BREAKING: Concord cost Sony $400 million dollars! Was called "The Future of PlayStation" by execs!

[@dookie_12]

Concord has Star Wars like potential? Yeah, Disney Star Wars Potential

[@bren42069]

couldn't even measure up to the acolyte, hilarious

[@NathanCassidy721]

I wouldn’t even say that as Disney Star Wars actually had potential to be good in the beginning. Concord was a shit idea from the word, “Go.”

[@YouTubeCensors]

😂

[@silverblade357]

Baby Yoda: "Bruh. More iconic than all of Concord, I am."

[@Apophis1010]

They messed it up the same way Disney messed up Star Wars. Good comparison

[@SqBGhost]

Always remember that Japan Studio got shuttered in favor of this absolute travesty.

[@davidford3115]

We could have had either a Legend of Dragoon Remaster, a Prequel of Dragoon based on the Dragon Campaign 11,000 years before the LoD, or even a sequel. But Sony is more interested in virtue signaling than giving a known fan base what they want.

[@AdamAdamHDL]

That's not true. Japan studio disolved because the devs behind the great titles like ICO went independent. They finished the last guardian and went their own way.

[@SqBGhost]

ICO came out in 2001. ICO re-released for PS3 in 2011. The Last Guardian came out in 2016. The mass departures began in late 2020. Keiichiro Toyama did an interview and said that he and many others left (in 2020) because of Sony/Playstation trying to push for bigger budget titles, which went against Japan Studios philosophy of making smaller, fun and creative games (like Ape Escape or Gravity Rush). The only part of Japan Studios that was left was Team Asobi, which was absorbed into Sony. So yes, Japan Studio 100% did get shuttered in favor of big budget failure slop like Concord.

[@AdamAdamHDL]

@SqBGhost So they left. For whatever reason they left. They didn't want to follow the path Sony set out.. so they left. Once they left there was nothing of Japan studio that made it Japan studio. It has nothing to do with concord at all. Had they not let and we still had Japan studio, the concord game would still have been made. And still have been a total failure.

[@FrankS111]

“Life is hard. It’s harder when you’re stupid” - John Wayne

[@Waltkat]

I need this on a T-shirt.

[@albundy7991]

I bet this idiot devs hate John Wayne

[@roluevasreisa5730]

"I would love to see a video documentary on this games failure" *internet historian has entered the chat*

[@Dr.DisrespectFan918]

-Lil Wayne

[@monetgity3422]

@@roluevasreisa5730 ill watch that in repeat

[@carcerharlson9767]

Sony thought it was Star Wars level potential, and they were right. Disney agrees.

[@marqod1437]

How do you make a million dollar franchise? Give a billion dollar franchise to Kathleen Kennedy.

[@Parlimant_Strifey]

same people in charge of both companies, essentially. Blackrock controls both.

[@Eva01-jy2qu7pu9r]

This is what happens when you spend $400 million to appease an audience that doesn't exist

[@albundy7991]

0.5% haha

[@put4558350]

It's did exist. All 500 of they/them

[@Ragnar452]

People used to know how to run a business. Not anymore I guess.

[@matthewgaviola8885]

And base the critique for the entire work in an echo chamber that permits *ABSOLUTELY NONE.* What could they possibly have been thinking

[@matthewgaviola8885]

@@Ragnar452 usually it began and ended at satisfying customers and making marketable products. Now they just attack the former and peddle trash not even snake oil salesman would sell on a dare

[@killabstorm9361]

You can't spell diarrhea without DEI

[@onepoundofcheese8356]

Indeed

[@marryodina]

Or devil

[@SixteenthSine20]

@@marryodinathere’s no V or L in Diarrhea though?

[@rinraiden]

Concord lost $400 million, Suicide Squad lost $200 million, and I'm not sure about Dustbin. So much money spent on an audience that doesn't exist.🤔

[@R0bertCc]

It was all funded by taxes for that country lost whatever was green lit to dump into the trash or I mean "developer" loosely saying that since I have not pushed (∆) to be triggered lol buhahhahaha jajajaja!!!!

[@deanatgmail]

dustbin lost the taxpayers money

[@HickoryChip0]

Dustborn was made with govt grant money I'm sure very little of their own money was spent

[@Asertix357]

The audience they're catering to are Blackrock and Vanguard.

[@samuraidoggy]

Dustbin was succesful. It never needed to sell 1 copy, since tax payers funded it.

[@timflint25]

Maybe Sony should fire everyone and move the headquarters back under Japanese management...we can all only hope

[@Trick_or_Tooth]

I think this is the best suggestion to date. 🎉

[@led-0185]

They already lost Japan to Nintendo hardcore. That's why they abandoned it in the first place.

