After revealing last November that it wanted to focus on transforming its biggest franchises into live-action services, Warner Bros. now he repeated it on Morgan Stanley Conference earlier this week.
According to WB Discovery’s head of gaming, JB Perrette, it’s no longer about launching a “one-off console game” but instead focuses on a live service where players can live, work, build, play and return regularly:
“Instead of just launching a one-off console game, how do we develop a game around, say, Hogwarts Legacy or Harry Potter, and it’s a live service where people can live and work and build and play in that world on a permanent basis basically?”
While there are plenty of AAA development success stories, Perrette believes it’s a “volatile” market. And although the recent release of Warner Bros Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League was a financial declinethis still seems to be the model he wants to focus on in the future.
Recent titles like Mortal Kombat 1 have also continued to deliver new seasonal content updates to keep players coming back. It was added yesterday The Peacemaker (with the character and voice of John Cena)