The Firewalk studio no longer exists. This Tuesday, October 29, Sony announced in a letter to its teams made public the closure of one of the studios behind the biggest failure in Playstation history. Concord.
The title, launched on August 23, 2024, stopped its servers just two weeks later – on September 6 – due to lack of players. Concord It was presented as a multiplayer game with different heroes with their own abilities, all in arenas, with a significant amount of scripts. But the first sales figures and a far from sufficient number of players pushed Sony to hang up.
At the time there was talk of rethinking the game, leaving some hope for a return in free-to-play form (Concord It cost 40 euros when it was launched on PC and PS5).
A failure of more than 200 million for Sony
With a budget estimated at more than 200 million dollars, Concord Apparently it has not found new exit doors, like Firewalk, whose closure will not surprise many people.
“Some aspects of Concord “They were exceptional,” he specifies, “but others did not work with a sufficient number of players and, as a result, we closed the game servers.” He confirms in passing that he explored several options, but none of them led to a relaunch, so that Concord will never return from the doldrums it had been forcibly placed in: “After careful consideration, we determined that the best course of action was to permanently end the game and close the studio.”
Hermen Hulst adds that this failure allowed “lessons to be learned”, especially in the field of service games, games that have been updated for several years.
The studio, which had not commented since the closure of the servers of Concordpublished a letter about X, explaining that he “took a risk” and celebrating his teams.
Firewalk is not the only Sony studio to close, as this decision also affects Neon Koi, previously Savage Game Studios, whose goal was to port Playstation licenses to iOS and Android, without success.
The closure of Firewalk results in the layoffs of approximately 150 people.
Source: BFM TV
