Hasbro, the company that owns Wizards of the Coast with Dungeons & Dragons rights attached, has decided to increase its investments in triple A video gamesafter the enormous success of Baldur's Gate 3 And Monopoly Go!, which brought hundreds of millions of euros to the company. So it split about $1 billion among all the studios that are working on games based on its intellectual properties.
Money calls money
Interviewed by Gamespot, Dan Ayoub of Wizards of the Coast revealed that Hasbro no longer just wants to license its intellectual properties, but also wants to increase internal production. “We currently have a billion dollars' worth of games in development, across several North American studios,” explained Ayoub, thus underlining the company's enormous interest in the sector.
The large investment is motivated by the above successes, with Monopoly Go! which surpassed $2 billion in revenues and Baldur's Gate 3 which sold more than 15 million copies globally.
The money Hasbro got from licensing Monopoly Go! are not known, but Baldur's Gate 3 brought him more than $90 million in revenue. In short, it is normal that, having smelled a deal, the company wants to try to make it grow.
According to Ayoub, Hasbro currently has hundreds of people working across multiple studios, with those studios hiring new developers.
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