Concord - PlayStation's biggest flop?

[kamikazekeeg]

I'm telling you this was one of the worst games ever
Firewalk officially shut down

https://nichegamer.com/sony-shuts-down-neon-koi-and-firewalk-concord-wont-come-back-f2p/

It definitely has to be up there as one of gaming's biggest failures due to the gap between budget and sales, which is wild to say for a game that seemed by all accounts, to be generally a fine and functional game, but not an audience in sight.  I think even if the game released well and had an active crowd playing it, it probably would still be considered a flop in the long run due to the amount of copies they'd have to sell just to break even on an even conservative estimate of the potential money dumped into development.

[weirdfeline]

Well, not really one of the worst games ever just one of the worst releases ever. It would've been an okay but still underperforming release if it were free at launch.

I'd imagine it's in the top 5 for biggest wastes in the industry so far though for the studio acquisition and game budget. Probably like half a billion with nothing to show for it. Not even a lesson learned because they're gonna turn around and do the same with Marathon and I doubt having the Bungie boost will help much since Concord was also apparently former Bungie developers.