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@ryuuotaku35
3 күн бұрын
I heard that Ghost of Tsushima was around 7 times lower price, around “60 million” to make that game and look how outstanding that game came to be.
@maryjames8433
3 күн бұрын
Colin Moriarty? As in the owner of Morairty's Saloon in Fallout 3? No freaking way.
@haunterdragon4580
3 күн бұрын
Doubt we will get any real answers but the idea of money laundering and it not being that important to Sony seems possible. Right now that money is more controversial in headlines then it is explained
@FakeJeep
3 күн бұрын
I feel like this should ad have a disclaimer attached. My wife has been doing something similar and let me tell you... two years of job hunting and no-one wants to hire someone without a degree or prior job experience. It's a catch 22. My wife literally got trained by a lead dev for a large company and was "job ready" but the company said no - not without a college cert.
@TRINVIDEO
3 күн бұрын
I saw a video showing the credits for the game were over an hour long. By comparison Baldur's gate 3 was 35 mins long and other AAA games have credits 10-20 minutes long. So that $400 million number seems plausible. I think it would make sense if Firewalk had spent over $200 million before Sony took over them and then Sony doubled down with their own $200 million after they didn't like the final product since Sony was pushing hard for this for some reason.
@Boss_Fight_Index_muki
3 күн бұрын
No new Jak & Daxter No new Days Gone No new Resistance No new Sly Cooper No new Killzone No new SOCOM No new Infamous No new Prototype No new Bloodbourne $400 million buckaroos down the crapper...
@Atlas018
3 күн бұрын
Yeah any of those would justify buying a PS5.
@Wolfaydragoon
3 күн бұрын
I was wondering why the toilets were plugged, I just assumed they were full of crap. Thank you, be here all video
@ladynikkie
3 күн бұрын
No new crash bandicoot No new ape escape No new Little Big planet
@chiefjustice5233
3 күн бұрын
No gravity rush
@badjuju2721
3 күн бұрын
A million IP's they could have resurrected. Instead they made a gold plated toilet brush.
@ozzcoremidmx8287
3 күн бұрын
It's funny to see how all the media talking about how this game flopped is making more revenue than SONY made from the game, LOL.
@sharpester7277
3 күн бұрын
@@ozzcoremidmx8287 It's funny because it's sad. Just like Mortal Kombat Annihilation, Fant4stic and DragonBall Evolution.
@ozzcoremidmx8287
3 күн бұрын
@@sharpester7277 It is sad? IDK how could it be considering the disaster was evident since the open beta, even before that xD
@briankeebler4634
3 күн бұрын
Asmongold said this on one of his videos, that he's made more than Sony did.
@chrisb.2028
3 күн бұрын
And it's also more entertaining than the game itself
@powerfulshammy
3 күн бұрын
The game cost 400m and fails and zero profit while donating a topic that everybody else made profit off. I even got a meme out of this and if it goes viral like my meme about graphics in games it'll be good.
@ardent835
3 күн бұрын
The 1 hour long credits of Concord is the most unintentionally hilarious thing out there
@sharpester7277
3 күн бұрын
@@ardent835 operations. Just like how bad Mortal Kombat Annihilation was.
@00F
3 күн бұрын
It’s been proven that video was slowed down, and in actuality, it’s 36 minutes long. Still ridiculous for any game to have credits over half an hour long
@lizencerfalia
3 күн бұрын
@@00F it sorta makes sense in the case of stuff like GTA or MMOs since both of these take massive teams to produce (and in the case of FFXIV in particular, about one hour of the 1h40 minutes long credits for ARR are dedicated to naming the 1.0 players) Concord though? Heeeehh
@toomanyaccounts
3 күн бұрын
@@00F you forget it had buttons you press to set off fireworks and congratulate the devs
@00F
3 күн бұрын
@@toomanyaccounts Yeah that was truly pathetic
@Manjawline
3 күн бұрын
With $400 million, Sony could've revived multiple franchises in their graveyard of IPs which they reminded everyone about with Astro Bot
@TheAntlionGuard
3 күн бұрын
They directly cancelled an Infamous and Prototype crossover game to make Concord instead
@RallForeman
3 күн бұрын
@@TheAntlionGuard That was bait whoever posted about that. It's got no real backing to the claim but it would of been cool if Sony was Smart enough to even think about that.
@dannyminalla
3 күн бұрын
*Cries with sly cooper, Jake and daxter, daxter, killzone, and so many more* EXACTLY!!!!
@medoagamer9497
3 күн бұрын
Absolutely. We could have gotten a Sly Cooper 5, Ape escape 4, and/or a gravity rush 3 with that money.
@CrowMercury
3 күн бұрын
@@TheAntlionGuard AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, You can't make this shit up. I swear Corporations are in a race to self destruction.
