The spiderverse multiplayer, TLOU2 multiplayer, probably an Infamous sequel/remake, revivals of classic PS games, new ips that are interesting and who knows what else
$400 million does sound a like a lot, but if this counts for anything, I do remember other reputable people saying that the sources that they knew could not confirm that Concord cost $400 million. And I think some former devs with some insight added that they've never heard of any AAA game costing that much to make. Still though, that's just what I've seen around this situation. But aside from the rumored cost, I do think the toxic positivity and overestimation surrounding Concord is definitely something that I think ruined Concord unfortunately.
What the hell was the $400 million spent on?! The visuals didn't look that amazing. Gameplay didn't look like anything special. And I barely saw marketing. Where did it go?!
Unfortunately I did not get much out of this video due to seeing the original and a few other commentaries from other channels. I love mighty keef skits, his sense of humor is hilarious 😂. I was disappointed this wasn’t a skit but keep up the great work man ! 😮
I totally agree with you that Sony knows nostalgia will get us, but this is why I'm so surprised they aren't pushing backwards compatibility more... A LOT of us would replay/rebuy PS3 games if they found a way to run those games natively. Sony has the money and the mindpower to figure it out, they just need to actually invest time into it.
People are shock that sony would waste 200+ millions dollars but, Ghostbusters 2016 cost $144 million and that money was nowhere to be seen in that movie.
Not only that, but remember that Godzilla movie from last year that looked about as good as Hollywood movies, but at fifteen million dollars? They spend that on episodes of TV now. I’ve started using “an entire Godzilla Minus One” as a unit of measurement because of that.
You forget they made a short Film for Amazons Series before it even came out. They promoted it as "A short Film series of your Favorit Games" (paraphasing). They realy thought they had a banger in the making.
Unfortunately, Colin Moriarty also wrote that the Vita would destroy the 3ds, and he also did make an article that the Switch will fail. You can agree to his points but his words are not gospel.
Concord is just another symptom of Sony completely fucking up this generation imo. This ninth generation they have consistently failed with stuff like the Helldivers 2 steam situation, The Ps5 pro, The struggle to obtain a PS5 for like the first 2 years of the consoles lifespan, the lack of love to older franchises, the slow trickle of first party games, the lack of any big new IP and Sony's insistence of remastering games that quite frankly do not need it. I think all of this has been caused by Sony getting complacent and too big for their own britches as they completely dominated last generation with the PS4 so now they feel like they don't even have to try anymore. Not to mention Sony already has a pattern of doing this they did it back with the PS3 after all they completely dominated the previous generation with the PS2 so they got cocky and ended up with stuff like the 700 dollar launch price for the PS3, a shitty launch lineup, the console was hard to develop for and they had that shitty boomerang controller pre launch (that they eventually went back on and just swapped it out for another dualshock controller after backlash. The difference between then and now though is that Sony actually tried to remedy the situation they released the much cheaper PS3 slim, they started giving us great new franchises like uncharted, Infamous and Littlebigplanet and they gave us some of the best exclusive titles on any PlayStation console and at a highly consistent basis. Now though Sony are doing nothing to fix the issues with the PS5 they're not giving us any big new first party IPs, they're completely ignoring most of their older franchises, the console is still expensive as fuck and is getting more expensive with the Pro model and they're adamant about making live service games like Concord now even after so many of them have bombed hard the last few years. They've gotten incredibly complacent and lazy now that they're on top in terms of the console market and I don't see them improving until they either experience a massive string of failures or when Microsoft manages to outdo them again like with the PS3 and the 360
Not to mention increasing prices for PS Plus for no reason (specifically essential), increasing prices for controllers, and completely hosing non-US markets even Japan(!!) with conversion rates. I’m sure price increases including the PS5 Pro were decided a while back, but to do that after Concord only makes customers feel like we are now paying for failed products we never even asked for
@@brentyetter2216 I'd say Xbox hasn't been fucking up as badly as sony has lately but yeah they still have had their fair share of fuck ups like their own lack of exclusive titles, shutting down studios, layoffs etc.
