Game News After the failure of Concord, Sony is sticking to its course and is confident about its next game offering under the direction of the producer of Assassin’s Creed
Sony knows both glory and failure, sometimes at both extremes: Concord unfortunately falls into the latter category. But this failure does not stop it from looking to the future with confidence.
A historic fall
Last February, Sony boasted of releasing one of the biggest hits of 2024 with Helldivers II. Although the title was developed by a studio that is not its own, it remains an exclusive title produced by it and, most importantly, the fastest-selling exclusive title in its history. Exactly.
And yet, the arrival of Concord two weeks ago Contrasts in a frightening way: Another gaming service, this time developed by Firewalk, a company recently bought by Sony, of which this is the first title. This is a historic failure, undoubtedly the most important of the Japanese giantSold for 39.99 dollars and after years of design, Concord sold so little and generated so little audience The Japanese giant has just announced the deactivation of its servers and the refunds to players.
The hero shooter will therefore only last a few days: This decision also deletes all future content planned by Firewalk and In general, they destroy the image of Sony, which nevertheless relies heavily on service games in the future.
A new proposal for the future
Faced with this undoubtedly colossal loss of money – some still talk about a sum of 200 million dollars generated by 8 years of development or even the acquisition of the studio by Sony – we are entitled to wonder if the Japanese company wants to continue on this path, that of the gaming service. In fact, some projects are already in full swing, for example Fairgame$, a 3v3 shooter with loot heist and extraction that was announced some time ago.
This is being developed by Haven, a new studio led by Jade Raymondthe producer of Assassin’s Creed. It will be a PlayStation exclusive, but it is planned for PC and PS5, which we don’t know much about yet. In any caseAccording to Gamesindustry.biz journalist Chris Dring, Sony is confident about the future.
I’ve heard good things about Jade Raymond’s game Fairgame$. I’ve heard some really good things. I know people are a little skeptical about the trailer, but I’ve heard the internal conversations about it are very positive. These other projects that I assume they’re focused on are what they’re going to bet on. They’re going to launch it, they’re going to support it, they’re going to try to make it work.
Between the amazing success of Helldivers 2 and the absolute failure of Concord, It is difficult to decide on the future of Sony’s gaming services at this time. The least we can say is that in just a few months the company has achieved one of the biggest critical and commercial breakthroughs in its history.
