{"id":115895,"date":"2024-10-19T09:31:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T02:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=115895"},"modified":"2024-10-19T09:31:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T02:31:47","slug":"the-biggest-entertainment-flop-of-all-time-was-mostly-unnoticed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=115895","title":{"rendered":"The Biggest Entertainment Flop Of All Time Was Mostly Unnoticed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">In the summer of 2024, an entertainment project <span><a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 erKGZM js_link\" data-ga=\"[[&quot;Embedded Url&quot;,&quot;Internal link&quot;,&quot;https:\/\/kotaku.com\/concord-flop-low-player-count-steam-psn-sales-fps-ps5-1851631800&quot;,{&quot;metric25&quot;:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/concord-flop-low-player-count-steam-psn-sales-fps-ps5-1851631800\">went more spectacularly wrong<\/a><\/span> than possibly any entertainment project in human history. A venture that cost an approximated $400 million, and is thought to have made back only $1 million, representing a flop that dwarfs the likes of movie disasters <span><a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 erKGZM js_link\" data-ga=\"[[&quot;Embedded Url&quot;,&quot;Internal link&quot;,&quot;https:\/\/kotaku.com\/joker-2-box-office-flop-digital-release-terrifier-3-dc-1851673007&quot;,{&quot;metric25&quot;:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/joker-2-box-office-flop-digital-release-terrifier-3-dc-1851673007\"><em>Joker: Folie \u00e0 Deux<\/em><\/a><\/span> and <span><a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 erKGZM js_link\" data-ga=\"[[&quot;Embedded Url&quot;,&quot;Internal link&quot;,&quot;https:\/\/kotaku.com\/borderlands-movie-box-office-flop-bomb-2024-gearbox-1851619588&quot;,{&quot;metric25&quot;:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/borderlands-movie-box-office-flop-bomb-2024-gearbox-1851619588\"><em>Borderlands<\/em><\/a><\/span>. Yet, if you don\u2019t read the specialist gaming press, there\u2019s a really good chance you\u2019ve never even heard of it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-1needdh-1 gRtQsx\">\n<div class=\"sc-1needdh-0 dccRTD instream-native-video instream-permalink instream-native-video--mobile\">\n<div class=\"sc-1h0epat-0 crfeiW\">\n<div class=\"sc-1wkneyl-4 kDKXjm video-html5-playlist\" data-playlist=\"196181,196230,195939\" data-current=\"196181\">\n<div class=\"sc-1wkneyl-0 hAZDOz video-html5-loaded\">\n<div class=\"sc-1wkneyl-1 jShsAa video-html5-player\">\n<div class=\"sc-lhhce6-0 ldLvgq video-html5 autoplay muted mobile\" data-video-id=\"196181\" data-monetizable=\"true\" data-position=\"sidebar\" data-video-title=\"The Best Reveals From The Game Awards 2023\" data-video-blog-id=\"9\" data-video-network=\"kotaku\" data-video-duration=\"180\">\n<div class=\"sc-lhhce6-2 emBeiF video-top-bar\">\n<p>The Best Reveals From The Game Awards 2023<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><video disablepictureinpicture=\"\" muted=\"\" playsinline=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" preload=\"none\" style=\"max-height:none\"><source data-src=\"https:\/\/vid.kinja.com\/prod\/196181\/196181_240p.mp4\" label=\"240p\" type=\"video\/mp4\"\/><source data-src=\"https:\/\/vid.kinja.com\/prod\/196181\/196181_480p.mp4\" label=\"480p\" type=\"video\/mp4\"\/><source data-src=\"https:\/\/vid.kinja.com\/prod\/196181\/196181_720p.mp4\" label=\"720p\" type=\"video\/mp4\"\/><source data-src=\"https:\/\/vid.kinja.com\/prod\/196181\/196181_1080p.mp4\" label=\"1080p\" type=\"video\/mp4\"\/><track kind=\"captions\" label=\"English\" src=\"https:\/\/kinja.com\/api\/videoupload\/caption\/21718.vtt\" srclang=\"en\"\/><\/video><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\"><em>Why<\/em> this enormous story remains so obscure taps into a deeply peculiar issue with the broad mainstream press and its decades-long refusal to accept a reality in which video games are a normal part of everyday life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\"><em>Concord<\/em> was a multiplayer shooter game, in development for eight years by one of the biggest entertainment companies in the world, Sony. Released into a very crowded market of what\u2019s become known as \u201chero shooters\u201d\u2014games in which players pick from predesigned heroic characters and team up for online battles\u2014it felt generic, derivative, and, in its character designs, narrative concepts, and use of color, outrageously reminiscent of Marvel\u2019s <em>Guardians of the Galaxy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">However, even with all those factors, no one could possibly have predicted the scale of its failure. This game, released on August 23 to the PlayStation 5 console and PC, sold <span><a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 erKGZM js_link\" data-ga=\"[[&quot;Embedded Url&quot;,&quot;External