You'd think after the game tested so poorly that they had to double the budget to try and save it they'd drop the required yes men attitude amongst the staff.
"You could've made 40 Double A games for that $400 Million" EXACTLY. They could've taken some chances, been creative, brought back some dormant series to Remake/Remaster, and done a bunch of games that were fun with that. That way, not only do those games have a low sales bar for making their money back, but even if 1 or 2 don't? You've still got 30-something OTHER games that could end up hits.
How can they when japan studio is gone. That were Sony identity was. Now they’re like xbox. Just 3rd party games and no real ip’s with studio capably to make. Like look at Nintendo, they’re killing it now with games.
@xxargonautxx9790 I mean, Astro Bot showed a ton of them. Like they could Remake Legend of Dragoon or something. And well, if they're lacking in IPs they can make new ones. Just not for $400 million.
Keef look at the hour long credits for Concord and you can see the itemized flow right there not to mention all of the people who are uncredited from outsourcing and QA
The more i hear about the behind the scenes of Concord, the more i think this game is the definition of a dramedy: It does everything so bad that just can't laugh but also feel bad for the people behind the game
Considering Firewalk Studio is located down here in Washington in the City of Bellevue, which is like the 2nd or 3rd MOST expensive city in the State. I can see Concord costing a shiny penny in just man power alone. You hate to see it, but it doesnt make the flop less funny. 😂
Why are you shocked about this? Modern tech companies will invest everything and then some to catch the next big thing. We saw this with the metaverse, NFTs, and other blatantly stupid shit the average person knows sucks. Sony and other big gaming companies have been preaching about live service games being the future, so it's more surprising that we haven't seen a live service game that hasn't cost more than the single player games like Spiderman.
Speaking of live service games, this is THE SAME COMPANY that had basically banned over 150 countries from Helldivers 2 just because they wanted everyone on PSN. Common sense doesn't always exist with these big corporations.
You cooking! I agree. They thought they would have a Star Wars Level IP in the making. It was an Investment they planned for the big cashout in the Future but... womp womp
im an executive at a company who partners with sony. Trust me when i say... Sony is nuking the game. turning it free to play cost waaaaaay more than any business is willing to invest.
400M!? We could’ve gotten the Spiderverse multiplayer with that money! Would it fall victim to the live service curse? Yes but I rather see that than “Saints Rows 2022 X4”!
Colin is legit one of the few game journalist with respect got canceled for openly being Republican he has a lot of connection in gaming industry especially in PlayStation
The majority of a games budget is paying for manpower. Wages and insurance are hella expensive especially in the areas where these games are being developed.
i have to say i admire and respect the people who made Concord they looked at Sony and PS5 and said to themselves "lets scam them." and pulled it off.. just slooow clap modern day heroes haha
Some people are suspecting that Concord would have been originaly as one of the games used on the PlayStation 5 Pro presentation. But after its reception, it was quickly removed on the last minute.
8 years of development with a 150 people, mocap, voice actors, and costs for the workspace, it is believable it cost that much even though it was terrible
Sony bought the Concord IP and Firewalk studios from Probablymonsters, so it's likely that Sony paid somewhere around $200M for the IP in addition to whatever it cost to acquire the studio. Honestly, Probablymonsters might've pulled off the greatest finesse in gaming history.
Concord foundationally was doomed from the start, trying to make it work a second time isn't worth it. At that point it's even more of a sunk cost fallacy, trying to revive it isn't worth it, since I doubt anyone will give the game a first chance after it already failed.
I believe this game cost Sony a lot of money, but $400 mil is just too ludicrously high to be true, unless there was some complex money laundering being committed.
