This may come as a shock to you, so maybe it is best to sit down – Warner Bros. Discovery is planning on making a sequel to a videogame that has bought over 24 million models. I do know, I do know, who might have seen it coming?
Okay, so this isn’t actually stunning information. Talking at at the Financial institution of America’s 2024 Media, Communications & Leisure Convention, WBD’s Chief Monetary Officer Gunnar Wiedenfels addressed the subject of a Hogwarts Legacy follow-up.
The related quotes come from Selection, who report that Gunnar stated: “Clearly, a successor to ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ is among the largest priorities in a few years down the highway. So there may be actually a big development contribution from that [games] enterprise in our strategic outlook right here.”
Hogwarts Legacy launched in 2023 to develop into the yr’s finest promoting recreation, even beating out The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. A sequel to such a monumentally profitable recreation is clear, then.
However Warner Bros. Discovery does appear to wish all the assistance it might probably get. In keeping with Selection, Gunnar described this yr’s Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League as a “miss” which is a formidable understatement. In keeping with Warner Bros. Discovery themselves, it misplaced the corporate a whopping $200 million.
Regardless of the monetary floppage of Suicide Squad, Warner Bros. Discovery really intends on doubling-down on live-service video games, which the Web didn’t take very kindly too. And apart from the outrage of followers, the live-service market can also be extremely harmful, because the newly launched and newly shutdown shooter Harmony has found.
Suicide Squad developer Rocksteady are presently struggling the ramifications of their recreation’s failure. New reviews recommend they’ve been hit by layoffs leading to half their Q&A crew dropping their jobs. One other report in JUne says lots of Rocksteady’s workers are literally engaged on a brand new model of Hogwarts Legacy.
Talking of Harry Potter, Warner Bros. Discovery simply launched Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions and can also be going to be placing out one other remaster of the LEGO Harry Potter video games.