@saintboy93
3 күн бұрын
Its not a Triple "A" Flop, Its a Quintiple "A" Flop
@TheHK_47
3 күн бұрын
Ah, the ubisoft effect. Where the number of A's reflects the crapness of the game
@Voltaic_Fire
3 күн бұрын
Quadruple A... You just know anyone claiming to have made such a game has a maaaaassive ego.
@lawrencexviiikittens5994
3 күн бұрын
more like Quintiple F's
@simonebernacchia5724
3 күн бұрын
A Spasmotica level fiasco [see the movie Elizabethtown to understand]
@ououkuaipao
3 күн бұрын
@@lawrencexviiikittens5994we dont pay respect to the bottom of bottommost trash
@Boyahda
3 күн бұрын
It's money laundering. It has to be. No one can unintentionally fuck up this badly on this astronomical scale.
@E.Jacobsen
3 күн бұрын
100%
@NotAGoodUsername360
3 күн бұрын
Never underestimate stupidity. Cruise ships have sunk this kind of money. Also named "Concord," incidentally.
@MonochromeMemories
3 күн бұрын
You underestimate stupidity.
@evanstephens2203
3 күн бұрын
You underestimate the systemic issues that arise from wokeness completely taking over a studio. People think it’s a coincidence that Boeing planes started falling out of the sky just a few years after they published a report detailing the racial composition of every department and level of management and how many whites men they had fired to make room for MORE DIVERSITY. There is a direct connection to the belief system that opposes meritocracy outright as bad, and the decline in merit and quality in ANY industry. It is not hard to draw the connection.
@cmdraftbrn
3 күн бұрын
or a tax write off
@tomaslozada9397
3 күн бұрын
yong's tone change when reading "monopoly go" is priceless.
@Frankablu
3 күн бұрын
Monopoly Go spent that money not on the game but on marketing for the game. It seems every $1 spent on marketing gives them more than $1 back in revenue.
@Amorio
3 күн бұрын
Marketing: $500m, total $500m
@wibu_berkata
3 күн бұрын
@@Frankabluas monopoly go player their micro transactions is atrocious and I bet they already make more than 500 mil
@jaywerner8415
2 күн бұрын
@@wibu_berkata Way more then that, WAY MORE. I recall a episode of the Angry Joe Show, I want to say he said 1 BILLION but I might be thinking of a different game.
@mandisaw
2 күн бұрын
@@wibu_berkata Hasbro & Scopely reported Monopoly Go had made over $3B as of Q2 2024. And still going. They absolutely made that money back LOL
@gosuprime
3 күн бұрын
400 million dollars could have been saved with a single person going "these are the worst character designs in gaming history".
@CombatLegsVIDS
3 күн бұрын
for real 😂
@598019001
3 күн бұрын
My new favourite genre of video has been watching Graphic designers react to these salt and water character designs.
@ChiefGore429
3 күн бұрын
"Tune out the white noise of this extreme right bigot commenter" ... see it wouldn't changed anything.
@DudeWithLongAssComments
3 күн бұрын
Somehow for some horrifyingly ironic reason, THEY MADE RECOLORED SONIC OCS LOOK BETTER….. Let that sink in…
@kranichkrone
2 күн бұрын
I doubt that. With a development cycle this long and this bloated, I don't see it making its money back even if the characters were cool and sexy as hell.
@TheLegendaryBillCipher
3 күн бұрын
-$400 million -8 years in development -Still had to rush to get it done -Brought in so many people the credits are over an hour long -Didn't last 2 weeks Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: Mismanagement the Game.
@ccgod
3 күн бұрын
Naw they just made it for the new "modern audience" all 690 of them lol
@TheZoobZoobs
3 күн бұрын
This whole thing's got to be a money laundering scheme because there is no way in hell that game cost 400 mil.
@Toonrick12
3 күн бұрын
Or at least a tax write-off.
@Yarharsuperpirate
3 күн бұрын
This. Follow the money and i'm sure something fishy will come up
@mrnonpoints7271
3 күн бұрын
Black rock
@ClayK-t9k
2 күн бұрын
The elections are around the corner...Democrats NEED an extra $300 Million in Black Budget Money to get the Gears Oiled.
@markup6394
Күн бұрын
Proof or stand down. Develoging games of this magnitude (trah or no) costs money. Deal with it.
@kleberson777
3 күн бұрын
Black Myth: Wukong had a budget of $70 million throughout its six years of development. Sold 20 million copy in one month. Concord had a budget of $400 million (or $100 million?) throughtout its eight years of development. Sold 25k copy and fully refunded.
@BUPMY1
3 күн бұрын
What you trying to say? 😮
@razgriz1ne1ne48
3 күн бұрын
One game with made with passion,care,attention to detail and fun gameplay in a unique/hardly explore setting (Chinese Mythology/Sun Wukong) in a Single Player Game . Concord was a bland,repetitive,live service team shooter with in game purchases and frankly not a good roster of characters, it was a poor man's bootleg Apex Legends
@CrowMercury
3 күн бұрын
Don't worry, the media will spin it so the money laundering will be covered.