I have no doubt the source is real, but I keep saying employers are not privy to cost of development that's with very high level management execs where he getting this figure from lol
Some journalists like Chris Dring are reporting that the $400 million budget for Concord is FAKE and the game didn't cost anywhere near that. Callisto Protocol was a game made by about 150 people (about the same size as the Firewalk Concord team) and featured TONS of cut scenes (about close to two hours of cutscenes when combined together) and that game only cost $160 million and it had far more environments than Concord and computer controlled enemies (something Concord didn't have. Firewalk did NOT include computer controlled enemies since that was their way of setting the budget as low as they could). There is NO way Concord cost anywhere near $400 million. Either that $400 million is a fake number or someone at Sony is getting REALLY sassy with a tax write off they are planning for the game and they plan on falsely reporting the game cost $400 million (something they better NOT do because the IRS is going to look at that number, scratch their heads, and is going to do a very nasty audit and investigation. As someone who has a relative who worked at the IRS, trust me when I say having the IRS do an audit and full investigation is something they take VERY seriously and they are very cutthroat about it in the nastiest ways possible). On another note... Firewalk was founded during 2018. 2018 to 2024 is only 6 years. Original sources reporting that the game took 8 years to develop are wrong since Firewalk studio isn't even 8 years old, it's only been around for 6 years. It's been stated by some that the game only had 4 years of development, definitely not 8.
I hope is this a lesson that the industry can learn from, how not to fumble so horrible, honestly if they saw the game was cheeks why rush everything and push it out and with toxic positivity, at that point F that start from the beginning or just give yourself more time, do what Nintendo with with metroid they didn't like it they started from the beginning, this sucks because devs, artist and basically people who actually make the game are now in limbo unless they got fired already, all that money wasted for what for nothing, I hope companies can use this as a lesson
Currently Sony is even more arrogant than in their ps3 days. They'll learn nothing, they'll blame their fans and go even harder on the next try because they're getting desperate. That's what I'm expecting here.
@@SpaniardNL as much as I hate to admit it yeah it’s gonna be true which is sad because at the end of the day the actual people that make the game are the ones affected, C suite people dont get affected the CEO will go home not worrying about his paycheck or his job being cut. What makes it more annoying is that they knew it was cheeks and people couldn’t say it was cheeks, honestly if I were a dev or artist or just someone on them team ill straight up say it, this is cheeks if I lost my job F it maybe someone stepping up and saying someone would of changed the outcome. And maybe instead of losing all this money they would of made money
So math says yeah they could lose this much money because when you outsource things to different companies you have to pay a premium most of the time and let’s say all grunt level employees made $16 an hour and the size of the grunts was at least 200 people with no crunch time and they got a regular 40 hour work week pay check the amount of money you would need would be somewhere around $50 million for 8 years. This isn’t even including a marketing team, or any management teams or money going towards other sources of media so yeah I can see why games cost this much but they don’t have to idk why Sony and Microsoft think bigger means better because it never truly has, it only seems that the bigger you become the more chances of corruption come from within by mismanagement or incompetence
There you go. You don't understand about it. You avoid it. Well barely. Just we know this stuff is just sad. its not about firewalk. I mean sony Playstation. So what the heck they been doing all these years and then we have horizon remastered???
This has to be one of the most obvious tax write offs in history. For the “most expensive PlayStation game” there was no marketing budget. I’ve seen indie games with more marketing
Another thing to remember is Concord is ALSO getting animated in that animated video game collection by... Amazon? that or Netflix, by the Love Death and Robots collective. Probably all mocapped and cgi for that. Just insane by Sony but still, I don't think just the game cost that much, all those cg trailers they were gonna release before they cut it Edit: Should watch the video first, Keef brings up that video game collection... woops
So, the very first teaser of this game gave off: A contendor to Starfield (ie: a single player space adventure, but better than Starfield) That teaser never gave off: multiplayer shlop... Then we got the Playstation SOP announcement... it was downhill from there.
