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[ArtHands]

PS5, PC FPS Concord's Poor Player Numbers Have Predictably Gone Viral

Tough crowd

www.pushsquare.com

There's still hope, guys!

There’s so much to unpack with Firewalk Studios’ debut shooter Concord that we may eventually need to write a full post mortem. The time for that is not now, as the title only officially released yesterday on PS5 and PC. As predicted, it’s performing particularly poorly on Steam, where it peaked at just 697 concurrent players.


That’s significantly less than other high profile flops like Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League (which peaked at 13,459 players) and Redfall (which peaked at 6,124 players). The other big new release this week, Black Myth: Wukong, peaked at 2.4 million players. It’s not a fair comparison because it’s a totally different type of game, but it puts things into perspective.


It’s worth noting that these numbers only account for Steam, and judging from our anecdotal observations, there are significantly more people playing on PS5. While crossplay can be disabled, we’ve left it on and noticed almost all players have a PlayStation logo next to their username on the score screen. Of course, this is purely circumstantial, and we still don’t know precisely how many are playing on Sony’s system.

 

[Reave]

They're probably right, but probably not by much.

 

[Gonzito]

How much did Sony paid them to write this article?

 

[WoJ]

This game is a sure fire disaster. The more DEI GAAS crap that bombs after years of development costs the better.

 

[SJRB]

What is this article, lol

“Significantly more but this is purely circumstantial and we don’t know how many.”

lmao

 

[killatopak]

I mean even if it was 100% more, what's that a thousand players?

 

[Fake]

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

push square to doubt

 

[The Cockatrice]

Trust me bro the thread.

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

"There are must be people who are playing this game somewhere"
Considering that the current CCU is 258, I guess the only ones playing this game are folks from that Resetera thread

Nice to see that the era of DEI is ending. Games and shows started to get real backlash as aside shoving colors and more weight into people's faces, they really failed to provide an argument why DEI exists.

 

[PanzerCute]

The game is ranked #84 in my country (France) on PSN...

 

[Shubh_C63]

Way too much of an eye balling estimation.
Just looked at PS logo on a say 10 match streak and called it science.

 

[Lunarorbit]

Holy shit. It's even worse than I thought when compared to the numbers suicide squad put out

 

[adamsapple]

 

[Bartski]

 

[RoboFu]

Well yeah only rabid fanboys would buy that crap.

 

[MayauMiao]

I'll take Steam number over Push Square, a pro Sony site, so called "anecdotal observations".

 

[Sleepwalker]

"Horizon most important playstation franchise of all time"

 

[FunkMiller]

Right, so the smaller platform, with less players is somehow doing much better than the bigger platform with more players.

Of course!

 

[Reaseru]

"Horizon most important playstation franchise of all time"

This guy has become one of the most delusional idiots in videogame history. What a narcissistic twat.

 

[BennyBlanco]

"Horizon most important playstation franchise of all time"

This guy has become one of the most delusional idiots in videogame history. What a narcissistic twat.

I am 99% sure that’s a fake quote, but still hilarious

 

[Punished Miku]

Right, so the smaller platform, with less players is somehow doing much better than the bigger platform with more players.

Of course!

I wouldnt be surprised. Have you seen the emails Sony is sending out? And they can do prominent advertising in the PS store and system. Steam also just got Deadlock.

I dont know about "much" better. Maybe slightly better.

 

[MiguelItUp]

I AM curious to know how many players they're getting on console. Regardless, a large amount of people have mentioned queue times taking anywhere from 40 seconds to 1 minute. That is absurd for a game on and around launch.

 

[Astray]

What is this article, lol

“Significantly more but this is purely circumstantial and we don’t know how many.”

lmao

People who play it on PS5 both now and during the beta access periods seem to not complain about matchmaking (for now), so it's probably orders of magnitude higher than Steam at least.

The numbers will surely fall below expectations though. This game clearly cost a fucking ton of money to make and promote.

We will find out more in the next Sony quarterly results.

 

[Astray]

Fake Hulst quote.

People have lost the ability to spot troll posts.

 

[clarky]

Significantly more than 301 could be 400. So they might be right

 

[Dusktildawn48]

Is horizon really Sonys most important franchise? That's really sad if true.

 

[vaibhavpisal]

I saw Concord banners in local market by retail store.

Sony is going big on marketing for sure.

 

[Banjo64]

PS5, PC FPS Concord's Poor Player Numbers Have Predictably Gone Viral

Tough crowd

www.pushsquare.com

There's still hope, guys!

This is the sort of hilarious mental gymnastics copium that PS users ridiculed Xbox fans for generations.

