After eight years of development and months of marketing, Firewalk Studios’ supposed AAA first-person shooter Concord is shutting down this September. It is a stunning end to the franchise, and is now being considered as one of the biggest flops in gaming history—and for good reason.
Along with being plastered across social media and across PlayStation’s various menus, Concord was being heralded as the next contender in a genre with plenty of pretenders. From Overwatch to games like VALORANT, Apex Legends, or Marvel Rivals, the team-based hero shooter class of games has quickly become oversaturated, but Concord failed before it even made it out of the gate.