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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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"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.

 

[The Hardest R]

Sly Cooper, Ratchet & Clank, Crash Bandicoot, and Jak & Daxter should be PlayStation's go to E for Everyone family friendly, easily streamed billion dollar bench mark franchises, and yet...

None of those feature niggers, trannies, faggots, or women. So there’s no choice but to not use any of those IPs.

I think Soyny is obsessed with trying to come up with a new IP that sells five million copies in the first week and sells 20+ million overall. So few games actually get there though and even fewer feature a pee oh cee tranny with vitiligo. Soyny wants to thread the needle of widely accessible yet perfectly woke.

 

[frozen_runner]

Let's compromise.

You can put all the transgender characters and black gay women you want but in return the player is a straight white male who shoots them.

Win win.

A tutorial character giving you tips like, "Small arms fire is effective against trans people," would be kino.

 

[Stoneheart]

And Sony should quit California to return to Japan asap even if it's already too late.

Or Stay in CA and let the mexican Janitors run the company. I mean how hard can it be to sell Play stations?

 

[FierceBrosnan]

Or Stay in CA and let the mexican Janitors run the company. I mean how hard can it be to sell Play stations?

I would honestly trust the janitors to come up with games that are actually good and fun.

 

[Stoneheart]

I would honestly trust the janitors to come up with games that are actually good and fun.

this game is about waiting in front of the hardware store. there are alot of mini games like dice and cock fighting

 

[Tanner Glass]

Or Stay in CA and let the mexican Janitors run the company. I mean how hard can it be to sell Play stations?

Actually very hard - there are no games for it.

 

[Stoneheart]

Actually very hard - there are no games for it.

But it can play netflix and you get all the games from last generation remastered. thats still better than M$

 

[P. Barnes’ THOT 2.0]

Make that four other Days Gone fans.

Sorry to veer off here, but is Days Gone that good? I always wanted to play, and after a bit of game play I saw, it seemed intriguing. Worth buying?

 

[FierceBrosnan]

this game is about waiting in front of the hardware store. there are alot of mini games like dice and cock fighting

I would totally play an El Goblino party game like that.

 

[Catch The Rainbow]

You could make a million sequels to Paint Drying Simulator if it was fun to play instead of being garbage inclusion obsessed garbage.

As exemplified by death stranding which is essentially the experience of an inner city UberEats driver with mild schizophrenia

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

this game is about waiting in front of the hardware store. there are alot of mini games like dice and cock fighting

also it's got a bunch of Neo Geo games

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

this game is about waiting in front of the hardware store. there are alot of mini games like dice and cock fighting

This is just Playstation Home minus the furries.

 

[Snekposter]

Sorry to veer off here, but is Days Gone that good? I always wanted to play, and after a bit of game play I saw, it seemed intriguing. Worth buying?

Yup. Solid gameplay, interesting story, minimal diversity. Even the mandatory Lesbians of Color are actual people who are more concerned with surviving the zombies than telling everyone how lesbian and brown they are.

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

this game is about waiting in front of the hardware store. there are alot of mini games like dice and cock fighting

I've been saying a latino version of Yakuza would sell gangbusters. the fact that Xbox doesn't even try to make a rip off game of Sony's hits anymore shows there really is no more competition. remember how many fucking "halo killer" and "cod killer" came out back then?

 

[Snekposter]

I've been saying a latino version of Yakuza would sell gangbusters. the fact that Xbox doesn't even try to make a rip off game of Sony's hits anymore shows there really is no more competition. remember how many fucking "halo killer" and "cod killer" came out back then?

But where would you set it that wouldn't have activists getting up in arms? You can't set it in the USA and setting it in Mexico City would have everyone screeching about how Mexico totally isn't an unstable crime-ridden violent shithole.

Not that you're wrong because a Yakuza-styled game set in Mexico City would be fucking awesome simply because Mexicans are completely incapable of moderation in anything they do so it would be just as crazy and ridiculous as anything set in Japan itself.

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

But where would you set it that wouldn't have activists getting up in arms

You really think no one was complaining about this series in Japan. Just don't give a fuck.

 

[TowinKarz]

I would honestly trust the janitors to come up with games that are actually good and fun.

They've made janitorial/cleanup games.

Haven't been blockbusters, but they've outlasted Concorde.

 

[breadandcircuses]

Yup. Solid gameplay, interesting story, minimal diversity. Even the mandatory Lesbians of Color are actual people who are more concerned with surviving the zombies than telling everyone how lesbian and brown they are.

You forgot one of the best cliffhangers in any zombie property, bar none.

 

[Soycast Guy]

Where’s infamous? Where’s killzone? Where’s uncharted? Where’s all of your various other old IP’s?

You took all your existing IP’s and killed them. Even goy of soy which recently got a game might as well be dead, because it’s a shell of its former self. Hm, no wonder Sony has no ip’s.

 

[ChefKiss]

because since the start of PS4 you told every smaller up and coming team to be a support team for naughty dog or guerilla or fuck off
People cant make original IP because they're too busy being support team making the nigger NPCs extra ugly in the remake of the remaster of the same fucking game from PS3