10 Video Games You Didn't Realise Shut Down In 2024
2. Concord
Even the most skeptical of observers could've never predicted how short-lived Sony's recent mega-budget foray into live service hero shooter fare would actually be.
Concord - alleged to have cost around $400 million to produce over a period of eight years - launched this past August, and while poor open beta numbers and a general lack of player interest in the game suggested it wouldn't be long for this world, most everyone expected it to survive until 2025 at least.
But roughly a week after launch, the game was reported to have sold just 25,000 units across PS5 and PC - a disastrous figure for a game of this scale, enough that Sony only took 10 days from Concord's launch to announce that it would be taken offline and all copies refunded.
On September 6th, two weeks to the day that Concord launched, service ceased as Sony "re-evaluated" the title, though analysts and players alike had little hope for the game ever going back online.
And indeed, the very next month Sony confirmed that Concord was dead for good, with developer Firewalk Studio additionally being shuttered. It's no understatement to call Concord one of the most colossal failures in the history of video games.