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Sony's Concord might be the biggest entertainment failure of all time, so why wasn't it news?

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[–] XaiwahBlue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 3 weeks ago

Lol i cant even with the whole thing.

However, even with all those factors, no one could possibly have predicted the scale of its failure.

I didn't hear about it UNTIL the failure. I think it wasn't expected to do well, i don't think it was advertised well, and it was a lazy cash grab in a filled market no one asked for.

Just because a game gets made doesn't make it good, wanted, or timed well.

Stardew Valley came out in 2016, but I didn't see any traffic for a few years outside people who had been waiting for it. It took off around 2019 according to google trends.

Most devs wont give the game time to even improve anymore, let alone join friends in a multiplayer game. Concord's google trends start the day before it released.