It’s rumoured that there will be at least some PS5 exclusives released this year from Sony, but it’s still unclear if that includes Concord.
For me the most exciting thing in the new state of play was Nicolas Doucet saying they have a few more things up their sleeve regarding Astro Bot.
Europe's first week sales numbers for Sony and Team Asobi's 3D platformer, Astro Bot, are "really strong", based on the latest information.
Last I heard , physical sales were low but digital was much higher for Europe.
It was a marketing ploy to boost sales further… and it worked because it had the Sony fanboys tearing people apart for not buying it straight away because they’re “damaging the industry” for not celebrating a good release.
No sales are not bad, they were underwhelming at first but then it picked up after that simply becase of word of mouth and now it probably will continue to do very good.
I been playing this for the 1st time today, definitely a 10 for me, such charm and creativity. Made me think of days playing my nintendo 64 in the early 2000s on a pretty day with the fan on just for some extra breeze lol
The rumor of Concord's budget was at $400M has been debunked by games media personnel, as the game didn't even get above-the-line marketing.
People will continue to make up absurd things about concord just like i predicted. I didn't believe that game costs anywhere close to half a billion dollars but people will continue to pile on because they were truly hurt by the production of this game that I thought was a good game. The developers had the audacity to make a good game semi-similar to other games with character models not seen before with gender pronouns.
What excuse me? Gender pronouns? How dare you? How dare you even suggest that this game failed because of it's beautiful appealing character design and modern politics and just being.. good. What are you some sort of right wing biggot!?
This was a totally original idea for a game never been done before and Sony made the best decision to invest millions in it! And then it had to fail because of people like you pfff. Meanwhile boring games like Astro Mario succeed. Unbelievable.
the game gave us no reason to play Concord instead of Overwatch or Valorant but then you combine it with awful character design and nonsene agendapushing, then my friend you get a dumpsterfire. It was 8 years in development, who thought it was a good idea to hold a beta 1 month before release? It wasn't a beta, it was a failed attempt at marketing, cause fuck all can get changed in that time.
The game couldn't have possibly been in development for 8 years when the studio didn't even exist for 8 years.
The game failed, that is a fact, but a lot of what is being said about it is clearly untrue.
it says 8 years everywhere. It could have been in preproduction somewhere and later created a new studio for it, wouldn't have been the first time and won't be the last. I think Sony even said it themselves
I don't care what it says everywhere, that is how the internet is. Just because a lot of people say something doesn't make it true.
"I read it on the internet it must be true" LoL
ok 6 years then, still abysmal development if this is all they could come up with. If i believed everyting said I would have said it would have cost them 400m. 2 levels and 2.5 characters per year for a 150+ man team. That screams massive problems and a money pit.
I mean, you are determined to say the longest possible amount of time you can get away with... No matter how unrealistic that may be...
Wait so let me get this straight. The Last of Us 2 apparently cost about $220 million to make and had 2000+ people working on it.
But you think that Concord which topped out at 150 employees cost $400 million to make?! Please explain the logic here.
@Einhander
If it wasn't in development for 8 years, why do the developers say it was?
https://x.com/sharkeatsman/...
The market just said they don't want this crap, how hard is that to believe?
Ubisoft is another one who is watching the market say fuck off with the bullshit. Soon to be EA... can't we just have games without the live service's and insane agendas?
Do you believe a developer founded in 2018 was working on a game in 2016?
If not, do you believe the people that reported that may have lied about other things or that a studio with no games behind it was able to amass half a billion dollars to make this game on their own? And who would pay them to do this? Probably Monsters Inc. who owned Firewalk and owns other studios was founded in 2016 with 250 million.
Sony bought Firewalk in April 2023.
@Thorstein
The 8 years development time claim came from the developers themselves. Firewalk Studios Lead Gameplay Designer Claude Jerome and Lead Character Designer Jon Weisnewski went on the official PlayStation Blog and said they've been working on it for 10 years but it only had 8 years of actual development.
"The Acolyte cost 180 million dollars"
Yeah, but, Star Wars shows have hundreds more staff. But my point is that TLOU 2 had over 2000 people work on it and cost $220 million. But you want me to believe a game that had 150 people making it cost more than double that with 1/10 of the staff.
Tell us how much it cost to acquire Firewalk and also to publish the game if you know so much. Your experience as a Wal-Mart cashier should come in handy for your analysis.
Yep, but you had people believing that crap. I mean, websites ran that. I don't think they believed it themselves, but the urge of Concord, bait and traffic seemed too good to pass up.
People believed it because they wanted to. It was an extreme figure which made sony and concord look even worse than before.
This is how absurd that number is. The Last of Us 2 cost $220 million to make and had 2100+ people work on the game.
But this media and certain people here think that Concord which topped out at 150 people working on the game cost $400 million to make.
Grand Theft Auto 5 apparently cost $265 million to make too which at the time was the most expensive entertainment product ever made even considering other media like movies.
Mismanagement causes budgets to balloon. The Acolyte cost 180 million dollars but the end product doesn't reflect a budget that large. Especially for only 8 roughly half hour episodes.
It's the unseen cost of incompetence.
Concord did not have only 150 people work on it. Sony brought in multiple support studios over the last 18 months which is mentioned all over the place. The credits are 3 hours long and mention significantly more names than 150.
Every game has consultants, voice actors, etc.
Ignoring the facts doesn't make you correct it makes you ignorant.
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Films like Avatar cost 300 million
This is a game with 12 small levels and 16 characters
No way their small cut scenes added 300 mill to the price .
the question should be how did they manage to only make that in 8 years, that already shows there are massive problems there, which often lead to loads of money lost. We will never know the number but I wouldn't be surprised if its pretty far over 200m.
Yes I suppose if they brought the property offices, all the tech and any debt owed, it could rack up! Got to pay those bonuses we keep hearing about too ! Haha
What a terrible comparison.
An extremely experienced film maker and studio creates a movie against a brand new video game studio making their first game.
Completely useless comment.
This is by the legendary leaker Snitch. He has like a 90% accuracy rate.
This bit of news only makes sense. sony won't have any major first party games until next April and beyond. Astro Bot and Silent Hill 2 make sense for release. Still wondering if Concord releases this year.
Asides from Nintendo which are prepping for their next gen hardware, it's been kinda odd for sony and mcsft in terms of first party. 3rd party and indies have been kicking ass though.
New astro bot is fine by me. Still go back and play the tech demo every few months.
Honestly I'd just be happy if we could get a Sony show this year that shows us gameplay for Wolverine, Naughty Dog's new IP and Sucker Punch's game, whether it's a sequel to Ghost of Tsushima or a new IP and Bluepoint's new game. Housemarque released Returnal in 2021 which took a bit over 4 years to develop, so hopefully they'll be ready for an announcement soon of what they're working on. Bungie... we'll see.
However with Helldivers 2, Stellar Blade, Rise of the Ronin and Final Fantasy Rebirth, it hasn't exactly been a quiet or ineffective year while the first party's are keeping things hush.
Astrobot to me that's huge I hope it's both a flatscreen game and a VR game like gt7.
One of my favourite gaming experiences last gen was astro bot resuce mission on psvr it's almost criminal that more people never got a chance to experience the game it was one VR game that actually could have been ported to a flat screen experience with some minor control tweaks.