Concord is Sony's biggest failure in gaming history.

[GymratAmarillo]

firebush03 said:

GymratAmarillo said:

Anyway it doesn't take anything from concord failure but ... Helldivers 2 first million was mostly on ps5 so until we don't see the table of sales of August and September we won't know how much of a failure Concord is.

G2ThaUNiT said:

Console doesn’t seem to be much better of a story. At least in the US the game is doing marginally better on console. Around number 50 in PS Store’s best sellers. Which is not good for a Sony first party game, but better than it’s doing on PC.

That actually was not the case with Helldivers 2. About 70% of Helldivers 2 sales were on PC. If it wasn’t for PC, the game would’ve probably been a modest success at best, but certainly not viral.

It seems GymratAmarillo spread some misinformation, unless he’s got sources? Can’t find any data about the first million copies of HD2, so he might be telling the truth…I’m unsure. In any case, I believe Concord prolly will see more of its sales come from console than PC compared to HD2. As you’ve pointed out, top 50 on PSN is certainly far better than <1,000 concurrent players on Steam.

Player counts. Hellviers 2 sold arround 1 million copies its first weekend, in that same weekend the numbers on pc were around 100k in western peak concurrent and 20k-30k in the east. For many that kind of info is useless so I don't know if you can find that tracking but as a Helldivers fan I was because I wanted the game to succeed, PS5 and PC included.

The game sold in the long run more on pc, that much is true but 70%? I don't know man ... but hey maybe it's true, maybe not but even if it's true we are talking around 5 million copies, not so modest for an IP that many people called "generic" before release lol. Most first party don't sell more than 3 million in that period of time, only Horizon, GOW, Spider Man, Ghost of Tsushima and The last of Us. Returnal a game that is highly underrated sold 500k on console and 100k on pc and it was enough to buy the studio.

BTW if viral means people talking good about the game when the game is new and then trash it just for the attention when the player base moves on to other games because HD is a pure 100% pve game, well I wish for the games that I like to not become viral. How to forget the viral video "PS5 players are ruining Helldivers" just because the damage on pc was lower at that moment. The video wasn't about a bug on PC nor a needed buff on PC, no no it was made so people with a false sense of superiority could trash the playerbase lol. Sounds great right?

Last edited by GymratAmarillo - on 25 August 2024