Concord (PS5) News Articles
Saturday15th Nov 2025
News Sony Trying to Silence Concord Revival Project After Fans Brought PS5, PC Disaster Back
But why?
Even a year removed from its release, it’s still difficult to process just what a disaster Concord was. It was a flop on a scale we’ve never seen before – a true unprecedented catastrophe. But – and stick with us here – it wasn’t the worst game ever made. Yes, its character designs were questionable and its overall concept...
Monday3rd Nov 2025
News Concord's Disastrous Demise Could Help Push for Better Consumer Rights in UK
Sony praised for refunds
Well, at least one (potential) positive may come from Concord's unprecedented failure: the disastrous PS5 and PC shooter is now being used to push for stronger consumer rights in the UK. As reported by Eurogamer, the 2024 title, which was shut down just two weeks after launch, has been mentioned by name in the House of...
Friday13th Jun 2025
News 'We Won't Make the Same Mistakes Again': Sony Reflects on PS5's Catastrophic Concord
But will not give up on live service
Sony’s vowed not to repeat the mistakes it made with the PS5’s ill-fated live service shooter Concord, saying its “reviewed its processes […] to deeply understand how and why the title failed to meet expectations”. Speaking candidly as part of a choreographed investors roundtable, PS Studios boss...
Thursday29th May 2025
Random Commemorative Launch Plaque of PS5 Catastrophe Concord Donated to Thrift Store
That's kinda sad
It doesn’t look like Chelsea Grace, an Outsourcing and Co-Dev Lead at shuttered developer Firewalk Games, has much love for Concord. She’s donated her commemorative launch plaque to US thrift store Goodwill, and you can now own this small piece of history. The framed piece includes the game’s box art and a copy of the PS5...
Thursday20th Mar 2025
News PS5 Mega-Flop Concord Is Reaching Absurdly High Prices on eBay
World's most expensive coaster
Concord, the PS5 multiplayer shooter that no longer exists, is fetching frankly ridiculous prices on sites like eBay as its physical edition is becoming something of a collector's item. Boxed copies of the failed sci-fi FPS are being resold on the site for upwards of £300, in some cases, with several more listings...
Monday25th Nov 2024
News Secret Level's Concord Episode Has a Trailer, and It Feels Really Weird
What's Concord?
Ouch, this stings a bit. Sony released and then quickly obliterated the sci-fi multiplayer shooter Concord earlier this year, but we've yet to see the last of it; the game will be part of Amazon Prime's Secret Level anthology series. While the game itself was taken offline after a disastrous launch, the TV show — which adapts...
Wednesday13th Nov 2024
News Secret Level Creator Comments on Concord's Awkward Anthology Inclusion
“I honestly don’t understand why it didn’t work"
The brief but explosive saga of Sony's failed service punt, Concord, isn't over yet. Your favourite Freegunners will ride again in Secret Level from 10th December, the focus of one of the anthology series' 15 episodes. Secret Level's Tim Miller has noted the elephant in the room for the first...
Friday8th Nov 2024
News Sony Comments on Concord Disaster, Says Game Should Have Been Tested Earlier
User testing and internal evaluation needed to be sooner
Sony has claimed it should have been performing internal tests of Concord earlier than it was to spot the mistakes that led to its disastrous launch. Speaking during a Q&A session part of its latest Q2 financial earnings call, Sony president Hiroki Totoki said the firm is still going...
Tuesday29th Oct 2024
News Concord Cost Sony Over $200 Million, And Didn't Make a Single Cent
A price to pay
There’s been much discussion about how much money Sony wasted on gigaflop Concord, and now we have a ballpark estimate. It had previously been reported that the company had spent $400 million on the game, although this number always seemed a little high. Now Kotaku is citing two sources as saying the initial development deal for the...
News PS5, PC Flop Concord Never Returning, Studio Closed Down
Crash landing
In a devastating PS Studios update, bigwig Hermen Hulst has confirmed that following a period of consultation, PS5 and PC gigaflop Concord will never be returning and developer Firewalk Studios has been closed down. According to Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, around 172 people will lose their jobs, although Sony does say it’s trying...
