This is 100% true btw, I've never in my life had as many ads for a tripple A game like I did for concord. Aside from the multiple marketing emails from sony, I constantly got concord in banners ads. I got concord youtube ads on my phone etc etc. Idk how it is elsewhere, but I never ever get tripple A game ads so when I started getting concord ads instead of some fake mobile game or AI scam .. I took notice. Similarly, I've noticed more marketing for AC shadows than any AC I can remember before this. Probably because it's doing so horribly. Gaming publishers have stopped doing ads etc as marketing for 99% of their games because they figure the reviewers, access journos and mouth to mouth will do the trick. Just sent your game to a bunch of youtubers for free and it's a lot more advertisement than 5 million on youtube ads will get you
@@3choblast3r4 Also let's not forget the Amazon animated episode they will release (most likely). They paid probably a lot of money for the animations but also for Amazon to publish it. I think Assassin's Creed Shadows will be an even bigger flop than Star Ward Outlaws, we will see.
A failed launch of a game after 10 days, a $700 video game console with no disc drive and now merchandise for the same failed game? Is Sony actively trying to go out of business?
That's what it seems like but it's just because of western ret@rdation.... Sony moved its headquarters to California which should explain everything lol
@@boitmecklyn4995 not really. Its more like rocket prepared upside down. They know its wrong, we know its wrong, we told them its wrong, and yet they act surprised when the rocket explode on the lunch
If only this gears looked good I would have buyed them with no shame. I am not a concord fan "never played it" but clothes are clothes, no matter what brand they're related to
This is done so the development cost of Concord can be considered as a tax write-off. A company must have a certain amount of revenue and profitability at the end of the year for this amount to be written off. This is why Sony is pushing out anything and everything out hoping they'll meet these breakpoints in time. Hopefully this makes sense.
Can't you carry over tax write-offs? I think you can do that on the stock market, if you have more realized losses in a year than realized gains you offset the tax for gains for the year and carry over the rest to the next year.
Serious question. Why would a company who loses money continue with something that continues to lose them money? Are they not a business? One would think they would abandom this disgusting ideology. Are they afraid of someone? What is their end game?
- By following DEI they get low interest loans from Blackrock, that's the primary thing they're interested in. - Many western governments also offer tax breaks if you meet certain DEI breakpoints for hiring practices. - unprofitable projects are tax write-offs off that big companies expect and rely on. When you add it all up, they only need DEI projects to make a little money in order to end up being profitable to the company in the big picture. I would love to see some serious breakdown of the finances behind these types of companies and their projects. Just knowing individual projects' budgets and sales figures only gives us a small amount of insight into what's really going on.
@bluedistortions thanks for the response. So what is Blackrocks agenda? Destroy patriarchy? The nuclear family? Something else? If so, why? And it's probably difficult to continue to hemorrhage money by the hundreds of millions it seems. And it seems it's only getting worse. Just all the failures in the last few months were insane. Concord, Dustbin, Acolyte. Those 3 along lost hundreds of millions.
@@bluedistortions the loans wind up costing them far more money. a loan has to be paid back and if you take a loan for ten million to fund a product development of 200 million and you only make a 1 million profit you still lost over 200 million.
@@piyapolphetmunee3879 nope millions per each project. we have the receipts and it isn't even a loan for a quarter. Blackrock is losing money on these ESG loans because the projects go broke and they cannot pay back the loan
Reading comprehension class. Pay attention. They said much has happened since Concord shutdown, including a GotY contender (I think they mean Astrobot) and the PS5 pro reveal.
DAmmm... Just how much money on MERCHANDISE? What about the secret level anthology show? I wonder how much they spend on adverting as well. +$300 million dollars wasted on this game alone would cost fortune. Just how much spend on secret level anthology show adverting it? They thought they would be rich...
I’m so happy we get to be here for this. Many years down the line from now we’ll get a good chuckle out of conversations that start with “you guys remember Concord…”🤣
This must have been something they put out beforehand, and wanted to see if they could get something out of it, or an ad campaign they pre-planned that they forgot to cancel.
