Sony closes Concord studio and permanently shuts down the game

Sony is closing Firewalk Studios, the workplace down its PlayStation Concord game that it took offline past month aft a disastrous launch. In a message to PlayStation staff, Hermen Hulst, CEO of the PlayStation workplace concern group, says Firewalk Studios volition adjacent alongside Neon Koi, a mobile crippled studio.

“We person spent sizeable clip these past fewer months exploring each our options,” says Hulst. “After overmuch thought, we person determined the champion way guardant is to permanently sunset the crippled and adjacent the studio. I privation to convey each of Firewalk for their craftsmanship, originative tone and dedication.”

Hulst says Concord didn’t deed Sony’s targets and that the PlayStation shaper volition “take the lessons learned from Concord and proceed to beforehand our unrecorded work capabilities to present aboriginal maturation successful this area.”

Concord debuted connected August 23rd connected some PS5 and PC, but Sony took the crippled offline connected September 6th aft mediocre income of the game. Estimates person enactment sales at nether 25,000, and Concord only managed to deed an all-time highest of conscionable 697 players connected Steam, little than the motorboat highest of The Lord of the Rings: Gollum.

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