[@Ragnar452]

I would love to see Nintendo go into high end gaming. It's about time to grab the market.

[@Apophis1010]

The results of hiring college grads with humanities credits

[@marcoscunha511]

Honor? These are woke you're talking about. They don't even know the meaning of that word.

[@TheComicNerd97]

No wonder the ps5 pro is so expensive 😂

[@themonsterunderyourbed9408]

They also jacked up the price of the PlayStation 5 in Japan after the failure to cover the cost.

[@reignjuste]

Well said.

[@verus2k6]

You joke but they also raised the price of the dualsense. We are going to be paying for their failure directly as consumers

[@ricardoguereca8254]

400 and 200 million loss yeah they DESPERATE

[@platinum10000]

@@verus2k6 Just don't buy their stuff and you won't have to pay for their failure, it's a simple solution.

[@MandoMTL]

No way that sack of crap cost 400 mil. Some people need to be investigated for embezzlement.

[@MasterOfLazyness]

You're right, it didn't It cost 400 million but it also cost them to buy the team as well.

[@Dr.DisrespectFan918]

probably a bunch of horse playing around in the office and you can’t tell a trans woman to get to work or you’ll get cancelled

[@shinsetsusha]

Or it is just so that the tax benefit is bigger by reporting a bigger loss.

[@Official_RetroMania]

400 million! To put this into a perspective, Sony could have made 10+ Astro Bot budget type games for the cost of ONE Concord. 🤡

[@Super_Citizen_Paimon]

And they'd *_still_* have enough money left over to throw a party to celebrate the fact that they didn't make Concord.

[@jokered1133]

And the sad reality is that is what they did during the ps2 / ps3 era with all of the movie tie in games and their old IPs, where is Sly Cooper, Little Big Planet, Ape Escape, Infamous, Jak and Daxter, and many of the movie tie in games that I’m guessing they used to help advertise and publish back in the day, it’s just dead with no games, instead they are focusing on games that have a massive ass budget instead of delivering a good library that makes you want to buy the thing, I’m still on PC and I have little to no reason to buy a ps5.

[@buddyjaydubb]

🤡s indeed😂😂😂

[@Official_RetroMania]

​@@jokered1133 Yeah and make no mistake some of Sony's big AAA single player huge budget games like Spiderman, Ghost of Tsushima, God of War, Horizon... They do sell good, Astro Bot sells great as well but will never break these numbers however Astro Bot or similar games would also cost much, much less to produce. If I was Sony I would fund both types of games because these big blockbuster titles take way too long to be made, in between you could easily sprinkle a new Apex Escape, a new Sly, a new Jak and Dexter, LocoRoco, Gravity Rush, Folklore... And you would have 1st party releases through every single year, this generation is so dry when it comes to games because these games take a whole console generation to be made. I hope Sony does my suggestion, it would definitely help them with game output, smaller budgets, smaller teams, shorter deadlines, focused project, clear vision and there we go.

[@Volyren]

It was 3,000 copies sold. There's numerical evidence. 750 max player on steam. Double that, 1,500 copies. (Not everyone plays at the same time.) Playstation. 98% of concord players had the first trophy. And 1,400 people had it on the closure announcement date. So... maybe add 100 to round up. 3,000 copies total. The 25k was what shipped to stores. "Units moved"

[@drezorwarlock4950]

I refuse to believe it. I mean, 400 million dollars and nobody, no one in a parent company asked any question along the way? That's insane!

[@reelroyalevizion800]

Just anti Pro lies Sony didn’t even fund the game and they only aquired Firewalk last year😂😂you are an idiot if you believe that 💩very easy lol up to debunk

[@ultimaterecoil1136]

They were entirely surrounded in yes men who were too afraid to critique it for fear of losing their jobs.

[@holographicfrog1503]

400m + they bought the studio for who knows how much

[@mizudog]

The end credits last 1 hours and 12 min. Twice that of GTA 5...

[@fffighter4]

We lost Senran Kagura for this failure that couldn't last 2 weeks.

[@Xjnza]

What's Movie Name?

[@LuoSon312_G8]

the anime? or the game?

[@KiomonDuck]

God Senran Kagura is fun. I remember playing it back on the ds.

[@brandonperez8977]

Senran Kagura is a JRPG game that has female characters with Fan service which Sony hates so much

[@KiomonDuck]

@@brandonperez8977 you forgot to mention it is high art!

[@robinthrush9672]

Iceland did the day without women thing. Work finally got done and HR complaints virtually disappeared.

