Sony on Concord's failure: "With new IP, you don't know the result until you actually try it"
"With regards to new IP, of course, you don’t know the result until you actually try it," he said. "We probably need to have a lot of gates, including user testing or internal evaluation, and the timing of such gates. And then we need to bring them forward, and we should have done those gates much earlier than we did.
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Sony President Admits ‘Concord’ Had Dev Problems, Says Failed Hero Shooter Needed More “User Testing” And “Internal Evaluation”In the aftermath of the game’s historically short two-week existence, Sony President Hiroki Totoki has admitted to the fact ...
Sony’s Neon Koi mobile game development studio is also shutting down, despite Hulst saying “mobile remains a priority growth ...
Sony closes Concord 11 days post-launch, citing live-service challenges; execs share insights to improve future game ...
Well, diving into the investor presentation and Q&A call, I'd personally put the answers at "yes, and mostly no" in my book.
Totoki stated that Sony is still learning how to navigate in the category of games-as-a-service and sometimes this will result in flops. With a new brand like Concord, you never know for sure if it ...
Sony is not giving up on single-player games despite investing ... with the company “improving our live service game processes” and sharing lessons it learned from Concord‘s development and ...
The industry is grappling with the rising cost of creating games and Sony said last month it was shutting down two ...
Sony's comment on Concord's failure reveals it wasn't prepared for a live-service FPS. If anything, maybe the catastrophe of ...
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