Concord Is One of The Biggest Flops In Gaming History...

I think it's safe to say Concord is an objective failure I don't think anybody was sitting back thinking yeah concord's really going to pop off it's going to be the next big thing well actually apparently that's what Sony thought which is kind of crazy to think about right but here we are concord's been out for a little while now and what everybody's been focusing on understandably so is the steam concurrent player count where it failed to even reach 7 100 concurrent players on Steam where a game like Gollum yes that's right Gollum managed to achieve more concurrent players than Concord could but today we have new data that has been revealed about Concord that honestly is even more staggering than this game failing to reach 700 players on Steam this comes from IGN where they say Concord is estimated to have sold only 25,000 units 25,000 units that is unbelievably horrifically bad this is so much worse than I think anybody really imagined Sony is very likely in a State of Shock right now especially anybody there at Sony that actually believed in this product and this game and this studio when I tell you 25,000 units is bad that doesn't even do it justice this is going to go down as one of the biggest flops in history and there will be for some reason maybe some people who try to say that no that's an exaggeration it's not that bad but believe me we are looking at a modern-day AAA game that easily cost over $100 million to develop likely much more than that may I remind everybody that Sony believed in this game so much they went out and straight up bought the studio they bought a studio that never produced a video game before and you have to wonder how much Sony paid for this studio well I can tell you it probably wasn't that cheap it probably cost more than the price to develop the game right so not only are they paying for the overall development of the game but they pay for the studio as well and the studio firewalk has I believe the last time we heard about 150 developers so this is a full-blown AAA team developing a AAA game and their $40 not even a full-priced 60 or $70 AAA game a $40 AAA game 25,000 units to put this in perspective this game has made Sony less than $1 million less than $1 million and you know what I have to say I'm glad I am I'm not happy necessarily to to see that this is what it took but at the same time if this is what it takes for Sony to wake up and whoever's running the ship there making these decisions to realize you know maybe we are out of touch maybe we do need to kind of get back to the basics here if this is what it takes then so be it you know it's crazy to think right now Sony is currently sitting on a lot of multiplayer based PlayStation IP games like Killzone Socom resistance Warhawk even something like mag these are all Shooters and Sony has decided that they're not going to do anything with these games apparently rather than do anything with these games they're just going to invest in games like Concord invest in studios that are making games like Concord because clearly they got a hit right this game's going to be the next big thing what's crazy to think is that if Sony had made the decision to invest in literally just one of any of those classic multiplayer driven PlayStation IPS that I just mentioned 100% guaranteed they would have sold at least at least 50 times better than Concord and the reason why I'm saying specifically 50 times is because that's how much it would take to sell at least 1 million units which any one of those games guaranteed would have done at the bare minimum 1 million but they probably realistically would have done better than that they probably could have done 75 times better maybe even a 100 times better than Concord but one thing that is for certain is none of those games if Sony decided to invest in a new version of one of those games for the PS5 none of them would have done anywhere near as bad as Concord is doing nowhere near would not be possible and this kind of leads us into a conversation well does this mean Sony shouldn't take a chance and invest in new IP absolutely not if Sony's walking away with that message then they're even more out of touch than I realized that is absolutely not the message they should be walking away with they should be at this point you would hope smart enough to know that nobody is asking them to not invest in new IP what we are asking is to not invest in new IP that is clearly not going to find an audience that nobody is asking for that is clearly going to fail and to fail hard now look I'm not trying to make it sound like it's the easiest job in the world to to determine what new things are going to hit and stick and what's going to fail but what I will say is that you didn't really have to look very far with a game like Concord to realize this ain't it and this is why I'm very concerned about the leadership at PlayStation Studios and just seriously have to contemplate what's going on there Sony believed in this game so much they gave it a pretty significant marketing push albeit a very condensed one but a marketing push nonetheless they paid streamers to play it and try to prop it up but on top of that they even have a dedicated Concord episode in the upcoming Amazon series it's an anthology series that's basically a love