Sony is closing Firewalk Studios, the workplace down its PlayStation Concord game that it took offline past month aft a disastrous launch. In a message to PlayStation staff, Hermen Hulst, CEO of the PlayStation workplace business group, says Firewalk Studios will adjacent alongside Neon Koi, a mobile crippled studio.
“We person spent sizeable clip these past fewer months exploring each our options,” says Hulst. “After overmuch thought, we person wished the champion way guardant is to permanently sunset the crippled and adjacent the studio. I want to convey each of Firewalk for their craftsmanship, imaginative tone and dedication.”
Hulst says Concord didn’t deed Sony’s targets and that the PlayStation shaper will “take the lessons learned from Concord and proceed to beforehand our unrecorded work capabilities to present early maturation successful this area.”
Concord debuted connected August 23rd connected some PS5 and PC, but Sony took the crippled offline connected September 6th aft mediocre income of the game. Estimates person put sales at nether 25,000, and Concord only managed to deed an all-time highest of conscionable 697 players connected Steam, little than the motorboat highest of The Lord of the Rings: Gollum.
Sony’s Neon Koi mobile crippled improvement workplace is besides shutting down, contempt Hulst saying “mobile remains a privilege maturation area.” Sony primitively acquired the German-Finnish workplace erstwhile it was known arsenic Savage Game Studios successful 2022, and the squad was moving connected an unannounced triple-A mobile unrecorded work action game.
“With this re-focused approach, Neon Koi will close, and its mobile action crippled will not beryllium moving forward,” says Hulst. “Both decisions were fixed superior thought, and ultimately, we consciousness they are the correct ones to fortify the organization.”
Some of the impacted developers whitethorn find roles wrong Sony’s different studios, but the remainder will subordinate the thousands successful the crippled manufacture that person been laid disconnected complete the past mates of years.