LEGO to Bring Game Development In-House, New Studio Created

@Anke this is certainly an opinion 😅

I do not believe this is a wise decision. Toy companies are game developers. History has shown they are not good at understand the ebbs and flows of gaming. Hasbro is a prime example. Buying TT games would be a better decision, in my humble opinion. .

Gaming saved Lego, they were about to go under until they started to get involved with other licenses. I'd be curious to see what they can do, but it sounds like a big gamble.

I don't care about Lego games but have a feeling this won't go well

I would like to see new LEGO games without using famous licensed Western franchise as I mostly never like popular franchise especially Western superheroes.
Make some new LEGO games with generic and neutral theme such as LEGO BUILDERS (Not LEGO World) , LEGO Rhythm games, LEGO Sports, LEGO Racing, LEGO RPG, etc.

@Anti-Matter Have you ever heard/played lego rock band?

I'm guessing that supposed Skywalker Saga type Lego Harry Potter game by TT isn't happening then - or it's the last outsourced LEGO game to be in production.

Either way I'm curious/happy to see the studio doing a non Lego game in the future, it's been about 17 years since their last release.

I recently watched a video about a pitch they presented for a regular Hobbit movie tie in, using scenes from LOTR as a base, to branch out from the constant Lego churn. That ended up being forced into Lego LOTR by management, followed by the Lego Hobbit game. Surprisingly most of the elements from that pitch ended up in the final version verbatim - QTEs, stealth and magic mechanics, dialogue taken directly from the movies, etc. only with the realistic models replaced with minifigures.

@Orpheus79V "Either way I'm curious/happy to see the studio doing a non Lego game in the future, it's been about 17 years since their last release.

We will probably not see any future games from them cause I'm pretty sure the only reason WB games has keep TT game open for this long was cause their lego games was making money.

Expect announcement of various TT staff leaving to join team Lego. They might even get Burton back?

Lego Horizon was SH*T so not sure how I really feel about any games not involving TT.

@GirlVersusGame I can for certain say that gaming did not save Lego. They needed no saving to begin with. Gaming is becoming a bigger focus area for sure but they sell insane amounts of physical Lego, own 10 theme parks and doing excellent with movies and series.

@Sveakungen They needed no saving? they were over $800 million in debt. That doesn't just happen overnight. In 2003 they reported loses of over one billion. They restructured, got rid of every non-essential part of their company and focused solely on the innovation and production of quality new products.

A big part of the change was Lego selling their video game division, opting to have outside developers create games with the proper licenses. They saw continued success the following years with more Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Batman, Lord of the Rings, and Marvel Super Heroes games. All of these games sold collectively more than 50 million copies. Money that in-turn went back into marketing and research for their physical sets like Bionicle.

And the parks? they were sold to the Merlin Entertainment Group. The same group who were down over two hundred million themselves last year. The same Merlin Group of Alton Towers, Thorpe Park, Chessington World of Adventures.

I imagine they want more stuff like Lego Horizon and the movie games where everything is made from the blocks rather than TT's style. I know it looks less visually impressive, but TT style is so much more kid friendly in how readable everything is compared to the full lego piece look. You know exactly what you can interact with and your characters always stand out from the background.

This will most likely be a disaster, I predict in 5-7 years they license it back to external publishers due to the costs & risks associated with doing it yourselves .

@fournexus nintendo was a toy company.

@Anke I agree, Lego Horizon Adventures was actually the most fun in a Lego game that I've had in a while. A lot of people who never played the game will obviously tell you otherwise though.

@fournexus Bandai was also a toy company at first… Hasbro failing at video games has more to do with them being a terrible company in general than them a toy company.

@Anke Idk man Lego City Undercover was a blast

@beltmenot
I don't like Rock Band either as the songs using licensed Western rock songs that almost 99% I don't like and the songs are full songs (more than 3 minutes).
I played Rhythm games mostly made by Japanese developers like DDR by Konami, MaiMai by SEGA, Taiko no Tatsujin by Bandai Namco as they have more appealing song choices and standard short songs for Arcade style (1.30 - 2.30 songs)