{"id":299486,"date":"2025-04-01T01:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T08:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=352135"},"modified":"2025-07-01T15:00:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T22:00:47","slug":"hogwarts-legacy-cancels-its-expansion-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/hogwarts-legacy-cancels-its-expansion-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Hogwarts Legacy cancels its expansion project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an unexpected turn for fans of the saga, <strong>Hogwarts Legacy, the successful video game based on the Harry Potter universe, will not receive an expansion or a re-release as a Definitive Edition this year<\/strong>, according to a report from Bloomberg. This news about new content, not even having been confirmed, has been canceled as part of the restructuring of Warner Bros. Discovery&#8217;s video game division.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A project for the future?<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sources indicate that the decision to cancel the expansion is due to <strong>Warner Bros&#8217; concern about the amount of content that had been planned, which did not justify the expected selling price.<\/strong> Originally, the expansion was set to introduce new storylines in the popular open-world RPG, while the Definitive Edition was to include the base game along with the expansion and other downloadable content.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite this cancellation, Avalanche Software, the game&#8217;s developer, continues to work on a sequel to Hogwarts Legacy, which represents one of the company&#8217;s top priorities. This new project underscores <strong>Warner Bros&#8217; commitment to focusing on established franchises, as other projects have recently been canceled, including a Wonder Woman game<\/strong>, and several studios have been closed, including Monolith, known for the Middle-Earth series.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hogwarts Legacy \u2013 Tr\u00e1iler PS5 en ESPA\u00d1OL | 4K | PlayStation Espa\u00f1a\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S6GTl_vPRvU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is noteworthy that, despite the controversy surrounding J.K. Rowling and her controversial opinions, H<strong>ogwarts Legacy has remained the best-selling video game of 2023 in the United States, surpassing other notable titles such as The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3<\/strong>. With the cancellation of the expansion, eyes are expected to be on the upcoming sequel and how the developers plan to move forward within a context of significant changes in the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an unexpected turn for fans of the saga, Hogwarts Legacy, the successful video game based on the Harry Potter universe, will not receive an expansion or a re-release as a Definitive Edition this year, according to a Bloomberg report. This news about new content, not even having been confirmed, has been canceled as part of the restructuring of Warner Bros. Discovery&#8217;s video game division. A future project? Sources indicate that the decision to cancel the expansion is due to Warner Bros&#8217; concern about the amount of content that had been planned, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9317,"featured_media":299492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[1397,6321,2368,9937],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6823],"class_list":["post-299486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-harry-potter","tag-hogwarts-legacy-2","tag-ps5","tag-warner","content-category-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308305,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299486\/revisions\/308305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299486"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=299486"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=299486"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=299486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}