
The platform game Astro Bot won the Game of the Year award at The Games Awards 2024, and the game's director, Nicolas Doucet, in his speech on the occasion, thanked those who inspired him to develop the game outside the PlayStation umbrella, and referred to Nintendo and Mario games.
In a new interview with Nicolas Doucet for Japanese magazine Famitsu, he said that it was very important to mention this when receiving the Game of the Year award, even though he was forbidden from mentioning the company he was referring to, but the gaming community understood what he meant.