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[@klammyvagikarp7578]

If you release the Concord review, you will make more than Firewalk Studios did on it.

[@Ashadar_Resouley]

i wouldn't be so sure from what iv hrear over the years is that youtube really doesn't pay that much so the review likely wont bring in much money which is why they and pretty much every youtuber has a patreon, i'm pretty sure they make more money in one twitch stream from donations then they do from a whole month of youtube ads

[@refugeehugsforfree4151]

@@Ashadar_Resouley They 100% make thousands off ad Rev. Creators just say that so you donate more to them.

[@Ashadar_Resouley]

@@refugeehugsforfree4151 even if they do make that much in amonth it's likely isn't coming from one video alone on top of that the game cost $40 and sold arould 25000 copies there is no way in hell that their concord review will make anywhere close to that much money also i'm guessing you don't make videos and don't know how much youtube actually pays, a lot of youtubers have shown how much youtube actually pays them and it is never that much, videos with less then a few million views really don't bring in much money

[@wholesome39]

@@Ashadar_ResouleyI think he means it will make more money because it lost money u can go outside and find a dollar and you technically made more money then concord because it only lost money

[@jgon12]

Nah they definitely put time on the game but it was on horrible stuff and bad design decisions.

[@kielmessersmith1956]

Every executive involved with this 400million disaster should be investigated for embezzlement and fraud.

[@daemoroth_m]

Concord's credits are over an hour long, makes the $400 million figure a lot more believable. If you've worked with big projects, you'll probably have seen what insane amount of bloat can happen. I've been on a project that went $500 million OVER budget! And it was ABANDONED and restarted at the end of it, then they rehired the SAME contractors who ran up that bill for the new project, and now the NEW project is over budget again. Companies are run by individuals, and if they're a bunch of idiots, amazing things can happen.

[@chrisanschau8169]

I heard the credits were 30 minutes long and that people posted them in .5 speed to make it look longer. Anyone know about that?

[@Edax_Royeaux]

That's nearly the budget of Red Dead Redemption 2, and that game is utterly massive.

[@Pl4sm4Ro4ch]

if The US Air Force pays $90,000 for a bag of bolts then concord wasting $400+ million is believable. I expect it to be closer to $600 million with all wasted marketing/wages and such

[@Wiggywoo1977]

What was this project?

[@mat3714]

Yes....what project ? And also they gave comparatives. Until the smoke clears up I'll never believe this 400m smell like clickbait figure.

[@DanielSantos-ym8vd]

400 million is a believable figure. The game was expected to run as a live service and the next big thing for Sony. The credit list was a mile long, signed a tv deal, promised weekly cinematics, likely had made unreleased content to feed additional seasons, likely unreleased cash shop, cost to up keep live service isn't cheap and it's why they shut down.

[@yeethaw4895]

no

[@randomhero6365]

Concord was 400mill because they had over 10k people "work" on it. Their credits are over an hour long of random people

[@refugeehugsforfree4151]

Exactly

[@bronzin1445]

Okay, serious question. How is the actual FACK do you get 10k people on 1 project? Even 500 is overdoing it…

[@justifano7046]

@@bronzin1445 I mean he's probably lying tbh.

[@refugeehugsforfree4151]

@@bronzin1445 Woke. You will think I'm joking or a Troll but nope. Wokeness. The collective Culture of "Woke" always bloats projects. Toxic Positivity means you can't fire anyone for being garbage at their job, so you then have to outsources to other studios or hire people who can do what you want your other employees to do. You ever see those Instagram videos of "Game Devs" going to work? They have their own bars, game rooms, private "Therapy rooms" INSIDE the game studio and workplace. Working is their last concern.

[@reshypoo9447]

@@refugeehugsforfree4151 Kinda makes the thought of them unionizing seem considerably less appealing, from a consumer perspective. If many of them are barely working to begin with, unions would only add it to.

[@BiggusDingus325]

Remember people. Battlefield going back to roots mean nothing. The devs that created your favourites are not there anymore.

[@DeadPixel1105]

It's also important to remember that when Battlefield 2042 was still in development, the devs said the same exact thing about going back to the roots.

[@Cnupoc]

​@@DeadPixel1105exactly. They have no idea what those roots are anymore....

[@prettyboyg1278]

They literally say it every single time when the games turn out to be nothing like the good old battlefield games lmao

[@licksludgee]

Pre BF3 or bust. BF2142 is peak for us old dudes.

