Ryuu96 said:
*Looks at Bungie* Wasn't it Bungie that partly influenced Sony to cancel Factions? And Sony was asking Bungie to look at their portfolio of GAAS titles? I'm genuinely curious what Bungie thought of Concord now and if they said it would be a hit. Though again, there's still Helldivers 2 and that was a huge success but honestly at this stage, it's pretty damn obvious that Factions would have been hugely more popular than Concord. Someone cancelled Factions but went ahead with Concord. |
I'm sure it mainly had to do with the fact that Naughty Dog had eggs in other baskets (remakes, remasters, PC ports, and new single player games) and could afford to cancel a project pretty deep in development, whereas Concord was the only game Firewalk was working on and by the time they were purchased by Sony and was given to Bungie to evaluate how the game would perform as a live service, the game was nearly 7 years into development with an unknown budget of millions of dollars already invested. I've read rumors that the budgets was upwards of $150 million over the course of the 8 years.
So from Sony's perspective, it was either let the game release and hope that it would at least recoup some of the investment or cancel the game the studio worked on for many years, have them start on their next game from scratch, and have it be closer to a decade by the time Firewalk releases their first game.