[@patriknordin2274]

no, iceland did

[@robinthrush9672]

@@patriknordin2274 You are correct. Edit made.

[@jonsolo32]

All the toxic positivity quit also.

[@batboy555]

Ceos were quoted as saying we will get something done today.

[@jonathanchimaras5428]

What do you mean

[@Ashkihyena]

Sony gets what Sony deserves.

[@dopaminedukes2292]

Stop being hateful and get a life

[@shadowzzz0986]

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes and Sony has clearly fallen in love with stupid.

[@yes21g]

@@dopaminedukes2292 bro is defending dead game "don't touch my multi billion dollar company 😡"

[@Merica1776]

Well said brother, what it means is western developers are getting fired and games will be made back in Japan like they should be. They need to get away from Western Society it’s a freaking cancer

[@angelphoenix7784]

Indeed, when you have some going around telling people to call them "professor" when they never earned that title, you know you're doomed.

[@diegosilang4823]

400 million, maybe only 10 million went to game development. The rest are DEI kickbacks.

[@Parlimant_Strifey]

nah, just paying feminists to sit around at HR. Get with the times....women have useless jobs in Western corporations.

[@Neil.02]

And that’s 8 years down the drain. Remember when they called people, i quote, « talentless freaks »? The irony speaks for itself.

[@mirokuaec]

A generation of woke activists failing upwards with the help of dei... they should all be fired. But like roaches they'll be recirculated in the industry with their fake resumes

[@aahzmandiaz2767]

The irony has reached a new level, breaking the scale on it's way up.

[@gensor5146]

He called us talentless freaks yet his studio had to outsource to kinda finish the game 😂

[@Dr.DisrespectFan918]

8 Years of work to make Concord Some 13 year old: Creates Roblox Among us Tycoon in 15 minutes that has more players

[@jogregg6442]

The hubris of these people is astonishing. Are people being fired? They oughta be.

[@UltimusMagus]

The future of Playstation is bankruptcy if they follow the Concord formula. 🙄

[@davidaustin5622]

We'll charge $700 for the PS5 pro to make up the loss. - Sony

[@JimBobm]

Bingo

[@bessemmsakni3078]

And idiots are gonna buy that crap

[@dontcare7086]

No thanks. I have a refurbished Xbox one that is 13 years old and works great. I leave it running 14 hours a day running streaming apps. I bought a refurbished series X and will get another decade out of it with no repairs needed. This is why I don't buy Sony products because xbox consoles last forever and need no repairs.

[@escapism6617]

How on earth did they think that Concord - Fatty Pronoun Vacuum Cleaner Squad was going to be a successful game when it encapsulates everything gamers DON'T want? Jeez, the devs & higher-ups must have been working inside some sort of mad positivity bubble.

[@yunusgokcen174]

That must be it

[@nathanwilliams585]

They were their actual prof of that like if you look up why concord designs failed its mentioned multiple times

[@denisn8336]

IT WAS EVEN WORSE THAN WE IMAGINED

[@Official_RetroMania]

Guts where are you when we need you? Go and deal with these woke studios. We believe in you!

[@denisn8336]

@@Official_RetroMania Griffith is leading the woke. I must stop him

[@Official_RetroMania]

​@@denisn8336 Griffith name drop me: immediate PTSD. Guts we are all on your side go get that monster!

[@denisn8336]

@@Official_RetroManiathank you fellow struggler.

[@N7krogan9]

At this point everyone has made more money than Concord 😂😂😂

[@XeonProductions]

At no point was Concord the future of anything, it's the epitome of soulless corporate slop produced for the "modern audience".

[@Ragnar452]

The production cost is the main issue here. You don't spend this much for a game that will sell to a population of what? 0.5%? Maybe less? How can someone spend 400 millions for a market that small? I mean that is what the modern audience is. That is crazy.

[@senseikanacke69]

„Woke audience“ or better said not existing audience since they are rather busy glueing their 4sses on the roads

[@gouravchakraborty9801]

Sony alone should be investigated for money laundering scheme in the form of Concord

[@CodeThatTalks]

The juice doing the investigating are the same juice running the degeneracy scheme at the studios and in Hollywood. What's 400 million when the US is giving you and your people a minimum of 4 billion per year, every single year...minimum (it's much higher at the moment!). "We've investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing". Same folks, every single time.

[@baronhelmut2701]

Oh no. Again one of you, learn the difference between money laundering and money embezzlement. Money laundering means earning money you already have (to wash it pure of the illegal methods that earned you this money). Money embezzlement is stealing money using bureaucracy tricks.

