Sony Has Shutdown The Concord Studio, And They're First Mobile Game Studio

[@tayjn]

I still can’t believe Concord got a custom DualSense but games like Rift Apart and Forbidden West didn’t

[@RU46N2]

Dude concord was going to be the new it game for Sony with the secret level and the mobile game I am sure was the mobile version of concord. They were all in. But it was just not the right game.

[@J_A_P_E]

You can thank Playstation CEO Herman Hulst

[@Elayzee]

It’s only gonna get worse. The Sony bubble has completely burst and it’s only gonna get more obvious in the next few years. Expect 10 more Remasters for their RemasterStation 5 Pro to cover some of the losses from shuttering down Firewalk and Neon Koi.

[@RU46N2]

@Elayzee yeah it not that bad happing all over Xbox sending games to PlayStation to make some money back.

[@demosneokleous4877]

True

[@steveguyman]

the title should be “their” first mobile studio

[@peterGchaves]

I didn't want to be the guy who pointed that, but I got instantly annoyed once I saw it !! 😅 Come on, Ryan!!!

[@chrisvela4860]

Grammar police has arrived

[@Joshda039]

Nah it should be "there"

[@SweetKingTanner]

Lol

[@Jordan-yx2ek]

@@Joshda039no

[@Stunbunny]

If Sony operated like the Yakuza, Jim Ryan would be missing a pinky right about now.

[@ShadowWolfQc]

And Herman too

[@ArthropodSpidey]

​@@ShadowWolfQc Herman should lose a hand for Concord.

[@Oliver_Moonlight]

Not a pinky, the whole arm

[@thecapital-m2983]

The bungie deal lost him his pinkies long ago

[@xXRaffleXx]

For $400 million... they would just be missing 😂😂💀

[@guacamoleandsourcream]

Concord = Officially the biggest flop ever in gaming.

[@unicorntomboy9736]

Are there copies buried in the desert alongside the ET game

[@Dis2good]

Ummm.. not even close lol

[@Agenttaco-s17]

Definitely the costliest

[@guacamoleandsourcream]

@Dis2good Concord was shutdown, pulled from sale just days after launch and the studio closed just 2 months after it crashed and burned. It's officially the biggest flop ever in gaming.

[@fattiger6957]

I just hope Sony learns from it.

[@dethskullcrusher]

The announcement that surprised absolutely no one.

[@shlokjoshie]

I would be pissed if they didn’t. They shut down Japan studio which actually made good games.

[@J_A_P_E]

They really didn't tho.. they just downsized and renamed it Asobi Studios and actually make games now

[@NoonDragoon]

@@J_A_P_Ethe majority of staff at Japan Studios were let go, only a tiny fraction of that team remained at Team Asobi now, and they ceased all development of their projects. It was closed down.

[@J_A_P_E]

@@NoonDragoon Yea, like a downsizing or something

[@unicorntomboy9736]

@@NoonDragoon Does it matter anymore, when Team Asobi is the current Japan Studio. They are making successful games that actually sell now

[@matheusfigueiredo3181]

@@unicorntomboy9736 yet nothing like japan studios actually used to make... Astro bot is nice and all, but please... FUCKING BOODBORNE, Demon's Souls, Siren, Shadow of the Colossus, Gravity rush... Japan Studios was insane.

[@TurtleChad1]

All 10 people who wanted Concord back are heartbroken

[@frostsplash]

It's me. I'm people 😔

[@dethskullcrusher]

All they/them 10 fluid gender individuals (or not) i don't want tu assume anything, are indeed heartbroken.

[@jackduggan6138]

​@@dethskullcrusher Whar does their gender have to do with anything? It literally added nothing to your comment except to seem edgy.

[@mena10ss]

@@jackduggan6138 Considering the game was primarily a flop due to it's gender ideology pushing, that's why.

[@Dis2good]

I thought it was 9 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@animedrawer69]

You can’t lose that much money and not get shut down. They could have spent that money on a bunch of Astrobot sized games.

[@D3D3D]

Concord 's platinum trophy must be the rarest in Playstation's history. I can't imagine a bigger bomb for a AAA game.

[@cringo08]

68 people have it. Not many people actually played the game so it's not even close to being the rarest.

[@8bitArtist]

the rarest is probably crypt of the necrodancer because of the insane difficulty of it.

[@Deliveredmean42]

​@@cringo08are you suggest there is something rarer than less than 68 people?

