{"id":16399,"date":"2024-10-30T15:38:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T14:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/30\/concord-collapses-firewalk-falls-its-a-brutal-year-for-game-development\/"},"modified":"2024-10-30T15:38:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T14:38:10","slug":"concord-collapses-firewalk-falls-its-a-brutal-year-for-game-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/30\/concord-collapses-firewalk-falls-its-a-brutal-year-for-game-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Concord collapses, Firewalk falls \u2013 it\u2019s a brutal year for game development"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sony is shutting down Firewalk, the studio behind its live-service flop, Concord. It\u2019s the biggest, most expensive casualty of an increasingly crowded hero shooter market \u2013 and it won\u2019t be the last<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s official: after Sony pulled its struggling hero shooter Concord<\/a> from sale shortly after it launched, the studio that made it will now be closing. Firewalk Studios was bought by Sony less than two years ago, as part of a strategy to improve PlayStation\u2019s live-service portfolio. The closure of Firewalk cements Concord\u2019s place as one of the biggest and most consequential flops in gaming history: the cost to Sony will have been in the hundreds of millions, with estimates of Concord\u2019s development cost ranging from $200m to $400m in total.<\/p>\n

Sony also closed Neon Koi, a developer with offices in Helsinki and Berlin, which focused on \u201cmobile action games with epic stories\u201d but had yet to release a game.<\/p>\n

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\nSony is shutting down Firewalk, the studio behind its live-service flop, Concord. It\u2019s the biggest, most expensive casualty of an increasingly crowded hero shooter market \u2013 and it won\u2019t be the last
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\nIt\u2019s official: after Sony pulled its struggling hero shooter Concord from sale shortly after it launched, the studio that made it will now be closing. Firewalk Studios was bought by Sony less than two years ago, as part of a strategy to improve PlayStation\u2019s live-service portfolio. The closure of Firewalk cements Concord\u2019s place as one of the biggest and most consequential flops in gaming history: the cost to Sony will have been in the hundreds of millions, with estimates of Concord\u2019s development cost ranging from $200m to $400m in total.
\nSony also closed Neon Koi, a developer with offices in Helsinki and Berlin, which focused on \u201cmobile action games with epic stories\u201d but had yet to release a game. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sony is shutting down Firewalk, the studio behind its live-service flop, Concord. It\u2019s the biggest, most expensive casualty of an increasingly crowded hero shooter market \u2013 and it won\u2019t be the last \u2022 Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here It\u2019s official: after Sony pulled its struggling hero shooter Concord from …<\/p>\n

Concord collapses, Firewalk falls \u2013 it\u2019s a brutal year for game development<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16399"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}