CONCORD THREAD

[UltraFan123]

Guess all those "backend changes" that were supposedly building up to a re-release were aborted.

Imagine taking a game to the backyard and shooting it twice. Concord will definitely go down in history that's for sure, just not in the way that Soyny expected. lol

[1998]

The studio is closing down.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/29/242 ... lk-studios

Sony is closing Firewalk Studios, the studio behind its PlayStation Concord game that it took offline last month after a disastrous launch. In a message to PlayStation staff, Hermen Hulst, CEO of the PlayStation studio business group, says Firewalk Studios will close alongside Neon Koi, a mobile game studio.

Can't wait to see where all those "very, very talented" people end up landing

[Yankee Zulu]

Some guy called Miller who created the first Deadpool movie doesnt understand why Concord failed.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs ... 235161263/

Miller looks back fondly on working with Firewalk on the episode. “There was no nicer, more invested group of developers than the team on Concord,” he says. “I honestly don’t understand why it didn’t work. I know that they were trying to do the best they could, and they were a talented group of artists, so I feel terrible for that.”

[Atlantico]

Some guy called Miller who created the first Deadpool movie doesnt understand why Concord failed.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs ... 235161263/

Miller looks back fondly on working with Firewalk on the episode. “There was no nicer, more invested group of developers than the team on Concord,” he says. “I honestly don’t understand why it didn’t work. I know that they were trying to do the best they could, and they were a talented group of artists, so I feel terrible for that.”

Miller later gave a more blunt assessment in 2022: "Terminator's an interesting movie to explore, but maybe we've explored it enough. I went in with the rock hard nerd belief that if I made a good movie that I wanted to see, it would do well. And I was wrong. It was one of those f**king Eureka moments in a bad way because the movie tanked."

Tim Miller doesn't understand why anything woke and crappy fails.

https://www.cinemaexpress.com/stories/n ... 12893.html

Tim Miller says “closet misogynists” will be in for a shock when they watch Terminator: Dark Fate.

[Rand]

Tim Miller doesn't understand why anything woke and crappy fails.

Typical Hollywood bubble ******.

[Oyster Sauce]

[Rand]

[UltraFan123]

Here's the Concord-only section of Secret Level if someone wants to laugh at it.

Both this and Unknown 9 are definitely going to be remembered as the result of completely delusional and out-of-touch corpo executives who believed that brand new IPs filled to the brim with "diversity and inclusion" were guaranteed to succeed.

[Rand]

[1998]

I certainly hope whoever said that is right

[Yankee Zulu]

Long time ago some multiplayer pvp game appeared on twitch. I started watching some random streamer playing it and he was like "oh this is going to be another "staple" game for twitch". Suffice to say that game dissappeared after a few days and I havent heard anything about it ever since.

[UltraFan123]

If all future PlayStation games will be like Concord then hopefully that will accelerate Sony either going bankrupt or feeling forced to cut its losses and return its center back to Japan away from Commiefornia.

[Irenaeus]

Rumor? More like Humor amirite

[rusty_shackleford]

https://www.ign.com/articles/concord-is ... ts-failing

and most critically, a lack of differentiation in an oversaturated genre.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/ ... astrously/

2. Hero Shooter Oversaturation

https://gamerant.com/concord-sales-bad- ... ld-report/

ack of unique selling points in an oversaturated hero shooter market

https://www.midiaresearch.com/blog/conc ... e-strategy

Live-service games are oversaturated. For many genres, competing is a zero-sum game, and the game has largely been won.

The genre was just too oversaturated, guys. There was no way to break into this market, the odds were stacked against them.

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It's just… it's so saturated. There's no room… That's why it failed…

[Shillitron]

"was"






(1998 stole my joke but I had a backup.)

[Rand]

It's just… it's so saturated. There's no room… That's why it failed…

In the exact same way my bathroom floor is oversaturated when a flush goes wrong and the waste spills out all over the floor.
And just as eagerly welcomed.