Why Sony is shutting Concord down less than two weeks after its launch, explained

There have been plenty of times in the last few years when we’ve seen video games have absolutely disastrous launches.

No Man’s Sky was pretty terrible. Star Wars Battlefront 2? Phew. Awful. Remember Anthem? Yikes, y’all.

Bad launches happen. It’s part of the fabric of the gaming world at this point. Games get released and sometimes they just flop. It’s not great, but it is what it is.

Rarely, however, do we see a launch so bad that a game is pulled from virtual shelves. That...