link&quot;,&quot;https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/concord-is-estimated-to-have-sold-only-25000-units-heres-why-analysts-think-its-failing&quot;,{&quot;metric25&quot;:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/concord-is-estimated-to-have-sold-only-25000-units-heres-why-analysts-think-its-failing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an estimated<\/a><\/span> 25,000 copies, and never saw more than 700 people playing at once on PC. It was such a colossal disaster that Sony <span><a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 erKGZM js_link\" data-ga=\"[[&quot;Embedded Url&quot;,&quot;Internal link&quot;,&quot;https:\/\/kotaku.com\/concord-shutting-down-closing-servers-refunds-ps5-1851638566&quot;,{&quot;metric25&quot;:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/concord-shutting-down-closing-servers-refunds-ps5-1851638566\">took the entire game offline<\/a><\/span> some 14 days later, then deleted all evidence of it ever having existed from their websites and online stores. This erasure even extended to <span><a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 erKGZM js_link\" data-ga=\"[[&quot;Embedded Url&quot;,&quot;Internal link&quot;,&quot;https:\/\/kotaku.com\/sony-removes-failed-hero-shooter-concord-from-everyones-1851644418&quot;,{&quot;metric25&quot;:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/sony-removes-failed-hero-shooter-concord-from-everyones-1851644418\">removing the purchased game from PS5 owners\u2019 gaming catalogs<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"sc-1bwb26k-1 dezcon\" id=\"h9913\">A $399 Million Loss<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"sc-1eow4w5-1 fuSEnv align--bleed js_lazy-image js_marquee-assetfigure\" id=\"\" data-id=\"1d56d3e0b179a134e73e104f1ce0c73b\" data-recommend-id=\"image:\/\/1d56d3e0b179a134e73e104f1ce0c73b\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-width=\"1920\" data-height=\"1080\" data-lightbox=\"true\" data-alt=\"A very purple and uninspired shot of a street.\" data-recommended=\"false\" data-hide=\"false\" contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"false\">\n<div class=\"sc-1eow4w5-2 fDJNBs has-data img-wrapper\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"max-width:1920px\" data-alt=\"A very purple and uninspired shot of a street.\" data-link-reference=\"\" data-link-target=\"\" data-syndicationrights=\"true\" data-imagerights=\"other-license\" data-hide=\"false\" data-hidecredit=\"false\"><span class=\"sc-1eow4w5-0 knmQPh js_lightbox-wrapper\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.3%\" class=\"sc-1eow4w5-3 hGpdBg\"><picture class=\"sc-epkw7d-0 diKDHf lazy-picture\"><source media=\"(max-width: 37.31em)\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/image\/upload\/c_fit,q_60,w_645\/1d56d3e0b179a134e73e104f1ce0c73b.jpg\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 37.37em)\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/image\/upload\/c_fit,q_60,w_1315\/1d56d3e0b179a134e73e104f1ce0c73b.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A very purple and uninspired shot of a street.\" data-chomp-id=\"1d56d3e0b179a134e73e104f1ce0c73b\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-height=\"1080\" data-alt=\"A very purple and uninspired shot of a street.\" data-anim-src=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/image\/upload\/c_fit,q_60,w_645\/1d56d3e0b179a134e73e104f1ce0c73b.jpg\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><figcaption class=\"sc-7s1ndr-0 fPOdhF no-caption\">Screenshot<!-- -->: <!-- -->Sony<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span data-id=\"1d56d3e0b179a134e73e104f1ce0c73b\" data-recommend-id=\"image:\/\/1d56d3e0b179a134e73e104f1ce0c73b\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-width=\"1920\" data-height=\"1080\" data-lightbox=\"true\" data-alt=\"A very purple and uninspired shot of a street.\" data-recommended=\"false\" data-hide=\"false\" class=\"js_recommend\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">If all the estimated figures from industry experts are correct\u2014and Sony has never rushed forward to say they\u2019re not\u2014this is a project that made $1 million and lost $399 million. For comparison, the biggest movie box office loss of all time was Disney\u2019s 2012 film, <em>John Carter<\/em>, which grossed $284.1 million, while losing $255 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">Yet, if you <span><a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 erKGZM js_link\" data-ga=\"[[&quot;Embedded Url&quot;,&quot;External link&quot;,&quot;https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/search?dropmab=false&amp;lang=en&amp;query=concord&amp;sort=best&quot;,{&quot;metric25&quot;:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/search?dropmab=false&amp;lang=en&amp;query=concord&amp;sort=best\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">search the website of the <em>New York Times<\/em> for the word \u201cconcord,\u201d<\/a><\/span> you will not find a single result mentioning the game. Search for \u201c<em>Folie \u00e0 Deux <\/em>and you\u2019ll find a handful