Without the Sony Buyout FireWalk themselves might have suffered layoffs and whatever else. I'm just gonna assume Sony saw what was happening financially and decided they would take the game under their wings given they were already invested for the last two years. I mean subjective opinions about the game aside, the game is exceptional well made... So I guess that's what Hermen and Co... Saw and decided buy that talentRight. I saw something that indicated PM had money issues. And what they decided to sell off was Concord and Firewalk.
If there’s other games PM is holding onto… why did they let Concord be the one? It’s why I assumed PM was designed to incubate startups but if they’re trying to be a pub themselves? I dunno — you wouldn’t give up a golden goose egg.
This is also why the rumors of production costs for Concord are interesting tbh.
Having played Concord it's easy to tell this game did not have a budget close to God of War / The Last of Us 2. The devs themselves said most of the content was made in the last 4 years and that in 2019 they were still working in a friend's attic with then 20 devs on the team.