Harry Potter spinoff recreation 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 mission did take pleasure in coming from a longtime IP, these are nonetheless spectacular numbers. Warner Bros. Video games provides that round 2 million copies have been bought in the course of the December vacation season alone.
Hadded went on to name it “the best-selling recreation of the yr in the whole business worldwide”: “That’s a place that sometimes is held by one in every of 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 potential for Hogwarts Legacy being 2023’s high recreation again in December, saying it was “definitely attainable.” Ought to it actually come out on high (we nonetheless do not know the ultimate 2023 numbers for Name of Responsibility: Trendy Warfare 3), it will mark the primary time since 2009 {that a} Name of Responsibility or Rockstar recreation 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 crushed simply lower than 5 billion evil wizards.
Hogwarts Legacy launched for many platforms on February 10, too, which means it had most of 2023 to attain these numbers. It additionally got here to Nintendo Swap in November.
We didn’t must find out about Warner Bros. Video games’ success to suspect that the workforce is perhaps brewing plans for extra Harry Potter adventures, however Hadded nonetheless made positive to tease extra initiatives. This features a much-talked-about Quidditch expertise, in addition to “a collection of different issues” set in that universe.
“We don’t have any explicit bulletins on precisely how and when [the Quidditch game] goes to return to the market, however we’re working to get it designed in a approach simply to thrill followers,” Haddad stated.
Hogwarts Legacy additionally charted nicely on PC, with Steam reporting the title as one in every of its most-played video games of 2023. The Harry Potter online game was one in every of IGN’s best-reviewed video games of the yr. At launch, we stated, “Its open-world journey captures all the thrill and surprise of the Wizarding World with its memorable new characters, difficult and nuanced fight, and a splendidly executed Hogwarts scholar fantasy that saved me glued to my controller for dozens of hours.”
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