God, imagine that people actually held playstation accountable for all of the dumbass decisions they have made over the years, rather than concentrating on xbox...Colin talking about this is hilarious, because this info being leaked by him is designed to get rid of someone/thing within Sony.
Tom Warren and Chris Dring already said the game did not cost $400 million and theyre surprised gaming media is running with the story. It was a story made up by Colon Moriarty and yall esting thr lies straight up lmao.
Well, then someone needs to set the record straight. Until there's someone who does, then people will clown on whichever sounds the most ridiculous, and honestly, Sony should reveal what it cost because letting the narrative run with 400 Million is very damaging to their brand, just shows the level of incompetence.
@Xyler94 Their brand isn't being damaged because they already know it didn't cost $400. The mass audience did not know the game existed in the first place, and anyone with a brain could tell you that Sony would not spend $400 million on a brand new IP made by another unproven studio. There's literally NO AAA game that has cost that much money lmao.
@@findvolume The game was advertised during the May State of Play and had a whole 10min segment dedicated to itself, Its own social media following including Twitter and UA-cam had Ad post, ads on UA-cam and Twitch (anecdotal), plastered front and center on the PS5 store, paid streamers during the open beta (they all had had #AD in the title which is never a good sign lmao). The general gaming audience just did care about Concord. I remember watching the State of Play on the official Sony channel on Twitch. The very moment the Head Director came out and said Concord is a 5v5 Hero shooter, the comments immediately wrote it off as just another Overwatch clone and were disinterested. Since gamers weren't interested, it means streamers are less inclined to even look in your direction. Im pretty sure Concord never even got above 5000 concurrent views on Twitch. I think Shroud was the biggest streamer that i saw playing and he only played for like 2hrs (so did the other streamers that had #Ad in the title). The game was actually doomed to fail. Literally sent out on a death march.
Sorry, but there's just no way a game like Concord costs that much. And if that price tag is including the studio acquisition, well, that's just kind of stupid. Since when is the cost of the studio included with the cost of developing the game?
They lost 2 Spider-Man games right there
The spiderverse multiplayer, TLOU2 multiplayer, probably an Infamous sequel/remake, revivals of classic PS games, new ips that are interesting and who knows what else
@@blodia-the tlou multi-player hurts the most because they actively ended it already in development for other bs like concord 😢
It's even worse when u get to know Ghost of tsuhima only cost them 60 million. They lost a minimum of 6 new great potential IP opportunities to build
@@vishaalmalolan4428 Or the budget to let a lot of current projects cook longer for polish
Remember what we lost brothers
$400 million does sound a like a lot, but if this counts for anything, I do remember other reputable people saying that the sources that they knew could not confirm that Concord cost $400 million. And I think some former devs with some insight added that they've never heard of any AAA game costing that much to make.
Still though, that's just what I've seen around this situation. But aside from the rumored cost, I do think the toxic positivity and overestimation surrounding Concord is definitely something that I think ruined Concord unfortunately.
What the hell was the $400 million spent on?! The visuals didn't look that amazing. Gameplay didn't look like anything special. And I barely saw marketing. Where did it go?!
Gotta be money laundering
it went into the pronouns 😂
Into the bonuses of the executives who managed this thing
It's the same with Star Wars the Acolyte. Incompetent people will spend more than people who know what they are doing.
The credits of the game being 36mins long is insane 😂
That haircut is CRISPY Keef goddamn!
Unfortunately I did not get much out of this video due to seeing the original and a few other commentaries from other channels. I love mighty keef skits, his sense of humor is hilarious 😂. I was disappointed this wasn’t a skit but keep up the great work man ! 😮
I totally agree with you that Sony knows nostalgia will get us, but this is why I'm so surprised they aren't pushing backwards compatibility more... A LOT of us would replay/rebuy PS3 games if they found a way to run those games natively. Sony has the money and the mindpower to figure it out, they just need to actually invest time into it.
