Harry Potter prequel sport Hogwarts Legacy was the largest new launch of 2022, promoting greater than 22 million copies in its first yr within the U.S. and outperforming that yr’s Name of Responsibility entry, Name of Responsibility: Trendy Warfare 3. Hogwarts Legacy has since gone on to promote greater than 40 million copies, so logically, a sequel could be within the works. As of this month, mum or dad firm Warner Bros. Discovery made it official: Hogwarts Legacy 2 is coming.
That is not an enormous shock. Warner Bros. executives have mentioned for years {that a} follow-up to the billion-dollar Hogwarts Legacy was a precedence for the corporate, which has struggled to search out hits with notable flops like Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, misfires similar to MultiVersus and high-profile sport cancellations like Marvel Girl. Execs have additionally mentioned that the WB Video games division would focus its efforts on 4 key franchises, certainly one of which is Harry Potter.
In a letter to shareholders dated Aug. 6, Warner Bros. mentioned that video games are an “necessary progress lever” for the corporate, and highlighted its more moderen wins. It then confirmed, formally to its traders, {that a} Hogwarts Legacy sequel is in growth.
In the course of the second quarter, we launched Lego Batman: Legacy of the Darkish Knight – the very best rated Lego sport ever – and Recreation of Thrones: Dragonfire, our second cell sport from the Recreation of Thrones universe. These releases marked the primary launches beneath our refocused technique centered round 4 key $1 billion+ franchises with disciplined funding behind fewer, greater conviction titles. We anticipate Video games to extra meaningfully contribute to section profitability going ahead as our pipeline expands, together with the second installment of Hogwarts Legacy.
Once more, not an enormous shock to eagle-eyed Harry Potter followers. Again in 2024, WBD CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels mentioned, “Clearly, a successor to ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ is among the largest priorities in a few years down the street.”
Hogwarts Legacy 2 is a key a part of WB Video games’ future
In 2025, CEO and president of worldwide streaming and video games for Warner Bros. Discovery JB Perrette mentioned that after a “disappointing 2024” for the corporate’s video games division, it could deal with 4 franchises going ahead: Harry Potter/Hogwarts Legacy, Recreation of Thrones, Mortal Kombat, and DC (“primarily Batman in relation to single-character-led video games however might embody choose different alternatives as the brand new DCU will get constructed”). To date, it has caught to that technique.
There’s additionally a cause to consider that Hogwarts Legacy 2 is coming quickly. In 2024, David Haddad, then-president of Warner Bros. Interactive Leisure, instructed Selection that the video games group was “coordinating a few of the big-picture storytelling components within the Hogwarts Legacy sequel with the storylines that may play out within the Harry Potter HBO sequence” coming later this yr.
We’re arising on the four-year anniversary of Hogwarts Legacy, so the time appears proper for extra Wizarding World adventures. With main sport occasions arising, together with Gamescom Opening Evening Stay in August and The Recreation Awards in December, do not be stunned if a primary take a look at Hogwarts Legacy 2 magically seems with a 2027 (or 2028) launch.