[@MichaelM28]

Hellblade 2???

[@DavideDavini]

@@MichaelM28come on. It was critically acclaimed and people who like that kind of game love it. Might have sold squat but it’s not even close to being the bomb Concord was.

[@CorruptedDogg]

And here’s why this is good for the Parappa the Rapper franchise

[@faidou9954]

Care to explain how?

[@Marcus_K]

@@faidou9954 Most people who comment on Mystic's videos are hardcore Xbox fans, so when Concord becomes a defunct IP like Parappa, it's a win for them.

[@Tectosaurus]

their*

[@littlebigmarc]

Money wasted on a game no one asked for. Sony is so obsessed with live services. They will not learn for this.

[@antagonist7]

Well helldivers worked so of course they are going to try again..

[@malangadong_1685]

Hulst has already issued a statment saying they will in fact be purusing live service in the future. Hoping they fail and he finally gets canned

[@AXL.]

As someone else said, Helldivers 2 worked, and that's what they want: to throw shit at the wall and see what sticks...

[@TheDanimal91]

Helldivers 2 worked and sony still tried to fuck it up. That's all they know how to do anymore

[@dethskullcrusher]

@@littlebigmarc Is the whole industry not just Sony.

[@eW91dHViZSBpcyBjZW5zb3JzaGlw]

talent? you cant be serious.

[@PillzBerry27]

Sony needs to get back to their basics. Make great games stop making live and game as a service games and start bring back their old IPS to reboot.

[@antagonist7]

Please no more reboots .. just let the ips die and create new ips

[@PillzBerry27]

@@antagonist7 Games complaining about Killzone Socom and Resistance. Nothing wrong about new IPS but Sony needs to stick that what works for them and stop being a follower.

[@MrLennyb22]

Getting back or staying to their basics doesn't solve the problem of too long game development combined with high costs, that's why they're eventually will release games day and date on pc to make up the money they don't make from their own platform. Some Playstation extremists don't understand that when you have a combined ps4/5 base of 100 million plus but sell 10 - 20 million copies of their exclusives, it's just not enough to sustain.

[@antagonist7]

@@PillzBerry27 killzone did not really sell that well, only 2 million sales on their latest, same as resistance, they dont have any developer to do socom. Its better if they can justmake a new IP, the important thing is it just needs to be fun

[@JohnnyX262]

This new Sony is all about chasing an easy buck. Why do you think we are getting so many remasters and they charge for upgrade patches

[@GhostofKaioken]

Many indie games are actually doing so well with good ideas and/or mechanics never seen before

[@unicorntomboy9736]

@@GhostofKaioken I have recently bought Dredge. I really like that game, it is a fishing boat game with a lovecraftian cosmic horror twist, which i love, as a fan of lovecraftian horror novels.

[@Floura0100]

I speak English as a second language and we learned the difference between they’re and their as kids. My grammar still suck but come on man.

[@tristanedwards7302]

A surprising amount of native speakers don't know the difference. It's pretty baffling

[@unicorntomboy9736]

I saw this coming from a mile away. Sony should never have bought the developer. This Jim Ryan live service push is proving to be a horrific failure. Tey also shut down Neon Koi too, and they didn't ship a single game. Sony just needed to coast along, and just keep on riding their successes from the PS4 era. Now thsy are screwing things up and rocked the boat too much.

[@fattiger6957]

Yep. Every single dollar spent was wasted. Sony got absolutely nothing out of the studio. Even the talent is useless since the studio's culture was based around toxic positivity (aka criticism was not allowed)

[@enjoygaming-x2u]

I hate Jim Ryan

[@blackraven85_1]

You really think it was just Jim Ryan? Herman Hurst HAD a hand in everything too and he's still there as a head of PlayStation. This will keep continuing

[@Pixeltwist22]

Jim Ryan and Hermen Hulst are the worst heads PlayStation ever had. PS5 is riding on the good graces of the PS4

[@unicorntomboy9736]

@@blackraven85_1 It will be the ruination of PlayStation then Who else do you expect me to name? Jim Ryan was the head boss of the whole circus

[@onesadlittleboy]

So glad Sony decided to axe Firewalk. There was no hope of ever seeing any good games from that bunch of talentless losers

[@flameguy3416]

Good. Now they should learn from their mistakes and not release such a game ever again. Gamers don't want that.

[@johncra8982]

people are saying this is the biggest flop in gaming history. it's actually the biggest flop in entertainment history.

