Concord was a genre-defining disaster for Sony, so has it caused PlayStation to rethink its entire live service approach?

In the graveyard of live service games Concord may just be the biggest headstone, and that seems to have focused some minds over at PlayStation. Previously the noises coming from

According to Jeff Grubb, the high-profile failure of Concord has Sony reassessing all of its faltering live-service projects.

Sony has canceled two unannounced live service games. According to Bloomberg, a Sony spokesperson confirmed that they were canceled "following a recent review”. They were in development at two PlayStation studios, Bend Studio and Bluepoint Games.

Sony is said to be cancelling two PlayStation live service projects, and one of them is a live service God of War game.

Bend Studio and Bluepoint Games' live service projects have been canned, but the studios aren't shutting down.

Sony has canceled two unannounced live service games, including a God of War game. Bend Studio and Bluepoint Games will not be shut down.

As Sony continues to reexamine its future slate of games following the disastrous launch of Concord last year, the publisher has axed two unannounced games from first-party studios.

Former PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida has said he would have tried to resist Sony’s controversial live service video game push. Yoshida, who was President of SIE Worldwide Studios for Sony Interactive Entertainment from 2008 to 2019, told Kinda Funny Games that Sony always knew its investment in live service games was risky.

Sony’s live service woes are far from overs apparently, as the company has cancelled two more games, which were in development at Oregon-based Bend Studio and Texas-based BluePoint Games. The cancellations come courtesy of a report by Bloomberg,