Hogwarts Legacy Expansion Reportedly Cancelled, Sales Top 34 Million Units - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 27 March 2025 / 8,791 Views
Publisher Warner Bros. Games has cancelled an expansion that was planned for Hogwarts Legacy, according to people familiar with Warner Bros. plans that spoke with Bloomberg.
The expansion would have added new storylines. It would have released later this year alongside a "Definitive Edition" that would have included all of the content. The expansion was not publicly announced, but was previously reported by Bloomberg.
The sources claim the expansion was cancelled due to amount of content not being enough to justify the price that was considered.
The sequel to Hogwarts Legacy is still in development at Avalanche Software.
The report also states Hogwarts Legacy has sold over 34 million units worldwide.
This figure is up from 30 million units sold in November 2024, 24 million units sold in January 2024, 15 million units in May 2023, and 12 million in February 2023. It was also 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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"The expansion was cancelled due to amount of content not being enough to justify the price that was considered."
I don't believe that for a second. WB is bleeding money in all fronts, no way they wouldn't sell DLC for their biggest (and nearly only) hit in years because they think the content is not enough. I'd bet they are planning to sell the DLC as its own game later on.
There’s also the chance that they assessed it would cost more to finish than they would earn through sales.
The content may well be moved into the sequel in any case.
Yeah likely there were just development problems or something where they realized the money going into it wasn't gonna be worth the pay off, and that it's better to just focus on the sequel.
But this is Hogwarts Legacy, it sold way better than their highest expectations, and with a positive reception to boot. No way the DLC wouldn't have been profitable.
smells like greed
It's still selling like a new game so they decided they won't bother with the DLC
34 million units is a unprecedented sucess for a non sequel game. It will easily cross 40 million and even 50 is not off the tables, I can see a Switch 2 port boosting the sales as well
Only WB under its current leadership could be screwing up with this sort of release...
Weird fumble. If it was set to release later this year, they must have already done a lot of work on it. They think it's better to cancel it than sell it at a lower price than they initially wanted?
I mean they also started out saying there wouldn't be DLC, then changed their mind when they needed money and now changing it again cause they decide it won't make enough... Just hope they don't screw up the sequel but unfortunately doubt it, at best it will probably be the same but less fresh.
Warmer bros gaming division and the head of operation should just kill themselves
Absolutely useless
