Pokémon GO Dev Niantic Working On Harry Potter Mobile Game, New Console Titles Planned

Fantastic Monsters and Where to Find Them?

I think there is a lot of potential in that universe for games. I don't think it even necessarily needs to center on the school, but could focus on different eras and locations. Looking at one of WBs other series, Shadow of Mordor/War take place away and before the main events. Even Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them is set in a different time and place. I think this would give them more creative freedom to explore the wider world.

I also was wondering if Rocksteady is working on the rumored RPG? Seems possible at least. There were rumors awhile ago that WB acquired Avalanche (Disney Infinity) to work on Harry Potter games, but I think they might go with Rocksteady for the "big" game.

Sweet. It would be nice to see games that use the books as the source material rather than the films, as they leave out soooo much. I also don't want to see Daniel Radcliff's likeness used. He's Daniel not Harry. I hope these games don't completely lack creativity.

I like to call Philosopher's Stone/Sorcerer's Stone on GBA my "first (non-Zelda) Zelda game", because, well, look at it.

So yeah, definitely lots of potential. Imagine a Zelda-esque HP game where you can live the whole saga, à la Lego Star Wars The Complete Saga (natch), with Majora's Mask-esque shenanigans to go from one school year to the other.
The word that comes to mind when describing this is just "yes".
(Not at all thrilled by Niantic leaving GO to its problems, but I can see that GO's success attracted WB to them - which is why my comment is solely about the console news.)

could be interesting, depends on just what they are planing to do

an MMO could be good, let us make our own character and go to Hogwarts or a full blown RPG

even an action game where you play as Harry when he was a Auror would be pretty cool

If it's anything like Pokémon GO, it would basically be Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them. Check mah 22CP House Elf and 60CP Doxy.

In all seriousness. This could be a very interesting game if they flesh it out a bit more than Pokémon GO. Besides collecting and raiding it's pretty boring. As long it doesn't have Hyppogryph EX-Raids I'm good.

It makes me happy that they're doing something with the license and they've dedicated a division to the development of games in the HP universe.

I always thought it'd be interesting to set an RPG during Voldemort's rise to power and the First Wizarding War. It starts out where you create your character and get sorted into a house. You do classes, and eventually choose a specialization, make friends/enemies (you make two best friends and they become your party members), but the war is going on and as the years progress if your actions are more "light side" or "dark side" you can be scouted to join The Order or the Death Eaters in year six or something. All that player choice stuff, good characters, good story (maybe get JK Rowling involved), good gameplay, good graphics etc.
People that don't even play video games would buy that and play it.

If they made an open world RPG title focusing and expanding on Rowling's Wizarding World (and not necessarily with the characters we all know in it), I would be all over that. So much potential!

I made a forum topic about the announcment yesterday, although I wasn’t aware of more console Harry Potter games being developed, hopefully we see some of them on Switch.

@Tyranexx
What I loved about the GBA version was the pre-movie original music (Hogwarts halls, nighttime Hogwarts, Hogwarts grounds and Hogwarts testing basements come to mind alongside the awesome title screen theme) and those mind-blowing cape animations the game had, alongside, well, everything about Harry's sprite.
What I loathed was the bottleneck point of no return that was the endgame. Ever since facing Fluffy the Cerberus, the game just keeps pushing you until all you have left is a save point right before the final boss.

@Tyranexx
The final boss' difficulty had nothing to do with it. The problem I have with that game is that once you save right before him, you're trapped there. There's no post-game, which isn't really much of a priority in a developer's mindset when developing a licensed game, but either a "replay chapters" or a teleporting option or anything would have been better.
It's still an amazing game, though.
And the music, it was really iconic. Hogwarts. The classroom theme. The nighttime stealth sections here with better quality. The forbidden forest. The flying theme. The forest theme. The Hogwarts ground theme. Hagrid's garden, bears repeating. The dungeon theme, unless I posted it already... alongside a plethora of several other memorable tunes, which are unavailable on Youtube for whatever nonsensical reason.
But if you wanted a dead ringer for the hell of an adventure that awaited, you had to look no further than the main title screen providing the tune that would go on to be the backbone for the entire soundtrack of the game.

@Tyranexx
I gave Chamber Of Secrets on GBA a shot but it turned out to stray away a bit too much from Stone for my tastes.
Then I gave HP games another chance with LEGO Harry Potter on DS, but then that strayed away from the usual LEGO fare, too. So I went back to LEGO Batman.

@Prof_Yoshtonics seeing the art, it’s crazy how Daniel Radcliffe and Harry Potter look so much alike in the earlier films. Later the hair gets weird in the movies, but in 1 and 2, pretty cool. But I definitely agree, they need to use the source material from the books, and not so much the movies...

@StarSurfer Yes. Especially in the later literary art. Harry was taller and slimmer than DanRad ever grew too. Now that I've seen him in other films I don't want to see more games with him as Harry. It wouldn't make much sense so long since the last movie was released.

@Tyranexx
Then you'll enjoy the non-jumping DS entry "Years 1-4".