[@zroreaper]

Hell of a tax break for this game to cut it losses from it

[@NoahGooder]

same with dustbin

[@Vernesk-k1u]

$400 million can polish a turd, but it can't change a turd into gold.

[@markmathisen3908]

If you polish a turd, you will only be left holding shiny shit. 😒

[@FrankS111]

I’ve seen people get fired for losing a deal worth a couple thousand dollars. Blowing $400 million and not every single person involved hasn’t been canned shows how a non serious of a society we have become

[@noble_wine]

One positive I can see in this is people who worked on the game won't be hired by any other company. SBI is having the same problem. No one will hire anyone from SBI. 😂

[@Vandassar]

All these studios getting slammed a number of years ago for "frat boy" culture. You know what happens in frat style culture? They tell each other that something is shit to their faces and everyone there hears it, arguments ensue and an agreement is met there and then. None of this "we need to have a meeting to discuss when to have a meeting about where a pimple goes on this one characters face that no one is ever going to notice".

[@onepoundofcheese8356]

That last part of your comment is so on point with so many institutions. My girlfriend is a director at a college and they'll have 5 meetings before the main meeting to discuss the color of the drapes in the auditorium.

[@Vandassar]

@@onepoundofcheese8356 People like to jump on the whole DEI thing. But let's be real, that's only a tiny part of the problem when it comes to these massive companies. The easiest test when it comes to how needlessly bloated a games company is, just see how long it takes for a small well known bug to get fixed. Indies will get it done as soon as they can get to the nearest laptop while EA would take so long the next installment of that franchise will come out and have the same bug still.

[@Vandassar]

@@onepoundofcheese8356 another thing I've noticed in recent times as well. If you actually look at the gameplay loop of the new Dragon Age. Gameplay, meeting, gameplay, meeting and so on. Once you notice it, you can't unsee it.

[@slick9308]

How can executives be so stupid? These people are making at least six figures to seven figures a year. Whoever green lit this should be fired immediately.

[@avarysse5782]

They're doubling down on what they know isn't selling... but then Concord was in production for 8 yrs?

[@bagzzz8899]

They are out of touch with reality. The reality they live in is numbers.

[@accelerator8558]

I think crucifie is the right word??

[@NathanCassidy721]

Because when you get to that level of success, you think you must be doing something right based on your own merit. Thus your ego expands and replaces what could be called talent.

[@Threesixtyci]

Who do u think got the 400 million?

[@reanschwarzer2187]

Sony close your California offices seriously

[@GIBBO4182]

Concord…the console killer! 😂

[@garudanathanael5257]

*Company killer

[@nootsgaming5517]

No thats the price of the ps6 because they might try for even more then the ps5 pro

[@Jailtino-p1q]

Sadly not. Buisness Insider are saying the PS5 Pro is going to sell like fresh hot bread. And this in combination with the fact that Sony won the fight/war against X-Box with the PS5 makes them self confident enough to make this prices. Of course it`s also to reduce the Impact from Concords failure, but they are going to do well with the PS5 Pro sadly.

[@MellowFungus]

​@@Jailtino-p1q Don't console companies (Sony/Microsoft) famously sell these consoles at a loss? I don't think a bunch of scalpers buying crappy PS5 Pros is gonna help them.

[@baronhelmut2701]

​@@garudanathanael5257??? What company would concord have killed ? 600 million is what sony (the largest consumer electronics manufacturer on the planet) has lying around on the toilet to wipe themselves.

[@cqwiii]

Ill sleep well tonight, dreaming of a coked out Sony CEO screaming at his board room "WHERE IS THE MODERN AUDIENCE!?" 💤🤤

[@setoredan]

Concord cost Sony $400 million dollars! Was called "The Future of PlayStation" by execs! Wonder if those execs did the honorable thing when it failed.

[@saifwar7251]

It's not finished yet they have other games like fair game and marathon it shit show

[@Optimusj1975]

They did in their heads. They embody the very company, so they gutted the company instead of their own bellies. It's backwards and don't make sense, but they are rich so they can do this.

[@NameIsDoc]

Of course not most of those execs are not Japanese

[@t.kersten7695]

the only "honorable" thing to do which is known to such people is most likely giving themselves a huge raise and a bonus too. that is how it usually goes. these people always make millions - even if their companies are on the verge of bankruptcy

[@corpoheathen2128]

Cutting off the game only ten days of a life cycle is telling when they didn't see the profits it wasn't making the 3 days of its launch.

[@SipherX05]

The executives must be braindead if they thought this DEI filled crap would be the future of Playstation 😂

[@therealjaystone2344]

$400 million is Hollywood level of spending

[@wombatillo]

Why did no one correct the course or even stop this lunacy? The emperor truly had no clothes.

