This video game, whose release and closure dates were announced at the same time, lasted longer than Concord…

Game News This video game, whose release and closure dates were announced at the same time, lasted longer than Concord…

The crash was inevitable

The first product comes from Firewalk Studios, a studio founded in part by former Bungie developers, and is the latest addition to Sony’s game-as-a-service initiative. Unity

is a 6v6 FPS close to a Watch and very clearly inspired by works such as the Guardians of the Galaxy. Unfortunately, the game was not well received by the audience. With a peak of less than 700 players on Steam and only about 25,000 copies sold according to analysts, Unity failed to meet Sony’s expectations, as the Japanese company preferred to stop charging and shut down the game’s servers to “determine the best path forward”. Placed in suspended animation while preparing for its possible return (perhaps free-to-play?), Some internet users found an amusing comparison with a game that had also experienced a significant decline.

Time-limited service game

For the uninitiated, Love life! is a multimedia license in which teenage schoolgirls try to form an idol groupthese famous singing groups, very popular in Asia, within their school. While the license is quite confidential in the West, although it benefits from a small, invested audience, in Japan, on the other hand, it is very popular It is estimated that it would have generated more than one and a half billion dollars between 2014 and 2020. It was even at the center of discussions when the developers announced the release of the global version (that is, the version developed for the rest of the world outside Japan) of their game. Love Live! School Idol Festival 2 for February 2024, simultaneously with his end of service on 31 May of the same year.

A situation that today again provokes amusement, because despite this abnormal announcement Love Live! School Idol Festival 2 will have taken two weeks longer Unity and its lifespan is 15 days. In revenge if he hits him Love life! is definitely inaccessible, that is not impossible Unity comes back, perhaps in a different form. It won’t be the last time we see this universe anyway, as it is set to appear in the anthology series Secret levelexpected in December 2024 on Prime Video.