Are Woke Games Doomed to Fail?

Concord, Sony's long anticipated video game known for its characters' racial, gender and body diversity, is widely considered the industry's biggest flop.Are profit and progressiveness mutually exclusive in gaming?This piece uses Concord as a primary example of the impact that anti-woke backlashes have on video games' performances.Throughout the piece, I use expert interviews with video games scholar Amanda Cote, an anonymous former employee who worked on the game and an anti-woke YouTuber's commentary to present the human interest side of the story.To explain the business side, I cited video game analyst Simon Carless as well public statements and earnings reports from the studios behind Concord and my