[@33583]

And nothing of value was lost

[@RenasMayi]

Money was lost

[@33583]

@@RenasMayi hopefully lessons were learned as well

[@et2k166]

@@RenasMayi i think he ment stuff that has value to the players, not the company

[@RenasMayi]

@@et2k166 Ik, but they technically lost $400M according to analysts. They could've remake all PS1 exclusives with that money 😭

[@NoonDragoon]

Hundreds of developers losing their job due to Sony's mismanagement is definitely a loss, I can't believe the flippant disrespect of this comment.

[@TracerX]

No way they actually did it XDDD And people thought they were gonna bring this shit back.

[@arunabhmahanta]

FINALLY SOME GOOD NEWS! Yay! I’m so happy, words can’t explain how I feel! 🙌

[@denvercub1974]

Sony needs to leave Commiefornia and bring back their main headquarters back to Japan.

[@vdpt9911]

Completely genuinely, is there anything that you think would make them undo that decision?

[@RealBadGaming52]

WOKE is Sonys baby in America and that will never change

[@TheRockjoze]

This is all Firewalk Studios' fault. They started developing Concord way before they were bought by Sony, then continued to develop the game spending millions of dollars, and the result was a generic hero shooter with poor character design that was shut down in less than two weeks. Sorry for the developers that lost their job. Hopefully, they can find a new place soon.

[@fattiger6957]

Based on all the leaks coming out, the game was always bound to fail. And the studio could have never made anything decent. No criticism and no negativity (even reasonable) was allowed. Sony deserves some of the blame for buying this nobody studio and throwing hundreds of millions of dollars at them without properly overseeing them. But the studio was rotten.

[@bymicromize]

Actually it was an arena shooter. Marketing also failed unfortunately.

[@antagonist7]

This! Im really annoyed that most youtubers only blame sony for this but doesnt mention the developers name, yes sony has some blame but mostly it is firewalk studios fault which is a nobody developer, they are known for what? Of course it would fail

[@NoonDragoon]

@@antagonist7 Sony bought the developer, provided extra funding, and Hermen Hulst himself championed the game for years, they are responsible for the failure. If Sony isn’t responsible for Concord then they also aren’t responsible for Spider-Man, God of War, or Horizon.

[@moister3727]

Yeah, 'cause Sony is innocent one in this situation. Sure, sure

[@cytranmusiqua7440]

What an absolute major waste of time, money and talent.

[@lemonlime8949]

“Talent”

[@cytranmusiqua7440]

@@lemonlime8949 you can hate on the directors all you want, but there were hundreds of people just keeping their heads down doing the best job they could, trying to build their portfolio who just lost months, if not years, of their lives making something they won't even be able to show as part of their portfolio for future job applications. Screw Sony, the higher ups at Firewalk, and anyone else who enabled this to happen.

[@antagonist7]

​@@cytranmusiqua7440people forget that this isnt entirely sonys fault, its the studio firewalk, nobody seem to get that this a nobody studio that has not made a game, so a studio that has no experience flopping hard is not really suprising if you look at the studio. Yes sony is at fault at greenlighting it but they also greenlight great games and bad ones and they just need to learn from it..

[@MrHenrikAndersson]

What talent?

[@danbooke2001]

​@cytranmusiqua7440 And guess what? For all their complacency, they made a bad game. They shouldn't be rewarded for that. They DESERVED to lose their jobs.

[@julianburrell5058]

Sony’s live service efforts feel like the dumbest corporate me-tooisms. Not a single ounce of creativity, just a shameless ripoff in the pursuit of a buck.

[@spark556]

Flopcord is a disgrace

[@mac1bc]

Was/were is how it identifies

[@Cryptic0013]

Nature is healing.

[@josephparkin1810]

Their*

[@johnyoung5413]

Biggest embarrassment in Sonys history. Fair games needs cancelling before they go through this again

[@danbooke2001]

And Marathon.

[@johnyoung5413]

we can only hope for both

[@Actionfigure_fit]

The story of Concord will be studied for Centuries… catastrophic failure doesn’t even begin to cover it’s failure, hopefully the lesson Sony learns is stop trying to force live service games on your base, we don’t want it… take this L and get back to making banger single player games

[@Hyrule409]

Has nothing to do with live service. Helldivers 2 was an absolute blockbuster success. For Concord, most people didn't even know the game existed. And out of the minority of gamers who DID know about it, they either didn't buy it because of the DEI characteristics, or they determined that their competitors were better options.