of pieces, including <span><a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 erKGZM js_link\" data-ga=\"[[&quot;Embedded Url&quot;,&quot;External link&quot;,&quot;https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/06\/business\/media\/joker-folie-a-deux-box-office.html?searchResultPosition=3&quot;,{&quot;metric25&quot;:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/06\/business\/media\/joker-folie-a-deux-box-office.html?searchResultPosition=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one reporting its significant box office losses<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">The chances are, if you\u2019re watching <em>Good Morning America<\/em> or reading a piece in your chosen business magazine, when the topic of gaming come up it\u2019ll begin something like this:<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">\u201cVideo games have come a long way since the days of <em>Pong<\/em>!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">It\u2019s wince-inducing cringe, spoken as if from another dimension where video gaming wasn\u2019t an international industry that dwarfs movies, television, publishing, a part of daily life for the last half of a century.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"sc-1eow4w5-1 jXybyg align--left js_lazy-image js_marquee-assetfigure\" id=\"\" data-id=\"1917kl6jmdz6ggif\" data-recommend-id=\"image:\/\/1917kl6jmdz6ggif\" data-format=\"gif\" data-width=\"300\" data-height=\"200\" data-lightbox=\"true\" data-alt=\"A Horse In Motion.\" data-recommended=\"false\" data-hide=\"false\" style=\"width:300px\" contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"false\"><span data-id=\"1917kl6jmdz6ggif\" data-recommend-id=\"image:\/\/1917kl6jmdz6ggif\" data-format=\"gif\" data-width=\"300\" data-height=\"200\" data-lightbox=\"true\" data-alt=\"A Horse In Motion.\" data-recommended=\"false\" data-hide=\"false\" class=\"js_recommend\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">Imagine if, when your chosen breakfast television programming turned to the news that a major movie had flopped at the box office, it began with the words,<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">\u201cFilms have come a long way since <span><a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 erKGZM js_link\" data-ga=\"[[&quot;Embedded Url&quot;,&quot;External link&quot;,&quot;https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Horse_in_Motion&quot;,{&quot;metric25&quot;:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Horse_in_Motion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Horse in Motion<\/em><\/a><\/span>!\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"sc-1bwb26k-1 dezcon\" id=\"h9914\">The Impenetrable Wall<\/h2>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">The colossal failure of <em>Joker 2<\/em> has received blanket coverage across all mediums. It\u2019s a good story, of course! The first film, 2019\u2019s <em>Joker<\/em>, defied all expectations\u2014an R-rated $70 million movie from the director of the<em> Hangover <\/em>films, that went on to gross over $1 bn. So here comes this sequel five years on, but now instead of a <em>Taxi Driver<\/em> homage, it\u2019s improbably a courtroom drama musical starring Lady Gaga. Could director Todd Phillips repeat his unlikely alchemy a second time? No, <em>and how<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">So of course that\u2019s a juicy tale to tell, a piece of entertainment schadenfreude, a car crash we can all rubberneck for days. So, you know, it seems plausible you could also write such stories about <em>Concord<\/em>. You could make an editorial pitch for \u201cThe Biggest Entertainment Disaster Of All Time.\u201d That\u2019s a headline, right? That\u2019s oh-so clicky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">And yet, this separation between the wider news media and video gaming is so solid, so impenetrable, that <em>Concord<\/em> has received negligible coverage at best. Gaming specialists at major outlets have picked it up, of course. <span><a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 erKGZM js_link\" data-ga=\"[[&quot;Embedded Url&quot;,&quot;External link&quot;,&quot;https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/video-games\/2024\/09\/04\/concord-sony-offline\/&quot;,{&quot;metric25&quot;:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/video-games\/2024\/09\/04\/concord-sony-offline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gene Park neatly covered it for <em>The<\/em>\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em><\/a><\/span>, but as an opinion column, rather than a news story, beginning with a personal anecdote about theme parks. But trying to find an actual mainstream news piece about this epic entertainment story has left me bewildered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">I searched <em>ABC News<\/em>\u2019s site, then <em>CNN<\/em>\u2019s, looking for cursory stories I could usefully critique, before wondering if I was using the wrong search terms. Perhaps