Sony is closing Firewalk Studios, developers of the failed Concord, and mobile game studio Neon Koi

Concord did not become a very successful game, and its servers were shut down shortly after launch. Now, the development studio Firewalk Studios has also been closed.

The story of the live-service game Concord turned out to be rather short-lived. The online shooter’s servers were shut down shortly after the project’s launch.

Now it has been revealed that Sony has also decided to close the developer, Firewalk Studios. 

There are no plans to relaunch Concord, meaning that the shooter will not be returning in a free-to-play format, as had been previously speculated.

The announcement also made it clear that the failure of Concord does not mean Sony is abandoning live-service games. It was noted that the lessons learned will be taken into account in future work:

“The PvP first person shooter genre is a competitive space that’s evolving, and unfortunately, we did not hit our targets with this title. We will take the lessons learned from Concord and continue to advance our [live service] capabilities to deliver future growth in this area”.

A decision was also made to close Neon Koi — a mobile game development studio. At the same time, mobile projects remain a “priority area” for PlayStation’s growth.

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