[@Actionfigure_fit]

@ lmfao please explain DEI for me???

[@MiamiSunrise]

Imagine creating a game where contesting game making decisions was not acceptable and it was led by toxic positivity where it shat on the progress and process of a game that could have been better but wasnt. So bad in fact it came out already in a casket⚰️ and became the biggest flop in gaming history. Unbelievable. What a stupid mistake Concord is.

[@angryoldcanadian3905]

what will the 'modern audience' do now?

[@lemming9984]

Change their hair colour from green to blue?

[@City_Lights.]

Not surprised, no way the studio could have survived such a massive failure.

[@yousufzahid6949]

Good. Can we get back Evolution studios now please

[@gameplay4u306]

I'm glad we're in a time period where we can actually answer with our wallets. Good Solid Games Succeed & This type of DEI WOKE 💩 failing massively. Glad they shut down, hope SONY learn something.

[@Overqualification]

“And they are first mobile game studio”

[@diontelatte]

its “their” but luv this channel

[@skootdiggity1301]

It's

[@raheem201231]

@@skootdiggity1301No, ‘its’ is correct

[@Storm23PS3]

@@raheem201231 No...

[@lemonlime8949]

@@raheem201231no, it’s “it”s”, short for “it is”

[@JohnnyX262]

In an Alternate Universe, The Last of Us Factions 2 launched free to play and its a raging success. It has set a new record for a free to play games. Older titles and IPs are getting new life as PlayStations backward compatibility program hits high gear and is now able to play physical copies of PS2 and PS3 on PS5. A second gaming boom is upon us according to the media. Insomniacs upcoming game leaks as Resistance collection with a fresh new online competative and cooperative multiplayer. Life is good.

[@SteadyAscension]

I don’t understand how Sony was this blind to Concord. Either release the game free play or don’t invest 8 years to make a game with no audience.

[@AddMehh]

The haters eating good today (including myself)

[@Timmzy27]

They should have let Firewalk try to make a single player experience and then see if they should be shut down. Concord was crafted well, just no one wanted it

[@OneRandomVictory]

Too much money already sunk into this game already. Better to end it now than to dig yourself a deeper hole.

[@Timmzy27]

@ no, a completely new different game. There’s a lot of good talent Sony are just throwing away

[@OneRandomVictory]

@@Timmzy27 You don't hand more money to someone that just checked a small fortune into the fire. It would be different if this was a veteran studio that had proven themself in the past but this was their first game and it was quite possibly the worst disaster in gaming history.

[@He_isI]

@@Timmzy27That answer is why you don’t run a multi million dollar company.

[@lemming9984]

Even a single player game would have been infested with DEI.

[@jhonadrianclark5203]

Hopefully this guy this time accepts that Concord $ucks and is worst than ET.

[@jonathanpabon4477]

I'm actually happy the Concord studio is gone for good. About time the videogame industry learned their lesson. Give us more titles like Stellar Blade and Space Marines!!!

[@Hshm27]

Sony just rereleased the Uncharted 2 and Killzone 2 multiplayer. They make the best multiplayer games when it was just an additional game content and not a main game.

[@scarrantsandreviews]

The problem with multiplayer games is that people say they want a standalone experience that's not a "forever game" but do they actually? They say they would have supported a hypothetical "The Last of Us Factions 2", for example. A $40-$60 AAA multiplayer game that you play like a single-player game (put like 50-60 hours into it and then put it down forever). Something tells me they wouldn't have bought that. Something tells me people would have complained if such a game costed anything other than $0.00. And that's why developers feel compelled to make any multiplayer centric game a "forever game" or a "game as a service". Its basically mandatory that multiplayer games be free-to-play so they need to make money somehow. Publishers definitely are being greedy with some of their BS they put in these games but its kind of on gamers and their narrow view of what's worth price of admission that this is how publishers view multiplayer games. Its the same reason I scoff anytime someone claims to miss the "old Sony who took risks and made risky, weird games." Yeah? Where were you when Puppeteer only sold like 15K copies. I remember games like Gravity Rush, TearAway, Concrete Genie, The Last Guardian, and so many other "smaller games" that people now bemoan the lack of being like a black mark against Sony. They have "little weeb games, nit enough AAA blockbusters". Welp, now you get nothing but AAA blockbusters

[@tacos4419]

TLOU factions is one of the best multiplayer experiences of all time. Hands down. The fact that TLOU II didn't have factions is disappointing. No one wants this live service crap. People just want a classic multiplayer option in addition to a great story mode.

