Given how massively profitable Hogwarts Legacy has been for WB Video games (it at the moment stands at over 30 million items bought worldwide), there was by no means any doubt that the corporate can be prioritizing a sequel sooner moderately than later, one thing that WB Video games itself has recommended prior to now as nicely. Now, president David Haddad has confirmed to Selection {that a} sequel to Hogwarts Legacy is certainly in growth at Avalanche Software program.
As pr Haddad, the sequel is a “very huge precedence” to Warner Bros. Discovery as an entire, and that the sport may even have some narrative ties to HBO’s upcoming Harry Potter sequence. Provided that Hogwarts Legacy itself was set a few century earlier than the occasions of the Harry Potter books (and films), that may recommend that the following recreation can have a time skip.
Curiously sufficient, Haddad additionally went on so as to add that the success that Hogwarts Legacy loved final 12 months additionally helped give Warner Bros. as an entire confidence to speculate additional within the Wizarding World IP. “The remainder of the corporate was very interested by what we helped to unlock with Hogwarts Legacy final 12 months.,” he stated.
How far-off the sequel is – or its announcement is – stays to be seen, but when latest reviews are something to go by, a Hogwarts Legacy Definitive Version can also be at the moment in growth and due out subsequent 12 months, and is allegedly set so as to add 10-15 hours of recent content material.