We’re talking 2 gens ago for the trilogy. Shadowfall deviated and was poorly written, Driveclub failed too let’s not forget. How do we remember that?
KZ franchise is iconic, It’s on the Sony cast banner. Deserves another chance…..Concorde instead? Nah man, just nah.
A lot of games are iconic even being commercial failures.
I love some of them and really wanted sequels or remakes for them but the reality is if there is not enough sales for these games they won't have green light.
Killzone is one of these franchises.... I love it... I even liked Shadow Fall (while the MP is one of the most atrocious things delivered by Sony).
But to continue being developer it needs sales.
And with the data Sony give us even the best sellers in the franchise (K2 & K2) barely reached 3 million units sold.
That is utter failure (and Sony see it as) for a game supposed to be the Halokiller by Sony themselves.
It was at no surprise that Sony allowed Guerrilha move to another IP and to be fair even if I loce more Killzone than Horizon I accept that Horizon is indeed a better overall game than Killzone ever was (Killzone1s gameplay shines over Horizon thought).
Guerillha finally shined with Horizon... before with Killzone they were the talented studio that never had a comercial success and was always behind the others more successful Sony's studios.
Horizon opened all doors to Guerilha... including the change of Sony to use it own internal engine as base in other games... they deserved it.
But that only happened because Sony supported them even when they failed in create the Halokiller 4 times.
That is something people don't talk about Sony and PlayStation.
How they support their studios to grow and delivery.
But people always like to talk how they closed some studios that was doing nothing at all for several years.... or that fucked themselves so much that even Sony could do nothing instead to close it.
You can see in Concord the same I saw in Guerilha... they are talented at peak.
This beta shows how they game are great in gameplay and how polished they with it.
But people will put it off just because some YouTubers and social warrior guys started a crusade to trash the game since it was revealed without a single art work, gameplay or anything except a logo.
People hates Concord since the logo and never give it any chance to change their mind.
But these that have the lucky to play it and see how it is really great and fun to play it knows that that hate is just overblown bias.
I indeed hope that Concord can survive at these so called gamers lol
Because the industry needs more investment in unique and different games like Concord instead more cheap rip off Overwatch like Marvel Rivals... and don't get me wrong here Marvel IP deserved a lot of more than be only a cheap copy/paste OW.