Tim Miller, the chief creator of Amazon’s upcoming Prime Video animated anthology Secret Level, has spoken out for the primary time on the collection’ Concord episode, which comes out subsequent month after Sony shut down not solely the sport, however its developer.
Concord, a reside service hero shooter from Sony-owned Firewalk Studios, has gone down as one of many greatest flops in PlayStation historical past. Amid disastrously low participant numbers, Sony hauled Concord offline simply two weeks after launch. It finally shuttered Firewalk and confirmed Concord wouldn’t return.
It has proved a pricey failure for Sony. Concord’s preliminary improvement deal was round $200 million based on a report by Kotaku, which cited two sources aware of the settlement. They stated the $200 million was not sufficient to fund Concord’s complete improvement, nor did it embody the acquisition of the Concord IP rights or Firewalk itself. Kotaku’s quantity aligns with an earlier report saying that ProbablyMonsters — Firewalk’s unique guardian firm — raised $200 million in 2021.
It all factors to Concord being seen as an bold undertaking that was anticipated to draw a big viewers. Instead it launched to tepid evaluations and low curiosity, prompting PlayStation to drag the plug inside days of launch. One estimate advised it solely bought round 25,000 copies.
Still, as confirmed by IGN, Secret Level’s Concord animation will launch as a part of the anthology, now providing a glimpse at what may need been had the sport itself been successful and continued to increase on its story.
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Tim Miller, who was one of many driving forces behind Netflix’s Love, Death & Robots, stated he had no means of understanding what would occur to Concord through the three-year improvement of Secret Level, and insisted there was by no means a consideration to drag the Concord episode from the anthology.
What Miller doesn’t perceive is why Concord ended up flopping so arduous. “There was no nicer, extra invested group of builders than the staff on Concord,” he stated. “I actually don’t perceive why it didn’t work. I do know that they have been attempting to do the most effective they may, and so they have been a proficient group of artists, so I really feel horrible for that.”
While Concord was primarily a reside service hero shooter, it had a stab at telling an overarching story via cinematic vignettes that have been designed to go reside over time and flesh out the sport’s sci-fi universe and characters. Concord obtained via just some of those cinematics earlier than it was hauled offline, with the remaining already made presumably consigned to the digital scrap heap.
As it stands, Concord’s Secret Level episode will be the final Concord something ever launched, save potential leaks. Miller had some form phrases for the builders at Firewalk if that does certainly find yourself being the case.
“I don’t really feel dangerous that it’s part of the present, as a result of I believe it’s an episode that turned out very well, and you may sort of see the potential of this world and the characters,” he stated. “If it’s the remaining vestige of that product, I hope the builders really feel that it’s not directly worthy, just a bit bit, of the blood, sweat, and tears they put into it.”
Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can attain Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.