[@aljen181]

*Their

[@danbooke2001]

Good riddance. Also, I am so tired of people defending the developers. THEY MADE A BAD GAME. They don't deserve well wishes, or "hope the land on their feet" comments. They are the ones that made these piles of trash, AND they've already been paid for their work.

[@jimilmontiel2099]

Well, the character designs look truly awful

[@unicorntomboy9736]

Truly awful indeed. Overwatch is the gold standard for character designs in the hero shooter genre

[@ccricers]

As someone playing Overwatch a look at one of Concord's characters I was thinking, "we have Venture at home".

[@MrHenrikAndersson]

At least now the characters have the pronouns was/were.

[@I-O-I-]

This is the wildest flop for Sony PlayStation ever, and it’s baffling how Hermen Hulst was made CEO when he should be signing his resignation today alongside Firewalk, the studio he pushed to buyout and invest almost half a billion dollars.

[@deedeemerry1295]

Jim Ryan did that. Hulst just agreed with it

[@AndersonTenecela]

Honestly I don’t find this story funny but rather depressing because of those employees who are losing their job while the upper board gets no consequence and this is coming from someone who’s been studying to become both a game designer and writer for a few years

[@mena10ss]

Except that some of the devs themselves were toxic af, so they deserve just as much blame as the higher ups. It's only unfortunate for the few employees (if any) that had nothing to do with it's agenda pushing.

[@dripfoe_3307]

Hope you have a secondary

[@unicorntomboy9736]

I am a professional writer

[@lemming9984]

The devs had EIGHT YEARS to get a better job. If they stayed, they obviously agreed with forcing "The Message". They got what they deserved.

[@ThatGuyNorm]

Why oh why do you develop your first game and infuse it with divisive content that alienates 99% of gamers? It makes ZERO sense. I really hope they learn from this.

[@Kenichitr]

They will learn nothing from this. I expect these devs to to attack the gamers calling them bigots for some time. These people genuinely think that they made a perfect game and we only didn't buy this game because we are bigots.

[@stephen_ne8406]

herman holst should be fired

[@terribletimes902]

I really don’t think it’s fair that new studios are not allowed to fail anymore. A single failure on their first game marks them for death. That’s not good for this industry and not something to be celebrated. If people bemoan why so many games now are remakes or sequels and nothing new is being made, this is why.

[@deathtrooper2048]

The problem is that these games have too high budgets and development times

[@Mmachine88]

Concord has been marked as one of if not the biggest flop in the industry for a reason... They literally failed the most than any other studio. You can't really fail any more than that. I mean you can... if your being funded by a company at the top who doesn't mind blowing 400+ million bucks.

[@terribletimes902]

@@deathtrooper2048True, it’s just not sustainable anymore. In the 2000s to mid 2010s, studios could have multiple fails in a row without being shutdown before hitting their stride. If it weren’t for that, there’s probably a lot of amazing games we wouldn’t have today.

[@terribletimes902]

@@Mmachine88The 400 million number is almost certainly made up. A large portion of these budgets is marketing, and a game with as little push as Concord had is not blowing more money than GTAV. It doesn’t make any sense if you think about it for two seconds.

[@Mmachine88]

@terribletimes902 No, actually, if you think about it for more... than 2 seconds, you'd understand and realize why it is, in fact, possible. You're clearly unaware how live service games work, especially when you're creating a game 100% designed for live service. This was also a game that has been quoted as "Sonys star wars", meaning they were hoping for this game to be the starting point for more stories, more games, and other things to branch off from. This would also result in Sony wanting to spend more money on it. It's clear as day that we did not see everything they had made or was in development for future updates and such were not representative of the whole game we received. I have zero idea why you'd choose GTA 5 as the game to compare budgets with. They'd literally a more than decade old game. Go listen to Colin's explanation for why the 400million number was reported on. Colin from Last Stand Media, who is the individual that had the source regarding the games issues. He had a follow-up to what he initially reported said after people questioned the amount spent on the game. And if you were following the studios development or Sonys decisions to purchase and fund various studios in recent years, you'd already know the development issues with concord. And it's completely untrue that the game didn't have much of a marketing push. Totally false, and on top of that, it is very likely there was aditonal marketing planned for the game that was then pulled due to reception of the game ever since the beta. They also for sure spent money on the game showing up in that show about games on Amazon. There was also a big merchandise lineup of things to buy related to the game that was put out after the game released. It's surprising to me that you can't wrap your head around and ideas or ways the budget could have been out of wack.

