In a quarterly earnings report from Warner Bros. conducted this morning, the company shared that Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League cost them a whopping $200 million since launch. Additionally, both Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav and CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels had less than positive things to say about the game.

The quarterly earnings report, which was shared this morning, outlines the year-over-year decline of Warner’s revenue. Much of it was attributed to Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s poor performance and overwhelmingly negative reception. When discussing the company’s financials, CFO Wiedenfels had this to say:

“Starting with Studios, the $400 million-plus year-over-year decline during 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 [earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization] during the first quarter.”

CEO David Zaslav also referred to the launch of Suicide Squad as “disappointing,” echoing a very popular sentiment amongst the player base itself. It’s not necessarily surprising to hear the executives be up-front about their game’s performance, but it really hammers home just how much we were all let down by Rocksteady’s latest outing.

As always, we hope that the team will be able to turn the game around in future seasons, but the framework is probably just not good enough to redeem it. Hopefully in the future Rocksteady gets the chance to work on a much better title and return to their former glory—though given the current climate of layoffs and closures, we’re a little worried for them.

[Source: WB Discovery]