Warner Bros. Games have canceled Hogwarts Legacy Definitive Edition even before its official announcement. The news comes from Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, who was also the first to report on its existence in June 2024. Avalanche Software was developing this version of the best-selling game of 2023 with the help of Rocksteady. A few months ago, insider Tom Henderson wrote that Hogwarts Legacy Definitive Edition was scheduled to launch in 2025 with 10–15 hours of new content and a price of $20–30 for owners of the base game.
This more or less lines up with Schreier's new report, which says that it would have restored a cut storyline tied to one of the game's companions. However, Hogwarts Legacy Definitive Edition was canceled partly because Warner Bros. Games was concerned that the amount of new content would not be enough to justify the price. Ultimately, they must have thought it was simply not worth the effort instead of going for a lower price.
It's a shame, especially since I was really hoping that Avalanche Software and Rocksteady would take the opportunity to fix or at least greatly reduce the awful stuttering that still plagues the game on PC, even with DLSS 4 and Multi Frame Generation enabled on a GeForce RTX 5090. At least the game was recently updated with official modding support on PC, although I doubt that it will take off in as big a way as it does for Bethesda's games and a few others.
Anyway, the Bloomberg report also clarifies that the Hogwarts Legacy sequel is still in development at Avalanche Software, though there were few doubts about that, given that the original has sold over 34 million units to date. Schreier recently said that the sequel won't be a live service game, despite prior comments from Warner Bros. Games about wanting to expand the franchise into that area.
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