Keef don't forget Sony payed Amazon to make a animated short film? That's coming out later this year too? They've spent alot of money.
at this point all that matters is dragon ball sparking zero
Damn true, people are gonna come back and laugh at Concord when Sparking Zero bats it off the park
Damn straight!
And even then you can still play it on other consoles
People are shock that sony would waste 200+ millions dollars but, Ghostbusters 2016 cost $144 million and that money was nowhere to be seen in that movie.
Not only that, but remember that Godzilla movie from last year that looked about as good as Hollywood movies, but at fifteen million dollars? They spend that on episodes of TV now.
I’ve started using “an entire Godzilla Minus One” as a unit of measurement because of that.
You forget they made a short Film for Amazons Series before it even came out. They promoted it as "A short Film series of your Favorit Games" (paraphasing). They realy thought they had a banger in the making.
Ahh yes the Bloodborne 2 budget and Legend Of Dragoon Remake budget went to this 😂
The what!?!?! You mean to tell me we could've got Legend of Dragoon back? Damn you Herman Hulst.
Unfortunately, Colin Moriarty also wrote that the Vita would destroy the 3ds, and he also did make an article that the Switch will fail. You can agree to his points but his words are not gospel.
Concord is just another symptom of Sony completely fucking up this generation imo. This ninth generation they have consistently failed with stuff like the Helldivers 2 steam situation, The Ps5 pro, The struggle to obtain a PS5 for like the first 2 years of the consoles lifespan, the lack of love to older franchises, the slow trickle of first party games, the lack of any big new IP and Sony's insistence of remastering games that quite frankly do not need it. I think all of this has been caused by Sony getting complacent and too big for their own britches as they completely dominated last generation with the PS4 so now they feel like they don't even have to try anymore. Not to mention Sony already has a pattern of doing this they did it back with the PS3 after all they completely dominated the previous generation with the PS2 so they got cocky and ended up with stuff like the 700 dollar launch price for the PS3, a shitty launch lineup, the console was hard to develop for and they had that shitty boomerang controller pre launch (that they eventually went back on and just swapped it out for another dualshock controller after backlash. The difference between then and now though is that Sony actually tried to remedy the situation they released the much cheaper PS3 slim, they started giving us great new franchises like uncharted, Infamous and Littlebigplanet and they gave us some of the best exclusive titles on any PlayStation console and at a highly consistent basis. Now though Sony are doing nothing to fix the issues with the PS5 they're not giving us any big new first party IPs, they're completely ignoring most of their older franchises, the console is still expensive as fuck and is getting more expensive with the Pro model and they're adamant about making live service games like Concord now even after so many of them have bombed hard the last few years. They've gotten incredibly complacent and lazy now that they're on top in terms of the console market and I don't see them improving until they either experience a massive string of failures or when Microsoft manages to outdo them again like with the PS3 and the 360
Not to mention increasing prices for PS Plus for no reason (specifically essential), increasing prices for controllers, and completely hosing non-US markets even Japan(!!) with conversion rates. I’m sure price increases including the PS5 Pro were decided a while back, but to do that after Concord only makes customers feel like we are now paying for failed products we never even asked for
Xbox and Sony are both fucking up unfortunately
@@brentyetter2216 I'd say Xbox hasn't been fucking up as badly as sony has lately but yeah they still have had their fair share of fuck ups like their own lack of exclusive titles, shutting down studios, layoffs etc.
@Martiancookiehunter365 xbox is incompetent sony is just greedy
PS3 was $500 and $600, not $700. $700 with near-20 year inflation, yeah.
You'd think after the game tested so poorly that they had to double the budget to try and save it they'd drop the required yes men attitude amongst the staff.
"You could've made 40 Double A games for that $400 Million" EXACTLY. They could've taken some chances, been creative, brought back some dormant series to Remake/Remaster, and done a bunch of games that were fun with that. That way, not only do those games have a low sales bar for making their money back, but even if 1 or 2 don't? You've still got 30-something OTHER games that could end up hits.
