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Sony President Promises Better PlayStation Quality Checks After Concord's Failure

There have been two massive questions hanging over Concord, the expensive PlayStation 5 hero shooter that almost nobody played. The first one is: how did a game that wasn’t busted or terrible bomb so spectacularly?

GamesIndustry · 6h

Sony on Concord's failure: "With new IP, you don't know the result until you actually try it"

"With regards to new IP, of course, you don’t know the result until you actually try it," he said. "We probably need to have a lot of gates, including user testing or internal evaluation, and the timing of such gates. And then we need to bring them forward, and we should have done those gates much earlier than we did.

VideoGamer · 7h

Sony president on Concord’s historic failure – ”we are still in the process of learning”

PlayStation parent company Sony has commented on the huge failure of Concord, but the brand is still doubling down on the idea.

GameSpot · 4h

Sony Talks Concord's Failure And The Hard Lessons Learned From It

The disastrous launch of Concord was the focus of a new interview with Sony president Hiroki Totoki, who spoke about how the company plans to avoid a repeat of this with future game releases. Part of Sony's strategy will ensure that a game goes through a more rigorous period of testing and evaluation prior to it being released.

Cryptopolitan on MSN · 4h

Playstation needs to do better after Concord’s failure, says Sony president

Sony’s COO and CFO Hiroki Totoki reflects on Concord’s colossal failure. He says Playstation needs detailed user testing to prevent such situations in future live service multiplayer IP, which the company still has plans for.

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Sony leads say the company "gained a lot of experience" from Concord's failure and will have to do more "user testing or internal evaluation" in the future

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Sony's CEO Commented on Concord's Failure. Hiroki Totoki Explains What Went South and Pledges Lessons Learned

Totoki stated that Sony is still learning how to navigate in the category of games-as-a-service and sometimes this will result in flops. With a new brand like Concord, you never know for sure if it ...

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Concord polling place provides peace and quiet amid raucous election cycle

While interest in this presidential election has been at an all-time high, there were still places where the job of poll ...

PHOTOS: West Concord home catches fire early Friday morning

A home in western Concord is destroyed following an early morning fire, according to the Concord Fire Department. Firefighters were called to the blaze on Grand Canyon Road NW around 5:48 a.m. on ...