I was listing the results incorrectly. No matter how I looked, however, I could not find a single mention of the game or its failure on either. Then again, <em>CNN<\/em>\u2019s Entertainment section only has subcategories for \u201cMovies,\u201d \u201cTelevision,\u201d and \u201cCelebrity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">The <em>BBC<\/em>\u00a0<span><a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 erKGZM js_link\" data-ga=\"[[&quot;Embedded Url&quot;,&quot;External link&quot;,&quot;https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c5y3zw5w7l3o&quot;,{&quot;metric25&quot;:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c5y3zw5w7l3o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">did have a news story on the subject!<\/a><\/span> Except this was filed under a \u201cNewsbeat\u201d byline, the BBC\u2019s youth-based news outlet primarily broadcast on its youth-aimed music radio stations. Because, of course, this story of a business losing nearly half a billion dollars is for the kids!<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">This is indicative of that ever-more inexplicable separation, this imaginary wall that the press has built around itself to\u2014for some reason\u2014keep gaming out.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"sc-1bwb26k-1 dezcon\" id=\"h9915\">Fifty Years Later<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"sc-1eow4w5-1 fuSEnv align--bleed js_lazy-image js_marquee-assetfigure\" id=\"\" data-id=\"bd02e7317d8dc38f2f69abb756c4d692\" data-recommend-id=\"image:\/\/bd02e7317d8dc38f2f69abb756c4d692\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-width=\"1920\" data-height=\"1080\" data-lightbox=\"true\" data-alt=\"An official screenshot of Concord, which looks like someone trying to take an image to make the game look bad.\" data-recommended=\"false\" data-hide=\"false\" contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"false\">\n<div class=\"sc-1eow4w5-2 fDJNBs has-data img-wrapper\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"max-width:1920px\" data-alt=\"An official screenshot of Concord, which looks like someone trying to take an image to make the game look bad.\" data-link-reference=\"\" data-link-target=\"\" data-syndicationrights=\"true\" data-imagerights=\"other-license\" data-hide=\"false\" data-hidecredit=\"false\"><span class=\"sc-1eow4w5-0 knmQPh js_lightbox-wrapper\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.3%\" class=\"sc-1eow4w5-3 hGpdBg\"><picture class=\"sc-epkw7d-0 diKDHf lazy-picture\"><source media=\"(max-width: 37.31em)\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/image\/upload\/c_fit,q_60,w_645\/bd02e7317d8dc38f2f69abb756c4d692.jpg\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 37.37em)\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/image\/upload\/c_fit,q_60,w_1315\/bd02e7317d8dc38f2f69abb756c4d692.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An official screenshot of Concord, which looks like someone trying to take an image to make the game look bad.\" data-chomp-id=\"bd02e7317d8dc38f2f69abb756c4d692\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-height=\"1080\" data-alt=\"An official screenshot of Concord, which looks like someone trying to take an image to make the game look bad.\" data-anim-src=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/image\/upload\/c_fit,q_60,w_645\/bd02e7317d8dc38f2f69abb756c4d692.jpg\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><figcaption class=\"sc-7s1ndr-0 fPOdhF no-caption\">Screenshot<!-- -->: <!-- -->Sony<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span data-id=\"bd02e7317d8dc38f2f69abb756c4d692\" data-recommend-id=\"image:\/\/bd02e7317d8dc38f2f69abb756c4d692\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-width=\"1920\" data-height=\"1080\" data-lightbox=\"true\" data-alt=\"An official screenshot of Concord, which looks like someone trying to take an image to make the game look bad.\" data-recommended=\"false\" data-hide=\"false\" class=\"js_recommend\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">This made more sense in the 1990s. Video games became mainstream in the 1980s, and despite the reality that a huge number of games were primarily aimed at adults, the penetrative aspects were the cartoony images of <em>Mario<\/em> and <em>Pac-Man<\/em>. Nevermind the outstanding successes of franchises like <em>Elite<\/em> and <em>Ultima<\/em>, and so many more besides. Nor indeed the popularity of those cartoon-like games among adults. Instead, those video game things\u2014they were just for kids. They were a children\u2019s thing, a frippery, and covering them would be like reviewing Saturday morning cartoons, right?<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">So even by the late \u201890s, when gaming was an established pursuit, where best-selling titles like <em>Grand Theft Auto<\/em> were being released with adult-only certification and enormous multi-billion dollar industries had been built up around the hardware, software, and coverage of the medium, in the minds of the mainstream it still somehow only existed as this peculiarity, an inexplicable distraction of the Other, the geeks and the nerds and the losers and the kids. They\u2019d sure come a long way since <em>Pong<\/em>, but not far enough to be taken at all seriously.