In a somewhat expected turn of events, yesterday's State of Play presentation revealed that Avalance, Portkey Games, and WB Interactive's Hogwarts Legacy will have exclusive content coming to PlayStation on launch. Because the upcoming Harry Potter-inspired open-world game was first revealed in the PlayStation Showcase from September 2020, players have since been wondering if it would end up including content only available on Sony's platforms, and now it's apparent that it will. Hogwarts Legacy will have an exclusive questline called The Haunted Hogsmeade Shop that will allow players to delve in a spooky dungeon and claim the shop for themselves, where they will be able to access the best prices in the whole game.
Not only that, as the PlayStation-exclusive content also includes the recipe for the renowned Felix Felicis potion, which in the game will let players see gear chests on the mini-map while exploring Hogwarts or its surroundings. The problem is that all of this will only become accessible to other platforms exactly a year after Hogwarts Legacy's launch, in February 2024, but this revelation comes with a strange timing. Recently, in a not-so-amicable exchange of comments, Microsoft's Phil Spencer and Sony's Jim Ryan discussed the fate of Call of Duty as a franchise after the Activision acquisition goes through on Microsoft's part, and Jim Ryan spoke about how inadequate it is to gatekeep players on different platforms.
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