@MegaMbembe
3 күн бұрын
Black Myth made back its budget double the amount.
@ladynikkie
3 күн бұрын
@@razgriz1ne1ne48pretty much this year has been a really good year for Indie studios.
@giantWario
3 күн бұрын
It's not just the fact that the credits for Concord are so long that makes this figure actually believable, it's that if you actually read the credits a lot of the people involved with this game were consultants and analysts. Which are jobs that don't actually make the game better in any way but are paid an outrageous amount of money for some reason.
@71DaLa
3 күн бұрын
Yeah as soon as I realized the credit were that long, it made sense.
@HereComesThePaine
3 күн бұрын
Sony thought Concord was worth $400 million... Makes you wonder what other slop they invested in, with hundreds of millions of dollars.
@blakebailey22
3 күн бұрын
HOW!? It's not an open world game, it's an arena shooter with small maps and no side quests in big cities! It's rumored that Elden Ring budget was 200 million, there's no way a game this small in scope could have a budget higher than that
@justalex4214
3 күн бұрын
Probably 300m went to sweet baby inc for "consulting" or so, lol.
@justalex4214
3 күн бұрын
@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 looking at the character roster I'm not so sure about that...
@the_furry_inside_your_walls639
3 күн бұрын
@@justalex4214 Was SBI even involved, or are you just *one of those* people who use their name as a buzzword?
@AndresColumbus
3 күн бұрын
@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 oh look a furry coming to argue nonsense
@justalex4214
3 күн бұрын
@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 how would I know? It's not like the studio's finances are public. But SBI tries to get their hands on any gaming ip lately and with such an astronimcal budget and character designs looking like they do, it's a legitimate possibility, that's all I'm saying.
@GamersLighthouse
3 күн бұрын
The real story is, "HOW IS MONOPOLY GO THAT HIGH ON THE LIST"!!!?
@r3drose685
3 күн бұрын
All in the marketing, which kinda makes sense for a mobile game. It's still hilarious tho 😅
@GamersLighthouse
3 күн бұрын
@@r3drose685 Yea, I had to look that up! That’s wild. Funny seeing it among all those other games though lol!
@mystman7722
3 күн бұрын
"$500 million on marketing and user acquisition." Source: gamespot
@Leandra001
3 күн бұрын
But didn't they make 2 billion since its launch?
@GamersLighthouse
3 күн бұрын
@@Leandra001 oh yea they made a killing! Just didn’t think their budget (all in marketing mostly) was that high.
@blank6377
3 күн бұрын
This is literally Mars Needs Moms but for video games, never seen a game company loose this much money...
@sechran
3 күн бұрын
Yong is how I first learned of Concord's existence. It is just about the worst possible look when people are learning about your game from pundits who go, "yeah, Sony has this new game that's poised to flop so hard it's going to make the Borderlands movie look like Avatar (Cameron's, not Shyamalan's)," but "this game broke the world speedrun record for failing AND cost a zillion dollars" is indeed worse...
@drunkenhobo8020
3 күн бұрын
I work in a high school. A bunch of teenagers were talking about video games so I brought up how funny the failure of Concord was. None of them had heard of it. Admittedly I'd only heard about it through KZitem too, but it's crazy how such a "big" game can have completely passed by the sort of guys who should be playing it.
@puffpuffpassmako
3 күн бұрын
With the success of Astro Bot, imagine if that 400 million went to another IP revival like Jak and Daxter, Sly Cooper, Ape Escape, or Parappa
@gipsyg27
3 күн бұрын
400 million would cover new games for all of those plus probably a few morw
@Brave_Cross
3 күн бұрын
Sly Cooper, my beloved. I feel like the only way Jak and Daxter would come back would be as a reboot, which would have me concerned.
@lumibean7494
3 күн бұрын
@@Brave_Cross I say give J&D to Insomniac. Only way I'd be confident in a new game since Naughty Dog made it clear they don't want to work on the series anymore.
@bloodstone1992
3 күн бұрын
Or Twisted Metal
@RayTheomo
3 күн бұрын
Sony shouldve brought Concord to Gamestop so they could AT LEAST get in store credit.
@santiagoherrera1853
3 күн бұрын
I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s how much they spent on the studio+Development+Marketing, it’s an absurd amount but it’s believable. However I do not believe the cost of the development alone was $400M, that would make it one of the most expensive games ever made and it just doesn’t add up
@MrControlfreaks
3 күн бұрын
This became the largest Concorde crash. The aircraft crash only costed around 125 million EUR.
