TIME STAMPS 0:00- intro 5:14- Steam Start/Topics Section 1- Concord Failure 13:22- RANT, Concord Failure/Colin clip 44:11- Members 46:00- Concord Failure, continued 1:25:13- Firewalk’s Future 1:35:17- Members (Richrod) Section 2- Rest of the PS5 1:36:50- TGS PS line up, 2nd half of PS 1:47:40- State of Play, Remasters 2:07:36- Closing thoughts 2:15:40- Outro 2:17:00- MY SHOUTOUT!!!!!!!!
If this was "Herman Hulst's baby" then he should probably resign. The financial loss is just sickening. That said, there is just no way Mr Hulst will fall on his sword. Some people get to fail upwards in this industry while the chumps on the lower pay grades get fired.
Lol PlayStation is destroying itself, there isn’t any force outside it that is damaging it except itself, it’s baffling to see, I can’t believe I’m saying this, and I’m a Sony fan I love their products & games.
MBG hit the nail on the head with the pandering taking place. His disappointment is a reflection of every gamer who wants Sony to go back to making games for gamers instead for activists. Truly sad
I really hope Sony does more with Days Gone and makes a sequel. I’m gonna buy the remaster because I feel like it’ll let them know we want more of Days Gone
Money allocated for the single player bangers is only slightly higher than it was during the PS4 generation. But the games cost 2 to 3 times more to make. The rest of money is for live service.
$400 million. Biggest failure on Herman???? Nope!!!! Because you’re forgetting FAIRGAMES. I always suspected Herman was bagging jade in the sack, cause that woman has failed and lost more money than anyone in the industry - yet, Herman has been all in for that studio. Wouldn’t be surprised if fair games ends up another $400 mil., down the toilet. And ya know there was embezzlement- had to be - that much money can’t just pooof. I remember reforge gaming laughing at the thought of the pro costing $700 paying for concord, saying beginner business class lessons would show otherwise. But I’ve done business in Japan with a bigger corporation than Sony, and yup, if they need to meet the line, they will do anything to meet that goal. Of course, they would. 30th anniversary, days gone remaster, HZD remaster, Lego? It’s all, everything to plug up that concord hole and Bungie disaster and upcoming fairgames etc etc. why 2 CEOs??? They wanted a sane Japanese guy they could talk to in Japanese to check the crazy foreigner white dude gaijin who keeps f’in up. They figure they have to have a white dude to sell to white people, but can’t leave the crazy gaijin alone either…. Occam’s razor.
Fairgame$ probably will be a failure, but right now? It's not even out yet. It can't actually fail until it launches by definition. We'll that or until it gets cancelled.
I'd say rename the studio, get rid of the garbage that inhabited the studio and hire some actual non agenda driven talent and have them make an actual good FPS, I always said there is a space in the market for a CoD or halo rival as battlefield is dead. They can just go about it and see where it goes with someone driving them forward, it would certainly not cost 400 million that's for sure.
Hot take but I think when looked at holistically the ps3 generation was actually solid, and I say this as someone who has grown up with PlayStation since the ps1. In one generation we got: - the uncharted trilogy AND last of us (in one generation!!!) -infamous 1 and 2 - resistance trilogy - killzone 2 and 3 - god of war 3 - little big planet 1 and 2 - Demon’s Souls -MGS4 And others I’m sure I’m forgetting, and on top of that free multiplayer. Yes it wasn’t all sunshine and roses but again when looking at the bigger picture I would defend it. PS5 is not bad and we still have a ways to go but if we continue at this pace with 1st and 2nd party games plus all the other controversies idk how you can say this gen isn’t weaker than the ps3. The fact that some try to point towards 3rd party and remasters to defend this gen proves my point. PlayStation fans would never have done that in past generations which shows that something has changed and it ain’t good.
Turns out everyone criticizing Jim Ryan and the way Sony is going and warned about Sony going woke was 100% right huh? So let Sony go broke then too, used to love playstation, since they moved to California they're going to the woke dumpster fire
Unfortunately when Sony is really successful and they’re on top they make really bad decisions. For example after the success of the ps2 they followed up by the $600 ps3. Now they beat M$ in the console wars and they have a $700 pro with no disc drive. Too much success goes to their head. They’re excellent in making great story based single player games that’s what they need to do! Also can we get a blood borne remake 4k 60fps.
