According to some sales reports, the Harry Potter based adventure, “Hogwarts Legacy” has done some amazing numbers and Warner Bros. is very proud of that. Moreover, they are expecting the same if not more level of success with the upcoming Superman movie.
Hogwarts Legacy
The game is based on the infamous novel series written by author J.K Rowling. In this game, instead of playing as one of the lead characters (Harry, Hermione, Ron), you get to play as yourself and go on adventures inside Hogwarts.
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav spoke about how proud he was at the numbers that this game has done. He spoke about how games are doing bigger numbers than movies nowadays. He also explained that gaming is like living the experience. Instead of some scripted storytelling players are actually inside the universe controlling their choices.
“We may be the only media company that owns, whether it be the DC universe, Harry Potter, all the content that we own, Game of Thrones, that’s for us to deploy. I think that’s particularly important strategically. If you look at Hogwarts Legacy, a big piece of the success of that game is that you go into it. If you’re a player, you go into that game and you’re in that world”.
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav
How Much Did Hogwarts Legacy Sell
The game was extremely successful. While the game is not even on consoles yet, it has done big numbers. Hogwarts Legacy has accumulated more than $1 billion in retail sales and over 15 million units have been sold worldwide.
This is a massive success despite the fact that many people boycott the game at the start due to some controversial comments by the author J.K Rowling.
Furthermore, Zaslav went on and compared this success to their upcoming Superman Movie.
Superman: Legacy
This is said to be the upcoming Superman Movie by DC Comics. The movie is supposed to be another reboot of the Superman franchise (shock). They have allegedly replaced Henry Cavill and will cast someone else.
Now, comparing the movie to the video game, Zaslav hopes that the movie also does well for Warner Bros & DC.
One more thing he mentioned could be teasing a new Superman Game.
Potential Superman Game Teased
While this was not said directly that a Superman game is coming, a statement from the man has got us excited. Previously as he was talking about Hogwarts Legacy’s success he mentioned that it is because of players get to experience the world. Well here is what he had to say regarding Superman.
“It may be in the next couple of years that we launch a Superman movie and… people spend more time and there’s more economics of people just hanging out in the Superman world and universe.”
David Zaslav
The last line is what got us hyped, people hanging out in the Superman world & Universe!
He then also added;
“As technology develops, and given the amount of time that people spend on gaming, we don’t want to be in the motion picture and longform storytelling business and have somebody else in the business of hanging out in those worlds. Those worlds are going to be quite profitable in the years ahead.”
While there is nothing official on any idea regarding a new Superman game, we are genuinely hoping for one. An Open-World Superman game would be amazing if done right.
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