Wokeness might be on its last life in the gaming world if the past two weeks were any indication. Two woke games have utterly collapsed upon release, while a new aggressively anti-woke game is doing gangbusters.
Let’s start with the negative. “Concord,” the new shooter from Sony Entertainment, looks primed to be one of the biggest flops in gaming history. The day of its grand launch saw an anemic 697 concurrent players worldwide, and that number has collapsed to an average of slightly more than 100 players online at any given time.
While we don’t have an exact budget for “Concord,” estimates of similar games put it anywhere from $50-$200 million. “Concord” hasn’t made anywhere near that much in its pallid sales numbers.
To put the scale of this catastrophe in perspective, consider another recent woke flop, Rocksteady’s “Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.” That game debuted to a comparatively large 13,000 players and still managed to lose the studio $200 million.
“Suicide Squad” was massively panned at the time for its blatantly woke elements, including a lesbian race-swapped version of Batman nemesis Mister Freeze courtesy of leftist consultancy firm Sweet Baby Inc. But “Suicide Squad” was child’s play compared to the PC juggernaut that was “Concord.”
The game features a menagerie of hideous DEI characters with their pronouns proudly flagged in the corner. A simple glance at the character design indicates this game was not made for the average player but rather for radical leftists.
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