How can they when japan studio is gone. That were Sony identity was. Now they’re like xbox. Just 3rd party games and no real ip’s with studio capably to make. Like look at Nintendo, they’re killing it now with games.
@xxargonautxx9790 I mean, Astro Bot showed a ton of them. Like they could Remake Legend of Dragoon or something. And well, if they're lacking in IPs they can make new ones. Just not for $400 million.
Keef look at the hour long credits for Concord and you can see the itemized flow right there not to mention all of the people who are uncredited from outsourcing and QA
The more i hear about the behind the scenes of Concord, the more i think this game is the definition of a dramedy: It does everything so bad that just can't laugh but also feel bad for the people behind the game
My uncle at Sony told me this actually cost $600m
Oh, you know what they should do, release the Concord itemized bill as DLC for Helldivers! I'd buy that.
Considering Firewalk Studio is located down here in Washington in the City of Bellevue, which is like the 2nd or 3rd MOST expensive city in the State. I can see Concord costing a shiny penny in just man power alone. You hate to see it, but it doesnt make the flop less funny. 😂
Why are you shocked about this? Modern tech companies will invest everything and then some to catch the next big thing. We saw this with the metaverse, NFTs, and other blatantly stupid shit the average person knows sucks.
Sony and other big gaming companies have been preaching about live service games being the future, so it's more surprising that we haven't seen a live service game that hasn't cost more than the single player games like Spiderman.
Speaking of live service games, this is THE SAME COMPANY that had basically banned over 150 countries from Helldivers 2 just because they wanted everyone on PSN.
Common sense doesn't always exist with these big corporations.
You cooking! I agree. They thought they would have a Star Wars Level IP in the making. It was an Investment they planned for the big cashout in the Future but... womp womp
one of these days the suits will realize that sharting several hundred million dollars onto every game and movie never works.
It's actually more than $400mil. $400mil doesn't include the amount that SONY paid to buy the studio.
Oh he's legit Colin is an Ex IGN and Ex Co-Founder of Kinda Funny Games
im an executive at a company who partners with sony. Trust me when i say... Sony is nuking the game. turning it free to play cost waaaaaay more than any business is willing to invest.
400M!? We could’ve gotten the Spiderverse multiplayer with that money! Would it fall victim to the live service curse? Yes but I rather see that than “Saints Rows 2022 X4”!
Colin is legit one of the few game journalist with respect got canceled for openly being Republican he has a lot of connection in gaming industry especially in PlayStation
Being a republican isn’t earning points with keep he’s very much on the other side
The majority of a games budget is paying for manpower. Wages and insurance are hella expensive especially in the areas where these games are being developed.
Man I’m early, keep it up Keef!!!
There's no trustworthy source for that 400 million number
There's no way it cost that much
i have to say i admire and respect the people who made Concord they looked at Sony and PS5 and said to themselves "lets scam them." and pulled it off.. just slooow clap modern day heroes haha
Some people are suspecting that Concord would have been originaly as one of the games used on the PlayStation 5 Pro presentation. But after its reception, it was quickly removed on the last minute.
8 years of development with a 150 people, mocap, voice actors, and costs for the workspace, it is believable it cost that much even though it was terrible
Sony bought the Concord IP and Firewalk studios from Probablymonsters, so it's likely that Sony paid somewhere around $200M for the IP in addition to whatever it cost to acquire the studio.
Honestly, Probablymonsters might've pulled off the greatest finesse in gaming history.
Please note, that 400 million, doesn't even include buying the studio.
That's extra on top.
Sony just said, “pull the cord”!
Colin is an OG
Yes, that is Chris Ray Gun 🙌
Concord foundationally was doomed from the start, trying to make it work a second time isn't worth it. At that point it's even more of a sunk cost fallacy, trying to revive it isn't worth it, since I doubt anyone will give the game a first chance after it already failed.