Well, PS5 Pro is a mid gen upgrade and not really a new generational console. I kinda expected it in this price range but I certainly expected it to come with a disc drive and stand lol. That being said, I'm super curious to see where they price the ps6 because I'm thinking it'll be in the same range as the Pro.. PS3 was crazy. $600 in 2006 is nearly $950 in today's money. PS3 also packed in a blu-ray player (which back then, stand alone blu ray players were $500+ alone) plus it was backwards compatible.
Maybe a days gone remaster could potentially green light a sequel. I’m not agreeing with a remasters of days gone and horizon zero dawn. I would prefer a remaster of killzone, resistance, infamous, god of war and their older ps1-ps3 titles. But I would prefer new ips firstly
400 million to make the game, but they apparently give up on it in 2 weeks and refund everybody..People will believe anything 1 person says if it fits their narrative
With player counts that low, pulling is ASAP avlbsolutely the believable and right move to make. A game like that is expensive to maintain, so if it's making less than it's maintainable costs, pull it ASAP to save money. Plus, the less time it's out, the fewer people buy it, making it easier to refund. Once they refunded all buyers, Sony are allowed to claim alot of the costs of developing Concord as a tax write off. A write off that will recoup them far more than the game was ever going to make them once it flopped.
Well it would probably take about 30 40 million at least in terms of dev time to rework the game as free to play. Then there are the server/maintencr costs of running the game once it launches which would be at least 2 million or so a month (you'd be surprised how expensive those are, plus you need staff still working on the game for updates, and advertising etc...). And even after all that extra money thrown at the project, Concord would still barely get any more players. That's why.
TIME STAMPS
0:00- intro
5:14- Steam Start/Topics
Section 1- Concord Failure
13:22- RANT, Concord Failure/Colin clip
44:11- Members
46:00- Concord Failure, continued
1:25:13- Firewalk’s Future
1:35:17- Members (Richrod)
Section 2- Rest of the PS5
1:36:50- TGS PS line up, 2nd half of PS
1:47:40- State of Play, Remasters
2:07:36- Closing thoughts
2:15:40- Outro
2:17:00- MY SHOUTOUT!!!!!!!!
If this was "Herman Hulst's baby" then he should probably resign. The financial loss is just sickening.
That said, there is just no way Mr Hulst will fall on his sword. Some people get to fail upwards in this industry while the chumps on the lower pay grades get fired.
For under 400m, we could've gotten a new Sly, a new Jak, a new Infamous & Gravity Rush 3...
......
Sony has been out of touch with reality for at least a decade, the fruit of their insanity is coming.
"Stupidity has no limits." - PlayStation
It’s not stupidity. It’s more so extremely bad foresight! Lol
You want to know why we don’t hear from Herman ?
yeah that’s why 😳
Mbg just died inside
How does Hermen still have a job?
Lol PlayStation is destroying itself, there isn’t any force outside it that is damaging it except itself, it’s baffling to see, I can’t believe I’m saying this, and I’m a Sony fan I love their products & games.
That was the Future of PlayStation for Herman Hulst??? $400mill... I'm so glad it failed.
MBG hit the nail on the head with the pandering taking place. His disappointment is a reflection of every gamer who wants Sony to go back to making games for gamers instead for activists. Truly sad
I really hope Sony does more with Days Gone and makes a sequel. I’m gonna buy the remaster because I feel like it’ll let them know we want more of Days Gone
Money allocated for the single player bangers is only slightly higher than it was during the PS4 generation. But the games cost 2 to 3 times more to make. The rest of money is for live service.
$400 million. Biggest failure on Herman???? Nope!!!! Because you’re forgetting FAIRGAMES. I always suspected Herman was bagging jade in the sack, cause that woman has failed and lost more money than anyone in the industry - yet, Herman has been all in for that studio. Wouldn’t be surprised if fair games ends up another $400 mil., down the toilet. And ya know there was embezzlement- had to be - that much money can’t just pooof. I remember reforge gaming laughing at the thought of the pro costing $700 paying for concord, saying beginner business class lessons would show otherwise. But I’ve done business in Japan with a bigger corporation than Sony, and yup, if they need to meet the line, they will do anything to meet that goal. Of course, they would. 30th anniversary, days gone remaster, HZD remaster, Lego? It’s all, everything to plug up that concord hole and Bungie disaster and upcoming fairgames etc etc. why 2 CEOs??? They wanted a sane Japanese guy they could talk to in Japanese to check the crazy foreigner white dude gaijin who keeps f’in up. They figure they have to have a white dude to sell to white people, but can’t leave the crazy gaijin alone either…. Occam’s razor.
