Hogwarts Legacy — the subsequent Harry Potter recreation — has been delayed from 2021 to 2022. On Wednesday, Hogwarts Legacy developer Avalanche Software program and Portkey Video games (the Harry Potter online game publishing label owned by Warner Bros. Interactive Leisure) introduced that they want extra time to ship the “absolute best expertise”. As such, Hogwarts Legacy has been pushed again a yr. Hogwarts Legacy is about within the titular college within the 1800s, a century earlier than the Chosen One — Harry Potter, duh — ever lived.
“We wish to thank followers from around the globe for the large response to the announcement of Hogwarts Legacy from our Portkey Video games label,” Hogwarts Legacy makers mentioned in a ready assertion on Twitter. “Creating the absolute best expertise for all the Wizarding World and gaming followers is paramount to us so we’re giving the sport the time it wants. Hogwarts Legacy can be launched in 2022.”
The open-world motion RPG Hogwarts Legacy was initially introduced again in September. Avalanche revealed then that gamers would step into the sneakers of “a pupil who holds the important thing to an historic secret that threatens to tear the Wizarding World aside. You will have acquired a late acceptance to the Hogwarts Faculty of Witchcraft and Wizardry and shortly uncover that you’re no odd pupil: you possess an uncommon capability to understand and grasp Historical Magic.”
For Utah, USA-based Avalanche, Hogwarts Legacy is the most important undertaking it has taken on in its historical past. Greatest recognized for growing the Disney Infinity collection in current occasions, Avalanche was closed after Disney shuttered Disney Interactive Studios in 2016. However then a yr later, Warner Bros. Interactive Leisure acquired and renewed the flame. Avalanche Software program is to not be confused with Avalanche Studios, the Swedish developer behind Simply Trigger 4.Hogwarts Legacy is out in 2022 on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Collection X.