[@sirlaughalot0785]

I still cannot believe 8 years went into Concord’s production, to then immediately get shutdown the moment it sees the light. A complete and utter waste of time. I can’t imagine how the developers must feel, but I can’t help but think all of this could’ve been avoided if the people at Sony had a shred of foresight to see how this was going to turn out.

[@danbooke2001]

They probably feel fine. Especially since they've already been paid for their work. They made a bad game and shouldn't be rewarded for this. They deserved to lose their jobs and I don't feel sorry for them.

[@KristianNikolla8]

I truly hope that Sony/Playstation as a whole learns from this

[@Zarath0sThanat0s]

Nah. After this, the suits will just give themselves a pay raise and lay off even more devs

[@jessep5280]

Fairgame$ coming up lol. I feel like PlayStation fans should brace themselves for the launch of that game

[@cringo08]

They said they're moving forward with their other live service games so they haven't learnt a single thing over than don't spend hundreds of millions on a single one.

[@eliaxxz5360]

Imagine spending all this money on acquisitions then shutting down the studio a year later. No valuable IPs, only negative cashflow. crazy.

[@PaulM68322]

Axing the whole studio proves that Sony didn't think they had any talent behind the scenes. When you have people in the background demand you call them 'the professor' or be at risk of being reported to H.R and be fired, coupled with some of their devs open sexism against men on twitter, why on earth would you want to keep them around. I'd be sorry for the developers who genuinely wanted to make a great game that were dragged down with the loons, but that studio needed to go for how it was being run.

[@Ha1frican]

There’s no way they don’t significantly cut the live service games they announced. They are saving face right now but just like they said they were taking Concord offline to explore new options, and it now seems they probably knew this was the outcome back then. Aside from Marathon I really don’t think any of the games from that State of Play are safe

[@krazygreekguy]

Voting with your wallet always works in the end. It's the only language these scumbag corporations understand lmao. This sucks for people losing their jobs, but all these major flops are necessary for the entertainment industry to heal and course-correct. This will be an excellent example of what not to do, that will never be forgotten, and rightfully so. These corporations are not entitled to anyone's hard-earned money. We don't need them, they need us, the customer, to survive. Keep reminding them. It's working.

[@stardustdragonx3612]

They was so diverse and inclusive, wooooow didn't see this coming.

[@leospeedleo]

Imagine building your brand around high quality singleplayer experiences and then try to make live service and mobile games 💀 who could’ve thought this would go horribly

[@brandonscott3423]

And people think the ps5 generation is good blows my mind

[@nonyabusiness-i6m]

This is pretty unbelievable. It's like the Star Wars prequels but fans could prevent it from happening. Nice!

[@aznhomig]

This is what happens when you trend chase instead of focusing on your core strengths of single player narrative games.

[@RealBadGaming52]

All that Lore for Concord now wasted

[@c.i.q.s65]

Hermen Hulst believed in this game. He considered it as the future of PlayStation. He told Sony to invest 400M dollars into this game to ensure its development and acquire the studio behind it. He was overconfident even though the studio had never made a single game in the past. He mismanaged Firewalk and allowed the game to be produced under toxic positivity. This guy remaining head of PlayStation and avoiding total accountability is beyond me...

[@deedeemerry1295]

Jim Ryan was in charge. Jim Ryan also said it was the future. Hulst was his underling. theyre both incompetent

[@mravg79]

@@deedeemerry1295 please correct me if I’m wrong but back in 2023 when studio was bought was it still Jim in charge? Or was it Herman?

[@Jocaju3]

Sometimes Sony frustrate me, why they have Jade Raymond working on live service game? Let her work on a single-player game. They are going to lose her because they will probably shut that studio down when her game fail because many PS fans are not into game as a service.

[@JaySongz100]

It was her game and team, what the hell are you talking about. I swear half the people on here complaining and commenting are really talking out their ass.🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤨

[@Elayzee]

GOOD. We don’t want or need studios or diva-devs like those that infested the walls of Firewalk Studios.

[@jaydee2847]

Pronouns: was/were

[@mirceanmt]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@balaam_7087]

Usually I despise any comments along these lines, but this was legitimately funny. Well played, sir *or* madam.

