The fans had nothing to do with the controversies. Released last February, the video game The Hogwarts Legacy: The Hogwarts Legacy it sold like hot cakes, quickly surpassing 12 million in sales, well beyond even Warner Bros. Games’ expectations.
Set in the universe of the JK Rowling saga, but without Harry Potter and his friends, Hogwarts Legacy It is first and foremost a love letter to the wizarding school and its world. Set in the late 19th century, the story puts the player in the shoes of a new Hogwarts student who wields a strange power of dark magic. And the recipe for success is in a few things: going to class, learning magic tricks and how to make magic potions, flying on your broomstick or on the back of a hippogriff, fighting monsters and wandering through Hogsmeade to the peaks of the region of Hogwarts. , passing through the different towns of the Highlands and the forbidden forest.
A Hogwarts Legacy 2 already in the works?
The same ingredients that made the success of the Harry Potter saga and that this time plunge the player into the heart of the plot, in a magnificent -and extremely realistic- reconstruction of Hogwarts. And that could give ideas to Avalanche Software, the development studio behind the game, which is already working on another AAA (very high budget) “unannounced on console” game and has started advertising to recruit.
In the meantime, starting May 5th and with a power-up delay, PS4 and Xbox One players will finally be able to go back to wizard school. Only those of Nintendo Switch will still be missing, which will still have to wait until summer. But it remains to be seen how such a visually polished and therefore resource-intensive game will run on less powerful consoles. And Warner has been careful not to show any images since…
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