‘Hogwarts Legacy 2’ will be connected to the Harry Potter series

Hogwarts Legacy The monstrous debut didn’t just shake up the gaming industry. According to Variety Time with David HaddadPresident of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, its success only added fuel to the revival of the Harry Potter franchise. Now, future video games are poised to take a much more prominent place in the connected universe, starting with Hogwarts Legacy 2.

Haddad emphasized that the overarching story beats for the upcoming game are being developed with a direct connection to the upcoming game. Harry Potter, HBO TV shownoting that the game attracted interest from the entire Warner Bros. studio.

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Variety writes: “Haddad says the game team coordinated some elements of the overall narrative in”Hogwarts Legacycontinuation with storylines that will play out in “Harry PotterHBO series from Warner Bros. Television. He notes that success “Hogwarts Legacy” helped build confidence that it was time to make a serious move towards Potter: “The rest of the company was very curious about what we helped unlock with.”Hogwarts Legacy‘ last year.'”

CONNECTED: Hogwarts Legacy 2 recognized as ‘one of WB Games’ highest priorities’

Back in May 2023, Warner Bros. CEO Discovery David Zaslav told investors: “Hogwarts Legacy has accumulated over $1 billion in retail sales to date and over 15 million units sold worldwide,” and this was before the game was released on PS4 and Xbox One. Whatever one may say, Avalance Software and Portkey Games made a real splash.

This is no small success at a time when the Harry Potter franchise is relatively dormant compared to its ’00s explosion. Comparing the game’s staggering heights to HP’s latest spin-off, the differences are striking. Fantastic Beasts: Dumbledore MysteriesFirst, it earned less than half a million dollars during its run. It’s also clear that fans are on their toes waiting for Hogwarts Legacy 2 while the Eddie Redmayne-led films may be hitting theaters. permanent break (according to Jude Law.)

This shift toward prioritizing the inclusion of video games is not new for Warner Bros. Previous Harry Potter games evolved largely from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001)but these releases were true to the book – direct movie adaptations, LEGO crossovers and a small army of mobile games made up the huge spectrum of what was on offer. It’s far from Heritage a bold AAA approach with an open world.

The action takes place 100 years before the story of The Chosen One. Fans can explore Hogwarts from a different angle while embarking on an exciting 25-30 hour storyline about the nascent goblin uprising. In our review we said: “While it doesn’t do everything perfectly, Hogwarts Legacy stimulates the imagination with a rich world to explore and gameplay that is empowering and immersive.”

The cookie cutter formula of yesteryear played a role. Now WB can take the franchise forward through games, opening up a whole new (magical) world of possibilities that could bring players into the heart of the narrative in a whole new way.