylish versions of its DualSense 5 controller and the company revealed its plans for a cute dual-analog gamepad in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":249172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}