They could make another Killzone series😂😂😂
People making fun of Concord lasted longer than the actual game 😂
I believe this game cost Sony a lot of money, but $400 mil is just too ludicrously high to be true, unless there was some complex money laundering being committed.
With that much money they could have did a remake to Bully
400 million because of the 1 hour credits
Boi that is MASSIVELY CRAZY!
Could you imagine if this game came out before overwatch that would be insane
Good. Sony has been wild greedy lately with the bullshit
I have no doubt the source is real, but I keep saying employers are not privy to cost of development that's with very high level management execs where he getting this figure from lol
oh snap! Collin Moriarty's a name I've not seen since my high school days. I didn't recognize him with the beard omg haha
Mighty keef been eating too much Mighty Beef lately
This doesn't even include the acquisition cost sony paid to aquire the studio.
Some journalists like Chris Dring are reporting that the $400 million budget for Concord is FAKE and the game didn't cost anywhere near that. Callisto Protocol was a game made by about 150 people (about the same size as the Firewalk Concord team) and featured TONS of cut scenes (about close to two hours of cutscenes when combined together) and that game only cost $160 million and it had far more environments than Concord and computer controlled enemies (something Concord didn't have. Firewalk did NOT include computer controlled enemies since that was their way of setting the budget as low as they could). There is NO way Concord cost anywhere near $400 million. Either that $400 million is a fake number or someone at Sony is getting REALLY sassy with a tax write off they are planning for the game and they plan on falsely reporting the game cost $400 million (something they better NOT do because the IRS is going to look at that number, scratch their heads, and is going to do a very nasty audit and investigation. As someone who has a relative who worked at the IRS, trust me when I say having the IRS do an audit and full investigation is something they take VERY seriously and they are very cutthroat about it in the nastiest ways possible).
On another note...
Firewalk was founded during 2018.
2018 to 2024 is only 6 years.
Original sources reporting that the game took 8 years to develop are wrong since Firewalk studio isn't even 8 years old, it's only been around for 6 years. It's been stated by some that the game only had 4 years of development, definitely not 8.
So basically they tried to buy Lightning in a bottle from a back ally peddler and got GOT
I hope is this a lesson that the industry can learn from, how not to fumble so horrible, honestly if they saw the game was cheeks why rush everything and push it out and with toxic positivity, at that point F that start from the beginning or just give yourself more time, do what Nintendo with with metroid they didn't like it they started from the beginning, this sucks because devs, artist and basically people who actually make the game are now in limbo unless they got fired already, all that money wasted for what for nothing, I hope companies can use this as a lesson
Currently Sony is even more arrogant than in their ps3 days.
They'll learn nothing, they'll blame their fans and go even harder on the next try because they're getting desperate.
That's what I'm expecting here.
@@SpaniardNL as much as I hate to admit it yeah it’s gonna be true which is sad because at the end of the day the actual people that make the game are the ones affected, C suite people dont get affected the CEO will go home not worrying about his paycheck or his job being cut.
What makes it more annoying is that they knew it was cheeks and people couldn’t say it was cheeks, honestly if I were a dev or artist or just someone on them team ill straight up say it, this is cheeks if I lost my job F it maybe someone stepping up and saying someone would of changed the outcome. And maybe instead of losing all this money they would of made money
Can’t wait for the day that studios making trash game get all axed
We could of had Gravity Rush remastered and 2 for PC cheaper
So math says yeah they could lose this much money because when you outsource things to different companies you have to pay a premium most of the time and let’s say all grunt level employees made $16 an hour and the size of the grunts was at least 200 people with no crunch time and they got a regular 40 hour work week pay check the amount of money you would need would be somewhere around $50 million for 8 years. This isn’t even including a marketing team, or any management teams or money going towards other sources of media so yeah I can see why games cost this much but they don’t have to idk why Sony and Microsoft think bigger means better because it never truly has, it only seems that the bigger you become the more chances of corruption come from within by mismanagement or incompetence
I wouldn't trust Colin Moriarty, dude's a literal libertarian lmao
marvel rivals wouldve destroyed it either way
i think the phrase is "apparently"
We just waiting patiently for marvel rivals and sparking zero
imagen all that money on helldivers 2 damn!!!
