Concord is Sony's biggest failure in gaming history.

[IkePoR]

Hiku said:

Sales can often be attributed to how good or bad a game is.
But even good games can struggle to find an audience. (And I'm not suggesting Concord is good btw.)

At VGChartz we have the original Persona 3's sales listed at 0.45m units worldwide.
While Persona 5 is selling many times more than that. (The total combined sales between all versions surpasses 10 million.)

Is Persona 5 that much better of a game than Persona 3 that it went from being niche to very popular?
Not really. But P5 managed to market itself better.

Same can be said for franchises like Nier and Yakuza. Their audience suddenly grew many times over with Nier: Automata and Yakuza 0, even though they didn't really change their formula.

I want to push back on this.  I think the cream of the crop always rises to the top - rarely later than sooner.  If a game doesn't catch on/sell well, it simply wasn't good enough.  I will admit there's some cognitive dissonance here; I loved Pandora's Tower but it sold shit and will be memory-holed in gaming history BUT... it just wasn't good enough.  I don't think there's ever a "good" reason an excellent game flops.  

Ryuu96 said:

Hiku said:

Sales can often be attributed to how good or bad a game is.
But even good games can struggle to find an audience. (And I'm not suggesting Concord is good btw.)

*Cries in Titanfall 2*

WHY RELEASE IT BETWEEN COD AND BATTLEFIELD.

This is sort of an issue Concord would have either way, it doesn't matter that Overwatch and the others aren't new releases, they're continuously updated videogames with millions of people still playing them, they're F2P and Concord is expected to try to pull players away from these games at a $40 price tag, it is not competing in the sense of release schedule but it is competing for players valuable time.

Tin foil hat time.  Total planned move by EA - crush Respawn into dust and absorb them like the vacuous monolith it is.