Sony & PlayStation shut down Concord dev studio Firewalk Studios after disastrous financial flop...

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[YongYea]

- To the surprise of absolutely nobody, the intial suggestion that they're exploring "other options" ultimately never panned out. Concord's launch was such a financial disaster that it would make no sense for Sony and PlayStation to risk investing further into this doomed project and IP. A shame talented devs have to suffer due to leadership's poor direction.


TOP PATRONS
[BIG BOSS]
- Devon B
[BOSS]
- Gerardo Andrade
- Michael Redmond
- Phil
[PRETTY LEGENDARY]
- azalea

[michaelbeckettii]

“They came, they failed, they Concord”

[Lucca]

I'm sure all 14 Concord players are devastated.

[asbi]

Fun fact: Insulting your customers makes the situation worse.

[georgem]

They also shut down another developer: Neon Koi. They didn’t even develop a single game.

[GojiraRising]

Never charge $40+ for a painfully average hero shooter in an over saturated free to play market.

[silverdamascus]

- 200-400 million to make

- 8 years to finish

- 25.000 copies sold

- Closed in two weeks

- Killed its studio

The biggest failure in the whole history of videogames.

[SilenTHerO]

Aww, i was hoping we could Morbius it and make make Sony sink even more money into it

[Spencer-wcew]

I'm surprised their response wasn't to fire everyone who worked on Astro Bot and then have a meeting about how they need more games like Astro Bot.

[radagast]

Concord should be a verb now.
"How's that new game?"
"Dude... they concorded the crap out of it..."

[tanhongyi]

Calling it a financial flop is quite a generous statement. Personally I would call it a financial scam or funds misuse.

[shainreman]

Karma to Sony for shutting down Japan Studios

[FOXZILLA]

This will go down as one of the biggest blunders in video game history, both Microsoft and Sony made such huge epic fails this year, it's astonishing to be honest.

[vidmaster]

"I don't think anybody in this world has ever done anything worthwhile without being their own worst critic. Especially when you talk about any creative enterprise. If you somehow believe that what you're doing is the greatest thing ever all the time, it's absolutely not gonna be the greatest thing ever." - Jason Jones, Making of Halo 2

[Downsider]

Great, now we can expect PlayStation Games to have price increase of an additional $10 for the FIREWALK STUDIOS tax. Not only do we have the CONCORD tax, but now a studio tax. What's next? PS+ increased within a few weeks by $4 more for a joint tax? How about develop good games, and people will give you money. How about you give us Bloodborne, and KILLZONE and Twisted Metal? How about Resistance, Sly Cooper, Syphon Filter, Jak & Daxter? How about Gravity Rush and SIREN? How about MotorStorm? WHAT ABOUT SOCOM?! SONY!? WHERE IS SOCOM!

[lawlessx]

Game had zero chance of a comeback. The issues were built into the foundation of the game

[ORO]

Didn't some ludicrous dev say that gamers will soon have no games to buy? Well I guess they're out of a job now.

Edit: yeah just double checked. It was a dev called Amanda who said "pretty soon these weirdos will have no games to buy at all" as a response to people who're against implementing irl social/political stuff in video games. While Ubisoft said that gamers should "get comfortable" not owning games.

[spbynum]

Maybe they can “Batgirl” their way into a tax write-off with this closing. 💰🦇 😂

[ldyb]

These higher ups will never give up on live service, remember the gaming division CEO of Warner Bros who said that they'll double down on live service games right after the failure of S Squad The Justice League. They are so delusional...

[wanderingowl]

If I worked at this studio, I’d desperately try to erase this from resume…I’d say I took 8 years off work to get my life together.