IGN: MultiVersus has significantly underperformed, publisher Warner Bros. Discovery has admitted.

[Gizmo_Duck]

Source

Free-to-play Smash Bros.-style brawler MultiVersus has significantly underperformed, publisher Warner Bros. Discovery has admitted, contributing to a further $100 million writedown for the company's games business in 2024.

Speaking in a recent financial call, Warner Bros. Discovery President and CEO David Zaslav and Chief Financial Officer Gunnar Wiedenfels said MultiVersus' failure had added another $100 million to the $200 million writedown the company's games business had already suffered earlier this year.

"... we recognise [the games business] is substantially underperforming its potential right now," Zaslav said.

Wiedenfels added more detail: "We took another $100 million plus impairment due to the underperforming releases, primarily MultiVersus this quarter, bringing total writedown year-to-date to over $300 million in our games business, a key factor in this year's studio profit decline."

 

[Jasonmask]

Updates changed it for the worst games moves a lot slower than the beta. Couldn’t hit the combos I was doing with ease so I decided to delete it and I’m in the game that should tell you enough

 

[Canon]

That launch, pause, relaunch strategy was stupid

 

[Hey_zeus]

Game went away too long and came back different. I hated how slow the final release was.

 

[The Mad Titan]

At least it wasn't 400 million

 

[Rekkapryde]

Hogwarts legacy sold 30 million but the same bozo execs didn't think that was enough. WB is a terribly ran company.

 

[-DMP-]

We asked for a new Batman game. Not this shyt or suicide squad.

Stop playing with us.

 

[Jaguar93]

WB about to become a Harry Potter and Batman only company

 

[Phillyrider807]

That year long gap hurt the playerbase.

 

[Bathing Ape]

Had a spark when it started…

 

[Champion]