[@DtWolfwood]

They'd make so much money if they just make a sequel to bf1942. Call it BF1944 to acknowledge BF1943 existed.

[@fepethepenguin8287]

Yup BF1942 Desert Combat Mod Aka Battlefield 2, the greatest game ever made as far as team shooters

[@exalented]

Their roots are rotten. BF is dead

[@fepethepenguin8287]

@@exalented biggest mistake was getting rid of the Desert Combat Mod they hired to make BF2 then just got rid of them

[@rashadroberts2910]

No

[@xshadowscreamx]

It will be called b6

[@CelticScale]

Sony haven’t confirmed or denied the development costs but judging from the credits screen they must’ve had thousands of people involved in concords creation.

[@slavche]

sony hasn't gone after these DEV costs or the DEV speaking out... THATS ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW.. THEY ARE NOT SUING.. EVEN THOUGH THEY COULD.. sony would SUE for this.. they are not so far.... ITS PROBABLY TRUE FOR 8 YEARS DEV TIME.. andd.. when sony bought them and paid 200 mill supposedly.. THEY ALSO ORDERED TO REDO THE GAME... stop it.. STOP DEFENDING 300-400 MILL SONY GAMES THAT CRASH.. STOP IT.

[@aarala]

The part of the news dedicated to Concord lasted longer than the game did.

[@pavelzak9303]

400 Million should be possible if cost is calculated for entire studio, it looks like start-up project in video game industry with messed-up leadership. Full of promisses, lot of side projects which leads nowhere..., that can expand budget a lot.

[@leftworld333]

Every time I see footage of Concord, it looks like a video game pillow fight.

[@bigdummy6286]

That description feels like it fits all hero shooters and mobashit. Fights that are just drawn out and a snooze fest

[@Guardian117]

Colin Moriarty has a great track record of breaking news.

[@Cragdor47]

Isn't that the bar owners name from Fallout 3 ?

[@PRIC3LESSMPB]

​@@Cragdor47 yes it is lol

[@chrisg1556]

Yeah, he was also the main PS guy at IGN before he left and created kinda funny with Greg Miller. I trust Colin 100% on this.

[@Game0verlXl]

He runs the largest PlayStation podcast in the world. With several of his other podcasts being in the top 5/10 of their categories.

[@Cragdor47]

@@chrisg1556 Cool! I never knew that.

[@proassassin8473]

RIP Time Stamp guy

[@ThatDudeCalled]

Good. Maybe AJ will put in the tiny bit of effort now.

[@Gechoszw]

Noooooooooooo

[@s3nTer]

I thought it was a joke but he's really not here 😢

[@clackman622]

@@ThatDudeCalled LOL

[@Chr15Payne]

So I just won't bother watching this video then

[@sumireravenclaw8034]

The reason Concord was 400 mil was because of outsourcing apparently. and outsourcing costs a SHIT TON.

[@slavche]

We all know it was... JOE is being BIASED here saying he believes or KNOWS it wasn't 400 mill. then HAS TO READJUST his seating arrangement because of how much BIAS he was spewing. Fake ass show i'm barely watching a few moments now.. WOW.

[@illidoth]

"COD, VEILGUARD, ASSASSINS CREED" fuck ill just take up woodworking

[@WolfWood893]

Joe, Concord was a game that has been in the making for 8 years and an HOUR length of credits worth of EMPLOYEES. If Halo can be 500 million so can concord. Sunk cost fallacy is real dude.

[@Edax_Royeaux]

Halo was at least a big game. Where's the scale in Concord?

[@WolfWood893]

@@Edax_Royeaux Big doesn’t mean shit to do. And it went through several rewrites and development hell.

[@Edax_Royeaux]

@@WolfWood893 Going through several rewrites would be at odds with the "toxic positivity" narrative.

[@WolfWood893]

@@Edax_Royeaux Did I say toxic positivity anywhere in my post? Your being contrarian I won’t respond too you anymore.

[@Edax_Royeaux]

@@WolfWood893 No the ANGRY JOE VIDEO THAT YOU ARE COMMENTING ON, 28:15 said it. That there was a culture of "toxic positivity" that you couldn't provide feedback for the game. Did you even watch the video?

[@srai5333]

F O U R hundered millions dollars

[@dankfarrik8376]

In your dreams.

[@jbzhummerh2gamer]

This needs that many likes to really sink it in.

