Regardless, that’s the message the leader conveyed in an interview with the Axios website. While he had the best year of the year thanks to boxes of LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (3.2 million sales in two weeks) and MultiVersus (over 20 million players in a month), the boss of WB Games told his family Guaranteed to have 11 studios working peacefully today and not threatened by new management on April 8, 2022.Management has been talked about, specifically cancelling any screenings and releases of the film batgirl When will it be done, or stop the international rollout of HBO Max in favor of another platform that remains uncertain. The truth is Warner Bros. Discovery still has $49.1 billion in debt to repay.
But when it comes to video games, everything is going well in the end. According to David Haddad, WB Games is making money, its team is getting the support it deserves, and there are no layoffs or cancellations from the new management. There’s also no pressure to release games early: Gotham Knights (October 21, 2022), Hogwarts Legacy: Hogwarts Legacy (February 10, 2023), and Suicide Squad: Kill Multiple delays to Justice League (2023) can attest to that.
If mobile isn’t a priority for the company, as evidenced by the resale of Playdemic to Electronic Arts, WB Games still owns the main Harry Potter: The Magic of Emergence title, a game developed by NetEase Games and already in China . In a recent interview with GamesBeat, we also learned that Game of Thrones: Conquest has been quietly approaching $1 billion in player spending since its October 2017 debut.
“I am more convinced now that we play a vital role in the company. Warner Bros. management. Discovery firmly believes that it is critical to grow the gaming business and integrate it into its overall business strategy‘, commented David Haddad.