Does nobody think before they believe every piece of crap these days? Tassi claims Sony has exclusive deals because of Wukong, GTA6 is supposed to cost 2 billion and Concord 400 million? Lol, sure. As "proof" they tweeted the credits for Concord, which last over an hour, while RDR2, which afaik is one of the most expensive games at over 500 million dollars, only has "just under" 40 minutes of credits, but unlike Concord, shows over 30 employees on one page.
Anyone who knows even a little bit about development knows that the number can't be right. I'm guessing that the total costs are 150 million, plus a few million for the weekly CGI sequences. You probably get 400 million if you add up the costs for the studio takeover and the production costs. In addition to the takeover sum, Sony had to pay the "ex publisher" who invested money in Concord and the studio. 400 million in total could be right, but afaik he doesn't say that. There's no chance that Sony will end up investing over 600 million in Concord and the studio.
The 400 million doesn't fit from another perspective either. Sony would never have invested that much and taken the whole game offline after 2 weeks. If it had cost that much, everyone would leave the game online, hope that it brings in some MTX revenue and gets a marketing push from the Secret Level series. There was enough content for the first 2 seasons and there would have been enough time to continue improving the game in the background. That would have cost a lot less than the alleged 400 million and would have cushioned the loss. Not to mention that Sony could have released it on PS+ Extra. None of that happened, which proves that it didn't cost 400 million and Sony is still deciding whether the foundation is enough to rebuild the title and re-release it in 1-2 years.
The game was "good", but even I thought the $40 was cheeky considering how boring the unlockables were. 5 new colors for an outfit and one outfit per character that really looked different was just not much content for the price. Sony probably realized that in the end and pulled the plug. But you don't do that with a game that costs 400 million, you're firing half the team and trying to develop new content cheaply with a small team. I really hope Schreier will provide reliable information. I'm not a big Schreier fan, but he is one of the few reliable sources for this kind of information. If he confirms the story, some of the people at SIE who are responsible for it definitely need to be fired.
