Sony Live Service Shooter Concord Debuts to a Tragic 697 Concurrent Players on Steam [IGN]

Sony’s live service shooter Concord, available on PlayStation 5 and PC, has debuted to a tragic 697 peak concurrent players on Steam.

Data from player tracking website SteamDB reveals Concord, which debuted on August 20, 2024 through the $59.99 Digital Deluxe Edition or August 23 through the $39.99 Standard Edition, had a peak player count of 697 on August 23.

Helldivers 2, another live service game from Sony which launched in February 2024, hit a peak concurrent player count of 155,926 during its opening weekend, The Finals hit 242,619, and even Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leage, which was dubbed a disappointment by Warner Bros. Discovery boss David Zaslav and caused a $200 million hit to revenue, debuted with 12,786 peak concurrent players on Steam. Concord’s is just 5% of that number.

Live service games typically enjoy the most success at launch and encounter a drop off in players after a few weeks or months, so such a poor debut doesn’t bode well for Concord’s future.

It had already dropped to 473 concurrent players on Saturday, August 24 despite games typically enjoying a boost in their first weekend on sale. It then dropped to 402 players on Sunday and currently has just 131 players online on Steam.

This comes after eight years of development and presumably tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions, of dollars spent by Sony, a company already shifting gears away from a live service heavy future. Sony president Hiroki Totoki committed to launching just six of 12 live service games in development, and one based on The Last of Us has already been cancelled.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll talk about The Witcher all day.