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The year had started well with Hogwarts Legacy, but it soon went wrong when it was revealed that Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has taken a huge chunk out of Warner Bros.' revenue. A new hero proposal is a huge burden for a company, especially when they dress it up as a GaaS, or game as a service. Marvel's Avengers was the first severe case, Guardians of the Galaxy followed, and Gotham Knights did not fare any better. and Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has been a Warner Bros. gaming revenue down 41%
The recently released financial report has made clear what the main problem has been in a year in which two games performed well, and one was responsible for blowing up what games like Mortal Kombat 1 and Hogwarts LegacyNow that a sequel is being talked about, could that game be in danger?
It has failed to convince or attract players. The failure of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League transcends Warner Bros. itself
The truth is Warner Bros' problems go beyond video games, But it seems that these are the ones that could be lost if the decision is made to sell all its assets. For now, this has been nothing more than a rumor, the umpteenth if we are aware of how many times the sale of its studios has been talked about. But regarding the current economic balance recorded in the financial results of the second quarter, the CEO David Zaslav commented on the performance of the first in the results of the previous quarter, calling it “disappointing.”
This has led Warner Bros Discovery to report a net loss of 10 billion dollars for the quarter. And that, which is have earned $9.7 billion in revenue, where they are included “non-monetary goodwill impairment charges from the Networks segment”resulting from “the gap between market capitalization and book value, continued weakness in the U.S., the linear advertising market and uncertainty related to sports and affiliate rights renewals, including the NBA”.
That is to say, the entire problem of the financial situation cannot be blamed on Rocksteady's game, but it is attributed to it a significant 41% loss of the amount of the video game division. And that is a good pinch, which would have led to consider that this division could end up disappearing. It is not new, since the rumors date back several years, when there was speculation about the sale of all the assets, with many candidates to be able to acquire them in part, or in their entirety.
New hints about Hogwarts Legacy 2 multiplayer suggest that it would be a feature that no user will be able to avoid using
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It seems that, as things are not improving, this periodic rumour could materialise in the future. Everything will depend on the decisions that may be made within the management in the coming weeks, including the part that corresponds to Discovery, after everything that Warner Bros has been dragging along. We will see what happens, but it seems legitimate to think that the risk assumed with some proposals, especially those that link expensive licensed heroes with a multiplayer service, is too high.