[@palpatinethesenatehog7086]

​@@wombatillo Excuse me?

[@CookNut456]

@wombatillo That’s called getting fired and being Blacklisted from the Entertainment Industry

[@R0bertCc]

​@@CookNut456I rather be that than my name to be anywhere near that slop of a game* "if you consider that it was entertaining".. as a developer or whatever I wouldn't want to be known as.

[@2KGameKuber]

This much for a game? Money laundering for the military industrial complex?

[@arielamaya4177]

The execs at Sony would rather burn money than actually listen to the fans. The modern audience they are chasing don’t even buy their games. Just look at all those articles they made, glazing the game but I bet you the ones making those articles didn’t even buy the game.

[@TraumaCenter13]

$400 million!? How's is that possible?! It doesn't look like $400 million game?!

[@shadowzzz0986]

It takes a lot of time, money and resources to make a steaming pile of dookie apparently.

[@cousinzeke4888]

Graft.

[@The_Sodbuster]

The studio is in Seattle, the 8th most expensive city to live in. And I’m sure their hiring practices, are all DEI compliant, it takes 10 dei hires to do the work of one qualified employee. Plus overblown salaries, for that “living wage” we here so much about. Also I do believe Seattle made minimum wage like 25$ an hour.

[@led-0185]

200M already spent by early 2023, then 200M extra between then and release date spent on the studio and outsourcing to get it out the door as a "minimum viable product."

[@NoidoDev]

I calculated it: 437.5 devs for 8 years, 100k per year per dev - including all costs to the company, $50M for marketing.

[@24zawisza]

400 million for 12 days of existing... Let that sink in people... Let that sink in...

[@NoidoDev]

The game engine behind the game might be worth something. I guess some elements of the game are just the surface.

[@Warforged644]

The cost of two Deadpool and Wolverine’s…

[@BatMan-xe1vt]

Or 40 Godzilla Minus one

[@TxM_ToMi]

400 mil, 12 days , so about 33mil a day, they could've rent a whole red light district invite the whole japan for 2 weeks straight, and still have money left to pay employees to remake classics

[@joshuapboston1999]

Whoa! $400m!?! That is insanity! What a mess.

[@alexmaxwell3708]

all that money and no remaster of sly cooper nor even ape escape. but it's too late anyways. realism and guns are the toxicity of the trend. i miss adventures and fun and NOT WASTING MY MONEY ON BATTLE PASS and LOOTBOXES?.

[@NathanCassidy721]

And that is the budget BEFORE Sony bought Firewalk Studios. This is absolutely the biggest disaster EVER.

[@Trump2024FKH]

But they had a diverse group of characters how could it possibly fail???

[@tucoerquilenne6765]

Who in Sony management is getting fired for green lighting this. This proves PlayStation management has no idea what they are doing.

[@jaybor1683]

Nobody. This game's biggest champion succeeded Jim Ryan

[@Python_Bacon]

“The future of Sony.” HAHAHA. That just shows you how dumb they are.

[@shadowzzz0986]

Facts 😂

[@jonahp1127]

I’d trust a group of middle school Fortnite players to make better business decisions than these execs.

[@t.kersten7695]

@@jonahp1127 have these executives ever played a videogame in their entire life? such a huge misconception looks like the decisions where made by people who do not know anything about videogames at all and who do trust and believe everything what some activists have told them.

[@stedz2000]

maybe they know the future of Sony is shutting down 🤣

[@Shagaru_Bleed]

Actually true fucking lmao

[@d3vilmaycry25]

200 million made me smile, 400 million made me host a party.

[@R3tr0w1]

Soyny reaps what they sow

[@davidford3115]

They could have sown a game in the Legend of Dragoon fandom. That game has a bigger audience than "the modern audience".

[@MindDell]

I am making a list of EVERYONE involved with that game and watch any new games that are coming out with them in it. If even one name appears, instant skip and avoid.

[@SourRobo8364]

$400million! HOW? That's more than the budget for Avengers Infinity War! You could make 26 Godzilla Minus One films! This isn't sustainable. Rollback the budget and graphics fidelity.

[@Asertix357]

How? Because 90 percent of that budget got pocketed by people along the way and never went into production at any point.

[@themonsterunderyourbed9408]

Most of the money was probably spent on woke consultation firms..

[@rhyswong8976]

When you put it into that perspective. WTF!

[@Random_Banshee]

What graphics fidelity? Game looked atrocious visually, and i‘m not even talking about the odd artstyle. Visually this looked like a game from 15 years ago with slightly improved lighting, nothing more.