@nathaniellindner313
3 күн бұрын
Japan launched a space telescope a few years ago that blew up a month later and it literally wasted less money than this
@badjuju2721
3 күн бұрын
You could buy a small fleet of fighter jets for what this game cost. What a giant bucket of shit.
@rightfield1212
3 күн бұрын
$400,000,000 to develop and publish a piece of shit game and they were totally fine refunding everyone. There's something very weird about that.
@societys
3 күн бұрын
they had no choice but to refund people, the game sold less then 10000 copies. if they didnt refund, they would risk a lawsuit. i agree its very weird, imo they ruined it on purpose, it seems intentional
@societys
3 күн бұрын
they know the political landscape is changing, some people have so much money that 400 million means nothing to them
@sechabatheletsane9784
3 күн бұрын
I'm with you brother. Definitely smelling like some money laundering type shii. And cause it was a huge flop, everyone's focus will be on that.
@tomaslozada9397
3 күн бұрын
@@sechabatheletsane9784probably better to kill the game and call it a loss for some tax cuts than maintain a game nobody plays
@rightfield1212
3 күн бұрын
@@societys true enough. I guess I shouldn't say they were fine with refunding everyone as opposed to being obligated to.
@apollojustice5338
3 күн бұрын
A Bloodborne port was too much for Sony apparently...
@Darkkfated
3 күн бұрын
A Bloodbourne remaster with tiny graphical tweaks and a smooth 60+ framerate would be a lincense for Sony to print money, but no, let's go all-in on a Hero Shooter with atrocious characters and a price tag in an over saturated market that lost interest in new (key word: NEW) Hero Shooters about 5 years ago.
@Commanderb2
3 күн бұрын
Most of the money went to the CEOs of the studio that needed their $5 million per year salary. Times that by 8 years.
@Dingleberry_smith
3 күн бұрын
I really, really miss the old days of gaming. PS3 XBOX 360 era. The state of gaming these days is just plain sad to see.
@kevingame3198
3 күн бұрын
Yeah but back then 360 was more popular than ps3 bc multiplayer days of halo gears of war and modern warfare trilogy
@JCWinters-bu8de
3 күн бұрын
Greed and now politics have smeared the industry more this year.
@the_furry_inside_your_walls639
3 күн бұрын
Spoken like someone who hasn't gotten into the indie scene.
@MikeHeldTheWorld
3 күн бұрын
@@kevingame3198PS3 outsold the 360. Microsoft has never won a console generation.
@Dr.DisrespectFan918
3 күн бұрын
@@kevingame3198yeah anything that’s cheaper and lower quality usually attracts more people
@amharbinger
3 күн бұрын
I think what's sad is that people talking about Concord made more money than the game.
@rawnchydeard4669
3 күн бұрын
Omfg. Seems like the gaming industry has become a great place to launder money. There is no reality where 400 million buys a game this bad. Something illegal happened.
@bthanhawk
3 күн бұрын
C'mon Sony. $400 mil? Some of that money could have been used for a Bloodborne remake or remaster and gained more than Concord. Wasting money and time and money on some ol' bullshit. Wtf? 🤦
@seeonaga1524
3 күн бұрын
Nah there has to be some kinda money laundering thing behind this all. 400 million on something that looked terrible, had no marketing, and died faster than a house fly is fucking ridiculous
@sachinsrivathsa
3 күн бұрын
Thank you Concord for making me feel better about my money management.
@BUPMY1
3 күн бұрын
Well you should give Sony some advice in money management. While you at it, you can teach an investment class too. Good Luck 👍
@sharpester7277
3 күн бұрын
To quote Angry Joe: "You done fucked it up!!!"
@kematch935
3 күн бұрын
More like: Are you out of your mind!
@JCWinters-bu8de
3 күн бұрын
Angry Joe funny laughter can be heard in the distance! 😅😅😅😅😅😅 🕶️🇺🇸
@Freedomlander_101
3 күн бұрын
*AN EPIC FAILURE!!*
@WardyLion
3 күн бұрын
Good job the game wasn’t blue…
@sharpester7277
3 күн бұрын
@@WardyLion A reference to the running gag Fucking Blue. Which originated in his Angry Review of Evolve. Which was all the way back in 2014.
@mythos951
3 күн бұрын
Staying optimistic and respectful is important at work, but you NEED constructive criticism(or even a wake-up call). I’m certain there were multiple people in that office who knew the character designs were shit, and they either kept their mouths shut or weren’t given the time of day. Crazy.
@bizarreV
3 күн бұрын
Concord flopped so bad that I didn't even hear of the game until it flopped
@marcduhamel-guitar1985
3 күн бұрын
Same.