[@hunainkhan1058]

ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND!!!!!

[@NRGsensation]

The power of one the power of two the power of failuuuuuuuuuure

[@cameronvalencia6023]

Pocketed frfr 😂 400 M.....maybe it was a really good game 😂

[@escalatingbarbarism5096]

400 million over 8 years doesn't sound that far-fetched. If everything about Sony's faith in the project is true, and some of it definitely seems to be, they would've just kept throwing money into it.

[@lareolanKFP]

$400M makes perfect sense if they, as the leaks say, hired a bunch of 3rd party studios to help push the game to completion. If you've ever hired a B2B contractor, you'd know how fucking expensive they are! Doubling or even Tripling a game's budget for 1 year of contractor work is not at all unrealistic!

[@Luci-pz8xx]

I'm sure the upper management received a good chunk of change from bonuses over those 8 years

[@maxstill9216]

So did the devs, they all had 6 figure salaries...

[@Luci-pz8xx]

@@maxstill9216 Software developers don't come cheap. They also just do as their told.

[@justifano7046]

@@Luci-pz8xx lol the backpedal

[@Luci-pz8xx]

@@justifano7046 Do you think the upper management, who make way more than "6 figures", are the ones writing the software?

[@justifano7046]

@@Luci-pz8xx Upper management fir any company aren't the ones doing the basics. The ceo of Costco ain't pushing carts. The cfo of Oscar Meyer ain't in the slaughterhouse. Not sure what the point of your question is.

[@dsagent]

The Oil Industry has spent a massive effort in the US to try to keep nuclear energy down.

[@Haffmox]

Lol

[@shinkicker404]

Yeh, Petroleum companies really F'd the US in more than one way. Nuclear power, public transport, drilling operations...

[@901Wes]

In a better world , people that did stuff like that in all the various industries, would be prosecuted.

[@williamyoung9401]

I guess no one saw that Netflix documentary? PRIVATIZED nuclear power cannot be trusted.

[@reanschwarzer2187]

Ehhh a ton of environmentalist people and bs also go against it, it is truly attacked on the left and the right to a degree

[@AgerGames]

In Concord, they went all out with the cinematics, so they have an animation studio to create those mini-movies set in the Concord universe

[@MaMastoast]

Ye, that stuff doesn't come easy, lotta work out into those shorts, with minimal payback

[@DanteMasaru]

One thing about Concord that keeps getting overlooked: Firewalk designed Concord to be a 5v5 hero shooter. Firewalk was responsible for the game's presentation and whatnot. Sony saw Concord, was impressed by studio's talent and decided to acquire the studio. Sony was mostly hands-off in regards to Concord's development, as they are with most (if not all) of their studios. Evidently, there was some residual Bungie hubris among those ex -Bungie devs who thought Concord was gonna be the next big thing. To be fair, the game started development around the time the hero shooter genre wasn't so saturated, so maybe it is a bit understandable why they thought they had something great.

[@maxstill9216]

Yeah the genre saturation was the problem, sure...I'm sure it had nothing to do with gross, fat pronoun armada...

[@hybrid9mm]

When did Sony buy the studio because missing the gravy train by 6 yrs is a huge fk up. I wondering where this 200m came from considering Firewalk is basically a nobody 🤷‍♂️ It’s one huge pile of dung from start to finish it would seem.

[@DanteMasaru]

@@maxstill9216 No, it didn't. Why Concord failed has little to nothing to do with the culture war-enthusiast diatribe some claim. Other variables that were far more detrimental caused that game's downfall: market saturation, $40 price tag in a mostly free-to-play genre, lackluster presentation.

[@DanteMasaru]

@@hybrid9mm Firewalk is a studio mostly comprised of ex-Bungie devs. Such talent and pedigree was something Sony decided to acquire. If there is one thing positive that can be said about Concord, it is that the gameplay (shooting) was actually pretty decent. In that department some people knew what they were doing.

[@Jay-be2le]

@@DanteMasaruever hear of helldivers. Cost $30 came out this year. Had super popularity. So yah it had a lot to do with all the bs

[@stumpymcwhiskey]

nuclear power gets such a bad wrap. it would be so good for the entire world to use nuclear power. the reason why Chernobyl happened was because the plants werent maintained properly

[@mancuniangamecat8288]

What about the Fukushima and Three Mile Island nuclear accidents?

