Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League “has fallen brief of our expectations”, Warner Bros. Discovery has mentioned.
Talking throughout a monetary name, Warner Bros. Discovery Chief Monetary Officer, Gunnar Wiedenfels, admitted Rocksteady’s recreation hadn’t finished the enterprise the firm had hoped for since happening sale on February 2 priced $70, saying it had “fallen brief of our expectations.”
Warner Bros. Discovery failed to say a gross sales determine for Rocksteady’s recreation, however did say Suicide Squad’s failure had arrange the firm’s video games enterprise for a “powerful” year-on-year comparability. Final 12 months, Warner Bros. Discovery launched Hogwarts Legacy, which went on to grow to be the best-selling recreation of 2023.
“This 12 months, Suicide Squad, one of our key online game releases in 2024, has fallen brief of our expectations since its launch earlier in the quarter, setting our video games enterprise up for a troublesome year-over-year comp in Q1,” Wiedenfels mentioned.
Warner Bros. Discovery’s remark maybe does not come as a lot shock, given Suicide Squad’s high-profile struggles. On Steam, the reside service motion recreation peaked with 13,459 concurrent gamers, a determine that has fallen dramatically since launch. At the time of this text’s publication, simply 480 individuals have been enjoying the recreation on Valve’s platform, with a 24-hour peak of 888.
IGN’s Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League overview returned a 5/10. We referred to as it “a repetitive and bland looter-shooter that, regardless of an interesting story, by no means stays enjoyable for lengthy sufficient.”
There’s a lot we don’t find out about Rocksteady’s long-term plan for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, though we do know Joker is about to look as a playable character. IGN has reported on how a Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League participant had unearthed a hidden message that seemed like a robust trace at the return of Batman. Datamining has proven robust hints that Flash and Inexperienced Lantern are set to return in some type. Different playable characters suspected to be on their method embody Mrs Freeze (Nora Fries), Lawless, and Deathstroke.
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