@Brown95P
3 күн бұрын
"400 million dollars? Money well spent." - TF2 Scout Also there just aren't enough KEKWs in the world to express my reaction at the fact Sony was gonna make Concord and its ugly pink-haired cyan-furred elf girl into their flagship IP. 🤣🤣🤣
@123LORDOFHELL
3 күн бұрын
I hope Sony suffers for this. For that kind of money we could have gotten a Jak and Daxter remake, Days Gone 2, Bloodborne on PC or PS5 upgrade, original God of War remake, INFAMOUS remake, etc. Foolishness.
@badabingbing474
3 күн бұрын
Days Gone didn't make sony sales expectations when it released
@123LORDOFHELL
3 күн бұрын
@@badabingbing474 The game sold 7.3 million copies, so it didnt flop. It also came out the same year as God of War and Red Dead Redemption 2, so stiff competition. Days Gone also went overbudget due to delay, and on release had some technical issues (bugs, frame rate issues, etc) that led to critical reviews BUT it was a new IP, a sequel could have fixed the issues of the first game. The game had a lot going against it, and still got the bad end of the stick.
@jacobsoboleski5415
3 күн бұрын
@@123LORDOFHELLIt also had review troubles because West Coast critics found Deacon “too manly.”
@Blur4strike
3 күн бұрын
They could've ported Gravity Rush/Gravity Daze 1&2 to the PC, that series was such a gem in the rough.
@SupaFly-gx1zo
3 күн бұрын
legit dont know how anyone put a dollar into a "hero shooter with a price tag", how did this get funded at all?
@delayeedbms
3 күн бұрын
Blackrock
@ultgamercw6759
3 күн бұрын
I'm still kinda sceptical of it being 400 million to develop this game. Even if it was mismanaged horribly I can't see why Sony would invest that much in this game and then barely market the game at all outside of one appearance in a state of play just months before the launch.
@Regden1000
3 күн бұрын
So the reason for PS5 Pro cost so much is because Sony lost their $400 million investment in Concord and because the game wasn't received well, Sony saw that their entire live service roster looking just as grim as Concord if not worse.
@EthanG298
3 күн бұрын
I don’t get how this cost 400m no way Sony actually planned to spend that much on it , it mustve been in dev hell for a few years or been rebooted and just got out of hand and no one at Sony was brave enough to pull the plug. Game publishers can be pretty dumb but I don’t believe a massive publisher like Sony would spend 400m on a new IP intentionally. Either way if this is true it’s easily the biggest disaster in video game history and Sony are lucky they already generate so much revenue because this mistake is big enough to make a lot of well known publishers go under. If Ubisoft did this they’d be finished
@kingofthenorth2297
3 күн бұрын
I definitely think the 400mil is fake there’s just no way investors and Sony had that much faith in it lol 😂
@OmegaZyion
3 күн бұрын
Considering that they were setting up Concord to be a multi-platform franchise (i.e. comics, books, TV shows, movies), $400 million isn't that hard to believe. Especially if the rumors of the game being an unfinished mess a year before release were true and they spent $200 million outsourcing work to other studios to fix it.
@luiscossio296
3 күн бұрын
Oh, but Sony won't greenlight Bend Studio to make Days Gone 2... 😒
@Kredorish
2 күн бұрын
money laundering done right.
@0o-0o694
3 күн бұрын
"The number is so unbelievable that you should wait. " Proceeds to make a video about it
@Thialas
3 күн бұрын
the worst part is those clowns get a tax writeoff. There should honestly be some kind of law against that. It's idiotic they can flop a game this hard and then get a tax writeoff
@WitchVulgar
3 күн бұрын
The end credits of this game were over 1 hour and were filled with consultants and market analysts and shit. That's where the $400M went
@ccgod
3 күн бұрын
yep sweet baby is laughing all the way to the bank.
@Blur4strike
2 күн бұрын
Pretty poor use of time and budget when compared to Black Myth Wukong's $70M.
@ArchHippy
3 күн бұрын
I know you're just regurgitating the information, but I have to give you credit for not misrepresenting anything. Some people dismiss Colin so readily that they don't even listen long enough to know what they're denying. The constant game of telephone online drives me crazy.
@alfasilverblade
3 күн бұрын
How did it cost 400 000 000? It didnt even have a single player story mode.
@DevilishmanThe
3 күн бұрын
8 years of development. Don't underestimate how much time costs. Still a waste though.
@alfasilverblade
3 күн бұрын
@@DevilishmanThe but its a lasy Overwatch clone. They could have just taken the Overwatch files and change some 0 and 1 and call it a new game. It would have cost much much less and couldnt have been worse.
@zennozangetsu1164
3 күн бұрын
@@alfasilverblade that's not how game dev works
@alfasilverblade
3 күн бұрын
@@zennozangetsu1164 thats how bootlegs work. And bootlegs usualy make some money. Concord lost 400 000 000. Soo the worst chinese bootleg game is still better than Concord.