"forgot to cancel" Nah man, big business dose this stupid shit where they sign contracts and agree to do something regardless of how stupid it ends up being. This is Sony doing some bs contractual agreement to save face with their real customers. ffs, the "secret level" thing is still happening, probably for the same reason, it's contractually agreed to happen and probably already paid for... all for a game that's already dead and gone.
I know if I were them, I'd so the same, its best course of action. When you burn $100+mil with no ROI, you try to collect as much cash as possible. These have been made and materials/labor already paid for. Enough collectors and net trolls will buy it for the goof of it.
Gotta clean out the storage room. Of all the merch they bought because they thought it was gonna be successful. So it’s dead weight on the books so it’s gotta go.
People in 3rd world countries will be wearing all manners of Concord gear soon. Just like they get all the merch for the sports team that loses the championship
They had a ton of merchandise ready to launch a week or two after the game launch. Since these are being sold now, they probably started manufacturing them months ago and are now just ready to be sold. This is them trying to offload them lol.
😆😆😆😆😆😆... 😂😂😂😂😂😂...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣... Ahhhhh i couldn't stop laughing the second I saw the merch. OMG I hope I do see someone wearing it one day, just so I can piss myself laughing at them 😂
This is the same as going out wearing clothes with a giant shit stain on your pants, vomit stain right in the middle of your shit. why would anyone do this to them selves.
Just like with the PS5 Pro, this stuff had already been scheduled for production before the launch of Concord, so they were VERY CONFIDENT that the game was gonna be a total success. Pride comes before the fall.
My take is that they did this after seeing the physical copy of the game going up in price. Like "oh we'll sell these and they might be collector items later on!"
They claim Sony didn’t market it enough, but I’m thinking it would have been far worse if they had. At this point, DEI game devs should take the Democrat stance. You’ll have to buy it to see what’s in it.
Since this garbage game was made for the nonexistent "modern audience," Sony is having a fire sale hoping that someone at some time might buy this merchandise.
Sony called all the 3rd world countries and said hey we have some clothes for you and even they said screw you, you're not sticking us with that garbage. So now it's on Sony's.🤣🤣
Embarrassing T-Shirts for Sale. Imagine wearing this shirt and having to explain it to someone. People will notice, think you're a loser, and make fun of you behind your back. 99% chance. LMFAO 🤣🤣🤣
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What do you all make of this?
Ubislop bots are botting videos on the flat2vr port of ubislops game from luke ross aswell
Hilarious
Painfully sad and disgusting
I hope someone buys one and gets “Cancelled” embroidered across the title. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Irony if the merch sells because the game didn't.
But the journalists will say "Sony didn't put enough marketing into Concord", guys, guys Concord had more marketing than ANY other PS IP EVER!
This is 100% true btw, I've never in my life had as many ads for a tripple A game like I did for concord. Aside from the multiple marketing emails from sony, I constantly got concord in banners ads. I got concord youtube ads on my phone etc etc. Idk how it is elsewhere, but I never ever get tripple A game ads so when I started getting concord ads instead of some fake mobile game or AI scam .. I took notice. Similarly, I've noticed more marketing for AC shadows than any AC I can remember before this. Probably because it's doing so horribly. Gaming publishers have stopped doing ads etc as marketing for 99% of their games because they figure the reviewers, access journos and mouth to mouth will do the trick. Just sent your game to a bunch of youtubers for free and it's a lot more advertisement than 5 million on youtube ads will get you
@@3choblast3r4 Also let's not forget the Amazon animated episode they will release (most likely). They paid probably a lot of money for the animations but also for Amazon to publish it.
I think Assassin's Creed Shadows will be an even bigger flop than Star Ward Outlaws, we will see.
They even paid for a secret levels episode on Amazon. I think God of War is the only other Sony IP to get that treatment
People saying this game had zero marketing are simply not interested in gaming, as it was the first game on playstations showcase.
I never saw one ad for the game.
Remember Concord? It's back! In Pog form!
A failed launch of a game after 10 days, a $700 video game console with no disc drive and now merchandise for the same failed game? Is Sony actively trying to go out of business?
Are their offices next to Ubisoft's or something? Are they taking lunch breaks together and sharing ideas?
Sony has f-you money. Sony has been relentlessly woke for a decade, and lost money on it for a decade, and yet they keep going.
That's what it seems like but it's just because of western ret@rdation....
