Harry Potter spinoff sport Hogwarts Legacy managed to promote an astounding 22 million copies in 2023.
Warner Bros. Interactive Leisure president David Haddad confirmed the numbers when talking with Selection. Whereas the undertaking did benefit from coming from a longtime IP, these are nonetheless spectacular numbers. Warner Bros. Video games provides that round 2 million copies had been offered throughout the December vacation season alone.
Hadded went on to name it “the best-selling sport of the 12 months in all the business worldwide”: “That’s a place that sometimes is held by one in all these incumbent’s sequel video games and we’re so proud that we’ve been in a position to break into the highest ranks,” he added.
Circana analyst Mat Piscatella analyst talked to IGN about the opportunity of Hogwarts Legacy being 2023’s prime sport again in December, saying it was “actually doable.” Ought to it actually come out on prime (we nonetheless do not know the ultimate 2023 numbers for Name of Obligation: Trendy Warfare 3), it’s going to mark the primary time since 2009 {that a} Name of Obligation or Rockstar sport has not topped a yearly chart.
Warner Bros. added that Hogwarts Legacy has conjured up 707 million hours performed as gamers wanted repeat playthroughs with completely different Homes. Moreover, would-be wizards have poured 819 million potions, plucked 1.3 billion crops, saved 593 million beasts, and overwhelmed simply lower than 5 billion evil wizards.
Hogwarts Legacy launched for many platforms on February 10, too, that means it had most of 2023 to attain these numbers. It additionally got here to Nintendo Swap in November.
We didn’t have to learn about Warner Bros. Video games’ success to suspect that the staff is likely to be brewing plans for extra Harry Potter adventures, however Hadded nonetheless made positive to tease extra tasks. This features a much-talked-about Quidditch expertise, in addition to “a sequence of different issues” set in that universe.
“We don’t have any specific bulletins on precisely how and when [the Quidditch game] goes to come back to the market, however we’re working to get it designed in a approach simply to thrill followers,” Haddad stated.
Hogwarts Legacy additionally charted properly on PC, with Steam reporting the title as one in all its most-played video games of 2023. The Harry Potter online game was one in all IGN’s best-reviewed video games of the 12 months. At launch, we stated, “Its open-world journey captures all the thrill and marvel of the Wizarding World with its memorable new characters, difficult and nuanced fight, and a splendidly executed Hogwarts pupil fantasy that saved me glued to my controller for dozens of hours.”
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