@zennozangetsu1164
3 күн бұрын
@@alfasilverblade That is not how bootlegs work, you cannot just copy and past game code without access to the source code which these devs do not have
@kettenfaust
3 күн бұрын
"A billion dollar IP, akin to StarWars". That's something you can't force. That's lightning in a bottle. Reminds me of CliffyB with Lawbreakers, wanting to make "another million $ IP" . Both Concord and Lawbreakers lacked one critical thing that is essential for that: Memorable characters that ppl can relate to, and not ones that look like hitting randomize in a character creator.
@masterofbloopers
3 күн бұрын
I smell an imminent tax write-off...
@DevilishmanThe
3 күн бұрын
Is it kinda late for that? You can't write-off or mess with the books for a loss thiss big.
@Darkkfated
3 күн бұрын
"News outlets and journalists are disputing the $400,000,000 claim!" Yeah, the same outlets and journalists that defended the game, told us that it was worth trying out at $40, that downplayed the horrendous character designs and tried to convince us they were "charming", the ones that said we "weren't giving the game a chance" and went on to softly bash the game in their reviews while also giving it a 7/10? Maybe the source isn't 100% accurate, but I have so little trust in modern games media outlets that anything they try to dismiss I'll be more inclined to believe.
@Norrikan
3 күн бұрын
400 million plus whatever it cost to acquire Firewalk, which may well be around another 100 million. That kind of dosh could have made one game each for maybe five of their dead IPs. Like how does a new installment each for Killzone, Resistance, Motorstorm, Jak&Daxter and Syphon Filter sound? Or maybe Resistance, Wild Arms, Sly Cooper, Infamous and Ape Escape? How about Socom, Soul Reaver, The Getaway, Warhawk and Twisted Metal? Or....
@DownvotingRoman
3 күн бұрын
Studio rent, CEOs, maintaining servers, the Sony acquisition, dev salarys, time delays, last minute marketing, etc -- corporate expenses be like that
@ninjaswordtothehead
3 күн бұрын
Not to mention "DEI consultants" for every interaction and word of dialogue.
@alfgwahigain5544
3 күн бұрын
@@ninjaswordtothehead You can't possibly believe this nonsense.
@ninjaswordtothehead
3 күн бұрын
@@alfgwahigain5544 I ain't saying I believe it, but after working in a hospital for a decade, I know to never underestimate how much money administration can waste.
@Bootchair
3 күн бұрын
@@alfgwahigain5544these consultant companies have video of their conferences and they admit (paraphrasing here) that they scare them (devs) into getting what they want. Its Not crazy to believe that 😂
@floreamariussorin8652
3 күн бұрын
@@alfgwahigain5544 I agree, other game studios put more in their games and did not have a budget more than 10 millions at most. Even in these days economy with a small team you can do more in just 3 years this game i doubt it took 8 years to make this game or the 400 million budget it took to make.
@mythos951
3 күн бұрын
I’m not sure if the 400 million is correct, but those animations definitely would have added to the price. Keep in mind they were gonna be released weekly, so they probably had at least 10-15 of them done already to get ahead of the curb.
@SallionMang
3 күн бұрын
DUDE 1.2 million subscribers?! Just yesterday you were making these niche video essays on Death Stranding theory crafting. Congratulations man, your work ethic and success are incredible 🙏
@F4Wildcat
3 күн бұрын
Helldivers 2. 50-100 million budget over 8 years. Sold 15 million copies. Last weekend 85 000 people were playing. Concord= 400 million dollars over 8 years. Sold 25 000 units in just 1 week.
@perciusmandate
2 күн бұрын
This *has* to have been some kind of money laundering or investment fraud scheme. There's no other explanation for that budget vs the actual product.
@Jugeum
3 күн бұрын
It cost 1 million and they kept the 399 million to themselves
@riotkitty
3 күн бұрын
I can’t believe Concord cost 400 million, that has to be inflated cause of how long the game was in development for and includes what Sony spent on marketing.
@ManuelLamy
3 күн бұрын
Having worked for nearly 14 years in the industry, 400 million doesn't sound too off. If they were doing "napkin sketches" 8 years ago, I can very well imagine the peak of pre-production being around when covid began. I have experienced first hand how remote work and everything that it implied absolutely slowed development speed to a crawl. Coupled with the inflation which led to some key role's salary to spike, I don't find that number too far fetched.
@Zayphar
3 күн бұрын
Every game developer should ask themselves "Who is this game for? What is our target audience?" If the audience is less than 1 million gamers(on a $50M budget), that is not a project that should be given the green light.
@leon6257
3 күн бұрын
Random Dev Andy knows the fanancials of the studio and Sonys and how much they spend. Totally true story.