[@flankerchan]

Fucking insane.. 400M USD, 8 years for a game that doesnt last as long as common house flies.

[@wombatillo]

I wonder what kind of drugs were consumed to be able to rationalize $400M and declaring this kind of a trashfire "the future of playstation"?

[@jaysilva5854]

Some sketchy money laundering is going on there. You don't just drop a product that cost that much. They did it nearly instantly.

[@Ricardogs]

looks like many DEI are only for laundry sketchy finance money.

[@HeadHunter697]

With hearing about SB Inc using Mafia tactics to extort money, I wouldn't be at all surprised

[@baronhelmut2701]

Money embezzlement ! Not laundering. Can yall pub-table financial advisers get your terminology straight ?

[@jaysilva5854]

@@baronhelmut2701 Don't have to be an asshole about it but yeah thanks for helping me learn a new term. Cheers!

[@baronhelmut2701]

@@jaysilva5854 Sorry, but you were the 18th person I had to write it to. If it was money laundering, they would have to manage to sell it to us first.

[@ashm4938]

Well, they get everything they deserve. I genuinely wonder how many people worked on Concord and can now say "I told you so" to the rest of the team who threatened to destroy their careers if they didnt go along with every bad decision made.

[@Yarharsuperpirate]

Thing is, any competent dev that would have seen the writing on the wall would have quit the studio long before it released. Any half intelligent person working on a game like that would know well in advance that it was a doomed project.

[@stafdhaese]

Thats the sad part a developer that just wanted to make game and maybe make some money and thought well maybe its for the experience gained and now with this slop will probably never get a job in gaming again

[@NathanCassidy721]

Because they couldn’t. If you watch that clip that broke this news, Concord was the pet project of the Sony Executives. So even if the grunts tried to warn them, they would have been ignored. This is a project of sheer f*cking hubris.

[@led-0185]

They didn't speak up because they were not allowed. All they could do was continue working on a doomed projects to keep getting paid.

[@MegaRagingBunny]

They can't say shit to anybody, it's not how real life works. First to say "I told you so" will be the one to be fired.

[@stevencoghill4323]

I was a programmer/designer/project manager in the '80s and '90s. In the early '90 the buzz phrase of the day was "There are no problems. Just opportunities." So much stuff went south in the '90s. I tried to point out to my managers that problems need to be fixed. Opportunities do not. Fell on deaf ears and a lot of project tanked because we couldn't criticize the projects.

[@FrankS111]

How every single executive and leader involved with this project and putting people in charge of it are not all fired is mind blowing

[@R0bertCc]

Unemployment should be in their near future one would hope

[@WorldWalker128]

They probable 'blew' something else to keep their jobs.

[@daspooch8105]

"How did they make a million dollars? They only sold like 25,000 copies" Dude, $40 x 25,000 = $1,000,000 gross revenue, like Colin said. Basic math, man XD

[@Dryloch]

But they refunded all of that

[@daspooch8105]

@@Dryloch Yes, they did. But the point is they were talking about having made $1M in sales before shutting it down and doing refunds.

[@Haari04]

Those PS5 Pro prices makes sense now....

[@JimBobm]

Why not pass the buck onto your customers.

[@shadowzzz0986]

@@Haari04 Honestly you'd have to be a fool to invest in Sony at this point.

[@augustinyeovanmengomeobame9652]

​@@shadowzzz0986Welp, I heard that lot of people went out and bought the PS5 pro so they somewhat know their audience and who will go buy that overpriced shite.

[@shadowzzz0986]

@@augustinyeovanmengomeobame9652 Yeah there's a lot of stupid people out there.

[@andrew3006]

Star Wars level? I’m sure they wanted Empire Strikes Back but ended up getting the Acolyte.

[@garudanathanael5257]

Alright, kids. Say it with me: "GET WOKE, GO BROKE." That is the ultimate formula and can never be wrong no matter what. Remember that.

[@colehamrick6252]

It’s not just that it’s “woke” or whatever, just that nothing about this game made people want to play it

[@pixavier9746]

​@@colehamrick6252 exactly, BG3 is super woke too, you can even have relations with a "bear", which is near or basically *IN* the... Filia territory. But it is one of the best RPG games ever made, which is what made it a beloved game to everyone. People often forget that OW is really woke too, but it doesnt matter cause it still has amazingly designed characters, with cool and interestings storys *AND* a fun gameplay at a fundamental level, all of this completely replacing the "wokeness inclusivity" as the main way to appeal to the audience... And what a surprise, people still care for OW, even with everything that Blizzard has fumbled till this day.

