The physical version of Concord is sold out after its cancellation and the collector’s price rises considerably

Concord, the online FPS from Firewalk Studios and Sony Interactive Entertainment, is now video game history. A game that only two weeks after its launch will close its servers and immediately cease its service, returning the money to all buyers. One of the biggest disasters in the industry that has caused all kinds of reactions, one of them being the boom of the physical version of the game for PlayStation 5, which sold out in many stores after the announcement of the cancellation and immediately reached figures well above its market price on portals such as eBay.

The madness to get a physical copy of Concord was automatically unleashed shortly after the cancellation and final closure of the game was confirmed. What is the sentimental value of the title now? None, but collecting can be understood in many ways and some people already see Concord as an object of desire within the PS5 catalog and a disaster to be remembered, a historical piece in the most negative pages of the industry and, let’s not fool ourselves, fodder for speculation.

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There are all kinds of collectors, and some will want a physical copy of Concord for pure completeness around PlayStation 5, or to have a physical copy of a title that, despite being literally unplayable, is a sad and dark page in the industry. It is around these collectors that not a few try to take advantage of this need, exhausting the existing physical copies and dominate the market around Concord.

Will it have an effect? On eBay you see many for sale, proving that this move by Concord. Only time will tell to what extent this game reaches within the collection of Sony’s machine. For now, it is one of the most talked about stories of the year, although it is not the only game that closed definitively becoming unplayable, existing titles such as Babylon’s Fall by PlatinumGames suffered the same fate but almost a year after its release.

Why didn’t this happen with Babylon’s Fall? The brevity of Concord’s existence makes it something almost unique in the negative side of the industry, and although its practical value is no more than that of a paperweight, collecting has many sides, and some people want to have a piece that can be considered historical in the negative, as is the case with Atari’s E.T. Will this price increase has a chance? Possibly not, and if there is more supply than demand, and perhaps most buyers see the Concord as a piece to make money with in the future, the market will eventually burst like the Firewalk Studios game.