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Gaming's Worst Trend Came To A Head In 2024

Chasing trends produced some of the industry's biggest flops ever.

Inverse

As PlayStation turns 30, 2024 has seen some of the brand's highest highs and lowest lows

Year in Review | Franchise celebrations, PS5 Pro, ludicrously expensive failures, former Xbox exclusives, layoffs, and buyouts – it's been a rollercoaster anniversary year for PlayStation

GamesRadar

Marvel Rivals director says Concord 'didn't bring any unique value' that would convince players to give it a shot, but admits that no one can really predict what will or won't succeed

Thaddeus Sasser says there's a "switching cost" to bringing in players who are already committed to other games.

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Marvel Rivals director reckons Concord flopped because it wasn't original enough: "I don't think anybody can accurately predict this"

"I think the trick is that you need to have that reason that people want to come and play your game."

GamesRadar

Marvel Rivals debuts with one of the biggest free-to-play launches in Steam history after the year-long live service bloodbath that claimed XDefiant and Concord

Marvel Rivals has had an impressive debut

GamesRadar

The Concord episode of Secret Level is like a message from a ghost whose unfinished business is creating a global multimedia franchise

The defunct multiplayer shooter speaks from the afterlife in Amazon's upcoming videogame-themed anthology series.

PC Gamer

Secret Level review: our take on every episode of Amazon's videogame anthology show

15 games, from Mega Man to Armored Core to the now-defunct Concord, are adapted in a new series from the creator of Love, Death, and Robots.

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Secret Level creator and Deadpool director never considered pulling the Concord episode when the game was taken down: "I can't see any reason why we wouldn't put it out there"

Exclusive: Secret Level's Tim Miller and Dave Wilson open up about the Concord episode in their new show

Total Film

Keanu Reeves is somehow an even more perfect sci-fi dirtbag in Secret Level's Armored Core adaptation than he was in Cyberpunk 2077

The latest teaser for Amazon Prime Video's video game inspired anthology series gives Keanu Reeves the spotlight

Total Film

Sony's 'LEGO Horizon Adventures' Struggles To Outperform Concord's Abysmal Player Numbers

LEGO Horizon Adventures is Sony's latest commercial flop as it struggle to even outperform the now-shut down Concord on Steam.

Player One

Elon Musk Says 'Pronouns In Fantasy Games Are Utterly Unacceptable': Failure Of 'Woke' Games Proves It

Elon Musk slams 'woke' gaming and urges developers to prioritise gameplay over ideology, echoing the sentiments of many gamers.

International Business Times UK

Why It’s So Hard To Trust Video Game Recs Right Now

Andre Rebelo, better known as “Typical Gamer” to his millions of followers on YouTube and Fortnite, was one of several creators paid to promote PlayStation’s now-failed live shooter. “I was actually sponsored by Concord. I actually enjoyed the game,” Rebelo said. “It was lacking in some parts, for sure, but…

Inverse

Secret Level's producer can't fathom why Concord ended up failing: 'There was no nicer, more invested group of developers than the team on Concord'

Unfortunately, nice doesn't shift product.

PC Gamer

Deadpool director and Amazon's Secret Level creator on PlayStation's failed FPS Concord: "I honestly don't understand why it didn't work"

Tim Miller is adapting Concord for TV in Amazon's Secret Level

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Sony says it should've gotten more feedback before launching Concord, but it isn't done with live service games despite 'a certain amount of risk'

The PlayStation maker says singleplayer games are its strength, but it's not calling it quits on multiplayer after Concord bombed.

GamesRadar

Sony leads say the company "gained a lot of experience" from Concord's failure and will have to do more "user testing or internal evaluation" in the future

Live service games are a learning process

Pedestrian.tv

Nintendo’s New Music App & Russia Sues Google: Tech & Gaming News This Week

Nintendo launching two new apps, Russia sues Google for an eyewatering amount and more for this week's tech & gaming breakdown.

PC Gamer

Is Concord the biggest live service failure of all time? Here's how it stacks up next to other major flops

The live service graveyard got another headstone this week, and it's starting to feel awfully big.

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Inverse

Sony Is Blaming Everyone But Itself For PlayStation's Most Embarrassing Failure

Sony is shuttering 'Concord' developer Firewalk Studios, while deflecting any blame for the shooter's failure.

The Guardian - UK

Pushing Buttons: the biggest flop in video game history caps off a brutal year for game development

Sony is shutting down Firewalk, the studio behind its live-service flop, Concord. It’s the biggest, most expensive casualty of an increasingly crowded hero shooter market – but it won’t be the last

Player One

Sony Shuts Down 'Concord' Dev Firewalk Studios 2 Years After Acquiring It

Sony shut down Concord developer Firewalk Studios just two years after acquiring it following the shooter's commercial flop.

GamesRadar

Concord development deal reportedly rivaled The Last of Us Part 2 and Horizon Forbidden West at $200 million, which Sony has now chucked into a big ol' furnace

Concord was a huge loss in every sense

Windows Central

"I know none of this is easy news to hear, particularly with colleagues and friends departing SIE." Sony closes two PlayStation studios and shutters Concord for good

PlayStation maker Sony has revealed that it's closing its Neon Koi and Firewalk Studios teams, with the latter's unsuccessful hero shooter Concord being sunset permanently.

GamesRadar

Concord is officially, fully, "permanently" dead as Sony announces it's closing the failed hero shooter's studio and moving on: "We will take the lessons learned"

Concord is officially, fully, "permanently" dead

PC Gamer

Concord isn't coming back, and the developer is done for too: Sony says it considered its options and apparently 'the best path forward is to permanently sunset the game and close the studio'

I was wrong: Concord isn't coming back, and neither is Firewalk Studios.

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