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[ByWatterson]

Holy shit.

Biggest AAA bomb of all time. Two WEEKS.

 

[samoilaaa]

good , now focus only on what you do best , AAA single player games

 

[ReBurn]

Sony probably saw this stinking turd coming a mile away, but what was the alternative? Think of the DEI crying that would have happened if Sony cancelled it pre-flop? Letting it release and prove once and for all that there is no 'modern audience' was the most reasonable solution

I don't think they saw it coming at all. If they would have seen it coming they would have killed it long ago. Whoever supported releasing this probably wholeheartedly believed that the "modern audience" wanted this and would carry it. Hopefully the people who supported releasing this kind of game see this as the reality check it should be.

 

[King Dazzar]

I dont think I've ever known such a well known title, fail this quickly and decisively. Has ET finally been dethroned?

 

[PeteBull]

Sony offering refunds willingly is WILD.

with such miniscule sales (if u dont count free copies for reviewers/sony teams its likely not even 20k sales) it was profit deal for them to close the servers, simply xD

 

[Mithos]

What pronouns should we use for this disaster?

Holy/Shit ?

 

[LakeOf9]

Absolutely nobody made such a claim.

PCGamesN ran a whole article saying the early dooming of Concord was premature

 

[Banjo64]

Is massive a big enough word?

What a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious miss from Sony.

 

[Mikey Jr.]

This game died by a thousand paper cuts.

I don't think 1 specific thing took it down.

 

[ByWatterson]

Damn Sony sure are decisive

I give firewalk two weeks before
Sony shuts them down

Probably, but redistribute the talent, which is considerable.

 

[MISTER INVEIGLER]

I wonder if the game would’ve failed this hard if Sony never bought Firewalk. Releasing this game during a Sony first party drought probably had a big affect on the game.

 

[Moridianae]

First dev has commented

Sorry, but I think the "real ones" are the people who wholeheartedly rejected your game, not the group you catered to, whom it seems isn't very real at all, at least when it comes to buying a game and putting their money where their mouth is.

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

Wow. I did not see this coming. I swore Sony was going to commit to this game.

Maybe this is the beginning of the Sony re-direction. They cancelled Factions 2. This game bombed. Foamstars bombed. I expect Fairgames will be cancelled. Bungie is in disarray. Maybe Sony will move their headquarters back to Japan after all this trash is over with and put Japan back in control of this Japanese company.

TBF, Foamstars was not SIE, that was Square-Enix. And Factions 2 getting cancelled was probably actually a bad idea in retrospect, given the visibility of that IP.

They'll probably still give Fairgame$ a chance but any of the lacking appeal that was/is there that Concord clearly had, will be changed drastically. It's either that or the game gets cancelled, like you said, but I kinda have faith it hasn't been going down the same road as Concord given some of the people involved (including, IIRC, Mark Cerny himself). I'm expecting Marathon'll probably get "cancelled" and its ideas reworked to fit inside Destiny 3, but with that I'm also expecting SIE to take full control of Bungie (which is probably for the best).

I do think the headquarters needs to get TF out of California though. Little good is coming from that; or better yet it might be time to go back to the three-region approach but as SIEA (Sony Interactive Entertainment Asia, maybe headquartered in Japan), SIEN (Sony Interactive Entertainment North & South America), SIEE (Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe), and SIEM (Sony Interactive Entertainment Middle East & Africa).

So now, four branches, but SIEA being the main branch. The four branches could still coordinate with one another on some level, but different regions may have different specific needs and branches for those regions can address them more efficiently.

 

[MikeM]

I hope Sony looks real hard at their upcoming GAAS games and really picks solid ones for release. It won’t look good if they do this again.

I also hope they learn this- play your strengths and don’t trend chase. Helldivers 2 is where it is because it was unique versus other co-op games, not because it was a Wish.com copy of something else.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

It’s a big assumption that dev cost alone was $100M other the studio also cost another $100M without any IP

That's what people who are a lot smarter than me have guessed in their postings and articles unless you have different numbers

 

[Markio128]

I dont think I've ever known such a well known title, fail this quickly and decisively. Has ET finally been dethroned?

I think Concorde will be buried in our memories, rather than a desert somewhere.

 

[Games of Today]

Also I just remembered, what stings more about this is that Sony cancelled a Spiderman PvE co-op game and they cancelled TLOU 2 Factions and bet a ton of money on an entirely new unproven IP.

I could have been swinging in the streets of New York with a team of Spiderbros.

Makes sense right? Cancel the GAAS mode made by Naughty Dog, a veteran developer who literally never fails in terms of gameplay and world design and instead release the team fortress/overwatch wanna be rip-off that was shit out for 8 years. Great job Sony and Playstation.

