For once I applaud our PC brethren, They saved us from this turd fire
Breaking: Concord is shutting down on September 6, full refunds. (Update: Servers Now Closed)
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Catastrophic failure. It joins E.T., Dai Katana, Superman 64, and Too Human as one of the biggest flops in the history of gaming.
I predict three things are going to happen:
1) Multiple first-party studios, including the 'elite' ones like Naughty Dog and Sucker Punch, are going to get hit with layoffs. Whatever money they lost on Concord will be made (back) by terminating a bunch of people who make 6-figures.
2) FairGame$ will be canceled.
3) The PC push will be under review. I think Sony -- and not PlayStation -- are going to be more invested in the Switch 2 than the PC. There's far too much risk in abandoning the console space.
I suspected that the co-CEO'ing of PlayStation was done in order to have the ability to stop the western leadership from burning shiploads of cash. I 100% believe this is what we're witnessing; a slow, strategic elimination of any and all western leadership over PlayStation. I fully expect the Japanese side of PlayStation to take complete control of the business within the next 2-3 years. As ridiculous as it sounds, the success of titles like Stellar Blade and Wukong are going to fuel significantly higher investment in eastern titles and significantly lower investment in western titles. Crazy times ahead.
I predict three things are going to happen:
1) Multiple first-party studios, including the 'elite' ones like Naughty Dog and Sucker Punch, are going to get hit with layoffs. Whatever money they lost on Concord will be made (back) by terminating a bunch of people who make 6-figures.
2) FairGame$ will be canceled.
3) The PC push will be under review. I think Sony -- and not PlayStation -- are going to be more invested in the Switch 2 than the PC. There's far too much risk in abandoning the console space.
I suspected that the co-CEO'ing of PlayStation was done in order to have the ability to stop the western leadership from burning shiploads of cash. I 100% believe this is what we're witnessing; a slow, strategic elimination of any and all western leadership over PlayStation. I fully expect the Japanese side of PlayStation to take complete control of the business within the next 2-3 years. As ridiculous as it sounds, the success of titles like Stellar Blade and Wukong are going to fuel significantly higher investment in eastern titles and significantly lower investment in western titles. Crazy times ahead.
"Rescue all of the 299 hidden Astrobots" doesn't sound quite right if they already had a Concord reference in there.
remember: Killzone, Resistance, PlayStation Home, PlayStation AllStars Battle Royale were all multiplayer games that PlayStation fans loved, Sony went the GAAs way thinking more about PC players than their own community, they're now facing billions of dollars in loss thanks to this GAAs strategy.
This forum gonna be dull as fuck for many now after this week 
... What will they get their rocks off to daily now?
But surely I expect the Astrobot OT thread to be a huge success and seeing all the gamers here enjoying it... Right?
Let's see if it surpasses the Concord OT
... What will they get their rocks off to daily now?But surely I expect the Astrobot OT thread to be a huge success and seeing all the gamers here enjoying it... Right?
Let's see if it surpasses the Concord OT
I agree. If Sony showed some more of there SP projects from the main studios people would be alot happier. Why its a dumb strategy to not show more stuff from far out.
Sony shouldve gave killzone and resistance ip to other ps studio if insomniac and guerella games doesnt want to make those games anymore
Those two ip are more interesting than concord
this! thats why the studio isnt done for, i hope sony is smart enough to don't axe a whole talented studio bc the character design department and some decisions fumbled the bag
They will always be there trying to shit on PS games. Valve fanboys and ex Xbots in disguise lol
If the are offering a refund then servers have to go offline otherwise it defeats the purpose lol.
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HOLY SHIT. Is this the first in the industry?
Good they're giving refunds.
But damn, how can a company be so out of touch? Didn't they play test this with a random audience? They would have seen this game would have been rejected by the market.
And no amount rebranding will save this. Unless they start a new game reusing some of the assets. The name alone will kill any rebranding chance it had.
Some management morons need to be fired for this. What a PR disaster but I guess Sony's an expert on those. Such a waste of time and money.
But there's one good thing that MIGHT come out of this. Maybe they reconsider this shitty GaaS push now.
Good they're giving refunds.
But damn, how can a company be so out of touch? Didn't they play test this with a random audience? They would have seen this game would have been rejected by the market.
And no amount rebranding will save this. Unless they start a new game reusing some of the assets. The name alone will kill any rebranding chance it had.
Some management morons need to be fired for this. What a PR disaster but I guess Sony's an expert on those. Such a waste of time and money.
But there's one good thing that MIGHT come out of this. Maybe they reconsider this shitty GaaS push now.
There are 12 guys in PSNTrophies with the platinum.
It is not a hard platinum (it is ranked C there)... it is time consuming.
Lots of wishful thinking here. As usual since 2020. PC ports are cheap and profitable.The massive bet on GaaS was always the problem.
If anything I expect Sony to ramp up the pace and dig deeper into their back catslog of legacy titles to re release. Both for PC and PS5. Nintendo does it all the time. Why wouldn't Sony.
If anything I expect Sony to ramp up the pace and dig deeper into their back catslog of legacy titles to re release. Both for PC and PS5. Nintendo does it all the time. Why wouldn't Sony.
The higher ups at probably monsters are celebrating their fleecing of sony with the team and ip sale.
Sony maybe listen to your consumers a little bit next time. Definitely not the devs whose opinions turned off 99+% of people
Sony maybe listen to your consumers a little bit next time. Definitely not the devs whose opinions turned off 99+% of people
The massive bet on GaaS is because of the PC initiative. They want to show growth in MAU to their greedy shareholders, but it's hard to push for PSN account linking in SP games.