Warner Bros: Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Fell Short of Expectations - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 March 2024 / 3,996 Views
Warner Bros. Discovery Chief financial officer Gunnar Wiedenfels in an earnings call with investors revealed Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League fell short of expectations.
"We are lapping the release of Hogwarts Legacy in February last year, which saw the largest portion of its very positive financial impact in the first quarter," said Wiedenfels (via VideoGamesChronicle).
"This year, Suicide Squad, one of our key video game releases in 2024, has fallen short of our expectations since its release earlier in the quarter, setting our games business up for a tough year-over-year comp in Q1."
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League released for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam on February 2.
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Odd, cause it reached everyone else's expectations.
shocked Pikachu face
Great comment!
What a disastrous way to end the Batman Arkham universe.
A great series either dies a hero or lives long enough to become the villian.
Wait do not tell me this game actually took place in the same universe as the arkam series
Yes, it does.
Very sad to see the arkham series end that way :(
We live in a year where a big budget western DC licensed multiplayer game flops but a Yakuza game and a Persona game are a huge success in the same week. lol I love it
I don't want to see western developers fail.... But I'm legit glad Yakuza and Persona seem to be doing really well. Feels like for years they have been flying under the radar of most peoples attention. Then for some reason, they started getting alot of attention recently. Persona 5, was the break point I think.
there are about 700 people playing it currently on steam.... Fell Short of Expectations, is putting it mildly.
Ya don't say...
Everyone: No one can fuck up a super hero game more than Square did with Avengers.
Warner Brothers: Hold my butterbeer.
The warnings were there all along and yet they persisted on releasing it the way it is.
That's what happens when U give people a live service game over a singleplayer focussed game
I don’t think that the reason…
And plenty of service games are proving it. The game is just bad…
These guys are known for single player not live service ones
I think it definitely has something to do with it. Making singleplayer games is different from live service multiplayer games. Only a few studios are able to make the latter really work. Though the mechanics of this game would let it fail regardless of what type of game it would be.
That's an understatement, the game bombed so hard.
Pathetic Warner bros,
Back to back shithboxes with Gotham knights and this abomination
Ironically Gotham Knights has more players online now than SS:KTJL :P
Well compared to there Batman games I am not surprised. Espeically when you are going after the super heroes in this game.
I swear this is fast for admitting that. They usually wait a bit longer before saying it.
Skull anf Bones vs. Suicide Squad
Battle of which game I'm most devastated by...
Absolutely loved Black Flag and the Arkham games. What horror these two follow-ups are.
Least surprising news ever. It got a 60 on opencritic. On Steam, it's peak concurrent players were below both Arkham Knight and Arkham Origins, games that released 9 and 11 years before it respectively, when Steam had alot less users. It had already fallen off of Xbox's top 50 most played games within 2 weeks of release.
There is about 5100 people playing Batman-Arkam Knight right now, and there are about 700 people playing Suicide Squad kill the justice league atm... says it all really.
Take a good look Sony, this is a likely outcome for al lot of your live service games. There are only a few studios that can release good live service games and keep people interested for longer than a few months
What the failure of this has anything to do with Sony? Didn't they just released Helldivers 2, a very successful live service game?
Success for a live service game is mostly measured in time. We know Helldivers 2 sold more than a million and that's basically about it. Helldivers 2 still needs to prove it's relevant after 6 months. Also Sony wants to release a lot of live service games the next few years.
You said their live services games would flop, I pointed out they just released a very successful one, and now its success doesn't matter, what matters instead is if it will be relevant in 6 months? Sure, keep moving the goalposts buddy.
What's very successful, selling a million units at 40 euro. For most PlayStation releases we would count selling one million units at launch at 40 euro a failure. Hell FF16 sold 3.5 million at a 70 euro pricepoint and (although it didn't really have legs) we where not really impressed by that.
It's the best selling Sony game on PC, but almost none of them have ever sold at the same time as on Playstation. Also a life service game by default has to attract players for a long time. Avengers sold 3 million units, it was still a massive failure. So I am not really that impressed by a game selling a million at a 40 dollar price point.
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/helldivers-2-defies-studio-expectations-after-selling-1-million-copies#close-modal
When it sells 3.5 million units this year and have legs perhaps I will be more impressed.