@Ssecave
3 күн бұрын
even if it's 250 or 300k. Remember. Avatar 2 cost almost 500k. They had to create new tech to film under water, new tech for CGI and so on. Then you have concord where in the best case cost half of Avatar 2 or almost as much as the movie (in the worst case)..... Let that sink in. Like so many said. We could have had a new Sly game, a new Medievil, etc...
@Zan_Jayna
3 күн бұрын
It's actually called 'concern trolling', look it up
@Korra228
3 күн бұрын
Jesus Christ, that's the worst character design I've ever seen. I can't believe someone got paid for that.
@praisetheoak
3 күн бұрын
Apparently, people on the top from "Probably Monsters" and/or Firewalk studios (both the parent company that owned Concord and the dev studio, before Sony bought Concord and Firewalk) were ex-Bungie devs. There's a story here about collusion and how Sony invested so heavily into Concord in part because of Bungie's advice. Basically, Probably Monsters knew the project was doomed and they were already $200 million-in deep, so they used their influence in Bungie to win over Sony and make the deal go through, which would explain why the game arrived so rough and why Sony had to spend another $200 million to put something together, as well as all the other nonsensical decisions regarding the title; the 1hr long credits, the over-bloat in budget and personnel... $400 million is not that crazy when you put all the pieces together.
@jacobsoboleski5415
3 күн бұрын
Any mention of how the character designs contributed to this game being rejected by gamers? Any parallels drawn to games like Dustborn? Let’s not ignore legit points.
@ariyanadumon4549
3 күн бұрын
I wasn't willing to touch it because of the character designs. I was immediately done when I saw that Staypuft Marshmallow Armour 😅.
@dandrelowery3714
3 күн бұрын
That’s only one of the issues. The main problems with this game is the failure to stand out within the oversaturated hero shooter genre, $40 barrier to entry compared to its free to play competitors (Valorant, Overwatch, Apex Legends, and etc.), and the gameplay is mediocre and slow at best. Yes the characters are incredibly lackluster as barely any of them show any unique distinction to one another as in how do we know this one is a tank, dps, or medic which Concord failed at. The artstyle is also bland and not creative as there’s too many things clashing for the eyes to see
@dandrelowery3714
3 күн бұрын
Oh and like Helldivers 2, it’s region locked thus losing out even more players
@2020-p2z
3 күн бұрын
It's a pretty big issue. The character designs simply do not stand out. I forget who said it, but you can recognise good character designs from their silhouette. Think about Tracer, Master Chief, Mickey Mouse. All recognisable from their outline. The Concord characters are so generic they may as well have been the output of a character creator feature rather than an actual design team.
@jnb_110
3 күн бұрын
@@dandrelowery3714Honestly, it being region locked spared more players around the globe from this atrocity of a game. And potentially, from more of Sony’s BS
@MastaDJMax
3 күн бұрын
Okay, Yong's confusion at Monopoly Go was absolutely hilarious.
@silversobe
3 күн бұрын
Those in charge of making this game should be blacklisted and investigated. They are nefarious crooks.
@Thronnos
3 күн бұрын
How much of that 400M went to the DEI consultation firm racket?
@AustroKebab
3 күн бұрын
Sony is deservedly on a massive L streak right now
@dragonmyr
3 күн бұрын
8 years and $400 million wasted tells me the executives at Sony are not close enough to the development action, don't know what to look for, and are surrounded by yes-men. Punish them by taking their yachts away or something!
@PulsereaperX
3 күн бұрын
Remember when we were told as kids that our pictures were beautiful? Concord is what happens when those kids grow up without learning their parents where just being nice.
@BengalSW
3 күн бұрын
No game should almost be half a billion dollars
@MsSkuzi
3 күн бұрын
Why not?
@kman9884
3 күн бұрын
@@MsSkuziThere is virtually no way to recoup that investment unless it’s a generational game. It’s only a signifier of bloat. The only reason CP2077 has the budget it does is due to its long development time; to which they did release a generationally impactful game.
@bewarethechameleon
3 күн бұрын
remember when the original 'destiny' released with a $500 million budget in 2014? little did we know that we learned absolutely f**k all
@RicardoDiaz-gh2wb
3 күн бұрын
If 400M dollars were truly spent in Concord, Ima be waiting for a tax fraud scandal real soon
@AP-hn8wd
3 күн бұрын
Wasn’t the $400 million development cost debunked more than a couple days ago?
@forcedemodo
3 күн бұрын
Was gonna ask the same thing
@AP-hn8wd
3 күн бұрын
@@forcedemodo yeah, and Yong being on the internet as part of his job, you got to wonder why he still ran with this story more than a few days out.
@GodofGoblins
3 күн бұрын
Unless the company itself officially stated this, we can't say it was truly debunked. And he said in the very beginning to take it with a grain of salt and wait for true confirmation. Some analysts are saying it's even higher. We don't truly know, unless there is an official statement from them.
@J.O.T.4.