Money laundring fr fr
Colin moryarty is a clown wtf lmao
Sony f ing up re make marvel alliance 1 and 2
Those games are heavily rumored to be returning.
400 mil that's enough to buy Microsoft to buy another company
What are you doing why didn't you just make another Spider man dlc or god war dlc
Damn never been this early lol
There you go. You don't understand about it. You avoid it. Well barely. Just we know this stuff is just sad. its not about firewalk. I mean sony Playstation. So what the heck they been doing all these years and then we have horizon remastered???
Wow just wow
This has to be one of the most obvious tax write offs in history. For the “most expensive PlayStation game” there was no marketing budget. I’ve seen indie games with more marketing
Another thing to remember is Concord is ALSO getting animated in that animated video game collection by... Amazon? that or Netflix, by the Love Death and Robots collective. Probably all mocapped and cgi for that. Just insane by Sony but still, I don't think just the game cost that much, all those cg trailers they were gonna release before they cut it
Edit: Should watch the video first, Keef brings up that video game collection... woops
So, the very first teaser of this game gave off: A contendor to Starfield (ie: a single player space adventure, but better than Starfield)
That teaser never gave off: multiplayer shlop... Then we got the Playstation SOP announcement... it was downhill from there.
God, imagine that people actually held playstation accountable for all of the dumbass decisions they have made over the years, rather than concentrating on xbox...Colin talking about this is hilarious, because this info being leaked by him is designed to get rid of someone/thing within Sony.
Tom Warren and Chris Dring already said the game did not cost $400 million and theyre surprised gaming media is running with the story.
It was a story made up by Colon Moriarty and yall esting thr lies straight up lmao.
Well, then someone needs to set the record straight. Until there's someone who does, then people will clown on whichever sounds the most ridiculous, and honestly, Sony should reveal what it cost because letting the narrative run with 400 Million is very damaging to their brand, just shows the level of incompetence.
@Xyler94 Their brand isn't being damaged because they already know it didn't cost $400. The mass audience did not know the game existed in the first place, and anyone with a brain could tell you that Sony would not spend $400 million on a brand new IP made by another unproven studio.
There's literally NO AAA game that has cost that much money lmao.
@@findvolume The game was advertised during the May State of Play and had a whole 10min segment dedicated to itself, Its own social media following including Twitter and UA-cam had Ad post, ads on UA-cam and Twitch (anecdotal), plastered front and center on the PS5 store, paid streamers during the open beta (they all had had #AD in the title which is never a good sign lmao). The general gaming audience just did care about Concord. I remember watching the State of Play on the official Sony channel on Twitch. The very moment the Head Director came out and said Concord is a 5v5 Hero shooter, the comments immediately wrote it off as just another Overwatch clone and were disinterested. Since gamers weren't interested, it means streamers are less inclined to even look in your direction. Im pretty sure Concord never even got above 5000 concurrent views on Twitch. I think Shroud was the biggest streamer that i saw playing and he only played for like 2hrs (so did the other streamers that had #Ad in the title). The game was actually doomed to fail. Literally sent out on a death march.
Correct, because it's more than 400
Tom Warren and Chris Dring, yike, are the the arbiter of truth? They do not know anything. Bro get a grip.
Sorry, but there's just no way a game like Concord costs that much. And if that price tag is including the studio acquisition, well, that's just kind of stupid. Since when is the cost of the studio included with the cost of developing the game?
It's worse, because it's excluding the acquisition...
@@SpaniardNL All the more reason why I don't think this claim is true.
I blame their marketing. I hadn't heard of Concord until it already failed.