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Astro Bot has made me more excited for the Nintendo Switch 2 than PS5 Pro

One of Sony's best PS5 games has made me more excited for Nintendo's next console

The PS5 Pro is expensive for what it promises to deliver – slightly improved resolutions, frame rates, and more ray tracing in specific games – and Astro Bot is testament to the fact that fun and inventive gameplay will always be king. Not only is the game massive in scale and essentially an open sandbox for players to go wild in, but it’s also split between three levels: the surface, the depths and the Sky Islands above, all of which you can move through seamlessly. It’s why titles like Astral Chain, Link’s Awakening, and Octopath Traveler stand out, and that ingenuity to work around performance limitations makes the prospect of what Nintendo can do with a little more power a tantalizing proposition.

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