[@DeShawnMcDonald]

​@@mancuniangamecat8288tsunamis resulting from earthquakes, almost like sometimes shit happens and saying "what about solar flares" isn't a good response to why are you against any type of space ship

[@TrueMentorGuidingMoonlight]

Not to mention that it was the freaking Soviet Union that built & mis-maintained Chornobyl's plant. You know, low funding and poorly made infrastructure? The government that treated all of its people as disposable, whether it was the human wave attacks in WW2 or the everyday industrial misery at home? The US isn't like that, and we're rich enough to afford superior infrastructure, and we have the data to avoid the accidents done in those days.

[@JoseG117]

Chernobyl was mostly due to an engineering fault in the reactor itself and also incompetence for some of the people in charge.

[@ihateallthethings2683]

Bad wrap? It’s not a tortilla dude don’t you mean rep? As in the English word reputation

[@harryshuman9637]

Saddest part about Concord is that there will be no Angry review about it.

[@Dino-god69]

Battlefield was amazing for such a long time. Hoping they return to the greatness they once had lol

[@pn5705]

Right? There was a time where, if I wanted to experience a proper war-I know, kind of ironic, given that it’s a game--I’d go with Battlefield. Here’s hoping they can reclaim their former glory.

[@DjiryDoucoure]

“TO BE FAIR, Concord only cost $100 million more than Spiderman 2 and you could choose among 14 playable characters…. “ 🤣🤣🤣

[@MetalJT24]

People played Spider-Man 2

[@NadeemShekh-uy9zn]

​@@MetalJT24Spider-Man 2 sold over 11 million copies numbnuts

[@bootsthecat6718]

I would LOVE a full Angry Joe review of Concord

[@behurastudio]

Doesn’t even matter if it’s shorter than usual (given how little content Concord has) it would be PEAK!!!!!

[@DtWolfwood]

Y'all just want to see them suffer 😅 Wait can they even play it anymore?

[@refugeehugsforfree4151]

@@DtWolfwood Nope LOL

[@crookim]

He said he'll make it after his Wukong review.......🤣

[@Dungeon00X]

Why is Joe defending Jason Schreier? That man sat on the Activizion Blizzard scandal for years and decided to profit off of it with a book after it reached it's zenith. Also, Jason defended Sweet Baby Inc when he KNEW they were a modern day mafia extorting game developers and then he blocked everybody that called his shit off.

[@jamesp1389]

Ok

[@bobmcbob4399]

@@jamesp1389 James is holdin it in. He's gonna tell OP to "define woke" or "touch grass", I just know it!

[@jamesp1389]

@@bobmcbob4399 WOKEEEEEEEEYYY, was that good? 🥺

[@aconceitedbeast731]

Live services like Concord are the cancer of gaming

[@Slykrow]

More like live services that Blizzard or Riot makes.. You want a $40 skin? Concord isn't the normal live service it wanted to be a one time fee for all unlocks but couldn't attract the masses to try it

[@Whatelse73]

It didn't cost 400 million, they "spent" 400 million while making Concord. A large portion of that money is probably in coffers it wouldn't have normally gotten to without someone giving an excessive budget to make the game. The ones that don't mind it being cancelled are probably some of those with coffers that have more money in them.

[@DJMettwurst]

Exactly, someone there did an impressive job selling the project (and studio) to Sony. Or Sony is just clueless (considering how they also got scammed by Bungie)

[@nytecrow6452]

Noooo...I cant find the Timestamp Guys. Guess Im skipping this video.

[@atrealjesus]

Joe needs to stop being lazy and time stamp his videos, he can do it or pay someone else.

[@vortex_1336]

Firewalk wasn't a "small studio". They were owned by a conglomerate publisher. The publisher is who Sony bought them from.

[@JohnDoe-fi9yh]

No offense, but you guys need to do something about the bleeding from your cheap head sets. There is so much cheap plastic sound that bleeds into the mic that's it's really annoying

[@CeruleanChurch]

That 400 million is a number I want to believe so badly just because it would a great insult to injury

[@refugeehugsforfree4151]

It's more than that. Wait until next week.

[@justifano7046]

And that's why the guy made up the numbers. Whats real doesn't matter only sensationalism and clicks/views

[@refugeehugsforfree4151]

@@justifano7046 "Made up the Numbers" I can't wait to see you Cry next Week when it's revealed it cost MORE than 400Mil.

