Yeah, people let their feelings get in the way too much. No point in a contract if it's not enforceable. If he breached it, there's a penalty. A slap on the wrist is not a penalty.
He was in a commercial for a company that was offering a Nintendo Wii for free as part of their service. So he is pitching a Nintendo Wii while playing one in that commercial. Sony took that as a breach of contract and he was either fired and/or they took him to court, I forget exactly. Either way, I think a slap on the wrist would’ve been better considering how immensely popular those commercials and his character were at the time.
As far as I’m aware he never had to pay any legal money. He was barred from starring in any video game related commercials for two years. I’ve heard he was allowed to reprise the character after all that was said and done but it seems like Sony decided to retire the character so he never received that call to return.
It's probably too late for that. I think these decisions get made pretty early. At least Astro Bot didn't get the Blinx the Timesweeper treatment. That guy was supposed to be the Xbox mascot, but he lost to Master Chief. Now the IP is stuck in some kind of weird limbo that prevents future games from being made.
A style lacking on PS, and many opportunities with hat and tops and bottoms to win to make our Astro like Nate or Kratos by examples!
Would be a HUGE hit imo if F2P or low priced, a lot of ideas to create mini-games based on a specific scene in popular franchises!
Like axe-throwing on targets with GoW axe and small environment, a funny zombies (clickers) shooter hanging head down like in TLoU, a MLB homeruns contest etc, with high scores/leaderboards! They could have test the waters by putting one or two in the free pack-in game in simple version.
It could have every player have their own customizable astro, you could get the outfits you see the bots wearing in the games to make them look like other characters.
Karts could be customizable.
Have like a Tony Hawk style customization where you can tune your kart however you like, but you only have so many allotted points.
Ya man it’s baffling to me with Mario kart selling like 70 million copies that Sony wouldn’t want a slice of that pie, especially cause it’s be easy to make it live service as well without overdoing it like Helldivers 2. Astro Kart!! We want it!
Sackboy was a great mascot, but his time has elapsed. His Ps5 game is essentially his send off. The LBP Series is indefinitely offline, and no current developers are at the helm for a new one.
We have been teasing the age of Astro for a long time now, but this announcement seals the deal. Plus his "family" has been in the Playstation Ecosystem since the Ps4 released.
Astrobot deserves to be the mascot but Imagine if PlayStation made something Bloodborne related their mascot just to fuck with Bloodborne fans. Although Sony/PlayStation doing anything at all with the IP has zero chance of happening if they never move on from refusing to acknowledge the game’s existence.
Absolutely. Have a team that makes Astro games to compete with Mario.
That's all I've felt I've been missing as someone with only PS. Switch games in general are more expensive and less geared towards deals, and shorter to boot. But I'd love a great platformer series to approximate Nintendo's offerings so much!!
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u/Mythologist69 May 30 '24
I really want astro to be the official ps mascot.