Hogwarts Legacy 2 is a top priority for Warner Bros. Games, according to one of its parent company’s top executives.
Talking at a Bank of America conference, Warner Bros. Discovery chief financial officer Gunnar Weidenfels said a sequel to the big-selling Harry Potter game is absolutely on the cards.
“It is, just like the film business, a hit-driven business… Obviously a successor to Hogwarts Legacy is one of the biggest priorities in a couple years down the road,” he said, as reported by the Hollywood Reporter.
The original Hogwarts Legacy is estimated to have sold upwards of 25 million units, but a sequel has not been officially confirmed outside of this latest statement.
In August, Hogwarts Legacy developer Avalanche Software listed a job vacancy for a producer with experience working on “action/magical combat games” and “developing Open World RPG”, which some fans took as proof a Hogwarts Legacy follow-up was already in production.
Expecting Hogwarts Legacy in a couple of years seems optimistic, though. The original Hogwarts Legacy is believed to have begun full development in 2018, suggesting it was in production for around five years.
Five years on from 2023, the year of Hogwarts Legacy’s release, would place its sequel in 2028. And, while game development times are fluid, large open-world projects are not among the least work to finish.
Weidenfels was talking about a Hogwarts Legacy sequel in the context of opportunities for Warner Bros. Discovery as a wider, and massive, entertainment multinational. It also produces film and TV, and Weidenfels himself has never worked directly on a video game.
What is the next Harry Potter game?
There has been another Harry Potter game released since Hogwarts Legacy, though, the more scope-limited Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions.
It was released on September 3, and is part of this month’s PlayStation Plus Monthly Games line-up.
While it’s no epic adventure like Hogwarts Legacy, the few reviews the game has had to date are largely positive.
Beebom’s 7/10 review says Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions is “easy to play, hard to master”, while Digital Trends calls the game an “enjoyable blast from the past”.
The Metacritic user score is more mixed, at 6.8, but there are no critic reviews as yet.