Friday11th Oct 2024
News Concord Devs Tinker with PC Files, Spurring Free-to-Play Speculation
Failure to launch
We haven't heard much from the Concord front in recent days, likely because it functionally no longer exists. Still, there is plenty of interest amongst the PlayStation faithful as to what developer Firewalk's ultimate fate will be, and the always-watching SteamDB has detected some small movement. Now, we don't speak PC and thus...
Friday20th Sep 2024
Rumour Concord Cost $400 Million, Sony Believed It Was the 'Future of PlayStation'
Allegedly Sony's most expensive first-party game ever
We promise we’re not trying to rub it in, but Concord is such a historic flop that some of these stories simply can’t be overlooked. Speaking on the latest episode of Sacred Symbols, veteran ex-IGN reporter Colin Moriarty said he’d spoken to a developer on the first-person shooter, and...
News Retro PS2 TimeSplitters Titles Outperform PS5, PC Flop Concord in UK Charts
As consumers increasingly switch to digital
We don’t mean to flog a horse while it’s already down, but astounding data coming out of the UK reveals that two retro TimeSplitters titles – released as part of PS Plus Premium but also sold separately on PS5 and PS4 – outperformed tentpole first-party title Concord. Of course, we know
News Concord Dev Could Close After Director of PS5, PC Disaster Steps Down
Staff refreshing resumes as they anticipate job cuts
The silence following Sony's removal of Concord from sale could never last, and it appears there has been some movement at the embattled Firewalk Studios. According to multiple Kotaku sources, the developers feel like they are stuck in limbo, and last week, director Ryan Ellis told staff he would...
Friday13th Sep 2024
News You Can't Buy Concord on PS5, PC Anymore, But You Can Buy the Official Merch
Every cloud
As you will no doubt have heard, Sony's multiplayer shooter Concord has been removed from sale indefinitely, with no confirmation of when, or if, it'll return. The sci-fi FPS failed to find a sizeable audience, with sales numbers estimated to be shockingly low, resulting in a shutdown just days after its initial release. A disastrous...
Tuesday10th Sep 2024
News Freelance Artist Attempts to Redesign PS5, PC Flop Concord's Cast
Better or worse?
Concord, the ill-fated first-person shooter from Firewalk, failed for a multitude of reasons. We’ve documented many of these, but one thing PlayStation fans have latched onto are the character designs. As we pointed out in our review, they’re not all bad – but some of them do struggle to standout in a saturated market. Compare...
Friday6th Sep 2024
News PS5, PC Disaster Concord Is Now Officially Offline Indefinitely
Gone and likely forgotten
And just like that, two weeks after it launched, Concord is officially offline indefinitely. A 1.3GB patch has been deployed confirming that Sony has pulled the plug on the first-person shooter, and you can no longer connect. The release – arguably the biggest flop in PlayStation first-party history – sold an estimated...
News Concord Will Remain in Prime Video's Secret Level Anthology Series
Might as well get your money's worth
Given Concord's shocking reversal in fortune in recent days, you might wonder what this all means for its expanded universe of transmedia, which was seemingly so central to Sony's strategy here. Well, the show must go on, as they say, and a source close to the production has indeed confirmed that Concord will...
Thursday5th Sep 2024
News Concord PS5, PC Scalpers Attempt to Cash In on 'Rare Collector's Item'
Mercenary life
With time running out and Concord servers set to switch off tomorrow, September 6th, scalpers seem to be attempting to make some quick money off of PlayStation's soon-to-be-unplayable multiplayer shooter. Spotted by IGN, while physical copies of Concord were quickly swept off retail shelves and the digital version is no longer...
