Concord is the latest shooter to try and make its mark on what is arguably the most competitive genre in the games today – and so far it seems to be barely making a scratch.
It seemingly didn’t get all the fanfare that first-party games from PlayStation Studios usually get, which definitely isn’t the whole reason for its woes but that lack of support definitely didn’t help alleviate its launch troubles.
At time of writing, it has yet to crack 700 players on Steam according to SteamDB, after a peak of 697 concurrent players. Currently, there are just over 200 players in-game right now.
Concord launched on Friday and in the course of its opening weekend it sat more often than not below 500 players.
It’s worth noting that Concord has only been out for a few days now, and that Steam concurrent numbers don’t tell the full story when we don’t know how many people are playing on PS5.
Concord could very well just be a case of a game having a long tail where the payoff doesn’t come until much later in its story.
But it can’t skirt around the fact that it’s kind of a bad sign for a multiplayer game – a first-party PlayStation game at that – to arrive on the scene and not crack 1,000 players, even over the weekend where presumably people have more time to play versus during the week.
Hopefully this story has a happier ending than the one that looks inevitable, which is Concord shutting down in one to two years time.
Source – [SteamDB]