The next game from the creators of Astro’s Playroom will be ambitious, but not giving up on what makes them great

From Team Asobi they continue to experiment with hardware to deliver surprising approaches to gaming.

In early 2021, PlayStation started a restructuring of Japan Studio. this did Asobic Team, the creators of the fantastic Astro Bot will be included as a new member of the PlayStation Studios family. In response, the developer started expanding with new members on the team, which made us think of a new game that would take advantage of the studio’s full potential. originality and innovation.

Any new technology, we would like to tryNicholas DoucetAnd it seems they have no intention of disappointing us from Team Asobi. Nicolas Doucet, the director of the developer, leaves it that way in an interview with the GamesIndustry environment. Here, he reiterates his intention to create professional “the biggest game“The work and, how it could have been otherwise, will do in the following way five keys company principles: Magic, Innovation, Fun, Universality and Quality.

They want to continue to offer different innovative hardware approaches from Team Asobi, as in Astro’s Playroom, which comes preloaded on PS5 and showcases the DualSense controller’s capabilities in terms of haptic response and adaptive triggers: “Any new technology, we love to taste it,” he explains. Doucet. “There’s an obvious way to use it, that’s the first thing we’re going to try and then we’ll try to use it in ways you shouldn’t. That takes us to interesting places.”

This task was made easier as the company with 35 employees grew to 65. And as if that weren’t enough, Doucet wants to keep adding developers until it reaches staff numbers. 100 members On Team Asobi: “We have a production right now and it’s going well,” he says in the interview. “But we want to have another group for R&D and enough to explore all the interesting areas in that group. And potentially start other projects“.

This isn’t the first time Team Asobi has spoken about what will be their most ambitious game to date, but for now, we can be sure they’ll follow their usual trend. as funny as the original. After all, Astro’s Playroom hasn’t just managed to impress gamers. using double sensebut it was also presented as a love letter to video game history.

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