Wednesday4th Sep 2024
News Players Take the Easy Way Out in Pursuit of Concord's Coveted Platinum PS5 Trophy
We're here if you need to talk
Fresh off the news of the game's unprecedented flop and subsequent removal from sale, Concord's remaining player base appears to be taking the easy way out; in pursuit of the game's Platinum Trophy and easy XP gains, Concord players are now committing suicide en masse, resulting in darkly humorous scenes. On
Tuesday3rd Sep 2024
News Sony Flop Concord Axed Two Weeks After PS5, PC Release
Dead practically on arrival
Setting what has to be a new record for a game of its size and budget, Concord is officially being taken offline just two weeks after its launch on PS5 and PC. This is a frankly unprecedented move, but one that doesn't come as a massive shock, which speaks volumes about the game's utterly disastrous levels of appeal...
Monday2nd Sep 2024
News Concord Devs Maintain Radio Silence, Which Isn't Helping Matters
No news is good news, right?
Concord has only been out for just over a week, but it feels like aeons, especially for those brave few who are actually playing and enjoying Sony's latest foray into the competitive multiplayer space. Amidst the headlines decrying shrinking player numbers and abysmal sales figures, players have certainly taken not
Sunday1st Sep 2024
News How Long Does It Take to Find a Match in Concord on PS5, PC?
A little while
How long does it take to find a match in Concord right now? The problem Sony’s new first-person shooter is facing is that it’s an online-only experience, designed to be played in games of up to ten players. This is all well and good when a title has a huge community, but with Steam figures totalling in the hundreds and speculation...
Saturday31st Aug 2024
News Concord PS5, PC Sales Estimates Are Somehow Even Worse Than We Thought
An unbelievable 25,000 copies
It doesn't take a genius to realise that Concord has bombed. Sony's PS5 and PC hero shooter has, by all accounts, seriously struggled to attract players. At this point, it's common knowledge that the title almost immediately crashed and burned on Steam, where its frankly dismal user numbers are publicly available. It...
Thursday29th Aug 2024
News Players Complain of Lengthy PS5 Matchmaking Times As Concord Numbers Dwindle
Vicious cycle
In another worrying sign of Concord's ongoing viability, complaints of lengthy matchmaking times have begun to emerge as the already small player base seemingly contracts. After the game's launch weekend, one PS5 player reported waiting up to eight minutes to find a match outside of peak hours, which is obviously not ideal for a...
Monday26th Aug 2024
News Spare a Thought for Secret Level's Concord Episode
Hindsight is everything
Secret Level, a new Amazon Prime anthology show inspired by the universes of 15 different games, will debut on 10th December – but spare a thought for the episode dedicated to Firewalk Studios’ first-person shooter Concord, which producers must have thought would be a bigger deal. There’ll be an entire episode dedicated...
News Things Are Getting Worse for Floundering PS5, PC FPS Concord
Update: Steam audience gradually evaporating
Update: The weekend has not brought any signs of improvement to Concord’s performance on PC, where it’s now officially floundering on Steam. While the title peaked at a pitiful 697 concurrent players upon launch, it’s not passed that number since, and its daily highs have been getting lower...
Friday23rd Aug 2024
Site News Where's Our Concord PS5, PC Review?
Holding out for a hero
Update: Just as an update to this, we’ve put over ten hours into Concord’s Early Access period now, but still have more to unlock and explore. With the title officially out for everyone, we’ll now be testing the public servers and aiming to bring you a review towards the latter half of the weekend. Original Article: As...
Thursday22nd Aug 2024
News PS5, PC Hero Shooter Concord Was in Development for 8 Years
A long flight
It’s a sign of the times: live service shooter Concord took an enormous eight years to develop. The tidbit was confirmed on X (or Twitter) by lead character designer Jon Weisnewski. He wrote: “Today Firewalk Studios launched Concord. The game has been in development for around eight years and I’ve been there for almost five of...
Wednesday21st Aug 2024
News Concord Probably Best Played on PC, According to Official Features Trailer
Uncapped framerate, 4K, Nvidia DLSS 3.7, oh my
With Concord dropping simultaneously on Friday on PS5 and PC, Sony is now detailing the PC version, which comes with all kinds of additional bells and whistles. You'll need a rig capable of taking advantage of those extras, obviously, but it's hard not to see the list of PC-exclusive extras and feel a...
