This would possibly come as a shock to you, so maybe it’s best to sit down – Warner Bros. Discovery is planning on making a sequel to a videogame that has offered over 24 million items. 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 greatest priorities in a few years down the street. So there may be definitely a major progress contribution from that [games] enterprise in our strategic outlook right here.”
Hogwarts Legacy launched in 2023 to change into the yr’s finest promoting sport, even beating out The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. A sequel to such a monumentally profitable sport is clear, then.
However Warner Bros. Discovery does appear to want all the assistance it could get. In line with Selection, Gunnar described this yr’s Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League as a “miss” which is a formidable understatement. In line with Warner Bros. Discovery themselves, it misplaced the corporate a whopping $200 million.
Regardless of the monetary floppage of Suicide Squad, Warner Bros. Discovery truly intends on doubling-down on live-service video games, which the Web didn’t take very kindly too. And except for the outrage of followers, the live-service market can be extremely harmful, because the newly launched and newly shutdown shooter Harmony has found.
Suicide Squad developer Rocksteady are at present struggling the ramifications of their sport’s failure. New studies counsel they’ve been hit by layoffs leading to half their Q&A workforce dropping their jobs. One other report in JUne says a lot of Rocksteady’s employees 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 be going to be placing out one other remaster of the LEGO Harry Potter video games.
