Who still remembers Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League ? Well, the game was released last month, but players have already put it aside, the launch of the Season 1 with the Joker will perhaps change the situation, but the publisher Warner Bros. already admitted that the game live service was a commercial failure.
Warner Bros. expects a very gloomy financial situation, especially since Hogwarts Legacy: Hogwarts Legacy was a hit in 2023 with 22 million sales. So, what to do when a single-player game is hugely successful and a title live service made a flop? Well according to Warner Bros.the solution is to bet everything on live service games. Jean-Briac Perrette, branch manager gaming of Warner Bros. Discovery, recently spoke at a conference, discussing the publisher’s future strategy, with more live service games, mobile games and free-to-play. Even if the game in the universe of Harry Potter met with enormous success, he judges the gaming market AAA “volatile”, he therefore prefers to rely on other economic modelsnevertheless recalling in passing that Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League disappointed the studio. JB Perrette also declared:
Rather than just launching a single game on consoles, how can we develop a game around, for example, a Hogwarts Legacy: Hogwarts Legacy or Harry Potter, that is live service, where people can experience, work, build and play in this world continuously?
Selling 22 million copies at €79.99 is obviously not the right recipe for Warner Bros.who would prefer to have a title live service meeting real success for many years. The phenomenon Fortnite continues to make people envious, but many studios have struggled with it. A statement in the same vein as that of David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros. Gameswhich last year wanted to transform all its licenses into games live service. The failure of the title Rocksteady apparently didn’t change their mindsJean-Briac Perrette also teases several mobile games free-to-play coming this year.
For now, Warner Bros. not going to give up games completely AAA traditional, Monolith Productions develop a single player game Wonder Womanlet’s hope this is not the last from the publisher, which is also expected to launch in the coming months Harry Potter: Quidditch Championswhich will indeed be a multiplayer game designed to keep players busy for many years… if it succeeds.
You can find Hogwarts Legacy: Hogwarts Legacy from €39 on Amazon, Cdiscount, there Fnac And Gamesplanet.
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