Warner Bros. captured magic in a bottle with Hogwart Legacy, and the open world action RPG dominated sales charts all year. It conjured an impressive 22 million copies sold, making it the year's best-selling game. Such a momentous expenditure of energy could not go unnoticed, and it should come as no surprise that this success would spawn a "series of other things", games we can expect somewhere down the line.
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment president David Haddad recently spoke to Variety about the success of Hogwarts Legacy, indicating that Potterheads will be eating well in the years to come. There's the promising-looking Quidditch game, revealed in April, to look forward to. Still, Haddad didn't give away much, stating: "We don't have any particular announcements on exactly how and when [the Quidditch game] is going to come to the market, but we are working to get it designed in a way just to delight fans."
Potentially more intriguing, though, is a series of mysterious Potterverse projects planned for the future. What form they take remains to be seen; Haddad teases that they "will let the fans be part of this world and stories and characters in deeper and deeper ways."
Did you pick up a copy of Hogwarts Legacy? Are you on the hook for more magical adventures in the Wizarding World? Apparate into the comments section below.
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Both exciting and unsurprising really. Hogwarts Legacy was so great, I'm looking forward to more!
A real comp quidditch game is long passed due...
I'm interested to see where they go from Hogwarts Legacy, it was an enjoyable game although a bit repetitive towards the end. Hogwarts and Hogsmeade were well done but the rest of the world could have been better. A lot of potential there though.
@Pako_rubio714 They're making an online Quidditch game. There's actually some alpha footage that leaked online, you might still be able to find it!
@xeofate I imagine Hogwarts Legacy 2 will build on the foundations and just flesh out all the ideas. Like you say, it was a strong starting point so a sequel could be truly extraordinary!
Music to my ears. I'm not a fan of the Harry Potter books or movies but I loved this game as it was just so relaxing and chilled after a day of dealing with idiots all day at work. More of this is a great thing and I can't wait.
I wouldn't mind if they remade Harry Potter games with Hogwarts Legacy foundation. They would need to make it more focused for it to work without feeling too repetitive, maybe exploring more than 1 book per game. With this success and the future HP TV show, the timing feels perfect.
I would like to see a fresh idea set in the HP timeline. Not necessarily playing as any of the mains, maybe going back to when his parents were at Hogwarts with some of the teachers and students that people will recognise.
Loved Hogwarts Legacy, so hoping for more games like it. Would be cool to dona game in another school perhaps, dunno how they keep Hogwarts fresh in a new game.
I’d like Hogwarts Legacy to be expanded, not just in terms of the world but maybe something like a morality system. There’s no consequences to exploring forbidden areas or using unforgivable curses
And Hogwarts legacy wasn't nominated for a single award at the game awards. This is indeed WTF situation. The most sellling game of the year did not get nominated for anything. OBviously the gamers do not understand sh*t about games It deserved a couple of trophies there.
I'm worried they're just going to start pumping out mediocre games now with the Harry Potter IP slapped on it to try and make a quick buck rather than trying to improve what they've started with Hogwarts Legacy. I say that because of the new they treated the post launch content of HL, there's not been a single patch or updated since last summer, feels like they've completely dropped it and moved on.
@SgtTruth Grand Theft Accio.
@Sergo Wasn't nominated because it was an 8/10 in a year stacked with 9s and 10s.
My hope is that they explore some of the wizarding schools other than Hogwarts. It'd certainly be more interesting than seeing WB rehash the Harry Potter movies like they're planning.
I would love a remake of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Or a game about early Dumbeldore or a game about how Hogwarts came about. There's so much they could do with this license.
I wish we had other licensed games such as x-files, or the matrix. There are so many more stories that could be told and movies/tv shows just don't do it anymore.
@JeongersGaming Exactly...so it seems either the scores given are not correct or people love worse games
Legacy was more of the same for open world, but with a broom. It was fine, but characters need more vibrancy and life for me next time around.
@Icey664 it launched in a damn near perfect state with only a few very minor issues here and there which were patched. Seems logical to me that if everything in the game now works as intended and no other issues are being reported then why keep fixing things that are not broken? I don't think it's just so they can pump out mediocre offerings in the future.
@Sergo Well something being the most popular does not always equate to being the best quality so... I suppose people do seem to love the "worse" games.
@Icey664 My thoughts exactly! WB hasn't had the greatest handling of any of their media content lately. With a full fledged quidditch game you can bet there won't be quidditch in HL2. I am very fearful this will go the way of EA's handling of Star Wars games (Jedi series aside)
@Northern_munkey
There's a million things that could be improved imo. And I still hear people complaining about bugs and glitches.
@Icey664 a million things? That's an awful lot of people complaining. Care to list the million for me please ?
@Northern_munkey
Ever heard of "forms of expression"? You wouldn't even care if I listed any, so why bother. Not sure what your problem is anyway, I didn't say I didn't like the game I just think it could be made so much better with some bug fixes and quality of life improvements.
@Icey664 ever heard of "sarcasm" Doris?
@Northern_munkey How was that sarcasm?
@Icey664 😴
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