And at least 10 mil. copies sold to make even. LOL. I also don't believe it costed 200 million
Apparently Concord Cost Sony 400 million and was internally championed as future of playstation
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And at least 10 mil. copies sold to make even. LOL. I also don't believe it costed 200 million
This nonsense figure will spread like wildfire and eventually become the de facto official cost for Concord until some other idiot puts out another figure for views.
Repeat a lie enough and it becomes the truth.
No. As I remember Firewalk has around 165 people or something like that. Which is pretty small compared to Bungie, Insomniac, ND, Guerrilla or PD, who published games whose team (the one from their studio, not counting the people from the other studios) were around that size.
So even if their average salary was higher than the rest (something I doubt since Sony has super successful studios like Bungie, ND or SSM also in very expensive places) the numbers don't make sense.
Regarding the support teams: in AAA games the lead dev team is only around 10% of the total amount of people who works in the game. The rest are from internal or external stupport teams, plus people from the publisher/HQ (like marketing, PR, QA, localization, legal, executives, etc). You can double check it in the credits of most games.
This game only had 16 characters with a very limited amount of animations, weapons and a few stages. The amount of art and animation -which is what most support teams do- of this game was very small compared to any Sony open world game. So it's very hard to believe that they needed a lot of stuff from support teams when many of them in the studio are very experienced devs in "similar" games like Destiny, Halo, CoD etc.
It has been developed during a fair amount of years, but several of them being a small team. So I don't see where the $400M could have gone. Somewhere between $100 and $200M, pretty likely close to $200M, makes more sense.
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There’s some grifter skills at work here. Hard to believe tbh …
By the way Herman wasn't part of any of the latest PS5 pro announcements. The other Japanese guy seems like he starting to show himself as the one and only CEO.
Whether it was 100 or 400 million, it was too much for what was produced and I really wonder if there is something more going on underneath....
Can a manager not see that the investment isn't worth what they are doing before half way in the production cycle?
Who was being paid these vast quantities of money?
I really think Sony needs an eastward shift.
Korea, Japan, China... No nonsense game development.
Can a manager not see that the investment isn't worth what they are doing before half way in the production cycle?
Who was being paid these vast quantities of money?
I really think Sony needs an eastward shift.
Korea, Japan, China... No nonsense game development.
Looks like some ResetERA folks are keeping tabs of this place 
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You got 260 m on salaries alone then you doubt the 400
Also are you sure they are paid 350k a year? That's huge
We won't see the number till the next successful hack 
But regardless, all the rumors suggests a huge number. And we know it is not less than 100 millions.
But regardless, all the rumors suggests a huge number. And we know it is not less than 100 millions.
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that was in 2016 I believe where they started with an idea on a napkin, the studio proper started functioning in 2018 but then again I am not stating that the 400 million number is 100% correct, I believe its more in the range of 250-300 million. I just described a plausible ball park scenario which could result in the 400 million cost.
They did not have 20 devs working on the game in 2018 though? I dunno why you guys are so insistent about spreading lies about this game and the Studio?
They didn't even have 20 devs in early 2019 either. They were still working outta an attic then too.
Probably Monsters had a little less than 200 developers spread across 3 studios in 2021... There's just no way anything of what you are hypothetically assuming adds up man.
I get y'all wanna dance on the grave but nothing about this makes sense
