If you follow the world of cinema a little, and especially that of productions around the superheroes of the DC stable, you are not unaware that the merger between Warner Media and Discovery makes a lot of noise. Since the two entities became one, the only watchword is: savings. And this by all means, even playing with American taxation by canceling a film Batgirl which had cost 90 million dollars. With all the budget cuts happening within the company, it was feared that the position of Warner Bros Games was in dangerespecially in view of rumors stating that the group was looking to part ways with certain studios, but this is apparently far from the case.
A sector spared by the Warner cuts?
Would Warner Bros Games be one of the new darlings of the leaders of Warner Bros Discovery? This is what we wonder following an article from the Axios site, which spoke with David Haddad, who heads the group’s gaming division.
According to him, this division is still profitable, and no cuts are to be expectedwhether in terms of the budget of the games or the teams working on them. The financial health of this gaming division is on the rise since the success of Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Sagaand even more with the beta release of MultiVersuswhich already has more than 20 million downloads. Gotham Knights obviously hopes to find success too, and Hogwarts Legacy should inflate the publisher’s numbers as well by the end of this fiscal year.
Haddad explains that recent decisions around these latest games (cancellation of PS4/Xbox One versions of Gotham Knights and the postponement of Hogwarts Legacy) is due solely to the fact thathe Warner Bros Games has now decided to give more time to its teams, with a greater focus on the quality of productions. For him, Warner Bros Games has a very important role to play in the future of the group.
We can only hope for the teams, but there is no doubt that the results of these two big behemoths will also be decisive for the future of the group.