[@lnll1lnlt1l]

​​​@@pixavier9746BG3 has ATTRACTIVE characters. These WOKE games are not, for the sake of DEI bullsht! So yes, DEI/Woke is still a factor of failure.

[@colehamrick6252]

@@pixavier9746 Yeah the bear thing is kinda the reason I haven’t played BG3

[@pixavier9746]

@@colehamrick6252 I mean... I'm sorry but you are being really dumb if you are avoiding to play one of the best games in the last decade just for the existence of a *completely optional and avoidable* s*x scene with one of the many characters you can have a relationship in the game. Like, get real bro.

[@Redpoppy80]

This makes perfect sense. Concord had so many problems and red neon light, disaster sirens going off and they still went forward. If I was a shareholder, I would demand either the board be fired or initiate a hostile takeover or sell the entire position. Sony has lost its identity since it moved its headquarters to the USA.

[@MrCjosue24]

"THE FALL OF PLAYSTATION" more likely

[@redram6080]

It's so bad they made PlayStation 5 20% more expensive in Japan to make up for it.

[@MrCjosue24]

​@@redram6080damn

[@shadowzzz0986]

Here's hoping.

[@starblossom05]

​@@redram6080 should surprice me if people in Japan will just counter attack by buying a 2/3 switch or buy at least 10 switch game just show them "you caint rise a price of you own failer" where the Honer

[@baronhelmut2701]

???? Sony is the largest consumer electronics manufacturer on the planet. They wipe their asses with this kind of money.

[@IntegerOfDoom]

If that was their vision for the "future of PlayStation" then I will never associate with them again.

[@Techgunius]

Someone give me 400 million, I'm making Concord, then f-ing off to money bags town with 400 million.

[@WorldWalker128]

Give me a 4'th of that with less than a 4'th of the amount of staffing and I could make a movie that might actually sell. I'm a complete amateur so if it still flops I at least have an excuse. Sometimes I think part of the reason that these projects fail so hard is because the budget is so huge. It gives the devs a 'throw money at the problem' attitude. Granted, the people in charge are probably the biggest portion of why it failed.

[@StrugglerChad]

So long Concord you won’t be missed neither is Sony.

[@FrankS111]

Living in your own bubble and completely divorced from reality has its consequences

[@AboutThatTho]

Imagine if they invested $400 million into bringing back the Socom franchise. That game if done properly would make Sony a ridiculous amount of money.

[@SmashKing17]

Lol what! No wonder the PS5 pro cost $700. This is Sony's worse generation ever!

[@daveb9402]

700$ without a BD drive. Most people will spend around 800$/€.

[@dymitchell]

I'd believe in flying unicorns before believing in that mythological "modern audience".

[@letit023]

Now we know why Sony priced the PS5 pro $700 😅

[@kizmo2317]

Coming from the same company that refuses to make a Bloodborne PC port and a GOOD Days Gone sequel, this doesn't surprise me in the least. Edit-Ironically, I think they are right about this being the future of the console. It has no future.

[@prezzeruk4054]

I found it hard to believe, that concord was the culmination of 8 years work. But that it cost 400 million as well....wat a joke!! Who ever green lit the project needs letting go, wat a complete balls up!

[@GA30901]

Executives are not gamers and don't think like gamers.

[@baronhelmut2701]

There is plenty of former gamers among executives. It just seems that arent allowed to tell a "diverse" team of engineers to get their shit in order.

[@EbelVids]

400 million, this will go down as the biggest gaming flop for sure now.

[@ares6294]

2024 is going well

[@billmelater6470]

8 years and $400 million? 8 years to not see this game would flop? 8 years to ignore the gameplay and terrible characters???

[@yunusgokcen174]

The consultants probably said it would be ok.

[@Asertix357]

And they'll blame it all on Trump.

[@yunusgokcen174]

@@Asertix357 How?

[@Asertix357]

@@yunusgokcen174 Because he was POTUS 8 years ago when it was being made. That's how.

[@yunusgokcen174]

@@Asertix357 That doesn't even make sense.

[@adriandj3141]

Wow even Stevie Wonder wouldn’t miss the mark this freaking bad.

[@markmathisen3908]

The epitome of, "There is no one so blind as they who will not see."

[@edreenpasang7537]

Overwatch do not even cost that much , this game not even have campaign or story base game in it . This is nothing more than just money laundering .

[@baronhelmut2701]

Money embezzlement ! Not laundering. Yeez do I have to type this indefinitely ?

[@edreenpasang7537]

@@baronhelmut2701 sorry english is not my main language so i have no idea how to call it .