Fairgame$ probably will be a failure, but right now? It's not even out yet. It can't actually fail until it launches by definition. We'll that or until it gets cancelled.
I'd say rename the studio, get rid of the garbage that inhabited the studio and hire some actual non agenda driven talent and have them make an actual good FPS, I always said there is a space in the market for a CoD or halo rival as battlefield is dead. They can just go about it and see where it goes with someone driving them forward, it would certainly not cost 400 million that's for sure.
Hot take but I think when looked at holistically the ps3 generation was actually solid, and I say this as someone who has grown up with PlayStation since the ps1. In one generation we got:
- the uncharted trilogy AND last of us (in one generation!!!)
-infamous 1 and 2
- resistance trilogy
- killzone 2 and 3
- god of war 3
- little big planet 1 and 2
- Demon’s Souls
-MGS4
And others I’m sure I’m forgetting, and on top of that free multiplayer. Yes it wasn’t all sunshine and roses but again when looking at the bigger picture I would defend it. PS5 is not bad and we still have a ways to go but if we continue at this pace with 1st and 2nd party games plus all the other controversies idk how you can say this gen isn’t weaker than the ps3. The fact that some try to point towards 3rd party and remasters to defend this gen proves my point. PlayStation fans would never have done that in past generations which shows that something has changed and it ain’t good.
Turns out everyone criticizing Jim Ryan and the way Sony is going and warned about Sony going woke was 100% right huh? So let Sony go broke then too, used to love playstation, since they moved to California they're going to the woke dumpster fire
Robots with pronouns....that's all I'll say
The other human character had pronouns too even worse
Jesus it’s like the heavens gate cult with this Concord situation. I hope they found the spaceship. 🚀
And at the end they drank acid 😂😂😂😂
Awesome rant
YOU KNOW BLUEPOINTS NEXT GAME IS DAYS GONE 2!!!!!
Sony: good news, we only lost about as much as the diddler.
Anyone who experienced the PS3 era knows how bad it was in the beginning. The PS5 is no where near that bad.
Unfortunately when Sony is really successful and they’re on top they make really bad decisions. For example after the success of the ps2 they followed up by the $600 ps3. Now they beat M$ in the console wars and they have a $700 pro with no disc drive. Too much success goes to their head. They’re excellent in making great story based single player games that’s what they need to do! Also can we get a blood borne remake 4k 60fps.
Well, PS5 Pro is a mid gen upgrade and not really a new generational console. I kinda expected it in this price range but I certainly expected it to come with a disc drive and stand lol. That being said, I'm super curious to see where they price the ps6 because I'm thinking it'll be in the same range as the Pro..
PS3 was crazy. $600 in 2006 is nearly $950 in today's money. PS3 also packed in a blu-ray player (which back then, stand alone blu ray players were $500+ alone) plus it was backwards compatible.
If the remasterers where ps3 games no one woulb be mad. PS4 makes no sense.
Maybe a days gone remaster could potentially green light a sequel. I’m not agreeing with a remasters of days gone and horizon zero dawn.
I would prefer a remaster of killzone, resistance, infamous, god of war and their older ps1-ps3 titles. But I would prefer new ips firstly
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400 million to make the game, but they apparently give up on it in 2 weeks and refund everybody..People will believe anything 1 person says if it fits their narrative
it actually makes perfect sense pulling it gives them an opportunity to relaunch it, rather than letting a 400 million dollar investment just die.
With player counts that low, pulling is ASAP avlbsolutely the believable and right move to make. A game like that is expensive to maintain, so if it's making less than it's maintainable costs, pull it ASAP to save money. Plus, the less time it's out, the fewer people buy it, making it easier to refund. Once they refunded all buyers, Sony are allowed to claim alot of the costs of developing Concord as a tax write off. A write off that will recoup them far more than the game was ever going to make them once it flopped.
Why can’t concord be free to play?
Well it would probably take about 30 40 million at least in terms of dev time to rework the game as free to play. Then there are the server/maintencr costs of running the game once it launches which would be at least 2 million or so a month (you'd be surprised how expensive those are, plus you need staff still working on the game for updates, and advertising etc...).
And even after all that extra money thrown at the project, Concord would still barely get any more players.
That's why.