Warner Bros. exec says Hogwarts Legacy's sold 15 million, made over a billion dollars, and now they want to do the same with Superman
pcgamer.comOn a recent earnings call(opens in new tab), Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav waxed lyrical about the ongoing success of Hogwarts Legacy, before going on to discuss this in the context of James Gunn's upcoming Superman film. The movie, Superman Legacy, has rather brutally dumped(opens in new tab) everyone's favourite super-geek Henry Cavill and is intended as a reboot of the character.
The point Zaslav's making is that games are now as big if not bigger than the more traditional movie avenues for the likes of Harry Potter. «The real differentiator for us as a company is that we own our IP,» said Zaslav (thanks, Tweaktown(opens in new tab)). «We may be the only media company that owns, whether it be the DC universe, Harry Potter, all the content that we own, Game of Thrones, that's for us to deploy. I think that's particularly important strategically.»
Zaslav went on to outline just what a success the game has been: «Hogwarts Legacy has amassed more than $1 billion in retail sales and over 15 million units sold worldwide to date, and today the team is launching the game on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One platforms.»
There's then a great moment as a company executive attempts to explain why something like Hogwarts Legacy appeals to players. «If you look at Hogwarts Legacy, a big piece of the success of that game is that you go into it,» said Zaslav. «If you're a player, you go into that game and you're in that world. That's kind of a new concept. Before it was gaming and it was storytelling, and now… it's very difficult to understand what the definition of the metaverse is.»
Well he got that right. Zaslav then went on to put Hogwarts Legacy in the context of the other big names that Warner Bros. owns and, while he
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