Kotaku: Concord budget was $200M which did not include marketing, the sale of IP rights or the acquisition of the studio

Vertigo

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I maintain the fact these people get paid too much, Heck nearly all of the people in the western game industry are not even graduates of Tier 1 Universities. In japan and korea we get graduates from Tokyo university and Seoul National University work for Nintendo, Square, Krafton, NCsoft etc. In the states losers from 2 bit colleges get hired on inflated pay packages to deliver turds.

Probably. Wukong and Stellar Blade being hits will surely make publishers turn their heads to avoid making more Concord and Star Wars Outlaws.
 

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„But, but the total cost of Firewalk/Concord is nowhere near $400m“

People were shitting on Colin. So it turns out it probably was around $400 million.

Down the drain. Imagine what kind of games Sony would have been able to develop instead.
 

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Maybe Sony spent 200m on marketing 🙃

One of the biggest marketing campaigns in entertainment, but we barely saw it.
 

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When you overpay for mid you screw the market up for everybody else. Maybe it’s a blessing this failed.
 

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„But, but the total cost of Firewalk/Concord is nowhere near $400m“

People were shitting on Colin. So it turns out it probably was around $400 million.

Down the drain. Imagine what kind of games Sony would have been able to develop instead.
Colin said it was $400m just for development, not including acquisition and other costs. I don't believe it. I can believe $400m all told though.
 
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Didn't Kotaku claim 400m a month ago? I'm taking click bait articles for $500 with two made up sources. After getting the clicks for the 400m, they now are claiming 200m the same time as the studio shutters. What a coincidence.
 

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I just mean that it should have never been greenlit.

Waste of time and money completely.

They could make a few Stellar Blades for that amount.

If it was greenlit all the way back in 2016-2018, when Overwatch was still relevant then I can understand. But when it became clear that the market was oversaturated, they should have pivoted development to something else.
 
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Nor does it include the Electricity/Gas Bills, Rent or Free Lunches.
Deflect deflect deflect. How much does Sony pay you? I'm serious, you need to declare that shit.
Sony did not act like it was the next big thing at all
Nahh they just had bundles, special controllers and an Amazon special.
People still believe Colins bogus story? lol
Takes 15 seconds in Google to get official budgets and costs.
 

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Colin = The game costed 200 million up until Spring 2023, after that Sony bought the studio and spent another 200 million on the game in one year.

Oh and that 400 million I gave does not include Acquisition costs, just cost for the game itself.


Kotaku = Concord's budget was 200 million overall...

Icon Era low IQ members = Colin was right!!!
 
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“That did not include marketing,
Oh we all remember the marketing blitz of Concord.
the sale of IP rights,
+80 million dollars for IP rights.
the acquisition of the studio,
Colin said his 400 million number did not include the purchase of the studio.
or game's delayed launch.”
+120 million dollars for the mysterious delay.

Some of ya'll are so gullible lol
 

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Colin = The game costed 200 million up until Spring 2023, after that Sony bought the studio and spent another 200 million on the game in one year.

Oh and that 400 million I gave does not include Acquisition costs, just game for the game itself.


Kotaku = Concord's budget was 200 million overall...

Icon Era low IQ members = Colin was right!!!
Concord was 400 million but Firewalk was another 600 million dollars.

The whole thing was easily over 1 billion dollars.

People really do just believe whatever they want to believe. It's hilarious.
 

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Oh we all remember the marketing blitz of Concord.

+80 million dollars for IP rights.

Colin said his 400 million number did not include the purchase of the studio.

+120 million dollars for the mysterious delay.

Some of ya'll are so gullible lol
I don’t get invested in the numbers stipulated, and have no idea what Colin said. Suffice it to say 200M++ is the blunder of the century.
 
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Danja

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Concord was 400 million but Firewalk was another 600 million dollars.

The whole thing was easily over 1 billion dollars.

People really do just believe whatever they want to believe. It's hilarious.
The Concord IP rights alone was another 200 million on top of the acquisition costs. The marketing was probably 150 million, who knew Playstation twitter posts, a few trailers and a couple youtube adds were so expensive, plus probably another 100 million for the Amazon episode, add on another 100 million for the controllers that are so cheap to make and some sweatshop merch, you're looking at another 50 million.

I think the real budget is around 800 million, can't forget all these devs were making 200k every month 🤣
 
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Deflect deflect deflect. How much does Sony pay you? I'm serious, you need to declare that shit.

Nahh they just had bundles, special controllers and an Amazon special.

Takes 15 seconds in Google to get official budgets and costs.

Why does it bother you? Did you make an investment in Firewalk?

Pathetic it has ever been discussed.

It is Sony’s problem not mine.