In the 18 months since its release, Hogwarts Legacy has emerged as one of the biggest hits of Warner Bros. Discovery’s video game division. To date, 24 million copies of the game have been sold across all consoles and PC. Although a follow-up game hasn’t been formally announced, WBD isn’t being ambiguous about its plans. According to one executive with the company, getting a sequel to the Harry Potter-inspired title is at the top of WBD’s wish list.
“[The video game industry] is, just like the film business, a hit-driven business,” explained WBD CFO Gunnar Weidenfels via The Hollywood Reporter. “Obviously a successor to Hogwarts Legacy is one of the biggest priorities in a couple years down the road.”
Weidenfels didn’t offer any other details about a potential Hogwarts Legacy sequel, but his remarks seem to indicate that the next game is still years away at the earliest. The original game was developed by Avalanche Software and the story was set roughly a century before the life of Harry Potter. Players were given the freedom to create their own characters, who are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and that proved to be very enticing to action RPG gamers.
Unfortunately, like the upcoming Harry Potter TV series on HBO, Hogwarts Legacy has been haunted by franchise creator J.K. Rowling’s anti-trans views, which she reiterated as recently as the Paris Olympics. Rowling’s stance has put her at odds with several of the actors from the Harry Potter films, as well as a large number of her fans.
