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Sony Reportedly Spent More Than $200 Million On Concord's Development

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Rhiannon Bevan

Published Oct 29, 2024

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Sony reportedly paid over $200 million for the development of Concord, which did not cover all costs.
This comes as Sony reveals that it is shutting down Concord developer Firewalk.
Concord will not return, despite previous suggestions that it might.

The initial deal that Sony made for Firewalk Studios to develop Concord was reportedly "just over" $200 million. That figure was apparently exceeded throughout development and does not cover marketing ꦡc෴osts.

This is according to two sources speaking with and comes just as Sony reveals that it is shutting🍷 Firewalk Studios down. This means that Concord will not be returning, as was initially suggested, cementing the live service as a co🐽stly failure for the company.

Concord Development Deal Reportedly $200 Million, Exceeded By Acquisition And Marketing Costs

Star child hanging from a ledge from the concord cinematic reveal trailer.

As further noted by Kotaku, this alleged figure wouldn't have covered the costs of Sony acquiring developer Firewalk and the Concord IP. With this in mind, it's unclear what the total cost of Concord's lengthy and ill-fated production would have been, but in any case, we now know that it won't get the chance to recoup its losses🍸.

Concord launched a little over two months ago on August 23. 168澳洲🎶幸运5开奖网:The game was taken offline after two weeks on September 6 after it 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:failed to find a si🔯gnificant playerbase.

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Despite being taken offline, it was suggested that the game still had a future, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:🥃it was still receiving updates on Steam. However, we now know that t🦩his won't be happening, as in the announcement of Firewalk's closure, Sony also confirms that it is going to "permanently sunset the game".

As part of today's announcement, Sony also revealed that it is closing Neon Koi, a studio that wꦅas working on a ༒mobile game for Sony. It acquired Neon Koi in 2022, but it never got the chance to ship a game.

Despite this costly failure, Sony says that it isn't abandoning its live service plans completely. "We will take the lessons learned from Concord and continue to advance our live service capabilities to deliver futur♏e growth in this area," the announcement reads. However, as it has now dropped two of the studios working on live service, these plans may be smaller in scope than originally intended.