Concord Failure Seemingly Has Sony Cancelling Other Live-Service Projects

A fewer years ago, Sony, sensing a ripe opportunity, decided to aggressively grow into the live-service space. This was confusing for fans, arsenic the bulk of the publisher's first-party studios are renowned for their single-player games.

Sony's determination to aggressively grow into the live-service abstraction was confusing to fans, arsenic the bulk of the publisher's first-party studios are renowned for their singleplayer games. Nevertheless, Sony persisted successful its live-service propulsion and occasionally recovered success, astir notably with Arrowhead's Helldivers 2.

However, the cracks began to amusement adjacent earlier the costly nonaccomplishment of Concord. Naughty Dog was slated to merchandise a live-service spin-off of The Last Of Us but yet cancelled the task to absorption connected single-player games. The workplace felt if it persisted successful releasing a live-service game, they would beryllium stuck supporting it for years to travel and wouldn't person the resources to make different games arsenic a result.

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However, the biggest displacement successful priorities came aft the merchandise of Concord, the debut rubric of Firewalk Studios. Despite the costly cinematics and selling from Sony, determination ne'er seemed to beryllium a ample magnitude of involvement successful Concord. It's a hard marketplace for a pay-to-play live-service that uses a caller IP, and these factors yet prompted Sony to unopen the crippled down conscionable a fewer weeks aft release.

Yesterday, a God of War live-service from Bluepoint Games and an chartless live-service from Bend Studio were cancelled by Sony. In total, six live-service games person been cancelled by Sony since the opening of its push. These see Spider-Man: The Great Web from Insomniac and an chartless live-service from London Studio.

According to Giant Bomb's Jeff Grubb, the caller God of War and Bend Studio cancellations are a nonstop effect of Concord's failure. On an occurrence of Game Mess Decides, Grubb addressed the caller cancellations, saying "This happened due to the fact that of Concord. This should beryllium clear, that's what I've been told. Sony has been shell-shocked by Concord, and present they're going astir to each workplace and they're reassessing each azygous project. If it's a unrecorded work project, it has a batch of friction going against it preventing it from getting a accidental to really travel out."

Sony inactive has respective live-service projects successful progressive improvement but appears to person cemented a caller strategy of releasing a triple-A singleplayer crippled annually. The in-development live-service projects are Fairgame$ (Haven Studios), a Horizon live-service (Guerilla), Marathon (Bungie) and a Horizon MMO (NCSoft).