Physical copies of Concord for PS5 are now popping up for sale online as collectors’ items. Sony wiped away all traces of the game back in September 2024, but plenty of players held onto their copies to own a piece of gaming history – even if it’s the kind people might prefer to forget.
PlayStation LifeStyle spotted a flood of new eBay listings for Concord PS5 discs recently. Remember, Sony pulled all digital copies from players’ libraries, so these physical discs and the themed DualSense controller are pretty much all that’s left of Concord besides online videos and articles.
One eye-catching eBay listing shows the seller has already moved 86 copies of the game at $30 each. The counter is generated by eBay itself, suggesting this seller probably got their hands on a return carton full of copies. It’s pretty common for resellers to snap up entire pallets of returned items like this.
If you missed the whole Concord saga, here’s the scoop: it was one of gaming’s biggest flops in recent memory. This multiplayer hero shooter came from Firewalk Studios and Sony Interactive Entertainment, hitting PS5 and PC on August 23, 2024. The game dropped players into a retro-futuristic sci-fi world where teams of “Freegunners” duked it out in 5v5 matches.
The game launched with 16 characters sporting unique abilities – think robot legs for super jumps or diamond skin to absorb damage. Players could choose from six game modes covering the usual team deathmatch and objective-based gameplay. Concord was trying to blend solid shooting mechanics with a vibrant world, clearly drawing inspiration from games like Overwatch.
Despite eight years in development, Concord landed with a thud. Critics gave it mixed reviews, averaging around 66 on Metacritic. The gameplay got some props, but most found the characters forgettable and the $40 price tag hard to swallow in a market dominated by free-to-play shooters.
The player numbers tell the real story, though. Industry data shows Concord peaked at just 697 concurrent players on Steam and sold roughly 25,000 copies total – that’s 10,000 on Steam and 15,000 on PS5. For comparison, Sony’s Helldivers 2 from earlier in 2024 hit 400,000 Steam players at launch. Concord barely made a dent, ranking 40th on the PS Store just a week after release.
Sony pulled the plug quickly. By September 6, 2024 – a mere two weeks after launch – they took Concord offline completely and refunded all purchases, admitting the game hadn’t met expectations.
The aftermath was brutal. By October’s end, Sony shut down Firewalk Studios entirely and permanently discontinued Concord. While the true development costs remain unclear (some claimed $400 million, though PlayStation devs have disputed this figure), gaming journalists and industry experts widely regard it as one of gaming’s biggest commercial failures.
Now these physical discs serve as collectibles from a cautionary tale about jumping on gaming trends too late. The discs themselves might have value, but the game remains completely unplayable – a physical souvenir of Sony’s ambitious but ultimately unsuccessful shot at the hero shooter market.
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