Astro Bot has sold 1.5 million copies to date.
Astro Bot won Game of the Year at the Dice Awards.
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Sony’s big games for September quarter are Astro Bot, Ghost of Tsushima and Helldivers 2

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Sony reported its quarterly results tonight and it said that third-party games helped it grow operating profits by 2.8 times in the quarter compared to a year ago.

The games that took off included Astro Bot, which debuted on the PlayStation 5 on September 6 and generated 1.5 million copies sold.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.