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:
The "hero shooter" Concord is being compared to another game that released this month, "Black Myth: Wukong" 👇
Wukong (an adventure game where you play as a monkey god fighting against evil celestial forces) was maligned by Western media outlets like ScreenRant and IGN, who took aim at its developers for being "sexist" while praising games like Concord that aimed to put diVerSitY and iNcLuSion in them for "modern audiences."
These same "journalists" were extremely confused when Concord flopped.
The developers for Concord apparently joined in on that bandwagon.
Go woke ... go broke.
Coming up next?
The new Star Wars game that was released this week!
I'll leave you with this very timely Babylon Bee skit:
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