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Sony Believes Concord Failed Because of an Overly Competitive Market
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This post did not contain any content.I thought the Concorde stopped flying because of the operating costs and environmental impact. It didn't have comparable competition as such. Oh wait this is a games community. What's Concord? Maybe it would've done better if I'd heard of it BEFORE it shut down. Or if they didn't take 8 years to make what sounds like yet another Overwatch copycat?
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I guess "every new game" is more accurate. I don't know if they are in much of a hurry to go back to the old catalogue. Also, pretty sure by now that there's a bunch of contract blockers in the FromSoft deal preventing the ports. That's not to say they won't eventually sort them out, but that's clearly not a Sony-only thing. For the same reason I wonder if they can get Astro Bot out of the PS5, given all the third party IP thrown all around that game. We'll see, I guess. I think it's telling that you're still thinking back to ME2 when this comes up. It's such a stale debate, but people who got into PC gaming in the aughts seem to be a bit stuck in a talking point that never made sense in the first place. It's even weirder these days, given how much everybody is struggling with accessing high end GPUs and feeding absolutely insane high refresh/high res monitors with the stuff that's available and with maximum settings going all the way to real time path-tracing. Not only are consoles not holding back the high end of PC, the high end of PC is apparently not holding back the high end of PC, and it kinda sucks. Every game is Crysis now and nobody will praise me when I go "I told you so". It kinda sucks.
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This post did not contain any content.Who could have guessed that ahead of time? The industry is famous for seeing a successful new strategy and then driving it into the ground with a list of copycats. The strategy has made so much money before; why would it ever have failed this time? /s (Let's all laugh at an industry that never learns anything tee hee hee)
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I thought the Concorde stopped flying because of the operating costs and environmental impact. It didn't have comparable competition as such. Oh wait this is a games community. What's Concord? Maybe it would've done better if I'd heard of it BEFORE it shut down. Or if they didn't take 8 years to make what sounds like yet another Overwatch copycat?
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This post did not contain any content.They've used 4 times the budget of APB and didn't make a game that players would enjoy. APB was the prime example of investors who dont know about making a game throw money until a fun game pops out, and even then it was a fun game.
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> boring-ass investor presentations (...) It’s all filler nonsense. I mean, you could probably just copy-paste that and call it a day for all presentations
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They've used 4 times the budget of APB and didn't make a game that players would enjoy. APB was the prime example of investors who dont know about making a game throw money until a fun game pops out, and even then it was a fun game.What about APB reloaded? (Yes, somehow..it is still alive.)
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What about APB reloaded? (Yes, somehow..it is still alive.)
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I thought the Concorde stopped flying because of the operating costs and environmental impact. It didn't have comparable competition as such. Oh wait this is a games community. What's Concord? Maybe it would've done better if I'd heard of it BEFORE it shut down. Or if they didn't take 8 years to make what sounds like yet another Overwatch copycat?
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What about APB reloaded? (Yes, somehow..it is still alive.)Honestly, I would play it sometimes if they upped the anti cheat. A few years ago I tried it for nostalgia but my experience was ruined because of blatant cheaters.
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I thought the Concorde stopped flying because of the operating costs and environmental impact. It didn't have comparable competition as such. Oh wait this is a games community. What's Concord? Maybe it would've done better if I'd heard of it BEFORE it shut down. Or if they didn't take 8 years to make what sounds like yet another Overwatch copycat?I'm so glad I wasn't the only one. I'm still salty about Concorde (as any French person should be, really).
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Not sure I agree on the "better news". I'd love if they gave up on making consoles and put more stuff on PC, tho if they pivoted to cloud only that would indeed be the worst outcome.
That said, sure, the ideal outcome would be PS6 **and** releasing games on PC. I don't want a new console but I respect people who do.The ideal outcome (that'll never happen) is a PS6 that *is* a PC. But shareholders would never go for tearing down a walled garden ecosystem.