[@RRRRRRRRR33]

I do believe the source claimed that, most likely a salty employee who got pissed because the team ignored "negative" feedback. But it's not factual, 400 million is an absurd amount of money. But let's put a tinfoil hat and pretend this is true, 200 million before, then another 200 million after, as for all intent and purposes Sony didn't invested those first 200 million, maybe a percentage of it, maybe they offset that value by buying the studio (that is partially more believable, development cost + marketing + studio acquirement = 400 million)

[@refugeehugsforfree4151]

@@RRRRRRRRR33 Lol wait until next week where it will be revealed it will be more than 400 mil down the drain.

[@thesorrow7499]

"We need left leaning journalist to confirm the story" is the most Joe thing he could have said.

[@bisceg181]

Ayo giving Alex the big screen? Love to see changes

[@superchunkie1]

been years that on weekly news he is the one talking you probably dont watch that often

[@bisceg181]

@@superchunkie1 ah - yes I haven’t noticed or watched them on the regular, I saw this notification as the video went live so it was just chance I saw it right on time. If he’s been doing this for awhile good for them tho

[@SUDAGANGTV]

Big man needs big screen space lol 😅

[@vinni3c]

Casual

[@bisceg181]

@@vinni3c ah yes someone who doesn’t live their life on the internet consuming every internet video is a ‘casual’ … you need to get laid before you comment lmfao or maybe a bot test 🤡💀🤖

[@SquashyButton]

400 million dollars to develop a video game would be absolutely insane. The ONLY game I can see coming even close to that amount is GTA 6.

[@slow9573]

That's because Joe is a fucking terrible journalist. Red dead redemption 2 total cost with marketing is like 470 million. GTA5 with marketing is up there as well. Cyberpunk 2077 with marketing is definitely over 300 million.

[@SquashyButton]

@@slow9573 See how you had to specify 'with marketing' for every example you listed? I'm purely talking about the cost to develop the game, I don't care about marketing costs because ofc that's going to inflate the final amount. Also, no clue why you felt the need to insult Joe out of nowhere.

[@TheGorfy]

​@SquashyButton the other guy is indeed weird for leading with an insult. but the fact remains the budget of games is getting ridiculous you don't need to search all that hard to see leaked documents proving that Spiderman 2 cost 300 mil in dev budget not including marketing. That being said given the predicted scope of a GTA 6 and how long it's probably been in dev I wouldn't be surprised if it was in excess of 400 mil without marketing.

[@bermie282]

The point is that it's still a 400m loss

[@slow9573]

@@SquashyButton Because joe is being objectively bad at journalism in this video. And you are just ignoring massive costs because you feel like it lol.

[@HULKHOGAN1]

128 players is a FANTASTIC idea. The sole purpose of Battlefield 2042 was to ruin people's perceptions of 128 players. Now the devs have fooled gamers into hating 128, they can continue developing standard 64 player maps without having to invest resources into innovating their map design process / spending on server capacity etc.

[@Cnupoc]

Nobody hates 128 players..... We hate the maps they gave us.. what a joke of a design that game was

[@HULKHOGAN1]

@@Cnupoc I've been a fan of the franchise since BF2 and I didn't even buy 2042 for $5 when it was on sale lol. Garbage

[@nick422742]

Why is it so hard to believe that after 8 years of development it costs $400 million? And saying it’s 4 times as much as gta4 when that game came out almost 20 years ago as if there hasn’t been insane amounts of inflation along with people in the industry getting paid more than they used to

[@justifano7046]

Because rockstar has 20 times the staff of firewalk. Edit: sorry "had" They currently have around 40 times the firewalk staff

[@77rockcity]

With Hollyweird dead, you gotta wash the money somehow.

[@bronzin1445]

Because that sh*t isn’t normal….regardless how long it took

[@bermie282]

​@bronzin1445 No, normal is 150m.. which many many games are. 400m for the times the deals.. mismanagement it's not unrealistic

[@allthatishere]

Yeah, it's kinda weird how disingenuous people are over stuff like this.

[@22Chad_Reed22]

8 years in development and seeing how long the credits are that 400 million doesn't sound crazy at all

[@tyleroutland435]

I hope the new battlefield game has an offline campaign

[@williamyoung9401]

And WHY aren't they re-making Battlefield 2? Maybe because it's better than all the subsequent Battlefields COMBINED? 🧐

[@prettyboyg1278]

Yeah.. let's waste precious dev time on some mediocre one and done offline campaign, instead of making sure that the multiplayer, the mode that the majority of people actually care about, is done right lmao 🤪

[@tyleroutland435]

@prettyboyg1278 and you are wrong I loved battlefields 4, hardline, and 1s campaign that's the only reason I buy battlefield games is the offline campaign

[@Killercutsvideo]

Concord had the WORST character designs I have seen in a long time if EVER! The amount of denial is ASTOUNDING!

