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Sony’s Concord reportedly cost $400M to develop | VGC (www.videogameschronicle.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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$200M before the Sony acquisition and $200M after. It's a little hard to believe. The story seems to only be coming from Colin Moriarty right now, but I trust Jordan Middler to consider it at least reasonably plausible if he wrote it up for VGC.

UPDATE: Sources not corroborating $400M number.

https://80.lv/articles/multiple-sources-dispute-concord-s-usd400-million-budget/

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

8 years of development under multiple publishers will bleed a lot of money. They also hired on a lot of "experienced devs" from different game studios to head the different departments, and presumably paid them well enough to get them to leave their original companies.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is probably the biggest lesson against the gamer mindset of "Give the developers time to work, and they'll polish it to a shine." Sometimes, even time doesn't improve the end product if the idea wasn't great. It might even indicate that on some instances where publishers scrapped a 'cool' project that was in the works, it was actually the right call. It might have been a Concord waiting to happen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, but we have seen a lot of examples where it was clearly a lack of time. An example would be the Gollum game. It had some very good concepts(making decisions between both of his personalities), but it didnt had any impact. This seems like something where if they had more time they could have formed this into a very good game mechanic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Absolutely, and especially at a Corp as big as Sony, you have a lot of office politics in play also. Folks pushing personal agendas because it advanced their career.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

8 years ago, it was just an idea. It was only in development for 4 years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

From what I understand, it actually started concept development 10 years ago, with 8 years of active development.