Harry Potter title Hogwarts Legacy has sold more than 24 million copies to date.
09.01.2024 - 12:35 / radiotimes.com / David Haddad
There's no denying that Hogwarts Legacy was one of the biggest games of last year, with millions of Harry Potter fans jumping at the chance to enrol in that iconic wizarding school and unravel a mystery decades before The Boy Who Lived was even born.
Thanks to a new interview by Variety, we now know exactly how many units were sold in 2023 for the game.
Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment president David Haddad confirms in the article that 22 million copes were sold by the end of the year, with two of those millions being shifted during the December holiday season.
Haddad added: «But it’s not just the unit sold that I’m so proud of, it’s just that it delighted the fans so much [...] It brought Harry Potter to life in a new way for gamers where they could be themselves in this world, in this story.» But this leads us to a question.
Although Haddad did not outright announce Hogwarts Legacy 2 in this interview, he did admit that «a series of other things» are in the works that will continue bringing the Harry Potter brand to gamers.
Haddad promises that these upcoming projects, which include the already-announced Quidditch Champions game, «will let the fans be part of this world and stories and characters in deeper and deeper ways».
We would be very surprised if Hogwarts Legacy 2, or another Wizarding World title from its developers at Avalanche, wasn't on that list.
But for now, no Hogwarts Legacy DLC or full sequel has been officially announced. We'd say it looks likely based on these quotes, but you never can tell what's going on behind the scenes.
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As for Quidditch Champions, a sports title that will centre on the magical sport that was infamously absent in Hogwarts Legacy, Haddad added:
«We don’t have any particular announcements on exactly how and when [the Quidditch game] is going to come to the market, but we are working to get it designed in a way just to delight fans».
As we learn more about this whole «series» of Wizarding World games, we'll be sure to let you know. Watch this space, folks...
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Harry Potter title Hogwarts Legacy has sold more than 24 million copies to date.
Hogwarts Legacy has now sold 24 million copies since its release in February last year, publisher Warner Bros. has said.
The best-selling game of 2023, Hogwarts Legacy, has sold over 24 million units to date. The news came from Variety, which also outlined the ambitious plan Warner Bros. Discovery has for growth in the gaming space. The company values Harry Potter (the IP behind Hogwarts Legacy), Mortal Kombat (which has sold three million units since its debut last September), DC, and Game of Thrones franchises $1 billion each for their gaming potential, and it plans to capitalize on them all.
It’s no secret that Hogwarts Legacy was a huge revenue earner for Warner Bros. last year after becoming the best-selling title in the United States and the UK. However, after it sold over 22 million copies in 2023, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav recently told Variety that it crossed 24 million sales.
Remember the PlayStation-exclusive content for Hogwarts Legacy that was available when the game launched in February 2023? It’s finally coming to other platforms later this Summer, per the official Twitter. There will also be additional “updates and features”, and players should stay tuned for more details this year.
With the first anniversary of its initial release fast approaching, Hogwarts Legacy has teased future updates to the Wizarding World title, including some great news for players who purchased the game on a platform other than PlayStation. Hogwarts Legacy players have been clamoring for new content for some time now, and this update offers hope that good stuff is on the way.
New content is coming to in 2024, and a previously platform-specific quest will be made widely available over a year after the game's initial launch. achieved the rare feat of surpassing as 2023's best-selling game in the United States, finally delivering on many's long-held desire of an expansive open-world game set in the universe. Much of developer Avalanche Software's first year in post-launch support was spent bringing to more platforms, but now it would seem more content and features are on the way.
Hogwarts Legacy was released last year, and while we are nearing its official one-year mark since its release, the developers over at Avalanche Software have something cooking up. If you haven’t touched Hogwarts Legacy since its release, you might soon have a reason to toss the game back on. Today, the developers have revealed that the once-exclusive content set aside for just PlayStation players will soon be released for everyone. But beyond that, it looks like the developers have something else planned for players to enjoy.
Hogwarts Legacy players on non-PlayStation platforms will soon gain access to Sony-exclusive content, Warner Bros. Games and Avalanche Software have announced.
Hogwarts Legacy continued its impressive run as PlayStation announced it was the platform's most downloaded PS5 game in the United States and Canada during 2023. Hogwarts Legacy outperformed other heavyweights like Call of Duty, Spider-Man, Madden, and more.
Hogwarts Legacy sold 22 million copies last year, approximately 2 million copies were sold during the December holiday season alone. It's clear to see that the game is incredibly popular, becoming one of the best-selling games last year, even striking up a close contest with serial best-sellers Call of Duty and EA Sports FC (formally the FIFA series).
is set in the 1800s, long before any of the events in the series take place. Despite that, Hogwarts' magical campus is full of familiar names, but the familial relationships may not be obvious, especially for those who haven't read the books. Going through and seeing which characters from are related to characters from the novels can make the next playthrough a bit more interesting.