Astro Bot is getting a limited edition PS5 DualSense controller

Sony has announced a new limited edition DualSense controller with an Astro Bot design.

The Astro Bot Limited Edition DualSense will be released on September 6, the same day as the Astro Bot game.

The controller will be priced at $79.99/ €79.99 / £69.99 and will be available in “limited quantities”.

Pre-orders for the controller will be available through PlayStation Direct from August 9 in the US, UK, France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Austria and Portugal.

The controller is based on the ‘living’ controller which can be seen in the first trailer for Astro Bot.

“We know many of you were hoping for this after seeing the game trailer,” Team Asobi studio head Nicolas Doucet said on the official PlayStation Blog.

“So, we quickly asked our lovely bots to engineer this beauty and tada! No, no, I’m just kidding, it had been in the making for some time, carefully crafted by the amazing teams at SIE. And what splendid work they did.

“The controller’s design features Astro’s signature blue accents on the handles and buttons, carved-in, sci-fi lines as well as the trademark playful pair of eyes on the touch pad. It is a true work of art, and we could not be happier with the end result at Team Asobi.”

Set for release in September, Astro Bot tasks players with rescuing “over 150 iconic VIP Bots inspired by legendary characters from 30 years of PlayStation history”, according to Sony.

The platformer follows Astro’s Playroom, the popular PlayStation 5 pack-in which has now been bundled with more than 60 million consoles.