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After the catastrophe of Concord Sony is reportedly cancelling other projects including a God of War live service game (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In the graveyard of live service games Concord may just be the biggest headstone, and that seems to have focused some minds over at PlayStation. Previously the noises coming from Sony were all about the importance of live service games to its future strategy, and it had announced plans to launch more than 10 live service games by the 2025 fiscal year, which ends on March 31, 2026.

Now? Not so much. A new Bloomberg report reveals that "following a recent review" PlayStation has canceled two unannounced live service games in development at subsidiaries Bend Studio and Bluepoint Games. Bend is best-known for Days Gone and, back in the day, Syphon Filter, while Bluepoint mainly handles high-profile remakes like Demon's Souls.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Why did they make an expensive game like Concord which nobody wanted? Don't they have market analysts or something like that? Everyone was able to tell them beforehand that it will flop.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

They probably started it at a time when analysis suggested it was what people wanted more of, and then during the probably what; 4 or 5 years it took to develop, interest waned?

I don’t think it was weird that they started on this; it was pretty weird that they didn’t pivot or cancel earlier.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Afaik they started development when overwatch was already successful. By the time development finished the hype was over and players had moved to other genres, and had very little interest in an overwatch clone.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Until Marvel Rivals showed it could still be done but you needed a very specific game for it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

No, you need Marvel, like real Marvel, not GotG-lite.