[@NadeemShekh-uy9zn]

I want the developers of space marine 2 to make a Planet Hulk game based on the comics

[@Lil.Lon3Ly]

Concord cost 400mil is very possible because the end credits is literally 1 hour long

[@Dreadnaught1Aw]

3:35 CONTENT STARTS

[@PawPawPandas]

MVP

[@WigneyR]

Thankyou, don’t need 3 minutes of yapping and playing with a toy shark 😂

[@devynlich00]

How much y'all want to bet the $200 price hike for the PS5 Pro was because of the failure of Concord

[@CoryKnudsen701]

The 400 million dollars came from one of the most reliable people in games media. Joe and boys need to do their homework.

[@bendisutd.9261]

Still waiting for official time stamps… this cannot be that difficult in 2024.

[@RRRRRRRRR33]

Laziness, even small "channels" does that, but not here

[@thealphareich]

"Ex IGN Employee," just say his name, Colin Moriarty. If you're going to talk about this story, then don't be a jackass, give the person who revealed it due credit.

[@anzelmasmatutis2500]

$400 millions? How many Bugatti's were bought for that in 8 years? Don't feel bad for devs, they got share of those $400 millions.

[@bugg6597]

For the love of god, your title structure is not helping get more views through search like you think. It’s just been irritating your fans all this time. Every video for over a year people are telling you to structure your titles like a human being, not some AI sludge bot. And timestamps/time segments in the video. I get you’re a classic legend, but you’re treating these videos like it’s 2007 and your fans just want those two simple things

[@AM-sx1hi]

I don’t think people understand how much water is burned up just trying to cool down ai data centers

[@mbern4530]

It''s why MS has so many data centres in Quebec. Lots of Hydro power and in the winter they can use the cold air from outside to cool the servers. Data centres should all be built in cold climates to use natural cooling during the winter.

[@ChriZd3luXe]

Where are the timestamps today guys? I'm quite disappointed 😞

[@DawnOfTheOzz]

Even if that $400 million budget for Concord is true or not, that is still a ludicrous sum for just one project. It's made me realise more that budgets in gaming and movies have become so over-blown that I can't fathom how that is sustainable. Like, where the fuck is all that money going towards?

[@Demogordon]

Nuclear power needs to be increased 100 fold in this country, there is zero reason to be holding back.

[@The.Usurper]

It began when a pressure valve in one of the reactors failed to close, allowing cooling water-contaminated with radiation-to drain into adjoining buildings. Control room operators made critical errors as they struggled to contain the crisis, and by early morning the core had heated to over 4,000 degrees-just 1,000 degrees short of meltdown. As radioactive steam began pouring out of the plant, word of the incident leaked to the outside world; within days radiation levels were elevated over a four-county zone. Pennsylvania Governor Richard Thornburgh ordered the evacuation of pregnant women and small children from the area. On March 31, plant workers were able to address the problems and ended the threat of a meltdown. Although no official deaths or injuries were reported, there has been an ongoing controversy over whether the radiation released at Three Mile Island led to increased cancer and infant mortality rates in the region.

[@The.Usurper]

This is what happened to your country last time you tried this, do you really want to push your luck again?

[@Demogordon]

@@The.Usurper Are you nuts? Literally yes, absolutely without a single doubt. Turn it on and we need to build thousands more.

[@The.Usurper]

@@Demogordon Well, shit man. As long as you know the risks and you're willing to live in the area, more power to ya. I'm not gonna try and convince you to think otherwise.

[@Neanderthal75]

Trust me, it's not all losers, even if it's $400mil. Sony is the only loser here, all the rest that scooped away the $400 million into their pockets are totally happy with Concord.

[@KonaSuba]

Nuclear Power is the best power source we as humans can harness right now

[@Edax_Royeaux]

And you have others in the comment section coping, calling a meltdown and attempted coverup of the meltdown "incredibly minor". The President of the United States had to personally visit the reactor control room during the crisis at Three Mile Island.

