Sony President Promises Better PlayStation Quality Checks

Concord didn’t fail PlayStation. PlayStation failed Concord
Concord's short but troubled history can't just be viewed as a self-contained failure. Its part of a bigger picture at Sony.
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?
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.
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.
Sony President Says PlayStation Needs To Have More User Tests To Prevent Another Concord Situation
Sony president says that the PlayStation division needs to have more checks and gates to make sure another situation like Concord doesn't happen again
Sony Acknowledges, Explains Concord’s Failure, And Future Changes
Concord will go down as one of the biggest video game disasters of all time, no exaggeration given its $200 million budget. What did Sony learn?
Helldivers Success And Concord Failure Were Learning Lessons For PlayStation
Sony is learning from the failure of Concord by implementing more gates in the development process. Sony intends to combine single-player games with live-service games in order to optimize their title portfolio.
Sony’s president Hiroki Totoki has said the company is “still in the process of learning” from the failure of ‘Concord’
After 'Concord' proved to be a failure, Sony's president Hiroki Totoki has now said the company is "still in the process of learning" what went wrong with its hero-shooter
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Sony Says It Should Have Done User Testing and Internal Evaluation Earlier on Concord
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PlayStation Boss Hopes To Avoid Another Concord Flop By Holding More Tests/Internal Evaluation
In regards to avoiding future problems in in wake of pulling Concord offline for good, Totoki-san revealed that they “probably need to have a lot of gates, including user testing or internal ...
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PlayStation Shutters Studio Behind ‘Concord’ Video-Game Flop
Sony Group Corp.’s PlayStation unit will shut down Firewalk Studios, developer of the shooter game Concord, which was ...
PlayStation Urgently Needs To Rethink Its Live-Service Strategy After Concord's Failure
This week, PlayStation announced that it was shuttering Firewalk Studio, a developer founded in 2018 that Sony acquired just ...