[@echoesofmalachor3700]

Biggest oof in entertainment media history

[@peanutbutterjellybeans1336]

Who was in charge of this entire project needs to be fired or resign.

[@checkyoursixgaming]

Couldn't happen to nicer people.

[@mbob4337]

Concord is now known as Toxic Positivity.

[@shortwave737]

400 Million dollars and its all gone. Thats a dollar and change for every person in America. Ouch

[@NoidoDev]

I can't imagine that there's not some kind of game engine behind it, which they could salvage.

[@mrpepperami01]

This just shows you how disconnected people are at the top with what normal people actually want and like. They couldn’t be more off

[@PrimitiveBeast]

They don’t care what the people want. They want to tell the people what they want. They can get fucked lol

[@ancientdunlop]

When will companies STOP MAKING LIVE SERVICE GAMES! They are TERRIBLE.

[@themonsterunderyourbed9408]

Not to mention that market is already over saturated. I don't play live service games. I like games that have stories and endings. I don't play things in perpetuity like fortnite or hero shooters. Those that do tend to stick with the same game.

[@planguy9575]

But if you get one that sells you make "All The Money"! Got to keep dumping money into the slot machine. Eventually you will strike the jackpot. Any day now...

[@bassage13]

They'll stop when people stop giving them money. Simple.

[@yami2828]

all i see is sony getting what it deserves

[@TheAllSeeingEye2468]

And yet they won't learn a single thing

[@knightchef]

Hopefully now companies will start waking up to the fact that the people don’t want crap like this. Because I’m very sure they don’t want to consistently just lose $400 million time and time again just to spite their own pockets.

[@killerzillavolt2655]

Fucking hell, 400!?

[@oldmanjenkins771]

$400 mil divided by 8 is $50 mil, the “devs” and company were paid great in the last 8 years for nothing.

[@Hey1234Hey]

JUST 100 MILLION OFF FROM HALF A BILLION DOLLARS. NEARLY HALF OF BILLION DOLLARS FOR THAT GARBAGE LMAO

[@mdmn-ARCA]

The crazy thing to me is they were so dedicated to it, invested so much money into it and wouldn't hear any criticism about it, and then it comes out, flops hard, and they pull it in practically an instant. Like, I know business is business and crunching numbers showed it was better to nuke it than try to keep it on life support... but why did it only become business _after_ it was released? Where was this common sense the previous over half a decade?

[@SuperBennnnnnnnn]

They were gonna rebrand to Gaystation

[@GrayGecko22]

No wonder why PS5 pro cost $700+ lmao 🤣

[@ruben3305]

It wasn’t Sony who thought that this game was the future, it was these activists who are running Sony who thought that this was the future of Sony gaming.

[@kempolar9768]

"An old woman in a lineup of heros", just gonna forget about Ana, Reinhardt and Torb from Overwatch?? The concept is totally fine (particularly in a universe with way advanced medical tech), you just need to do it correctly.

[@TropicaIJay]

How do you dump 400m on this?? Do you know what kinda games you can find with this? You could've had a full Fledged AAA John wick game with that.

[@Asertix357]

Because they had to ensure there was no toxic masculinity to be found anywhere in the game that men might enjoy.

[@kezif]

budget missmanaging is real

[@turtlefrog369]

or a new breath of fire game that doesnt suck.... looking at ubisoft squeenix and sony.

[@yogendramisra9137]

Where did all the money go? I couldnt see it on the screen. A part of me thinks big gaming companies are running a Producers type scam, where if the product flops, you dont owe the investors and get to keep the money.

[@causewaybob3651]

That translates to roughly 5.7 Black Myth Wukongs, 4 Baldur’s Gate 3s or 2 Elden Rings interms of budget that’s crazy

[@batboy555]

Or 6 mars missions from India.

[@Dryloch]

25 Godzilla minus 1

[@Kyle7565]

How do you spend 400 million on a multiplayer game with a handful of maps? How is it even possible?

[@jamesmorris7844]

meanwhile Turbo Overkill was basically made by one person, this industry 100% must be dead and there just pretending there actually going well, no way a single publisher hasn't fell yet it makes no sense.

[@Grigorii-j7z]

150+ people spend 8 years making this? Did they work 10 hours a week?

[@taguro1006]

You can just tell lot of those “execs” are big at coins and needed a way to “wash” their money.

[@KannaOriba]

They pronouned too close to the sun 🤣🤣

[@StivenPerez-rb7tq]

400 down the freaking drainnn. There are idiots running the company

[@Archphoenix1]

400 million? pff, thats just 2 star wars series! next is EA with Dragon age.

[@evilgod5666]

This is why the PS5 Pro scam is happening