20 Disastrous Gaming Launches Everyone Saw Coming
7. Concord
Concord might well lay claim to the most disastrous launch in the history of video games.
Sony's live service hero shooter attracted all the wrong publicity from the moment it was unveiled, with few taking much interest in its quippy, James Gunn-flavoured cutscenes nor its generic 5v5 FPS gameplay.
Many roundly dismissed it as an Overwatch clone, a sentiment that was only exacerbated once Sony hosted an open beta in the lead up to its August 2024 release.
That Concord wasn't a monetised free-to-play game but rather a $40 retail release only furthered the feeling that Sony was about to drop another dud in their growing glut of live service flops - one rumoured to have cost as much as $400 million.
Ultimately Concord failed to make a dent, topping out at less than 700 concurrent players on Steam while allegedly selling only around 25,000 units on PS5.
This wasn't hugely surprising to anyone who had been following the game, but what came next was.
Rather than see if Concord caught on in the months that followed, Sony saw the writing on the wall and pulled the plug just two weeks after launch.