10 Biggest Gaming Moments Of The Last Decade
5. Concord Flops
There is some dark truth to the phrase "it's like a car crash, you can't look away".
In Concord's case, you only had two weeks to look at it's smouldering wreckage before it was unceremoniously removed altogether.
The doomed PlayStation first-party title's reveal wouldn’t have inspired a lot of awe if it had turned out to be the narrative-driven experience that it first appeared to be, but the instant that viewers saw gameplay there was a collective groan. Yet another bright, soulless FPS live-service game, filled with Battle Pass incentives and microtransactions.
To make matters worse, Concord was released with a $40 price tag instead of being free-to-play like so many of its ilk. As such, it was suspected the game only made a few thousand sales when it did arrive.
A failure on this scale, from one of the biggest companies in the industry, was unthinkable.
The game became the laughing stock of 2024 and, completely embarrassed by this failure, Sony took the game down from stores. The investment into the game they had made didn’t pay off at all - and an episode of the Amazon Prime anthology series Secret Level about the lore of the Concord world arriving months after the game had gone offline will almost certainly be the last we ever see of it.