[@VaeSapiens]

if the president visited the reactor up close, it probably wasn't a health hazard.

[@Ghostel3591]

​@@Edax_Royeauxah just call up your local ecologist. You will find out that Nuclear Plants has the highest safety level (The amount of failsafes especially in NEW powerplants is crazy), take the least free space, produce the least environmental contamination... But nah let's stick to thermal energy stations with CO2 emmisions (of which you need tens of them to get the same amount of energy as ONE Nuclear plant) or OH OH How about Solar Plane or Wind Mill stations that need 100 times the free space (buh bye Forest and Birds) and are very dependant on weather? BUT NAH CLEARLY NUCLEAR PLANTS IS DIRTIEST AND MOST INEFFECIENT ENERGY SOURCE. Seriously when you actually start to crunch the numbers like Energy Produced, Free Space Needed, Contamination Rates - Nuclear Plant is a way better option compared to regular Thermal, Solar or Windmill options. C'mon the ones who will really lose in case of Nuclear Stations becoming more common is only THE OIL INDUSTRY which needs to somehow justify all this Thermal Plants and tons of CO2 emmissions.

[@anonymous_24_7]

If the game took $400 million to make, then they'd have to sell 10 million $40 copies to just break even. Absolute insanity.

[@michaelh878]

Microtransactions.

[@TheNichq]

The guy literally staked his rep on his source. I absolutely believe him. Sony literally had Concord in the PS5 Pro trailer and removed it. ALL of their eggs were in the Concord basket.

[@tempestshadow5152]

You “literally” don’t know how to use the word “literally” do you? If you remove it from your sentences they would work the exact same way, and it would even make you look less uneducated. Go back to school, kid.

[@PRIC3LESSMPB]

I trust Colin Moriarty in this situation. People should really listen to the conversation he had on his podcast and make up their own minds. Stand down Joe

[@Quintessence4444]

New rumors are that Concord cost a lot more than 400 million.

[@WigneyR]

Nah you’re just pulling this out of your 🍑

[@bowserbrowser6559]

Alex- "A low level employee cant know the exact budget of the game" Angry Jim with absolutely zero connection to any of it and usually lost without google- "no sorry it cant be more expensive than suicide squad" Top tier reporting Jim

[@prettyboyg1278]

'Battlefield going back to Roots'.. DICE said, whenever they failed at doing exactly that.

[@bladeshred01]

EA hiring ReSpawn/Zampella from OG MW1 and Titanfall is something that FINALLY makes sense for that franchise

[@soulman83michaelsoul54]

Just imagine the twisted metal we could have got for 400 million dollars, huge fail

[@bobmcbob4399]

or remakes of the other Sony IPs with a fraction of that allocation

[@55rz55]

Whoever was the Concord investment agent guy is a genius, he managed to fleece investors before Sony and then Sony themselves to make that mediocre game

[@michaelh878]

True

[@bittybears5287]

The fact that in Concord, you could press a button during the credits to CHEER AND APPLAUD THE DEV TEAM!

[@imthedevilkys536]

The Chicago Bears are also plagued with toxic positivity

[@chrislacayo1857]

The pinnacle was bad company 2

[@mattbehling7416]

When will Joe realize that battlefield is just like madden

[@mlodin84]

I'm a dev and I know the budget of all projects I worked on. Even if the higher ups hide it, you can still estimate it because you know the development time and how many people have been working on it.

[@Marvolo14]

$400 million isnt that hard to believe. The production budget was probably around $200 million and the marketing budget was probably at least $150 million.

[@MemphisKilljoy]

I wish Sony would put a million in to recreate SOCOM, the game we've been asking for, for years

[@cybergeist8932]

Correction. 399 million dollars was taken by suits while 1 million when into the actual game. I genuinely refuse to believe otherwise.

[@awolpeace1781]

Maybe a lot of money got laundered through Concord's development, that would make it believable.

[@waynemorgan6153]

Concord has its own episode on Amazons show which was in the works even before the game had released. Of course it was being geared as the future of Playstation. Playstation has spent almost as much on other titles. Spending 400 million on what is supposed to be its flagship product heading into the future is very believable. There's plenty of ways to sink the money without it bearing out in the final product. The thing has been in development for eight years.

