Sad! Not good!
If you’re not into the gaming scene, Concord is what they call a AAA title. It means Sony paid a TON of money to back its development over the last 8 years, including purchasing the developer, Firewalk.
This was supposed to be a game that your children’s children would be talking about one day.
But instead, it flopped, failing to even reach 1,000 concurrent players online within days of its release this month – what might be a new record of failure, in fact. That number has dropped to an almost-unheard of number for a game with this size budget.
From IGN:
Data from player tracking website SteamDB reveals Concord, which debuted on August 20, 2024 through the $59.99 Digital Deluxe Edition or August 23 through the $39.99 Standard Edition, had a peak player count of 697 on August 23.
Helldivers 2, another live service game from Sony which launched in February 2024, hit a peak concurrent player count of 155,926 during its opening weekend, The Finals hit 242,619, and even Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leage, which was dubbed a disappointment by Warner Bros. Discovery boss David Zaslav and caused a $200 million hit to revenue, debuted with 12,786 peak concurrent players on Steam. Concord’s is just 5% of that number.
The game raised a lot of eyebrows when people noticed how almost every playable character is a diverse girlboss or gay-looking dude.
Note the pronouns in the corner for each character:
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