 

[Majukun]

I admit I did not believe Sony was going to refund everyone.

pretty honorable on their part

 

[jshackles]

I dont think I've ever known such a well known title, fail this quickly and decisively. Has ET finally been dethroned?

It would be, except that digital games didn't exist back then. Considering Sony's big marketing push for Concord, I expect that if digital games weren't a thing (for whatever reason) they would have made a few million physical copies of the game that would now indeed be destined to be put in a landfill and covered with concrete.

 

[Banjo64]

This game died by a thousand paper cuts.

I don't think 1 specific thing took it down.

More like a thousand bullet wounds.

 

[Complistic]

Whoooooaaaa

 

[AGRacing]

Physical game pronouns have changed to RTV/Destroy.

 

[Sintoid]

Let's hope this will represent a turning point on Sony's online strategy

And now you all go buy Astro fuckin Bot

 

[Robins]

Like some others have touched upon. Cancelling the game will make them more from protecting their brand than the game ever could.

 

[Goalus]

Will those who bought the physical PS5 version also be refunded?

 

[ReBurn]

I dont think I've ever known such a well known title, fail this quickly and decisively. Has ET finally been dethroned?

E.T. sold 1.5 million copies in an over saturated market. It's been dethroned several times now. Concord is just the latest to push it down the rankings.

 

[LectureMaster]

How's the Reeee people faring now? Any needs for ambulances?

 

[Killjoy-NL]

PCGamesN ran a whole article saying the early dooming of Concord was premature

Fair enough, didnt consider gaming media.

 

[ithilion]

 

[N30RYU]

First dev has commented

Sony should put this assholes to turn the game in the most antiWoke game ever made... and then fire them all

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

That's what people who are a lot smarter than me have guessed in their postings and articles unless you have different numbers

I do, and have quantified them. I don’t think the combined dev cost and acquisition was much more than $100M

 

[ReBurn]

Will those who bought the physical PS5 version also be refunded?

They'll be refunded in accordance with retailer refund policies and I don't know of any retailers who refund new games after they've been opened. Will be interesting to see if they do.

 

[AmuroChan]

Cant imagine buying this physical and being out $40

It's going to become a collector's item. You can probably sell it for a lot more than $40 if you just hold it for a few months until all the existing inventory is gone.

 

[King Dazzar]

E.T. sold 1.5 million copies in an over saturated market. It's been dethroned several times now. Concord is just the latest to push it down the rankings.

True, but ET is legendary. The speed of Concords AAA demise, is what places it right up there in my mind.

 

[Hookshot]

What pronouns should we use for this disaster?

Wet/Fart

 

[Rudius]

Jesus christ this is the biggest L i've ever seen in my 30+ years of gaming. Like goddamn

I'm struggling to think of any failure worse than this, specially considering how much money and time they wasted on it.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

I do, and have quantified them. I don’t think the combined dev cost and acquisition was much more than $100M

Then you should prove your numbers to some of these publications who are making these estimations

I am rolling with around 200 mil

 

[Pelao]

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Then you should prove your numbers to some of these publications who are making these estimations

I am rolling with around 200 mil

Which publications? Some YouTuber in his mom’s basement isn’t a source

 

[ReBurn]

True, but ET is legendary. The speed of Concords AAA demise, is what places it right up there in my mind.

It's definitely one of the most expensive games to die so quickly. They paid one guy to make ET in a couple of months. They paid the team that made Concord for years.

 

[jshackles]

Never forget

 

[digoutyoursoul]

What pronouns should we use for this disaster?

Shite/Soulless/Garbage

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Which publications? Some YouTuber in his mom’s basement isn’t a source

Yeah thats exactly where I would get a number that I would openly repeat

 

[Rudius]

True, but ET is legendary. The speed of Concords AAA demise, is what places it right up there in my mind.

ET was made by one guy in 6 weeks.

 

[SidViscous]

We joked about this scenario but fucking hell, didn't expect it to be possible. Reading between the lines, this will give Sony the option to write this off tax wise, I don't think we'll ever see it again, they can't possibly recoup the development costs on this with any amount of changes short of scrapping all the characters and starting again.

 

[AltogetherAndrews]

Never forget

Seems about right to me.

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

the market has spoken... complete market rejection


I dare you Sony, I dare you to double down

 

[tommib]

E.T. has been dethroned. I said before this is the biggest flop in entertainment ever. It’s our Heaven’s Gate. And it will change PlayStation forever. What a fucking massive waste of money and brand image. Absolutely insane and shameful.

 

[mckmas8808]

Even with the terrible sales I didn't have this on my bingo card.

DUDE!!!! THIS IS HORRIBLE! Please Sony just freaking STOP with the dumb Live Service games. GAAS saving the industry is a hoax! JUST STOP IT!!!!!