Warner Bros. Discovery’s gaming boss, JB Perrette, has teased the corporate’s future video games outlook, saying it is a massive profit that DC Studios co-head James Gunn is a gamer himself. Talking to Variety, Perrette acknowledged that WBD has not executed a adequate job over time with having its recreation and movie divisions working collectively.
“Frankly, there hasn’t been as shut a relationship between the studio and the video games enterprise as there ought to have been. And James is definitely a gamer, so having somebody who’s obsessed with it’s tremendous useful,” Perrette mentioned.
He added that WBD’s gaming division, Warner Bros. Games, is now “actively working with [Gunn and Safran] on the core franchises throughout the DC Universe.”
What this may quantity to is unknown at this stage, however Perrette mentioned Warner Bros. Games will not merely launch a tie-in recreation if it would not make sense.
“Whereas they’re engaged on a Superman film title, we’re not going to launch a Superman recreation purely as a result of we really feel obligated,” Perrette mentioned. “We now have to do one thing that is smart for the gaming technique and for followers and for the patron.”
Gunn co-wrote the 2012 recreation Lollipop Chainsaw, and he is commented on the future of DC video games before.
There are a selection of upcoming DC video games within the works, together with this week’s debut of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, in addition to future video games like a Surprise Girl title and The Wolf Amongst Us 2. Warner Bros. Games had its greatest success ever in 2023 with the launch of Hogwarts Legacy, which bought greater than 24 million copies and completed 2023 because the No. 1 best-selling recreation within the US.
Perrette mentioned Warner Bros. Games needs to have hits extra commonly, as a substitute of “one nice hit each three or 4 years.”
“We would like it to be ‘all the time on.’ And the excellent news is the gaming house is lending itself to that,” Perrette mentioned.
Additionally within the interview, Perrette teased that WBD has “concepts” for the way its video games and streaming service Max may join sometime. The pure suggestion is that Max may someday play host to video video games themselves, not not like how Netflix is now testing game-streaming. But nothing is definite but, and Perrette mentioned WBD is concentrated on “doing the fundamentals higher” for Max proper now, and any growth of Max with video games would come later, if it ever occurs.