Major PlayStation exclusive is seemingly set to make a comeback

Sony has made more than a few mistakes in their time. You've got your classic examples like the PlayStation 3's E3 conference and you've got your modern examples like the whole Helldivers 2 PSN/Steam link debacle, but it's hard to imagine them ever topping their most recent one.

In case you've been living under a rock for the past few months, here's the cliff notes: Sony produced a game called Concord. It dropped in August on the PlayStation 5 and on Steam. It supposedly cost somewhere between 200 to 400 million dollars to develop and market the title.

And, well, nobody bought it. Concord reached a peak of 697 concurrent players on Steam. There's no exact numbers on the PS5 playerbase, but the resulting fallout implies that it probably wasn't much better.

Take a look at Concord in action below.

Concord's financial flop earned it an absolute ribbing online. Although only a few hundred people were playing it, tens of thousands of people queued up around the block to trash it on every corner of the internet.

It was so bad, Sony refunded everyone who purchased the title. Staff at Concord's developer, Firewalk Studios, were made redundant. Sony even pulled the game from online storefronts.

This all might just sound like I'm kicking someone while they're down, but it should hopefully put what I'm about to say into context; Concord may yet live again.

As spotted by Mike Straw over at Insider Gaming, the Steam version of Concord is still receiving updates. So why exactly would Sony continue to update a game that nobody can currently access? They've already lost a lot of money on Concord, so why would they choose to waste even more?

There's been a rumour floating around for a while now that Sony is going to re-release Concord as a free-to-play title. These random Steam updates seem to imply that this is now more likely than ever.

It makes sense, really. Call it a sunk cost fallacy, but Sony need to make some money back on this disaster somehow. And, by all accounts, Concord was actually a decent game. Most reviewers thought the gameplay was pretty solid anyway. In the end, it was the marketing and the art direction of Concord that led to the rubbish sales.

Sony have the guts of a decent game just sitting on their hard drives, so it would seem like a shame to let it completely go to waste. Here's hoping something good comes out of this whole debacle.