According to creative director and studio head Nicolas Doucet, future Astro games don’t necessarily have to feature cameo appearances from PlayStation characters.
With the upcoming Astro Bot, developer Team Asobi is leaning hard on PlayStation easter eggs, with over 150 characters from other PlayStation franchises set to make appearances in the game, in addition to themed levels, cosmetics, and more.
As per Doucet, thanks to the flexibility of Astro as a franchise, Team Asobi isn’t “precious about details too much”.
If, in the future, we had an adventure that was all Astro and PlayStation wasn’t part of it, I don’t think that would be a problem.