Oh dear, Concord’s launch numbers are even worse than 2023’s disastrous Gollum, so where does that leave PlayStation and it’s push for live-service? | Gaming

The latest PlayStation-published live-service shooter Concord is here, and launch numbers are looking pretty bad so far.

When it comes to concurrent player counts, numbers don’t always matter, particularly for single-player games, but live-service titles are a different story. Valve’s new hero shooter Deadlock, which it finally officially revealed last week, had a concurrent player count peak of 89,000 just yesterday, according to SteamDB, a very impressive figure for a game that isn’t even out yet. However, while it’s been playable for a little while now, as long as you’ve got an invite, this weekend did have an actual launch for another live-service hero shooter, Concord. Except, its Steam numbers are not doing so good, amassing only 697 players at one time on…