Hogwarts Legacy Sales Top 12 Million Units in 2 Weeks, Earns $850 Million - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 23 February 2023 / 6,030 Views
Publisher Warner Bros. Games and developer Avalanche Software announced the open-world action RPG, Hogwarts Legacy, is the biggest global launch ever for Warner Bros. Games.
Hogwarts Legacy has sold over 12 million units worldwide in its first two weeks since it launched on the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. It has also earned over $850 million in global sales in the same timeframe.
The game has exceeded sales records on all three platforms it is available on and broke records for streaming by becoming the biggest single-player game ever on Twitch with 1.28 million peak concurrent viewers at launch.
Players for Hogwarts Legacy have played 280 million hours to date and helped grow the Wizarding World Digital by 300 percent higher traffic over the normal monthly unique visitor average for the first 10 days of February.
“We are so thrilled and proud to see the player response to Hogwarts Legacy from gamers, fans who are new to gaming and reviewers around the world," said Warner Bros. Games President David Haddad.
"Our development team at Avalanche delivered an amazing, high-quality Wizarding World experience that truly fulfills the fan fantasy of life at Hogwarts and our publishing teams have executed a globally impactful launch campaign."
Hogwarts Legacy released for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC on February 10. It will also launch for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on April 4, and for the Nintendo Switch on July 25.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Impressive, this is only 3 of the 6 platforms it will release on too, PS4/XB1 in April, Switch in July. I would imagine it will hit 20m sales even before the Switch release, legs on current platforms plus the launch on PS4/XB1 should easily push it over 20m by the end of Q2 I'd imagine. WB tends to price cut fairly quickly too, I would imagine we will see it hit $40 on current platforms before the end of June probably.
Very nice. Looking forward to playing it on my Switch.
Well deserved as well.
Woah, crazy high sales. Really makes you wonder why we had to wait this long for a decent Harry Potter game?
The wizarding world is a nice play ground for a change,
J.k Rowling didn't slow the sales down huh haha
She actually made most of the sales since the name of the IP helped a lot on the marketing. Just a small amount of silly people were parading against it.
The Mrs. has been playing this. Not my cup of tea, but she's certainly been enjoying it.
Immense sales! The game will earn more money than any of the Harry Potter films grossed individually at the box office. The high mark is $1.3 billion for Deathly Hallows Pt 2. More to come with PS4 Xbox One and Switch versions still to release.
And to think WB were thinking of selling the division.
Out of interest for those who have played it - how big does the open world feel in the game? Some reports say it’s small but packed full of stuff.
Insane, this game is a huge hit.
I am one of them! (Even if my pc version is a buggy mess, still like the game)
Best Harry Potter game easily. I wonder what plans they have for a sequel.
I guess the boycott made by certain "community" backfired.
Major success, would love to see the breakdown.
Man, can't wait to see how much of a boost this gets when it hits Switch, just a shame it's a while off.
Very nice. I'm loving the game.
Just last year, Warner Bros was trying to get out of the gaming business, or at least scale it way back. Now they have a mega hit on their hands, a new MK coming soon, and more big games in the pipeline. I'm glad to see that they didn't just ignore the gaming business after failing to exit it.
On the other hand Warner Bros also made Gotham Knights and are making Suicide Squad (which I expect to bomb).
the boycott didnt go as planned then... it deserves it great game and not rammed with microtransactions. hopefully this should change minds about adding some more story DLC :)
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