Warner says a Hogwarts Legacy follow-up is a major priority for the company
Warner Bros. Discovery has said it’s planning a follow-up to last year’s smash hit Hogwarts Legacy.
“Obviously, a successor to Hogwarts Legacy is one of the biggest priorities in a couple of years down the road,” chief financial officer Gunnar Wiedenfels said at Bank of America conference on Wednesday (via Variety).
“So there is certainly a significant growth contribution from that [games] business in our strategic outlook here.”
The Harry Potter spin-off, which has sold over 24 million copies since its release last February, was 2023’s best-selling game ahead of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
Warner released Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions on Tuesday. The console and PC title is billed as “a fast-paced, competitive multiplayer game featuring the world’s most iconic magical sport”.
In an interview with Variety earlier this year, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment president David Haddad said the company planned to follow-up on Hogwarts Legacy’s success with Quidditch Champions and “a series of other things” that are currently unannounced and “will let the fans be part of this world and stories and characters in deeper and deeper ways”.
In June, it was claimed that Rocksteady Studios was helping develop an unannounced Hogwarts Legacy Director’s Cut. A teaser for a new Lego Harry Potter game also reportedly leaked last year.
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