Warner Bros. Discovery continued to admit that the Sweet Baby Inc. influenced Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League was a disaster for the company.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Sweet Baby Inc. credits
In the company’s Earnings Release for its 2024 Q2, the company revealed its Games division revenue declined 41%.
It states, “Games revenue declined 41% ex-FX, primarily driven by the weak performance of Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League this year, compared to the strong performance of Hogwarts Legacy in the prior year.”
The Suicide Squad in Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League (2024), Rocksteady
On top of the revelation that their revenue declined 41%, the company’s CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels commented during the company’s Earnings Call, “While, as we’ve called out last quarter, games are still struggling against last year’s Hogwarts Legacy comp, and a muted response to Suicide Squad this year.”
The company’s CEO and President of Global Streaming and Games JB Perrette also addressed the game on the call as well. He said, “The reality is we’ve had the unfortunate, in the short period of 12 months, we went from having the record year that we had in 2023 with Hogwarts Legacy, to unfortunately having the opposite side of that spectrum with Suicide Squad.”
A scene from Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League (2024), Rocksteady
Wiedenfels previously detailed in the company’s 2024 Q1 Earnings Call that the company saw a $400 million plus year-over-year decline.
He shared, ” Starting with Studios, the $400 million plus year-over-year decline in Q1 was primarily due to the very tough comp we faced in games against the success of Hogwarts Legacy last year in the first quarter, in conjunction with the disappointing Suicide Squad release this past quarter, which we impaired, leading to a $200 million impact to EBITDA during the first quarter.”
A screenshot from Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League (2024), Rocksteady
Back during the company’s 2023 Q4 Earnings Call, the company’s CEO David Zaslav also hinted that the game was a big miss for the company, “On the theatrical and gaming side, while we did have some real misses this year, we also had some really big wins, including Barbie, the number one movie globally and the most successful movie in the history of Warner Bros., and Hogwarts Legacy, the biggest game of 2023.
Wiedenfels would confirm it later in that call, “This year, Suicide Squad, one of our key video game releases in 2024, has fallen short of our expectations since its release earlier in the quarter, setting our games business up for a tough year-over-year comp in Q1.”
Amanda Waller in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League (2024), Rocksteady
The game had an all-time peak concurrent player base of 13,459 when it released at the beginning of February according to SteamDB. However, those players quickly abandoned the game with a peak concurrent below 1,000 by the end of February.
In the last 24 hours the game’s peak concurrent number of players was 229. That’s a decline of over 98%.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League SteamDB charts
What do you make of Warner Bros. Discovery reporting its game’s division saw a 41% decline in revenue and put the blame heavily on Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League?
