Star Wars is perhaps one of the few franchises more popular than Harry Potter, and one fan has created a legendary mashup of the two, placing Harry Potter characters in some of the original trilogy's most iconic scenes.
08.01.2024 - 23:28 / gamespot.com / Harry Potter / Eddie Makuch / Hogwarts Legacy / David Haddad
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Hogwarts Legacy could finish 2023 as the No. 1 best-selling game in the US.
By Eddie Makuch on
Warner Bros. Games has announced that Hogwarts Legacy sold 22 million copies in 2023, including around 2 million in December alone, according to numbers supplied to Variety. The game achieved these results despite controversy surrounding author J.K. Rowling (who was not involved with the development of Hogwarts Legacy but stands to financially benefit from its success).
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment boss David Haddad said Hogwarts Legacy «brought Harry Potter to life in a new way for gamers where they could be themselves in this world, in this story.»
Released in February, Hogwarts Legacy reached 12 million copies sold and $850 million in revenue over the game's first two weeks. It didn't take much longer for the game to cross 15 million copies sold and $1 billion in revenue to become the biggest game release of all time from Warner Bros.
Hogwarts Legacy was the No. 1 best-selling game in the US through November 2023, and December's numbers will be announced next week. If Hogwarts Legacy finishes No. 1 for the year, it will be the first time in about 15 years that a game other than a Call of Duty title or a Rockstar Games release topped the annual sales charts in the US.
Haddad said Hogwarts Legacy currently sitting at No. 1 is notable in part because Call of Duty and Rockstar titles normally dominate the charts. «That's a position that typically is held by one of these incumbent's sequel games and we're so proud that we've been able to break into the top ranks,» he said.
Rumors have swirled that Hogwarts Legacy developer Avalanche will make a Hogwarts Legacy sequel, but nothing is confirmed at this stage and Haddad did not discuss if there could be a follow-up. He did, however, tease that Warner Bros. is developing «a series of other things» in the Harry potter series for new games. One of these is Quidditch Champions, a game that's now in the beta-testing phase.
Before this, Warner Bros. Discovery management said the success of Hogwarts Legacy demonstrates the staying power of Harry Potter. The company is moving ahead with plans for a seven-season Harry Potter live-action series, with each season telling the story of one of the books.
In other Harry Potter news, a documentary about Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe's stunt double, who was paralyzed on the set of The Deathly Hallows, is streaming now on Max.
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Star Wars is perhaps one of the few franchises more popular than Harry Potter, and one fan has created a legendary mashup of the two, placing Harry Potter characters in some of the original trilogy's most iconic scenes.
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.
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 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.
Palworld, the viral hit action-adventure survival title from Japanese developers Pocketpair, has taken the gaming industry by storm, climbing to the top of Steam charts and selling six million copies in just four days of release. But as the game's player count balloons, it has found itself embroiled in a plagiarism controversy, with many on the Internet pointing out alleged similarities between the designs of Palworld's creatures and those in popular Pokémon games. A user on social media platform X has gone as far as to compare in-game 3D models from both Palworld and Pokémon, claiming evidence of outright plagiarism.
Pocketpair’s Palworld has sold over two million copies within 24 hours of launching into early access. It crossed one million copies sold in its first eight hours or so.
Pocketpair has announced that Palworld, its survival crafting creature collection title, has sold more than one million copies within eight hours of launch. It entered early access recently for PC and Xbox Series X/S and is also playable on Game Pass. Thus far, the title has hit 462,632 peak concurrent players on Steam.
Hogwarts Legacy has officially been crowned the best-selling new video game release of 2023, marking the first time that a non-Call of Duty or Rockstar Games title has taken the spot since 2008. Hogwarts Legacy released to positive reviews and record-breaking sales last February, and many were predicting that it would be the top-selling game of the year well before it even hit store shelves.
When J.K. Rowling really doubled down on her transphobic and highly controversial stock of opinions in 2022, it didn’t bode well for the Wizarding World franchise which hadn’t tasted true success since the eighth Harry Potterfilm. But evidently, it completely failed to derail a particular offshoot of the franchise.