Sonyhas made more than a few mistakes in their time. You’ve got your classic examples like the PlayStation 3’s E3 conference and you’ve got your modern examples like the wholeHelldivers 2PSN/Steam link debacle, but it’s hard to imagine them ever topping their most recent one.
In case you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months, here’s the cliff notes: Sony produced a game calledConcord. It dropped in August on thePlayStation 5and onSteam. It supposedly cost somewhere between 200 to 400 million dollars to develop and market the title.
And, well, nobody bought it.Concordreached apeak of 697 concurrent playerson Steam. There’s no exact numbers on the PS5 playerbase, but the resulting fallout implies that it probably wasn’t much better.
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Take a look atConcordin action below.
Concord’sfinancial flop earned it an absolute ribbing online. Although only a few hundred people were playing it, tens of thousands of people queued up around the block to trash it on every corner of the internet.
It was so bad, Sony refunded everyone who purchased the title. Staff atConcord’sdeveloper, Firewalk Studios, were made redundant. Sony even pulled the game from online storefronts.
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This all might just sound like I’m kicking someone while they’re down, but it should hopefully put what I’m about to say into context;Concordmay yet live again.
There’s been a rumour floating around for a while now that Sony is going to re-releaseConcordas a free-to-play title. These random Steam updates seem to imply that this is now more likely than ever.
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Sony have the guts of a decent game just sitting on their hard drives, so it would seem like a shame to let it completely go to waste. Here’s hoping something good comes out of this whole debacle.
Topics:Sony,PlayStation,PlayStation 5,Steam
