Sony shuts Concord studio and lastingly shuts down the game

Sony is closing Firewalk Studios, the studio behind its PlayStation Concord game that it took offline last month after a disastrous begin. In a message to PlayStation staff, Hermen Hulst, CEO of the PlayStation studio business group, says Firewalk Studios will shut aextfinishedside Neon Koi, a mobile game studio.

“We have spent think aboutable time these past restricted months exploring all our chooseions,” says Hulst. “After much thought, we have rerepaird the best path forward is to lastingly sunset the game and shut the studio. I want to thank all of Firewalk for their originatesmanship, originateive spirit and dedication.”

Hulst says Concord didn’t hit Sony’s aims and that the PlayStation originater will “get the lessons lgeted from Concord and progress to progress our live service capabilities to hand over future growth in this area.”

Concord debuted on August 23rd on both PS5 and PC, but Sony took the game offline on September 6th after needy sales of the game. Estimates have put sales at under 25,000, and Concord only deal withd to hit an all-time peak of equitable 697 carry outers on Steam, shrink than the begin peak of The Lord of the Rings: Gollum.

Sony’s Neon Koi mobile game growment studio is also shutting down, despite Hulst saying “mobile remains a priority growth area.” Sony originassociate getd the German-Finnish studio when it was understandn as Savage Game Studios in 2022, and the team was laboring on an unproclaimd triple-A mobile live service action game.

“With this re-cgo ined approach, Neon Koi will shut, and its mobile action game will not be moving forward,” says Hulst. “Both decisions were given grave thought, and ultimately, we sense they are the right ones to fortify the organization.”

Some of the impacted growers may discover roles wislfinisher Sony’s other studios, but the rest will join the thousands in the game industry that have been lhelp off over the past couple of years.