Concord, a hero shooter and PlayStation’s latest big live-service title, appears to not be selling very well at all.
If you were to only listen to big wig executives, you’d think that live-service games are where it’s at for all gamers everywhere. Yeah, sure, there are a select few that are immensely popular like Genshin Impact and Fortnite, but for the most part, it really just doesn’t work for a lot of games. Yet following on from PlayStation’s massive hit Helldivers 2, it recently released another shooter, this time of the hero variety, Concord. Except, very quickly, it became apparent that the game wasn’t going very well, with the game receiving a concurrent player count peak of 697, which it hasn’t managed to top since launch. And now, in a report from IGN, industry analysts are saying they believe the game has sold as poorly as 25,000 copies… across PlayStation and PC.
To start, Liam Deane, principal analyst at Omdia said “The Steam numbers are so bad that even without the exact data on the PS5 side we can be pretty certain that the game is doing very badly.” While it’s possible to track player numbers on Steam, it currently isn’t possible to do so on PlayStation, hence why there’s no data there. Analyst Mat Piscatella at Circana shared that as of August 26, “Concord ranked 147th in US PS5 daily active players across all titles, with fewer than 0.2% of Monday’s active PS5 players playing the game.”
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