Sony moved its headquarters to California which should explain everything lol
it's like seeing a rocket launch only for it to explode in the sky.
@@boitmecklyn4995 not really. Its more like rocket prepared upside down. They know its wrong, we know its wrong, we told them its wrong, and yet they act surprised when the rocket explode on the lunch
It's shameful to wear it outside, maybe you'll see people wear it on pride day.
If only this gears looked good I would have buyed them with no shame. I am not a concord fan "never played it" but clothes are clothes, no matter what brand they're related to
I don't know about that. The first move they made after release was to get rid of the "lgbtq+" tag on steam. Strong convictions right there.
😂
So, Sony seriously believed in that garbage? We're in bad shape.
The guys in the marketing team who bet on Concord was probably fired already.
So, more stuff for the landfills. Way to promote environmentalism...
The best thing Sony could do is donate all of this crap to homeless people for some positive PR.
If Sony wants to double down, I even encourage them to triple and quadruple down. The faster they go bankrupt, the better.
Dead Service Game
You should trademark it.
DEI = Dead Entertainment Industry
This is done so the development cost of Concord can be considered as a tax write-off. A company must have a certain amount of revenue and profitability at the end of the year for this amount to be written off. This is why Sony is pushing out anything and everything out hoping they'll meet these breakpoints in time. Hopefully this makes sense.
Can't you carry over tax write-offs? I think you can do that on the stock market, if you have more realized losses in a year than realized gains you offset the tax for gains for the year and carry over the rest to the next year.
@@warmike In the US you can. Isn't Sony Japanese?
@@andrew8168 Sony HQ moved from Japan to commiefornia a few years ago i think
Bottom line, Sony sux and is greedy $700 for ps5 pro lol 😂
It's Morbin' Time. Again....
The stupidity of these companies never fails to amaze me. But hey, I’m all for these companies losing money.
Yes. Let them fail and let the ceo's lose their massive paychecks. I will celbrate them losing their money.
@@Endor2001 There is till the dei consultants company we need to expose and get rid of.
All that shit gonna end up at Ross.
5 Below 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Ollie's lol
TJ Maxx and Marshall's I'm calling it right now.
it will wind up in the third world like those sport team shirts for the losing team.
Did they get April Fools mixed up???? 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Guess they think everyone month is the same 😂😂
@@OwO377 gay pride month?
Sony spent $150 million on concord merchandise
Send it too Africa
What did Africa do to be punished like that?
@@JamieJGJ😂
Someone's prestige project, promotion or bonuses are clearly on the line...
Serious question. Why would a company who loses money continue with something that continues to lose them money? Are they not a business? One would think they would abandom this disgusting ideology. Are they afraid of someone? What is their end game?
- By following DEI they get low interest loans from Blackrock, that's the primary thing they're interested in.
- Many western governments also offer tax breaks if you meet certain DEI breakpoints for hiring practices.
- unprofitable projects are tax write-offs off that big companies expect and rely on.
When you add it all up, they only need DEI projects to make a little money in order to end up being profitable to the company in the big picture.
I would love to see some serious breakdown of the finances behind these types of companies and their projects. Just knowing individual projects' budgets and sales figures only gives us a small amount of insight into what's really going on.
@bluedistortions thanks for the response. So what is Blackrocks agenda? Destroy patriarchy? The nuclear family? Something else? If so, why?
And it's probably difficult to continue to hemorrhage money by the hundreds of millions it seems. And it seems it's only getting worse. Just all the failures in the last few months were insane. Concord, Dustbin, Acolyte. Those 3 along lost hundreds of millions.
@@bluedistortions the loans wind up costing them far more money. a loan has to be paid back and if you take a loan for ten million to fund a product development of 200 million and you only make a 1 million profit you still lost over 200 million.
@@toomanyaccountsblackrock loans are in the billions, not millions.
@@piyapolphetmunee3879 nope millions per each project. we have the receipts and it isn't even a loan for a quarter. Blackrock is losing money on these ESG loans because the projects go broke and they cannot pay back the loan
How about make Merchandise on Astro Bot, & make Funko Pops on an Astro Bot Version of Kratos.
How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man?!
