Copies of Concord on PS5 are going for up to £300 on eBay

What would you pay for it? (eBay) Sony’s failed live service game has finally become a hit… with resellers on eBay, who are selling the game and it’s limited edition controller for crazy prizes. Video games don’t have much of a history of famous flops since, unlike movies, it’s usually unclear exactly how much they’ve sold or how much they cost to make. There are exceptions, like the apocalyptic failure of E.T. on the Atari 2600, but it’s only in the modern era of live service games that it’s become obvious when something has been a complete disaster. That is one way to describe the impossibly short life of Concord, which didn’t even last two weeks before Sony announced it was being discontinued. That meant if you bought the game it was, as an online-only title, suddenly completely useless to you. Sony offered refunds but there’s probably some people that were caught out, who had bought it physically and never worked out how to get their money back. But it seems an easy alternative is to now sell it on eBay. Rather than honest customers, that bought the game assuming it was going to be a long-running hit, it seems the majority of copies going up on eBay at the moment are unsold stock, that was taken off shelves once the game’s cancellation was announced. It’s not clear why they’ve only started showing up now but a post on the ResetEra forum shows it’s happening in both the US and Europe. Although one poster has a photo suggesting that the game is still being sold in shops in the UK, unaware that the game doesn’t work anymore. As with anything on eBay, it’s difficult to tell what the going rate actually is, as most copies are being advertised with a Buy It Now price which there’s no guarantee anyone will pay. There are several in excess of £350 but it’s very hard to imagine anyone’s going to hand over that much for a sealed box and a useless Blu-ray. Instead, the average seems to be around £30 to £40 in the UK. Although curiously that’s much more than in the US, where the average Buy It Now price is around $20. At launch the game cost £34.99, although many believe the fact that it wasn’t free-to-play, like most live service games, is one of the reasons for its abject failure; no doubt Sony was hoping that it would repeat the success of the similarly priced Helldivers 2. Although Concord is an important game, historically speaking, it does seem madness to spend large amounts of money on what is effectively an ex-video game. However, a more functional heirloom of the game’s brief existence has also become a hot ticket on eBay, with the limited edition Concord DualSense controller also going for upwards of £300. Unlike the game, this was always intended to be released in limited numbers, so not only is it a genuine collector’s item but it actually looks really nice in its own right. The controller is actually really nice (Sony) Email [email protected], leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter, and sign-up to our newsletter. To submit Inbox letters and Reader’s Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our Submit Stuff page here. For more stories like this, check our Gaming page.