PlayStation's Astro Bot Becomes a Real Mascot With Cute Nendoroid
The cute PlayStation Astro Bot mascot of Astro's Playroom fame is now entering the real world in the form of a new Nendoroid figurine. Gamers were first introduced to the friendly Astro Bot and his equally mechanical friends in the 2013 PS4 augmented reality minigame collection The Playroom, where they lived inside the PS4’s DualShock controller and demonstrated the capabilities of the then-new console and its PlayStation Camera peripheral.
Astro Bot has since appeared whenever Sony has released a new PlayStation platform or major gaming device, with his next starring role seeing him show off the PlayStation VR headset in 2018’s Astro Bot Rescue Mission. This platforming adventure saw an Astro Bot named Captain Astro spring into action to rescue his robotic crewmates across various planets as players used the PS VR headset to control the game’s camera. Astro Bot stepped into the spotlight once more when the PlayStation 5 launched in 2020 with the pre-installed Astro’s Playroom, another quirky platformer that served as a tech demo for the new console and its DualSense controller. Each section of Astro’s Playroom was modeled after a certain aspect of the PS5, and there were even a few Easter egg references to other PlayStation titles like God of War and Resident Evil thrown in for good measure.
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As spotted by Upload VR, the Japanese toy and hobby manufacturer Good Smile Company is releasing a new figure modeled after PlayStation's Astro Bot as part of its Nendoroid line — which specializes in chibi-style versions of popular characters from video games and manga, including the likes of Aloy from Horizon Forbidden West and Joker from Persona 5. In the case of
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