letter to gaming they paid to have an entire episode dedicated to Concord that's how much Sony believed in this game and this is why I'm saying if this is what it takes to get them to wake up and start listening to the fans again and start listening to actual Gamers and realize that this modern audience they're chasing whatever it is they're chasing here whatever it is that this studio is chasing doesn't exist now the proof is right in front of us this has to be a wakeup call for Sony it will be if it isn't already a wake-up call for Sony because you better believe the reason why Sony at least the executives are shaking right now is because they're going to have to report these losses to their shareholders during their next earnings report and it's going to be bad now I don't want to sit here and make it sound like Sony doesn't have anything else they're working on we know that they're still working on stuff that people are looking forward to we know Sucker Punch is working on ghost of sushima 2 we know a lot of people are excited for Wolverine still although there are some people who are actually not so excited anymore because of Insomniac we know that there are new IPS in development from some well-respected studios like Sony Santa Monica where they're going to make a new IP for the first time since they created God of War so it's not all doom and gloom I mean we even have like death stranding 2 which is going to be shown off soon these are things that are worth I think looking forward to certainly but for quite a few years now there's been a certain portion of the PlayStation fan base that have basically been saying Sony you really need to just not go down this road with the live service approach and I will admit I was not one of those people because well I do like some live service games from time to time I've spent a lot of time in certain live service games that I've enjoyed so I'm not against them but what I am against is chasing the trend what I am against is going so against the grain going so against your own fan base and audience in some pathetic attempt to have the next big live service hit it's kind of poetic you know to see how it's all worked out we're knowing that Sony believed this much in Concord they really believed this was going to be it and to see it be quite possibly one of the biggest flops in gaming history I have to wonder what this means for games like fair games similar situation Haven Studio a new studio founded by Jade Raymond they revealed their game in 2023 at the last PlayStation showcase fair games nobody really cared honestly got about the same reception that con cord got didn't look much better either we have yet to see raw gameplay of it but I have to imagine they're probably shaking right now too something tells me fair games is probably not going to Fair any better than Concord did of course we see the whole Bungie situation and how that's unfolding apparently marathon is not in good shape so all in all outside of Hell divers 2 this big live service push this aggressive live service push that Sony planned and executed has been a colossal failure I'm happy to see that hell divers 2 found massive success but the reality is H divers 2 is a game that was in development since like 2015 2016 and it seemed to me that Sony didn't really have that much faith in it I mean I'm glad to see that supported it and they saw it through and they even funded the game and made sure that they could make it bigger and better and make it into the game it is today so I do want to give Sony credit where it's due but again man outside of that seeing what we're seeing with Concord and what lies ahead with fair games and bunge situation and marathon and I mean there is still the Horizon live service game that's apparently in development which who knows what's going on with that I think Ben studio is also making a live service game I mean how could you not be worried at this point how could you not be worried but all in all I hope that Sony learned a valuable lesson from this there's every chance that they didn't but the numbers don't lie the financials won't lie and regardless of how perplexed and Confused some of the developers might be or some of the people internally at Sony who really believed in this game might be the message from what I can tell has been delivered and I just hope that they received it so felt like I had to make this video I was thinking about making a dedicated video talking about Concord for a little while now but uh with this new information that came out finding out how many copies it sold roughly again 25,000 absolutely atrocious it felt like the right time so luckily we have astrobot coming which looks great and uh it'll be interesting to see what happens with things like the PS5 Pro and you know death stranding 2 is coming and overall it seems that uh we're going to quickly move past Concord but there's no denying that Concord has lost Sony an incredible amount of money and will go down as very likely the biggest failure for the brand ever which is just so shocking honestly like I don't know how this happens but here we are anyway guys that does it for the video I hope you enjoyed it if you did leave it a like subscribe if you're new hit the Bell notification icon feel free to share the video out on top of all that but until next time guys take care