Games Inbox: Why did XDefiant and Concord fail? [Video]

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Familiar problemVery sad to see even more jobs lost in what is very much beginning to seem like a sick and broken video games industry. That said… how were there 277 people working on XDefiant? I played it a bit, and it was okay, but it was basically just a generic first person shooter. It seemed like the sort of thing a fairly small team could make with existing graphics and know-how, since it didn’t do anything new or unusual.

I don’t know how many people were working on Concord but I’m going to guess it’s a similar number. The were apparently working on it for eight yearsand that it is a long time to be paying for hundreds of employees, none of …