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Secret Level’s Concord episode appears to promote unplayable post-launch characters

Dead PlayStation exclusive Concord is appearing in Amazon’s Secret Level, but the episode shows new characters you’ll never play as.

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Knightofelemia182d ago (Edited 182d ago )

I think nobody cares the game came and went. The game was made and crashed hard and I don't think anybody learned a lesson from this game.

Inverno182d ago

I think the devs learnt not to be so quick to sign themselves away to a publisher and not to join a studio working on a fad, hopefully. As for investors, they definitely learnt nothing, but it did make their pockets weep.

Christopher182d ago

The publisher they joined allowed them to finish the game they started on. Why are people acting like it's not the studio's fault the game sucks? It's also Sony's, but Sony just kept letting them make the game they wanted.

bartfart182d ago

What a terrible take away. The opposite is true in this case

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-Foxtrot182d ago

You do realise these guys were working on Concord for 8 years, WAAAAAAAY before Sony got involved.

Sony only got involved and bought them a year before the game came out so the majority of the game would have been done.

The main fault with Sony is investing so heavily with this s*** show and arrogantly thinking it was gonna be a hit.

Inverno182d ago

I'm talking about individual devs tho, not placing the fault entirely on SONY. I'm sure there were plenty of devs who joined in the years they were making this that probably weren't all in on the idea of making CONCORD. They've most likely learnt not to join another studio working on an MP game.

ThinkThink181d ago

Similar to the redfall situation. Very few put the blame on the devs and instead focused on the publisher. Sony could/should have canceled it before launch.

porkChop181d ago

@ThinkThink

To be fair, the Redfall devs didn't *want* to make that game. They were forced by Bethesda's publishing arm. They were counting on Xbox to cancel it after the acquisition but that didn't happen.

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VersusDMC182d ago

Aren't all characters unplayable now? 😏

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There’s a Demand for Original Games (Just Not Live Service Slop)

The success of numerous original titles and the failure of several live service games demonstrate a strong demand for story-driven experiences.

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PS5 Mega-Flop Concord Is Reaching Absurdly High Prices on eBay

World's most expensive coaster

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BISHOP-BRASIL68d ago

Pretty standard for pulled off products, collectors love useless but very limited things.

TheEroica67d ago (Edited 67d ago )

This reminds me of when people spend big on "poo-art"...

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goken68d ago

Worlds most expensive coaster 🤣

badz14968d ago

what's so different between this and those useless NES cartridges or even supposedly "rare" pokemon cards? they are like NFT, just physical. Concord is an actual flop that has been pulled from stores, while Nintendo artificially limited their supply for artificial scarcity.

darthv7268d ago

ehh... I'll stick with the controller. I got enough coasters, they are called xbox games (snickers)

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Kurt Russell68d ago

Not the biggest coaster collection from xbox this gen :P

TheEroica67d ago (Edited 67d ago )

Concord is the biggest flop of all time... Sony could've saved 5 years by standing over the toilet and flushing 400 million. Remember, Concord is so bad that you cannot even play it anymore. It's vapor. You can't even have a retro review on it or pretend like "maybe there are a few people at home enjoying it". Lol, it was so so bad that it's been obliterated along with piles and piles of money.

The good news is all that failure leads to more pc ports of sonys better games. Sony is a good 3rd party publisher. I'll give them that!

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Richhard168d ago

Good, I have two sealed copies,

GotGame81867d ago

You can buy a sealed copy for $59 on eBay.

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Sony's Recent Live Service Game Cancellations Is Reportedly Tied To Failure Of Concord

Sony Interactive Entertainment's recent cancellation of live service game projects is tied to the failure of Concord, based on a new report.

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-Foxtrot131d ago

Good. Let it be a lesson.

I’m super curious about how they are going to go about Fairgame$. It’s a live service title which didn’t get a good reception with the announcement and it’s being made by a brand new studio they decided to buy straight away because of the live service title they were making. It’s super similar to Concord and Firewalk Studios.

Will they cancel it this far into development or release it with the high chance of it being another disappointment and making Sony the laughing stock.

JEECE131d ago

It feels like that one is far enough along that they are going to go ahead and just push it out.