3 күн бұрын
18 minutes of this video has more people watching it than concord
@Mr.KittensAndGibberish
3 күн бұрын
I didn't even know it had a free open beta 💀 Had I known it had one I absolutely would have played it, but I wouldn't have gone out of my way to buy it for $40 dollars after.
@nicholasgeorge4156
3 күн бұрын
I love watching big companies lose a ton of money. It’s hilarious. Wah wah 😭
@viper6220
3 күн бұрын
Where’s Jason Schreier when you need him with this whole story?
@s-clone8964
2 күн бұрын
The easiest explanation for the $400.000.000 apart from dev salaries would be all those mocap scenes they had ready to go that were apparently supposed to drop every week.
@nickthompson8302
3 күн бұрын
I feel like there was one person that sold Sony this idea of Concord being huge, and now that one person is in a lot of trouble
@wirlogx
3 күн бұрын
I bet they worked on Concord using the Peronist manual of how to manage budgets: -Double or triple the cost of something to get a cut out of that -Never reach deadlines to get more money and keep having a straight salary -Rush everything when you wasted too mush time on it -The higher ups have three to five times the salary they should and the workers will do most of their work
@InquisitorEuro
3 күн бұрын
I have an absolutely out of this world crazy idea for devs and publishers.... ask a LOT of customers from a wide variety of backgrounds what they want in a game, I know I know that's crazy but it might just work.
@SHAdow98V
3 күн бұрын
Amazing, this man just came up with the concept of surveys😂😂, now if only the shitty dev studios and big publisher companies would use it.
@RoyStiffey
3 күн бұрын
How did someone at Sony look at those boring designs and the already played out concept and say, “this is a multi billion dollar franchise!”
@TonyBMan
2 күн бұрын
And yet Sony STILL won't port Bloodborne to PC. DO THEY NOT LIKE MONEY???
@strachster
3 күн бұрын
Now PS5Pr0 have a concord tax because of that flop
@CornballLyric
2 күн бұрын
Wow. The higher ups at Sony must have been smoking some very choice stuff to honestly believed that Concorde was going to become a multi billion dollar franchise across various money making platforms is truly mind blowing 🤯.
@Pile_of_carbon
3 күн бұрын
The hubris of making something that looks like "We have Overwatch at home..." and thinking it'll become as big as Star Wars is astounding.
@ithelan
3 күн бұрын
One thing you have to point out and note is that Colin never once said BUDGET, he only ever said cost. Everyone else has referred to budget and never mentioned cost. Budget =! Cost.
@linguotgr
3 күн бұрын
I suspect $400,000,000 is the number that was budgeted for Concord's past and future production. This was a live service game, if they planned to support this for several more years, that number could make sense. eight years of development is a lot, but its probably closer to half of that number. I could believe that they were planning to spend $400,000,000 over the development and say ten years of supporting the game. Remember, they were planning to do some pricy CGI cutscenes for years, so its not like future costs were just gonna be some fancy new skins every couple of weeks. There was going to be some serious money pumped in to the future of the game.
@Ryan-jl7jz
3 күн бұрын
i work in game dev, and i agree we need more sources to corroborate the 400m figure. HOWEVER, i would not at all be surprised to see it costing that much.These investors will just throw money at these kinds of projects because if it is a hit it wont matter how much they threw at it. all they need is one. And likely what happened is you have someone at the company who's a REALLY good salesperson when it comes to talking to the investors, and they showed them just enough game to convince them to give more money.
@Novacification
3 күн бұрын
Sony is probably just counting all expenses right down to the paper clips to maximize the tax write off. "We swear, Your Honor, all our global costs for Microsoft licenses were tied to the development of Concord. Jeff in accounting only needed Windows, Teams and the Office Suite because he was... on standby, yes, on standby... in case... in case anyone on the Concord character design team wanted to know what dullness looked like."
@Stirlingsays
3 күн бұрын
They don't need to just sack Herbert, they need to sack the guy who thought it was a good idea to put him in charge......that person is even worse.
@jesushernanpizarrogonzalez7297
3 күн бұрын
The game costing $400 million dollars would explain why they sold a game that should have been free to play at most with a $40 launch price.
@stefanradebach2889
2 күн бұрын
Considering how the game sold only 25,000 copies and it was 40 dollars that means they literally lost almost the exact same amount of money as it was used for development. They could have made Sly Cooper, Jak and Daxter, Killzone and countless other exclusive iconic Playstation games for the PS5 with that money. Gaming executives really are the most stupid, out-of-touch people on our planet.
@mazda9624
3 күн бұрын
I'm tired of people calling Concord " *One* of the biggest flops in AAA gaming history." It is *THE* biggest flop in all of media history and should be made fun of as such.
@stitches4714
3 күн бұрын
Fun fact concord had thirty minutes of credits, and they decided to put in a congratulations button
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