It’s hard to believe that it’s already been a year since Hogwarts Legacy first came out.
26.01.2024 - 20:17 / screenrant.com / Harry Potter / Hogwarts Legacy / Kyle Gratton
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.
According to the official X (formerly Twitter) account, the game will receive "" sometime this summer. No specifics were given, so said additional content could be a variety of things, from new quests to simply more in-game cosmetic items.
The announcement of new features was also accompanied by the revelation that a quest currently exclusive to PlayStation platforms will be made available to all players across Xbox consoles, Nintendo Switch, and PC. Said quest centers on a haunted shop in Hogsmeade, and seemingly had an exclusivity deal with Sony that lasted over a year.
This latest announcement for is sadly lacking in details, including any release timing more precise than "." There is, however, a promise that more information will become available "." Some speculation on the wider availability of the haunted Hogsmead shop quest can be made, though. Officially titled "" in-game, it has heretofore only been available to players who purchased on the PS4 or PS5.
While the details of the exclusivity deal made seemingly between Sony and publisher Warner Bros. Games remain undisclosed, such agreements typically delineate predictable exclusivity periods – six months, one year, etc. The PS4 version of released on May 5, 2023, making a one-year window fairly convenient, but May isn't typically considered a summer month. Although, with seasonal release windows not clearly defined, and the lack of concrete details in the announcement, May 5 could be considered the earliest possible date for the "" wide release, even if it's more likely to come later.
Any prediction of what the "" might include would be purely guesswork. didn't have DLC planned shortly after its release, but the internal post-launch outlook might have changed now that the game has landed on all its expected platforms. This nebulous announcement so far out is a bit odd, but should be exciting for players who are looking to get more mileage out of .
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Set in the 1800s in the Wizarding World universe, Hogwarts Legacy is an open-world action RPG where players get to live out a student's life in the hallowed halls of Hogwarts and beyond. Aside from Hogwarts, players can also travel between iconic locales such
It’s hard to believe that it’s already been a year since Hogwarts Legacy first came out.
It's been a year since Avalanche Software released Hogwarts Legacy, the first open world action RPG set in the Harry Potter universe. The game went on to become the biggest commercial success of 2023, having now surpassed over 24 million units sold to date, according to publisher Warner Bros. games. It has outsold the likes of Call of Duty and FIFA (now EA Sports FC), not to mention rising to the top in an incredibly packed year of great game releases.
In celebration of the one-year mark for , some new stats have been released regarding how the past year has fared for the witches and wizards in the game. The open-world action RPG is set in the world made famous by, yet these events take place a century before Harry's adventures and feature a fantastic journey into history. Experiencing what it would be like to be a student at the magical school and be sorted into one of the four houses of Hogwarts has given players a chance to experiment with roleplaying and led to surprising results.
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.
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.
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