Warner says a Hogwarts Legacy follow-up is a significant precedence for the corporate

Warner Bros. Discovery has mentioned it’s planning a follow-up to final 12 months’s smash hit Hogwarts Legacy.

“Clearly, a successor to Hogwarts Legacy is among the greatest priorities in a few years down the street,” chief monetary officer Gunnar Wiedenfels mentioned at Financial institution of America convention on Wednesday (through Selection).

“So there’s actually a major development contribution from that [games] enterprise in our strategic outlook right here.”

The Harry Potter spin-off, which has offered over 24 million copies since its launch final February, was 2023’s best-selling recreation forward of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

Warner launched Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions on Tuesday. The console and PC title is billed as “a fast-paced, aggressive multiplayer recreation that includes the world’s most iconic magical sport”.

In an interview with Selection earlier this 12 months, Warner Bros. Interactive Leisure president David Haddad mentioned the corporate deliberate to follow-up on Hogwarts Legacy’s success with Quidditch Champions and “a sequence of different issues” which are presently unannounced and “will let the followers be a part of this world and tales and characters in deeper and deeper methods”.

In June, it was claimed that Rocksteady Studios was serving to develop an unannounced Hogwarts Legacy Director’s Lower. A teaser for a brand new Lego Harry Potter recreation additionally reportedly leaked final 12 months.