RaidenBlack131d ago (Edited 131d ago )

The Horizon live-service game is on the ... err horizon as well it seems, don't think that's getting cancelled.
Honestly if one modern Sony live-service game that I wish wasn't cancelled, that'd be the "Spider-Man: The Great Web". The leaked trailer looked cool and imho, it had potential. The timing was just not on its side.
With Avengers and Gotham Knights fumbling and Suicide Squad also not garnering much positivity at the time, Sony pulled the plug.
And 2 other I can also consider as well would be Factions 2.0 and Twisted Metal. Any form of a new Twisted Metal game is still fine for me than nothing.
Hope after all this, Marathin delivers. Oh, it better, especially after they changed such an amazing IP's genre.
I am really curious to see what they can pull-off.

PapaBop131d ago (Edited 131d ago )

Marathon is Sony's only real hope I think on the live service front, any live service game released before then will be going out to Freddie Mercury singing "another one bites the dust". They have to hope Bungie have some magic left in them and deliver a product worthy of the name. Live service games and Sony fans are like square pegs in a round hole. They need to really knock it out of the park to justify them and remove the negative stigma surrounding live service games.

CrimsonWing69131d ago

Didn’t they literally announce recently that they’re committed to GaaS?

isarai131d ago

I really don't know how seriously I would take that Herman has always just come off as a yes man. But I say I don't know because I really don't know it could be one way or the other

neutralgamer1992131d ago

Sony's decision to cancel two more live-service games, one from Bluepoint Games and another from Bend Studio—neither of which have significant experience in live-service development—has raised serious concerns among fans. Many of us had been eagerly awaiting announcements about these studios' projects, believing they were nearing completion after years of development.

Now, it appears several first-party studios are being forced to start over, highlighting what feels like a pattern of mismanagement this generation. Sony's strategy seems to be floundering, leaving its first-party portfolio with a string of missteps.

This situation is eerily reminiscent of the "arrogant Sony" era leading up to the PS3's troubled launch. Unfortunately, unlike that time, there’s no strong competition from Xbox to compel Sony to course-correct and refocus on what made them successful in the first place.

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FinalFantasyFanatic130d ago

Idk, I don't feel like they've learnt their lesson, in the case of Fairgame$, I suspect they'd release it if it's too far along to back out, at least try and make some money on it, if that's possible.

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gold_drake131d ago

i still find it ridiculous that they had soo many, 12, in the pipeline. if they had like 3, sure, but 12 is a huge number for potential failure.

Alos88131d ago

They were throwing stuff against the wall and praying something stuck... considering how poorly thought out the whole thing was they should be grateful they even got one win with Helldivers.

PapaBop131d ago

How the hell would that even work? Were they going to create 12 completely different games to try and cater to different audiences? Or would they expect some gamers to be juggling multiple ones and on top of whatever third party ones get created? I really hope someone high up at Sony has pressed the big red panic button because they're starting to look MS levels of incompetent.

attilayavuzer131d ago

Honestly I think the strategy was to have one of them be a huge success (billions in revenue) and have that pay for all the other games and devs they'd shut down from the failures. One Fortnite-level success would double the brand's profit, so it makes sense why they'd take a flier on it, even if the odds were terrible and in practice has so far been about worst case scenario.

FinalFantasyFanatic130d ago

I think they expected multiple failures, they only needed a few to succeed to rake in the big bucks. But there are already a lot of these games out there to the point of saturation, and trying to pull people away from other, popular GaaS games was going to be a big challenge.

MetroidFREAK21131d ago (Edited 131d ago )

They need to wake up. A God of War live service game... what a joke

Relientk77131d ago

A God of War live service game doesn't even make sense no matter how you spin it. What a dumb idea.

bartfart131d ago

Yeah anyone remember gow: ascension multiplayer? Me neither

raWfodog131d ago

I’m a huge God of War fan and this had me scratching my head like ‘huh?’ Stop trying to add GaaS to every IP. It just doesn’t work that way.

Goodguy01131d ago

Focus on quality singleplayer like you had with the ps4 and 3 that made you so well loved. 3rd party will do all the live servicing.

RaidenBlack131d ago (Edited 131d ago )

You need some multiplayer titles as well ... not unlike olden days ... but just not so many of 'em that you lose the quality over quantity.
And plus, experimental smaller projects to keep things interesting.

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SonyStyled130d ago

They closed all of their ‘small’ game studios though for the GAAS focus. They shot themselves in the foot. PixelOpus, Japan, London (Psygnosis) closed

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