[@JPG_4507]

😂

[@Joshda039]

Damn

[@CorruptedDogg]

Admit it, you had that joke on deck for weeks

[@xgamerzeex7701]

They should make the assets free since the game is no more. just like Paragon from Epic Games.

[@DalazG]

Couldn't care less about the Concord studio. Just a woke mess and complete waste of money. I'm losing any attachment i had with Sony since closing down GREAT studios like Their ONLY first person shooter studios, zipper interactive, and guerilla cambridge (who were a small team and low budget) was a terrible decision. Followed by closing down the other great studios like Japan Studio, and the only arcade racer studio Evolution Games. Killing of London Studio was the last straw. Naughty Dog under Druckmann aren't the same studio anymore, Insomniac beside ratchet and clank only make superhero games, guerilla just make horizon which is a but stale

[@matheusfigueiredo3181]

The one who should have been fired is Herman Hulst. Executives keep on making the worst possible decisions and them pushing the blame for their infinite stupidity to the devs.

[@antagonist7]

Well it is the devs fault for making a game that noone wanted, the executives are just as dumb by greenlighting the project but it is still the devs fault

[@Hyrule409]

​@antagonist7 Not that I'm siding with the devs but you literally will make what the executives tell you to make or you won't have a job anymore.

[@TheOff1ceFan]

This is what happens when you get out of your lane. Sony just needs to stick with single player games.

[@yurithebrave]

I might be wrong, but I think the multiplayer aspect wasn't the issue here lol

[@savagex9000]

@@yurithebrave haha

[@CrazyPlatinum92]

Sony PlayStation be liked We doing enough Ips to put for Loyal Gamers hello Killzone, Socom, Resistance...

[@dapperfan44]

That's what really upsets me. That 400 million would've been a lot better served elsewhere, making things we actually asked for. One of those IPs. A new proper Ape Escape, which hasn't had a new game in roughly 15 years, nor a new proper main title in almost 20. Parappa hasn't had anything but remakes and ports since 2002's Parappa 2. They could've done A-ny-thing else. Ugh.

[@CrazyPlatinum92]

@dapperfan44 I rather would take another The Order 1886 than this junk

[@logang9134]

Think of how many games and projects couldve been made with that budget alone...

[@tomaszstarzZz]

They could easily do Concord free to play. But I think they wanted to make sure that Marathon will be an actual success and sticks around. Different type of shooter but now you have less competition.

[@tombotamist1174]

Could the neon koi game have been a concord mobile title? We know they thought this would be the new Star Wars for PlayStation. Could they have started development as something else, then get told to shit focus to a concord game and that’s why they are getting shuttered along with firewalk??

[@dapperfan44]

That's a really good theory.

[@tombotamist1174]

@@dapperfan44 I just can’t see a reason for shutting the studio, like I can get development hell but shutting the whole studio? Makes no sense

[@bpcgos]

Rest In Pieces, Firewalk Studios, you'll never be missed... RIP to Japan Studios, London Studios and other Sony studios sacrificed for Concord to be made

[@naturalfitness-1]

I'm going to lay down what Playstation needs to do. Instead of copying what live service is doing. Why not bring back single player games with a multiplayer modes like the PS3/PS4 days. They could have a great single player experience and have a mix of old school multiplayer and live service. They do that and keep away from the DEI bs and they would have success. They have so many IPs to pick from. Killzone, Socum, Last of us, uncharted, Mag ect

[@tacos4419]

This is exactly what they need to do, but I'm not optimistic about modern Sony. They actually thought or hoped that a game like Concord would flourish. The PS3 golden days aren't coming back.

[@naturalfitness-1]

@tacos4419 if their games keep failing, they will learn eventually. Thank god we have third party studios making games like stellar blade, wukong, and Space marine 2

[@hayabusa09]

Concord - Was/Were

[@krazygreekguy]

Too bad the modern audience didn't show up. They keep telling us not to buy it if we don't like it, so.. 🤷🏻‍♂

[@-Down-D-Stairs-]

Good. This is the marketplace beginning to heal the industry.

[@MyztikalForcez]

At least Sony closed down a studio that deserved to be closed. Tango Gameworks didn't deserve what Microsoft did to them...

[@alexlyster3459]

To be fair, MS clearly tried to find a buyer for the studio, couldn't at first, but then after closing them managed to work with Krafton to reopen the studio.

