2023-11-09 20:23:13
News
By: Samuel M. | 09-11-23
David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, dedicated a few words to the video game area during the company’s most recent financial report. However, the news that he brings us puts the players on alert about the plans they have regarding the «games as a service» (via Seeking Alpha)
According to Zaslav, their focus is to transform their largest franchises such as DC, Game of Thrones y Harry Potter in games as a service with the aim of keeping players playing longer on consoles and PC.
DO NOT MISS IT: Warner Bros. rejected a movie based on ‘Mortal Kombat vs. DC Comics’
«We want to drive engagement and monetization over longer cycles and at higher levels. We have specific capabilities. We are currently below scale and see significant opportunity to generate higher post-purchase revenue»said the manager.
It seems clear that WB wants to continue insisting on that business model although it has not finished working for them as it did with ‘Gotham Knights‘ by Warner Bros. Montreal. Next year they will release ‘Suicide Squad Kills the Justice League‘ which received negative reviews after presenting its gameplay, forcing the studio to postpone it until «improve bugs and other optimization issues«.
Hogwarts Legacy, Being a single-player game, it earned good reviews and generated quite a bit of money for Warner Bros. upon its release in February 2023.
#Warner #Bros #insist #games #service