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Rumour: Concord Cost $400 Million, Sony Believed It Was the 'Future of PlayStation' (www.pushsquare.com)
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[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 1 points 23 minutes ago (1 children)

Concord is such a terrible name it doesn't grab attention at all. The game keep popping up on my feed and i just take a glance and move on. It's Sony's greatest blunder.

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 minutes ago

Hey, even if Concorde failed doesn’t mean it wasn’t the first commercial plane to break the sound barrier.

[–] AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 1 points 40 minutes ago

400 million and I never even heard of the game.

[–] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 8 points 2 hours ago

Pretty massive screw up from the marketing team involved. To try and sell a hero shooter for $40 upfront from an unknown dev studio in a crowded market of free-to-play hero shooters is pretty risky. Even Overwatch 2 saw the writing on the wall and went F2P.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 26 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

....how does ANY game cost $400,000,000?

No, seriously: does that include an unlimited drugs and hookers for the c-levels budget or something?

[–] sus@programming.dev 10 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

the credits for concord list 2000 employees. It was also in development for 6 years (I would guess it probably suffered "development hell")

https://www.mobygames.com/game/229488/concord/credits/playstation-5/

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Wasn't GTA 5 like 100 millions? I mean it's insane but in the ballpark.

[–] omarfw@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

265 million in 2013 money which is 358 million in 2024 money.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

IIRC, it's more like 250 million, but 250 million is still basically half of whatever this generic-ass live-service FPS game ended up costing, and it's certainly not to the scope or scale of GTA5.

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 hours ago

I feel like through could have come up with a copycat hero shooter for like 20 million tops.

[–] minibyte@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Brought to you by John Belushi.

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago

The only way to really explain the cost