Someone on /v/ transcribed the podcast and I will take him at his word because I didnt bother listening to it
>Colin Moriarty says that he verified this person worked on Concord and talked with him extensively
>He was shocked to learn that Concord cost $400 million to make
>Concord entered the alpha state in early 2023 before Sony bought them, Sony has been working with the developers since 2020.
>When they hit the alpha state, they have already spent $200 million working on it. Sony spend $200 million extra on it from 2023 onwards.
>The game was in a horrible shape during alpha, Sony felt they had to spend an extra 200 million in order to get the game into a playable state.
>A major expense was needed to outsource the game to other studios to finish building it and fixing it so that it was playable before launch.
>Two major things were not worked on until the last minute. Onboarding, how to get new players in and Monetization, how to get money from the players
>it would cost millions to keep the game going as well
>this is Sony's biggest and most expensive 1st party game in their history, more expensive than Spider-man 2 and TLOU2. They lost all of the money spent.
>They made $1 million gross revenue when the game launched, which was refunded.
>Sony had faith that Concord was the future of PS, it was believed to be a star wars level project where movies, tv shows, comics and toys will be made from it
>code name chaos was it's name in development
>internally you couldnt say anything bad about it due to toxic positivity.
>Herman Hulst was a massive champion of the game and you could not insult his baby.
>Colin Moriarty says that he thought the game would cost $100-200 million but he reconfirms that his source is solid and it actually costs more
>Sony execs believed in the project so much nobody on the ground level could change things. Which is why they bought the team.
>400 million is not included with the costs to buy the team btw.
>this is the biggest lost in PS history
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I certainly hope so. PlayStation deserves to crash and burn. Gameless butt console…
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It's wild that PS5s are selling so well considering there isn't peepee to play on them
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sony just went all in on what g*mers knew was the truth for a long time now, that normies just buy these machines to play cod and fifa and they'll do it by the millions
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I have an Xbox and exclusively play Halo on it so I'm no better
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Heck I like Playstation (to an extent) but even I think this is r-slurred. "Star Wars-like potential"… How about you guys just focus on making a single GOOD game, and if it does well, THEN you can do spinoffs and make it a franchise! They always try to put the cart before the horse!
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That model is outdated. Deliver a live cart first alongside a horse roadmap, where small horse chunks will be delivered over several years
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But does the horse have armor?
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I consider myself a sony fan. Ps3 and ps4 were my first non nintendo baby consoles, but the ps5 is a disgrace. Sony shutting down japan studio was the signal PlayStation had died snd their remaining studios would only make movie slop. Ps1 had many off beat, artsy, and innovative games from around the world. Sony used to have an identity as a cutting edge company who published alot of games which was true up till the ps3 era. Then in the ps4 the generic movie slop began outnumbering the neat stuff and now in the ps5 its only generic movie slop.
!g*mers
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They should make it run steam games
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Inshallah only NintendARYANS shall triumph.
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But it has God of Soy Ragingcück
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