Warner Bros. CEO: 'Disappointing' Suicide Squad Sales Added to Underwhelming Q1 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 June 2024 / 2,740 Views
Warner Bros. Discovery boss David Zaslav in an earnings call stated sales for Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League were "disappointing" and it added to a poor first quarter of 2024.
Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League "generated significantly lower revenues" when compared to Hogwarts Legacy during the same quarter a year ago.
"Starting with Studios, the $400 million+ year-over-year decline during Q1 was primarily due to the very tough comp we faced in games against the success of Hogwarts Legacy last year in the first quarter, in conjunction with the disappointing Suicide Squad release this past quarter, which we impaired, leading to a $200 million impact to EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) during the first quarter," said Warner Bros. Discovery chief financial officer Gunnar Wiedenfels via IGN.
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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Know your audience, make good/great single player games like Batman and Hogwartz.
And they still won't learn from this and will continue to pump out live services when a game like hogwarts legacy has brought over $1billion in revenue
shocked pikachu face and RIP Rocksteady after this.
They weren't the only ones disappointed.
Warner Bros Executive 1: Well, clearly Suicide Squad's under-performance is the result of superhero fatigue. We need to invest in more live service games, preferably another looter shooter.
Warner Bros Executive 2: Um, are you sure about that? I mean, Spider-Man 2 just sold like gangbusters, and that's a single-player...
Warner Bros Executive 1: MORE LIVE SERVICE GAMES!
...So what you're telling me is that they should invest more in making live service games?
They need to know what's going on with the world lol or are they a bit too slow that gaas isn't a big thing nowadays
He needs to be fired for the BS he has pulled with movies/TV and games
what are the sales numbers?
