Hogwarts Legacy: The Hogwarts Legacy is THE best-selling video game of 2023, based on theHarry Potter universe. Developed by Avalanche Software, it sold over 30 million copies worldwide, enabling Warner Bros. Interactive to surpass its forecasts. A success on which it would not have been surprising if Warner Bros. had not capitalized... That's what Gunnar Wiedenfels, CFO of Warner Bros. Discovery, told Variety on September 4, 2024.
"Clearly, the successor to Hogwarts Legacy is one of our top priorities in a few years' time," he explained. He continued: "So there is certainly a significant contribution to the growth of this activity in our strategic outlook".
And on November 5, 2024, our colleagues at Variety tell us that, in addition to being officially in development at Warner Bros. Discovery, this second opus is "one of the studio's biggest priorities", according to Gunnar Wiedenfels. On the script side, we also learn that the game will be directly linked to the Harry Potter series scheduled for 2026 on HBO, retracing the seven years of study of the bespectacled wizard in a manner closer to the books.
David Haddad, President of Warner Bros. Interactive, explains that "the games team has been working to coordinate some of the narrative elements of the Hogwarts Legacy sequel with the storylines that will unfold in the 'Harry Potter' series". How will the teams coordinate, and to what extent will this sequel (and the series) be linked to the first video game installment (it's technically a sequel)...? ? No answer to that question yet.
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On the gameplay front, nothing has been announced (it's too early for that), butfiles of the game examined by dataminer GrandTheftDiamonds on YouTube also revealed that some interesting gameplay mechanics could be included in Hogwarts Legacy 2. These include a romance system, a house points system, and a morality system affecting the reputation of apprentice wizards. These concepts could add a new dimension to the game.
According to Bloomberg, Rocksteady is in charge of a Director's Cut version of Hogwarts Legacy. In the meantime, fans can continue the adventure on the Nintendo Switch version of Hogwarts Legacy, or try to become the best Quidditch player of all time in Harry Potter Quidditch Champions. To your controllers!
