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As Concord flops, Sony exec says company doesn't have enough original IP​

Ahead of Astro Bot's franchise celebration.

News by Victoria Kennedy News Reporter
Published on Sept. 5, 2024
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PlayStation maker Sony doesn't have enough original franchises which it has "fostered from the beginning".
That's according to Sony chief financial officer Hiroki Totoki, who in the same week PlayStation announced it was pulling Concord from sale told the Financial Times: "We're lacking the early phase (of IP) and that's an issue for us."
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Concord - Launch Trailer I PS5 & PC Games. Watch on YouTube

Concord unceremoniously goes offline with an anticlimactic "error" message
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"One thing that you need is IP, that is step one," Jefferies analyst Atul Goyal added in the same article. "And if you don't start creating or buying in those that do, then the risk is someone else will do it. So the risk is not doing anything."
Totoki was referring to Sony generally, with films and anime also a consideration along with the company's gaming sector. The exec went on to say Sony is typically better at finding an audience for content that's already become popular in its home market.
However, his words do draw attention to that aforementioned Concord shut down. The game was available for less than two weeks, before the company decided it needed to reevaluate its new franchise's place on the market.
In a post earlier this week, Sony and developer Firewalk said Concord would be taken offline indefinitely, so the team could "determine the best path ahead" and "explore options, including those that will better reach our players".
At the same time, PlayStation is about to release one of its most anticipated games of the year: Astro Bot.
This game itself is an homage to the company's franchise history, and laced with nostalgia. Bots from Sony's games such as The Last of Us' Ellie and Joel, Uncharted's Nathan Drake, Horizon's Aloy, and Crash Bandicoot are all confirmed to be included in the forthcoming platformer.
 
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You know the first thing I got was a jailbroken PS1 that played bootleg copies, and out of curiousity I asked on some BBS how to make my own bootleg Discs, starting my bullshit on the internet.

I'd say I'll miss this company when it shits itself but I already wrote them off after the PS4 and the whole leaning into scalpers thing.
 
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Would they ever release the first Gravity Rush on the PS5? That was a fun game on the Vita, though the minigames were kinda lame. I know the second game was only PS4 and didn't sell very well.

I was given a Vita, so I'm probably the only person on the planet who has played on one of those and barely touched a PS3/PS4/PS5.
 
Elwood P. Dowd said:
Would they ever release the first Gravity Rush on the PS5? That was a fun game on the Vita, though the minigames were kinda lame. I know the second game was only PS4 and didn't sell very well.

I was given a Vita, so I'm probably the only person on the planet who has played on one of those and barely touched a PS3/PS4/PS5.
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You can play both of them on PS5.
They are both amazing.
 
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I'm not kidding when I say I'd pay full combined original retail price for a (competently) remastered Timesplitters collection on PC. Hell, I'd settle for just the first one! They don't even need to make 4, I just want the ones we already have to be accessible with basic multiplayer support.
 
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You can tell Sony's fucked in terms of Playstation ever since they replaced their iconic mascot Toro with fucking astrobot and killed all their in house studios. The new astrobot game is apperently good and also has an unlockable outfit based on toro, but it seems that's because the people that made that game have more respect for playstation's history than Sony themselves. Modern California based Soyny only see californian investor dollars and don't consider any of their old successes viable "IP" anymore despite squatting on them and literally killing themselves from the inside so they can buy up more shit and outsource more like any other californian parasite company.

I noticed SEO online the last few months seems to have changed so that astrobot (and sometimes the polygon man from the magazine ads) is all that comes up in some search engines when you look up "playstation mascot"

I don't know how they thought this was a good replacement mascot.

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The Lawgiver said:
You can tell Sony's fucked in terms of Playstation ever since they replaced their iconic mascot Toro with fucking astrobot and killed all their in house studios. The new astrobot game is apperently good and also has an unlockable outfit based on toro, but it seems that's because the people that made that game have more respect for playstation's history than Sony themselves. Modern California based Soyny only see californian investor dollars and don't consider any of their old successes viable "IP" anymore despite squatting on them and literally killing themselves from the inside so they can buy up more shit and outsource more like any other californian parasite company.

I noticed SEO online the last few months seems to have changed so that astrobot (and sometimes the polygon man from the magazine ads) is all that comes up in some search engines when you look up "playstation mascot"

I don't know how they thought this was a good replacement mascot.

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Astrobot looks like one of those robot toys for kids that came out in the early 2000s during the Tamogachi craze. I swear there's a toy with those exact eye and face expressions that astrobot makes. I just can't remember what that toy was. I think it was a robot dog with an LCD panel for its eyes.
 
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LurkTrawl said:
That Blackrock investment money got Sony acting fucking retarded.
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They've been retarded since the PS4 came out. How many pennies was Sony losing from PS1 backwards compatibility? I get not having it for PS3 games and have given up hope on it for PS2 games, but PS1? Even phones from 2014 could emulate that system.
 
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Car Won't Crank said:
Astrobot looks like one of those robot toys for kids that came out in the early 2000s during the Tamogachi craze. I swear there's a toy with those exact eye and face expressions that astrobot makes. I just can't remember what that toy was. I think it was a robot dog with an LCD panel for its eyes.
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The screen expressions remind me of Cozmo.
 
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