Zombie Game Merch, Concord lives after it's death
😂😂😂I’d buy it just to commemorate Wukong’s victory. It’ll be like dragging the old Nazi tanks through Moscow for Victory Day.
Concord is the new Morbius at this point
I don’t think memes are going to save this one
Except Morbius was actually decent
I loved the part where they said "it's concordin' time" and then they concorded all over the place.
Can you imagine they try to donate the beanies, shirts, and hoodies to the homeless and they refuse to wear it?
Eh, I don't think they're that picky with their clothing. They'll take anything given to them in order to stay warm.
Game of the year contender???? That’s funnier than the sh!7 merch.
Reading comprehension class. Pay attention. They said much has happened since Concord shutdown, including a GotY contender (I think they mean Astrobot) and the PS5 pro reveal.
DAmmm... Just how much money on MERCHANDISE? What about the secret level anthology show? I wonder how much they spend on adverting as well. +$300 million dollars wasted on this game alone would cost fortune. Just how much spend on secret level anthology show adverting it? They thought they would be rich...
They've become so unwieldy as a company, no one thought to put a stop to it probably
I wanna go as a failure for Halloween
I bet the XXL hoodies will be bought the most
Sony should just donate Concord merch to the homeless...like the Devs they just fired.
If you buy their clothing and it falls apart in 11 days just remember - the people who made that hoodie have their livelihoods at stake.
Sony is the type of company to sell merch to a game that you cannot buy and cannot play.
Talk about not being able to read the room……
Sony, for the love of gaming, LET CONCORD GO!! You’re actually worse than a ANIME YANDERE CHARACTER!!!
This is a joke. A parody article.
Of course it is pony
Gamers will use those for window wipes and car wipes for the sweaters
both the window and car would get dirty if thats the case
@@waterguy7463 oh yeah that's right cause the merch is to disgusting right
Look!! "modern audience" LMAO
So that's why Concord tanked, no merch 😂
Totally disagree! Arcteryx have a dead bird on their clothes and they sell well, don’t see why it could not be the same with a dead game.
I’m so happy we get to be here for this. Many years down the line from now we’ll get a good chuckle out of conversations that start with “you guys remember Concord…”🤣
Greed has no boundaries.
Sony is pulling a Morbius again, it's Concording time!
they prolly gonna try and ress it later, and they think it will garner the same sale spike that the controller and hard disc got
No one in their right mind is gonna play this uglified game
They can’t now
I'll laugh if people buy the merch and burn it. 🤣🤣
Imagine wearing that nice hoodie at a convention. 😅😅😅
Russian Concord crashed twice Washington Concord crashed once.
They are desperate for money
Turns out, low interest rate DEI loans probably don't pay the bills... you still need to make good shit people want to be a business.
Anyone wearing those are just putting a huge target mark on themselves to be mocked at.
This must have been something they put out beforehand, and wanted to see if they could get something out of it, or an ad campaign they pre-planned that they forgot to cancel.
"forgot to cancel"
Nah man, big business dose this stupid shit where they sign contracts and agree to do something regardless of how stupid it ends up being. This is Sony doing some bs contractual agreement to save face with their real customers.
ffs, the "secret level" thing is still happening, probably for the same reason, it's contractually agreed to happen and probably already paid for... all for a game that's already dead and gone.
'You can bring a AAA to a fountain, but you cannot force it to make money'
I know if I were them, I'd so the same, its best course of action. When you burn $100+mil with no ROI, you try to collect as much cash as possible. These have been made and materials/labor already paid for. Enough collectors and net trolls will buy it for the goof of it.
Imagine unironically buying this and wearing it out in public 🤣
Admittedly everyone would just assume it a random sportswear brand, I mean the logo even looks like one
The 3000 people who bought this game should all buy 1 to show solidarity.
This...does put a smile on my face😂😂😂
I really want the Concord controller. Will make me smile every time I pick it up.
Is it already the first of April?
Sony is a husk of their former selves. When they closed Japan studio I began to worry.
Good. Let them burn money
I dont understand why they just dont donate the merch its a tax right off if you do that.
They are in denial.
They are going through the 5 stages of grief. Good F****ng Grief!
Gotta clean out the storage room. Of all the merch they bought because they thought it was gonna be successful. So it’s dead weight on the books so it’s gotta go.