 

[Topher]

"from our anecdotal observations"

 

[night13x]

Honestly - let Sony have their way, let them see forced DEI shit with a genre that has been overproduced is going to fail. Let sony loose TONS of money. This may not be the final catalyst, but eventually Sony is going to have to take a hard look and see why they are losing millions and billions....they will figure it out eventually and go back to making great movies / games without the bullshit.

Until then.....Sony can make Concord 2!!!!

 

[ThisIsMyDog]

Even if PS5 player count is 20x that of PC is still far from being enough to retake at least 20% of money invested in this project... but i doubt it is 20 times...

 

[Killjoy-NL]

I AM curious to know how many players they're getting on console. Regardless, a large amount of people have mentioned queue times taking anywhere from 40 seconds to 1 minute. That is absurd for a game on and around launch.

There are instances where it can take that long, but overall I'd say it's around 25-30sec max in the 5+ hours I've played so far.

Probably depends on the game-modes as well.

Edit:

25-30secs is more accurate

 

[MiguelItUp]

There are instances where it can take that long, but overall I'd say it's around 20-25sec max in the 5+ hours I've played so far.

Probably depends on the game-modes as well.

Oh? Good to know it shifted a bit for those playing. Still sad that it's even taking that long in a multiplayer game on/around launch though. Oof.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

Oh? Good to know it shifted a bit for those playing. Still sad that it's even taking that long in a multiplayer game on/around launch though. Oof.

DUnno.

Tbh, MW3 takes that long as well.

 

[BlackTron]

OK I admit it, Arthands. You were right. The game IS more popular on PS than PC.

 

[MiguelItUp]

DUnno.

Tbh, MW3 takes that long as well.

Maybe now, but I don't think it did around launch. After awhile it doesn't really surprise me too much, it hasn't been a favorite for a lot of fans.

 

[adamsapple]

I am 99% sure that’s a fake quote, but still hilarious

Yeah it was fake.

 

[diffusionx]

If the game is bomba on PC and successful on PS5, and I don't think that's the case but if it was, and Sony is getting all this bad press for being a bomba because of the PC version, then it has to make Sony rethink what they are doing.

 

[SJRB]

Is horizon really Sonys most important franchise? That's really sad if true.

That isn’t a real quote from Hulst, he never said that about either Concord or Horizon.

 

[Topher]

Top selling PlayStation games on Amazon....

https://www.amazon.com/best-sellers-video-games/zgbs/videogames/20972797011/ref=zg_bs_pg_2_videogames?_encoding=UTF8&pg=2

 

[Setsuna Mudou]

I bet "there are dozens of us, dozens"

 

[FunkMiller]

Top selling PlayStation games on Amazon....

https://www.amazon.com/best-sellers-video-games/zgbs/videogames/20972797011/ref=zg_bs_pg_2_videogames?_encoding=UTF8&pg=2

Yeah. No one is playing this stupid fucking thing anywhere... apart from a few hardcore Ponies, and the activist brigade. And none of them will be playing it in a week.

 

[FeralEcho]

Oh shit guys...it might actually hit 1000 concurrent players...What an incredible milestone!

Clearly us talentless freaks knew nothing afterall...

 

[jshackles]

Top selling PlayStation games on Amazon....

https://www.amazon.com/best-sellers-video-games/zgbs/videogames/20972797011/ref=zg_bs_pg_2_videogames?_encoding=UTF8&pg=2

People probably buying the physical copy now just because it'll inevitably become a collector's item when the game goes F2P

 

[Killjoy-NL]

Maybe now, but I don't think it did around launch. After awhile it doesn't really surprise me too much, it hasn't been a favorite for a lot of fans.

Perhaps.

I think 25-30secs is acceptable though, but if it starts taking 50-60+secs on average during peak hours, that'll be a very bad sign.

Thing is that matches are rather quick, so that' might become an issue as well on top of queue times.

 

[Kenneth Haight]

Can’t believe people aren’t pumped for star child

 

[ZehDon]

Concord could have 1000% more players on PS5 and it'd still be a massive flop.

No one has been excited for it at all during the lead up to launch.
It's beta was so ignored they didn't bother listing player numbers during their "beta milestones".
It's been openly mocked for its horrendous character designs at every turn.
It's launched against Wukong, which seemingly no one saw coming.

It'll be F2P before Christmas, and shut down before the end of next year.

 

[clarky]

Can’t believe people aren’t pumped for star child

Change the colours and that one could work, not exactly an original design mind. if you said it had been made with AI id believe you

 

[Robb]

[…] there are significantly more people playing on PS5.

[…] we don’t how many are playing on Ps5.