Warner Bros. Says Hogwarts Legacy Sequel 'is One of Biggest Priorities' for the Company - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 04 September 2024 / 2,193 Views
Warner Bros. Discovery Chief Financial Officer Gunnar Wiedenfels speaking at the Bank of America’s 2024 Media, Communications & Entertainment Conference on Wednesday said a sequel to Hogwarts Legacy is a big priority for them.
"Obviously, a successor to Hogwarts Legacy is one of the biggest priorities in a couple of years down the road," Wiedenfels via Variety. "So there is certainly a significant growth contribution from that [games] business in our strategic outlook here."
The open-world action RPG sold over 24 million units worldwide as of January 2024. Warner Bros. Games also previously stated the game was the best-selling video game worldwide in 2023.
Hogwarts Legacy released for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC in February 2023, for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in May 2023, and for the Nintendo Switch in November 2023.
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Maybe Concord is enough to get them to realize to not make it a Live Service if their own Suicide Squad issues did not, or maybe Suicide Squad finally collapsed enough.....
One can hope, right?
Hopefully they gave up on planning to make the sequel GaaS after seeing Suicide Squad flop hard, Hopefully the reason for the Wonder Woman delay is also that they are removing GaaS elements from it.
Honestly, surprised this didn't have DLC. Maybe they thought just another game, maybe in a slightly different era was better just to make.
I doubt they’d want to go down the Assassins Creed route of changing the time period every game.
More likely it keeps your character moving into 6th year. There were suggestions around release that a follow-on would incorporate the Triwizard Tournament, which would be a good fit as it could change things up by having you go to one of the other wizarding schools for a year.
Triwizard Tournament is a great option yea also just for the plot, but I doubt you would go to another school, it is called Hogwarts Legacy after all and the familiar setting is a lot of the appeal (not to mention how much time it would take to design another wizard school from scratch).
The thing is if a sequel has the same setting it will be seen as repetitive, hence why I can see them basing it elsewhere.
So hogwarts live service confirmed?
For the most part I enjoyed the first game. I would really like the next game to lean more into being an RPG.
Keep gaas and forced in multiplayer out of it stupid warner bros
As it should be. The range is huge on how this could turn out though, there's potential for something really amazing if they improve in the right areas and don't rush it or for something terrible because, well, Warner Bros.
Hopefully they don't fuck it up, one of the best things about the first one was that it had little to no exploitative BS