INCREDIBLE! we need the game to be brought back to stores so it can make even MORE history by failing twice… also I can’t lie the hoody is clean 😂
Plenty of ppl will purchase these items to use in a sardonic manner.
Obviously these aren’t going to sell but PS wants to distance themselves from the slop they funded as much as possible. It’s not gonna work 😂
10/10 days live
People in 3rd world countries will be wearing all manners of Concord gear soon. Just like they get all the merch for the sports team that loses the championship
3:14 - I felt your "No!" bro. And the rant that followed after it. An utterly ridiculous thing to claim from Sony.
They had a ton of merchandise ready to launch a week or two after the game launch. Since these are being sold now, they probably started manufacturing them months ago and are now just ready to be sold. This is them trying to offload them lol.
"The modern audience didn't show up for your game, you think they are going to buy your hoodie?" Hypnotic on Concord, 2024.
Let them get the merch,... Makes it easy for us to Identify the " modern audience", all 3000 of them
This, this exactly why the PS5 pro cost so much.
FlopCord sucks
Facts
Stop bullying them! Don't you have any Concord in your heart? 😂
😆😆😆😆😆😆...
😂😂😂😂😂😂...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣...
Ahhhhh i couldn't stop laughing the second I saw the merch. OMG I hope I do see someone wearing it one day, just so I can piss myself laughing at them 😂
sony should give that hoodie to every single person who worked on the game and who baught the game
Well that'd no one then, as clearly no one with any qualifications ot talent actually worked on that sorry excuse for a game 😂
They want to cash out from those who are after these things for collecting
This is the same as going out wearing clothes with a giant shit stain on your pants, vomit stain right in the middle of your shit.
why would anyone do this to them selves.
"Look, honey! The modern audience!"
Never change, Hypnotic
Lol haven’t we taught these idiotic companies the same lesson enough yet? Even a 2 year old would have learned by now.
Just like with the PS5 Pro, this stuff had already been scheduled for production before the launch of Concord, so they were VERY CONFIDENT that the game was gonna be a total success. Pride comes before the fall.
My take is that they did this after seeing the physical copy of the game going up in price. Like "oh we'll sell these and they might be collector items later on!"
They are corporation, its not like they'll give these clothes to poor people for FREE.
Sony is probably selling physical discs on eBay to recover as much as possible.
Just screen print "Died faster than a common housefly." under the label and you're set.
Probably contracts.
reality said it not worth it.
@@OwO377 I bet the contract probably would make them lose more money. If broken. Than the merch failing to be bought.
Watch how quickly this moves to clearance on the PlayStation store. We need a follow up 🤣
What?! Hahaha!!! No way Sony is this stupid!! No way!! 😆
They don’t want to have this stuck in they storage
I thought they offloaded old/loser apparel to Africa. I saw so many African kids in Romney 2012 & European soccer team merch.
Imagine travelling let's say a subway and seeing someone having the "modern audience" label or better - a stigma. I would laugh my pants off. :D
They claim Sony didn’t market it enough, but I’m thinking it would have been far worse if they had. At this point, DEI game devs should take the Democrat stance. You’ll have to buy it to see what’s in it.
If they purpose not help real people and burn everyone money wise person once said" congratulations.your play yourself."
Since this garbage game was made for the nonexistent "modern audience," Sony is having a fire sale hoping that someone at some time might buy this merchandise.
100% of the modern audience bought the merch, all 85 of them
@@YouMissedAgainTimes32024 ROFL
Sony so cringe
I still think people should buy this merchandise because is the game has become part of the video game industry's history.
I'm seriously tempted to buy a hoodie. 1. For the irony and 2. For the win! Besides, Sony now need the money. 😂
Sony called all the 3rd world countries and said hey we have some clothes for you and even they said screw you, you're not sticking us with that garbage. So now it's on Sony's.🤣🤣
If I was suffering from a mental deficiency, on seeing this I'd have assumed it was April first.
Here's your chance to support your favorite game, SJWs. Surely this will move the needle.
Embarrassing T-Shirts for Sale. Imagine wearing this shirt and having to explain it to someone. People will notice, think you're a loser, and make fun of you behind your back. 99% chance. LMFAO 🤣🤣🤣