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

submitted 13 hours 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.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

When are publishers going to realize there is only a market for like 2-3 Live service games at any one time?

You cannot underestimate the stupidity of games publishers. I'd be willing to accept that sunk-cost alone is the explanation for this outrageous budget. It probably started out as "what's $200m for the next Fortnight?" and just went in $5 or $10 million dollar increments from there.

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

Everyone thinks they will have their own Apex, a game so good it could still carve out it's place among the established behemoths.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

I don't understand why they don't wait till the other ones die, like look at how successful marvel rivals beta was.