Sony’s reside service shooter Concord, out there on PlayStation 5 and PC, has debuted to a tragic 697 peak concurrent gamers on Steam.
Knowledge from participant monitoring web site SteamDB reveals Concord, which debuted on August 20, 2024 via the $59.99 Digital Deluxe Version or August 23 via the $39.99 Normal Version, had a peak participant rely of 697 on August 23.
Helldivers 2, one other reside service recreation from Sony which launched in February 2024, hit a peak concurrent participant rely of 155,926 throughout its opening weekend, The Finals hit 242,619, and even Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leage, which was dubbed a disappointment by Warner Bros. Discovery boss David Zaslav and brought on a $200 million hit to income, debuted with 12,786 peak concurrent gamers on Steam. Concord’s is simply 5% of that quantity.
Live service video games usually take pleasure in essentially the most success at launch and encounter a drop off in gamers after a few weeks or months, so such a poor debut would not bode properly for Concord’s future.
It had already dropped to 473 concurrent gamers on Saturday, August 24 regardless of video games usually having fun with a increase of their first weekend on sale. It then dropped to 402 gamers on Sunday and presently has simply 131 gamers on-line on Steam.
This comes after eight years of growth and presumably tens of thousands and thousands, if not a whole bunch of thousands and thousands, of {dollars} spent by Sony, a firm already shifting gears away from a reside service heavy future. Sony president Hiroki Totoki dedicated to launching simply six of 12 reside service video games in growth, and one based mostly on The Final of Us has already been cancelled.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.