[@gouravchakraborty9801]

At least Tango Gameworks is owned by Krafton

[@georgem2768]

Hermen Hulst needs to get fired ASAP.

[@dapperfan44]

I agree. He might actually be worse than Jim Ryan.

[@matheusfigueiredo3181]

@@dapperfan44 He definitely is

[@DJPUPPETMASTER-RESURRECTED-]

Not defending him but why?He just close 2 shitty studios

[@BrianBaastrup]

Yeah this does not seem to be much on Herman. The studios did not do well unfortunately.

[@MyztikalForcez]

​@@dapperfan44Is he, tho? It was Jim Ryan who bought and approved firewalk/Concord...

[@Benjamas-]

What a waste of money, time and talent on concord. It was blatantly obvious from the get go that game was not it. They should also be killing off the other live service games they have announced like the stealing game. What they could and should have done was taken the work that had been done on Last of Us 2 factions, used another studio for ongoing dev, and used ND as a consulting and story writing guide. That way ND wouldn’t be tied down for on going development and move on to their next project. If they really looking for live service, they need to grow it organically, do rapid concept and dev internally, get themselves something worth developing, do it into early access or small time release, develop a community and have them help guide development.

[@AgentAlmost]

I'm actually surprised they're completely writing off Concord as a loss. That was most people's expectation sure, but I was still certain they'd change some of the designs around a bit, make it free to play and introduce battle passes to try to earn at least some of their 400m back. Or even just go F2P largely unchanged to give people an incentive to subscribe to plus. Why not try an infamous flop for only the price of PS+? So when I heard they were intentionally not pulling the Secret Levels Concord segment I figured it's because they were hoping it would generate some hype for its return a year or two later. Then last week we hear about those mysterious Steam updates. Welp I guess not.

[@Syrhis]

"And They're First Mobile Game Studio" Ah yes, Sony, the first mobile game studio!

[@InFlamesor12]

I have no issue in closing this studio, but I stikk have several issues in ckosing evokution studios, that dev team made such bangers as the motorstorm trilogy and the fantastic drivelcub a game reveered by many in retrospect, because that game was ahead of tis time and still is relevant .

[@tropic.media.studio]

The sad part is that they will most likely say “ it died cause it was an FPS” and not “ it died cause it was a live service”

[@brucevandermescht6957]

That's the power of the "modern audience" right there. Pander to them and shut your doors.

[@MashtyxYank]

The description LMAO

[@jboat6368]

Saying concord failed solely due to negative publicity is a dubious stance. It would be more sound to say I really thought good but that was not the general consensus. Over wise every game can blame its failure on just bad publicity. A boring game regardless of polish is a bad game.

[@dlpuia]

Sucks for the people losing their jobs, but when they close single player focused studios like PixelOpus I feel sad, and when they close live service or mobile game studios I feel that's the universe balancing itself. Karma is a b**ch.

[@WaleedZanbagi]

Lady and gentleman...we got them

[@smgofdvld]

Target acquired 😀

[@emil4169]

Haven will be the next target 😂 Well done Jimmy for destroying the brand 🥴

[@blackraven85_1]

Bungie is next too

[@lemonlime8949]

Blame Hulst

[@Jayrehm]

How ironic the first Concord was an airplane in the 80’s/90's called the "Future of civil aviation" cost tons of money to develop, flew only few days, cost too much money to maintain, died. I think that name is cursed lmao

[@SahilG23]

Force studios to make multi-player games and later shut them down after release. This is strong theme in the industry..

[@blackraven85_1]

Good. Such a toxic studio. They shouldn't have called fans they are trying to market toward "talentless freaks” on Twitter and even more so develop a soul-less game.

[@fattiger6957]

Even the internal culture of the studio was faulty. They were completely obsessed with toxic positivity where any form of criticism was banned.

[@gajofixe76]

To be fair, one (very sad) individual does not represent an entire team.

[@blackraven85_1]

@@fattiger6957 Yep.

[@alexlyster3459]

I hold that more against the particular community manager that said it rather than the whole studio. I doubt it was an opinion every last member of the studio shared. God knows I wouldn't want to be judged by the actions of every HR or community manager at a company I worked for.

[@lemming9984]

The devs had EIGHT YEARS to get a better job. If they stayed, they obviously agreed with forcing "The Message". They got what they deserved.

[@getsuckedd5685]

Hopefully they've learned how to listen to gamers through all this wasted money and effort.

[@dapperfan44]

You would think. I don't have much faith in that.