A part of Warner Bros. huge plan to be a extremely profitable video games writer has traditionally been getting its personal inside studios to leverage its wealth of IP. That’s why we’ve seen groups owned by WB Video games taking up franchises like DC, Harry Potter and extra.
Whereas that’s gone nice within the case of video games like Hogwarts Legacy, which was the most important sport in 2023 by way of gross sales, it’s additionally not labored out in different circumstances, like Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League.
However video games stay necessary to WB, so it received’t be giving up on its inside studios – however it’s additionally not going to be limiting itself to simply these studios. At the least that’s what it seemed like throughout WB’s newest earnings name.
Chief govt officer David Zaslav and president of worldwide streaming and video games JB Perrette each spoke about how WB is trying to increase its video games enterprise additional, recognizing that there are many studios exterior of WB’s inside 11 that may like to work with any variety of WB’s huge franchises.
“Now we have 11 studios right here, and we have now loads of IP,” Zaslav mentioned. “And there’s loads of curiosity amongst others in coming to reap the benefits of a few of that IP for gaming, which we’re .”
Perrette added “We proceed to be robust believers within the sport house, we wish to proceed to see and work out how we lean into it and get larger in that house.”
Final month WB acquired MultiVersus developer Participant First Video games, a transfer that Perette singled out as a part of WB’s plan to increase the video games enterprise, particularly concerning reside service video games.
If WB does begin to license its IP to different groups, then similar to how when Disney stopped giving EA unique rights to Star Wars video games, we may very well be in for a renaissance of video games primarily based off the swaths of IP below Warner Bros.
Supply – [IGN]
