Final 12 months, one thing occurred that hadn’t occurred for years – the best-selling sport of the 12 months wasn’t Name Of Responsibility, FIFA, or Grand Theft Auto. It was as a substitute Hogwarts Legacy, the Hogwarts open-world RPG that promised gamers a manner contained in the magical world of Harry Potter the place they may have their very own journey.
So it’s no shock that, regardless of Warner Bros. Discovery beforehand stating that it could be specializing in creating reside service video games from its largest IP’s, Harry Potter included, it does nonetheless know that it could be a good suggestion to make a Hogwarts Legacy 2 – or one thing prefer it.
In truth chief monetary officer Gunnar Wiedenfels identifies making a follow-up or successor to Hogwarts Legacy as “one of many largest priorities” for WB Discovery.
“Clearly, a successor to ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ is without doubt one of the largest 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 has offered upwards of 22 million copies offered in 2023, and did one thing {that a} model new single-player sport hasn’t performed in a very long time.
Granted, Hogwarts Legacy is embedded in one of many largest IP’s worldwide, so it’s not like a totally-totally model new IP got here out and took over the world. However when it had been one in every of three video games for therefore lengthy, it’s nonetheless spectacular that anybody beats “the regulars,” because it have been, for top-sales charts achievers.
And based on Wiedenfels, we are able to anticipate them to try to push one thing out the door someplace round 2026. If that occurs, that’ll be three years of improvement time to make what is probably going a good larger sport than the earlier already huge sport.
We’ll see how that goes.
Supply – [Variety]
