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An important update on Concord - Being taken offline September 6th, refunds to be issued (blog.playstation.com)

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[–] [email protected] 108 points 2 months ago (2 children)

So to recap:

200 million dollars
8 years of development
Sony shuts down all of their Japanese studios and redirects their efforts into developing "cinematic" experiences to appeal to western gamers
Sony liquidates countless other studios in the pursuit of funding this game
Sony buys Bungie to aid in developing this game
Sony thinks this is going to be a huge success rivaling COD and Fortnite, so they fund an entire multimillion dollar CGI-animated episode to be aired in Amazon's Secret Level anthology series
Shuts down in 10 days
Sony refunds everyone

Man, Sony is taking L's like a motherfucker.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago

Sony shuts down all of their Japanese studios and redirects their efforts into developing “cinematic” experiences to appeal to western gamers

They shut down Japan Studio, that's a name, they still have studios in Japan.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

200 million sounds like a lot, but it's like 2 weeks of PSPlus money.

For all this losing, they're sure making a lot of money. Just not out of this game.

And that money ain't gone yet, there's for sure a pivot towards a F2P, MTX ridden version of the game to be relaunched.

The problem is that gamers say they don't like that sort of thing, while the success of the likes of Fortnite indicates that there's a lot of gamers out there saying nothing, but buying V-bucks like a motherfucker.