Concord Is Estimated to Have Sold Only 25,000 Units. Here’s Why Analysts Think It Failed - IGN
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What happened to Concord? Why did a big Sony first-party game get sent out to die immediately? Is it actually selling badly, or are we just reading the numbers wrong? As usual when questions of this nature crop up, I asked a bunch of professional industry analysts to explain it to me.
  • NaN@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    So basically, it’s a poorly marketed $40 game facing a lot of free and popular competition.

  • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I feel like there’s just too much competition. They would’ve needed some hefty marketing budget to get across why people should play this instead of Overwatch et al.

  • forgotaboutlaye@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Not really surprising given how it looked (like a generic ripoff), how it’s priced (should be free), and how it was marketed (every conversation I enter starts with a chain of comments saying it’s the first they’ve heard of it).

    What is surprising to me is how much a Sony first party game missed the mark. I can’t think of any other recent examples.

    • Zahille7@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I had never even heard of the game until a couple weeks ago when I saw some articles posted here on Lemmy about it.

  • Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 months ago

    First I even heard about this game was a comic talking about it’s unattractive characters. I looked it up out of curiosity to see if this was an exaggeration like it has been with some characters like Aloy, and…ehhh…mostly true.

    One of the big draws of these types of games is cool character designs people want to play. This game definitely doesn’t have that for me. Overwatch quickly pulled me in with cool character designs, this one…does not.