General gaming discussion

Confirmation bias at its finest.

The Acolyte failed because it was boring as shíte and everyone was sick of sub-par Star Wars stuff. I watched it and I hated it because it was boring as hell. Concord failed because the release strategy was an incredible and poorly thought out failure in an already oversaturated market. Can't speak to the other one as I'm not familiar with it.

I could mention dozens of games that have diverse characters or relationships. Baldurs Gate 3, Last of Us Pt.2, Life is Strange, Tchia, etc. etc.

The Acolyte and Concord failed because they sucked.

I'll leave this one to Jason…

Even ignoring TLOU2, Overwatch is one of the most successful games in the genre and has made hundreds of millions, possibly even billions in profit. Huge array of LGBTQ+ characters.

But that doesn't count, I guess....

"As game as big as Concord with Sony behind it should never simply fail" is a sure sign of someone who has been neglecting their video game history :) Bigger games have crashed and burned. Hell think back to ET, there was a game that almost destroyed the entire industry.

Business analytics would say that any game being released will come with an element of risk. Some less than others sure, but no game is guaranteed success. Fallout was a beloved game series, Fallout 76 was a bomb on release. Remember Battleborn by Gearbox? It was an absolute disaster that was getting sold for a fiver within weeks of release. Anthem had a ridiculous campaign behind it for marketing and it died a death.

The reality with games is that there is a number of elements behind success, avoiding a saturated market with an effective clone is one, innovation is an element but not a silver bullet. The pricing strategy is another. As others have pointed out, Hi Fi Rush was a massive success, but no doubt it's presence on gamepass was an element of that.

Representation has never been identified as a reason for POOR performance but it was identified as a potential reason for the success of movies, shows and games.

This is not to say you aren't entitled to your opinion, you are fully entitled to be unimpressed with the presence of individuals of a certain type in games and to therefore avoid them. Same as my lack of interest in soccer and therefore any fifa game. I'm not going to say it's a terrible game because I don't like it, but I can say it's a terrible game FOR ME.

Im going to go ahead and wipe that from my memory for tomorrow. Think I'll just enjoy the nostalgia as I play. What a downer article to be putting out 2 days before Astro Bot launches.

I think it's also very likely that the number of people who knew the characters in Concord had their pronouns on the character select screen is probably even less than the number of people who played Concord (which is already a low number).

People can't be put off DEI stuff in a game they didn't play and didn't know there was any type of DEI stuff in the game. Unless of course they're just constantly listening to the grifters who propagate nonsense about DEI and blame it for everything because they know negative commentary gets more attention and therefore makes them more money.

I just hope we don't start getting Sony Game films, like Jak & Daxter starring Jack Black as Daxter, or Ratchet & Clank starring Jack Black as Clank, or Bloodborne starring Jack Black as the Doll….