An Update from PlayStation Studios (Neon Koi and Firewalk Studios are closing)

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• lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  A dumpster fire of a situation. 8 years of development, $400 million reported budget, game shut down after 2 weeks and now the studio closed.

  AAA gaming is a hot mess right now.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Both the development time and the budget have come in at a variety of different numbers with people refuting them, and I’ll bet several of those figures depend on how you count. The range is now somewhere between 4-10 years, and $50-$400M, which is an absurd amount of variance, but even at 4 years and $50M, it’s still probably too long and too much money to spend on a game that you don’t know is going to find a substantial audience.

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    • lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Greatly appreciate the followup!

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• A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Concord/Firewalk is gonna be a running joke for years to come

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  • BenFranklinsDick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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• Zizzziirronn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The Titanic was $200m. These mofos sank two.

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  • SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And there won’t even be a movie.

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    • formergijoe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Concord’s getting an episode on Secret Level

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• Jackthelad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I guess Concord isn’t coming back as free-to-play then.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If it did, it would have just been throwing good money after bad.

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    • Glide@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      But isn’t it featured in the list of games being given a short film via Secret Level? I kind of assumed the goal was to promote it via that episode and re-release the game around the same time.

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• Aermis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I was wondering why people were leaving the offices today ask solemn. Turned out the 2 floors above me were leased by firewalk. More room for the other gaming studio we’re building out who was sub leasing them I guess.

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• Mobile@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Upon release, the game was a commercial failure that failed to exceed 700 simultaneous players on the Steam platform, far lower than the 400,000 initial Steam players of a different first-party live service multiplayer game released by Sony on PC and PS5 the same year, Helldivers 2.

  No more than 700? Wow.

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• blindbunny@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Damn and I thought lawbreakers was bad

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  • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Lawbreakers was at least a good game.

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    • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The funny thing is, I hear that Concord at least worked on a basic level. It was visually high fidelity, guns worked, and it wasn’t terribly buggy, which is more than a lot of popular releases can say. But, of course, it offered nothing new and the character design was terrible.

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• vane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I wish they open source all of it without support and documenation - just dump it into public space - make a torrent or push all to github but they will probably delete all and turn off the lights.

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