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">It was long-assumed that this was a result of the age of the people running the newsrooms. These people, they were born in the \u201850s, the \u201860s, and gaming was anathema to them. But eventually they\u2019d grow old, retire, and a new generation would arrive who were born in the \u201870s and \u201880s, people for whom gaming had at least been present in their childhood. At this point, as the establishment re-established itself, we could escape this anachronism. And yet, it didn\u2019t happen. At the end of the \u201890s, when the astonishing success of the PlayStation 2 saw the pursuit rapidly become a core part of mainstream entertainment, the media remained utterly detached from the phenomena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">Surely, by the 2010s, as 40-somethings who\u2019d spent their teenage years playing <em>Tomb Raider <\/em>and <em>Diablo<\/em> arrived on the floors of the newspapers and TV networks, gaming would finally escape its news purgatory? No, even as gaming moved ahead of movies to become by far the larger industry, the non-gaming media just continued to ignore it. Cut to today, and we\u2019ve got a story on the scale of <em>Concord<\/em>, and for so many outlets, it doesn\u2019t even merit a mention. Not even as the frivolous, \u201cfun\u201d story at the end of a local news broadcast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">Obviously there\u2019s no easy answer to \u201cWhy?\u201d but it\u2019s very likely due to the incompatible nature of games and non-interactive media. You can show a clip of a movie on your TV channel, and publish an excerpt from a book in your newspaper pages. The very nature that defines gaming, however, is untransferable, and the last 50 years are littered with disastrous attempts to portray gaming on TV. This incompatibility, the conflicting nature of the mediums, likely helps maintain this wedge.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"sc-1bwb26k-1 dezcon\" id=\"h9916\">We\u2019re All Playing Games<\/h2>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">It\u2019s so tempting, even in a third decade of working as a games journalist, to protest my own argument with, \u201cBut not everyone plays games, yet everyone goes to the movie theater!\u201d But it\u2019s simply not true. (Ask anyone who owns a movie theater, for instance.) Gaming has a mainstream ubiquity that even the readers of specialist gaming sites don\u2019t really want to believe it has, mostly out of snobbery, because that success largely comes down to things like the multi-billion dollar <em>Call of Duty<\/em> franchise and the monolithic success of mobile games like <em>Candy Crush<\/em>\u2014excellent games that have broad appeal, and so are perceived by some as undermining the niche details they might love about their lesser-known games. It\u2019s blandly normal to own a PlayStation or an Xbox, and utterly abnormal not to have a few games installed on a smartphone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">There is, at this point, no rational reason for the CNNs and <em>Boston Globe<\/em>s of the world not to cover a story as massive, as cataclysmic, as the $400 million entertainment failure Sony suffered this year. Hell, on its face it\u2019s a juicy tale to tell, a piece of entertainment schadenfreude, a car crash we can all rubberneck for days. In the end, as much as we might try to excuse, explain, or justify such a blindspot, it simply comes down to a failure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">Not covering the extraordinary story of <em>Concord<\/em> reveals a deep failure in the mainstream press, and one born of a silly prejudice against a medium that towers over the films and television that such outlets are willing to understand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">It no longer makes sense to believe it will soon have to change. Surely, we might want to think, surely the <em>next<\/em> generation of editors and journalists will recognize the reality in which they exist? But the evidence suggests they simply won\u2019t, instead continuing to just assume that gaming is a niche interest in which their readers are not involved, despite likely having played a game of <em>Zen Word<\/em> or <em>Block Blast <\/em>on their phone during the subway ride to work that morning themselves. And they\u2019ll leave a blockbuster story like that of <em>Concord<\/em> aside entirely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/concord-sony-biggest-flop-failure-box-office-1851676475\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the summer of 2024, an entertainment project went more spectacularly wrong than possibly any entertainment project in human history. 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