[@Kiryu_Kazuma01]

I am keeping my hype to a very bare minimum for Battlefield 7. You can tell me all you want that the game will be like the classic BF3/4 games or classes will be brought back. Until that game launches, I don’t believe anything DICE or EA tell me about the new game

[@flyingplantwhale545]

I’m really glad Sony lost all that money. The more they lose, the more likely they are to rethink their strategy of investing into ‘talentless freaks’ and outdated live service trends, and INSTEAD revive a franchise or two that people actually want. Though that’s wishful thinking on my part.

[@davidwhitfield6025]

400 million? Pft. Star Citizen says "Hold my Beer!" That game must be costing around $600 million by now.

[@ge2719]

2:30 you could do a "in memorial" video. like a funeral.

[@DeadPixel1105]

"Battlefield going back to roots".... Yeah, that's what they said about Battlefield 2042 before it released *eye roll*

[@acatinatux9601]

why tf just he say "sahny" instead of Sony?

[@jamesp1389]

Sahnny

[@buckschneider7973]

Many people don’t know this but people that reside in the radiation zone in Chernobyl lives 100s of years for some reason with no illness nor any physical impact

[@davillain9974]

So Joe, where's the Transformers One review at?

[@TillDeathGamingg]

Its easy to to use 400 million when you outsource the programming, because you only have character designers that only want to focus on DEI designs and only care about sending the message. Then we put in the marketing and hiring to various consultants. I can see why Concord cost 400 million.

[@Castilian419]

maybe stop doing so many unfunny sketches in your reviews, that should help to quicken production

[@atrealjesus]

Or stop doing the lazy low effort videos like these, and the movie and show reviews. Trash rapid fire reviews and all that other lazy shit g getting posted for like the past year.

[@sulfatelop2750]

Concord fail is why the ps5 pro is 800 bucks, ppl call it the Concord tax

[@stark1987]

the thing that upset me most about 2042 was they made me think we were getting a canadian faction, like a proto north america union, instead they just gave us one character that felt like it was written by someone whos only reference to canada is justin trudeau

[@Nostromo2144]

Zynga: "45 million you say? Get the petty cash tin Bob!"

[@blak4052]

Cyberpunk 2077 with DLCs cost $497.9 million dollars. the base game cost $316 millions then $125 millions to fix the game, Update 2.0 $40.9 millions and Phantom Liberty $62.7 millions plus inflation Total of 497.9 millions. if i am correct cyberpunk 2077 is the most expensive single play out there even in that is number 4 most expensive game. Bonus of the first 3 games most expensive 1 - Genshin impact 2020 $100 million to make but to keep the game running every year they add $200 milion with skin update and add ons pass the $800 million and continue adding money to the budget. 2 - Star Citizen is not out yet and is more than $600 million in and this is just a part what they say they add to the game so they still in development so is going to be more expensive. 3 - Monopoly Go! they say is more than $500 millions but is a mobile game and a server game so they add money every year to keep the game running and they already have that money back in a month. 🤣

[@michaelh878]

Servers probably about 1% of the budget of the marketing for games like that.

[@Eggplantman21]

Nah, bring back "Why do we use Joe? Surfshark?" ;)

[@derekstein6193]

Ok, from now on I think we should use Baldur's Gate 3's budget as a metric; every $100,000,000 worth of budget spent should be one BG3. Example: Concord budget has been officially stated to have been two BG3s, but there is a claim that it was actually four BG3s. A useful benefit of this is it is easier to wrap your head around how much money has been wasted on crap live-service games.

[@EbelVids]

I like how joe does not want to believe concord spent 400 mil :D

[@rapzid3536]

There is no world where Sony put money into that studio without knowing the financials to date. They either knew or were lied to.

[@rossfrancismurray2327]

How much extra work is it to add timestamps?

[@toastisimo]

Concord small studio? They outsorced to other studios, the Credits list run for an hour, all those names man, Getting payed for up to 8 years of salery!?

[@bobmcbob4399]

for real. thats welfare for 8 years

[@MisterAnonymous1000]

I would absolutely love if they added more Playable factions into Space Marine 2. But the game is called Space Marine, and I doubt Games Workshop would allow them to make any other factions playable. I would love to play as one of the Sister's of Battle, but that's not going happen inside of a game called Space Marine 2. I could be wrong, hopefully I am. But I don't want to get my hopes up.

[@MarwanMahdy]

I really don't understand why would a developer wake up one day and thinks that making another hero shooter is a good idea? like there are literally hundreds out there! and they are all equally unsuccessful.

[@joeslickback]

Angry joe, release the Concord cut (review)