Concord: what its failure says about game discovery in 2024

Also: this week's successful launches, and lots of other news.

[The GameDiscoverCo game discovery newsletter is written by ‘how people find your game’ expert & company founder Simon Carless, and is a regular look at how people discover and buy video games in the 2020s.]

Welcome to the end of the week, GDCo readers. It’s been a busy one, but we thought we’d take this newsletter to unearth ‘real stats’ (on both PS5 & PC!) and industry ramifications from Firewalk & PlayStation’s unfortunate hero shooter flop Concord.

Elsewhere, we’re going to take a look at this week’s big winners on Steam and elsewhere. And of course, we have a bumper helping of discovery and platform news for you. So let’s get to it…

What Concord’s failure says re: discovery in 2024?

As news spread that PlayStation’s ambitious $40 shooter, Concord - which came out on PC (Steam) and PlayStation 5 a week ago - had pretty much done the opposite of PlayStation’s previous PC/console GaaS debut, Helldivers 2, some were perplexed.