Suicide Squad didn't exactly fly off the shelf for ol' Warner Bros. Despite clearly having a lot of effort put into it, the live-service flop suffered from meandering development, , and wound up with the w69 slot ทาง เข้า . It currently has a 24-hour peak of 181 Steam players at the time of writing, and hasn't broken over 1,000 concurrents on the platform in six months.
That's not to mention Multiversus, which came out of its post-beta hiatus and has been… uh, not doing so great, losing an for the company. Oof. $300 million into fumbled-project tears, Warner Bros. has looked very hard in a mirror, done some deep introspection, and thought: Yeah, maybe we should focus up a bit, here.
"We're through some of the worst—and it hasn't been pretty on the gaming business—but we have four games that are really powerful," Zaslav says, adding: "We're going to go away from trying to launch 10, 12, 15, 20 different games. I think we have a real chance now with focus to have the gaming business be steadier."
Now, granted, one should point out that both Suicide Squad and Multiversus both heavily featured DC characters, but I suppose the hinted-at return to Batman means a shift away from trying to do an extended universe with the thing. Now, you might be thinking, hey Harvey—didn't Batman get shot in the head? Weren't people mad about it? To which I'll remind yono all app you that this is comic book worldbuilding, bucko. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has been for a hot minute.
Of course, there'll need to be someone to , a genuinely gargantuan task, considering how iconic Conroy's voice has been to the role. Mind, Roger Craig Smith didn't do a terrible job in Batman: Arkham Origins, so I'm sure he'll be there to pick up the mantle of the dark knight—when he's not voicing Sonic the Hedgehog. Jeez, that's some impressive range.
Otherwise, it'll be a balanced diet of those four IPs from now yono all app on: "We are focusing our development efforts on those core franchises, with proven studios to improve our success ratio," Zaslav adds. Which—I mean, yay, though I have to point out that Rocksteady was absolutely a "proven studio" with a strong pedigree and that didn't quite stop
Suicide Squad from happening. Here's hoping .