Gotham Knights and Back 4 Blood May Have Achieved WB Games Sales Goals

wccftech.com:

The LinkedIn profile of a Senior Brand Manager at Warner Bros. Games (spotted by Twitter user Timur222) suggests Gotham Knights and Back 4 Blood may have achieved the publisher's sales goals.

The profile says:

Spearheaded brand, positioning, and channel strategies with cross-functional teams, agencies, and partner studios for game franchises Back 4 Blood, Gotham Knights, Suicide Squad, and unannounced titles. Drove implementation of Xbox Game Pass partnership with Back 4 Blood; working alongside multiple stakeholders and delivering a Warner Bros. first. Launched massive Beta for Back 4 Blood, resulting in over 5.6M Players and leading to Warner Bros.' biggest Beta ever. Implemented strategic priorities for Back 4 Blood & Gotham Knights to deliver back-to-back Top 20 Games of the year measured by revenue and achieving WB sales goals.

Back 4 Blood being rather successful isn't that surprising. In early 2022, Warner Bros. Games announced that the title had registered over 10 million players, and the same press release also quoted NPD data showing that Back 4 Blood was the best-selling new IP released in 2021 on consoles. The game went on to receive three expansions, though Turtle Rock Studio said a couple of months ago there wouldn't be any new content since they have moved on to their next project.

Gotham Knights, on the other hand, never received any dedicated press release boasting about its sales. All we know is that it ranked second on NPD Charts in its month of release (October) before slipping into eighth place in November. The first game released by Warner Bros. Montréal since 2013's Batman: Arkham Origins, the game got a 7.5 score in Wccftech's review, where its disappointing PC performance at launch was thoroughly