Concord: This is how sobering the sales figures are supposed to look

In the meantime, analysts have also released statements on Concord’s sales figures – and they are truly sobering.

During the previous beta, it had already become apparent that Concord might have a difficult time. Sony stuck with the hero shooter anyway and released it together with Firewalk, but disillusionment followed quickly: at its peak, there were fewer than 700 gamers playing the title at the same time on Steam. In the meantime, analysts have also released statements on the sales figures – and these are also disastrous.

Liam Deane, Principal Analyst at Omdia, said, for example: “The numbers on Steam are so bad that even without exact data on the PS5, we can be pretty sure that the game is doing very poorly.” Analyst Mat Piscatella from Circana also commented on the topic and added that on August 26, Concord was ranked 147th among all PS5 titles in the US in the daily active players category – and that as a brand new title. Only 0.2 percent of active PS5 players in the US had played Concord on Monday.

And that finally brings us to Simon Carless, another analyst who has made the first more well-founded estimates of Concord’s sales figures. According to him, the hero shooter is said to have sold around 10,000 copies on Steam for the PC and another 15,000 copies on the PlayStation 5. In total, sales figures as of August 28th are said to have reached just 25,000 copies worldwide.

Analysts have identified very weak marketing as a reason for the game’s disastrous start, but a relatively high price and too little differentiation from competitors in a currently overcrowded genre are also blamed for the performance. It remains to be seen how long Concord will have a future as a live service game.