The planetary success ofHogwarts Legacycontinues with yet another impressive performance in the United Kingdom, where the newHarry Pottergame led physical game sales for a third straight week, according to new estimates. This latest bit of insight into the commercial performance of Avalanche Software’s hit RPG dovetails with over half a dozen previous reports claimingHogwarts Legacyhas been dominating sales chartsall over the world.
The home country ofHarry Potteralready demonstrated its love for the Wizarding World in the game’s debut week, whenHogwarts Legacybroke a 22-year-old sales recordand demolished first-week physical sales of heavy hitters such asElden Ring. The open-world ARPG already became the most-viewed single-player title in Twitch history, as well as WB Games' biggest Steam launch to date; recent estimates suggest Valve’s platform generated well over $200 million in revenue for the publisher in the game’s first ten days on the market.
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Since then,Hogwarts Legacymanaged to maintain its massive momentum in the UK, where it topped physical sales for the third week in a row, GamesIndustry.biz reports, citing GfK data. The achievement is even more impressive in light of the fact that the newHarry Pottergame has been going against four new top ten-worthy releases this time around, with the most high-profile title from that lot beingKirby’s Return To Dream Land Deluxe, which debuted at number three. The rest of the debutant contenders wereOctopath Traveler 2,Atomic Heart, andLike A Dragon: Ishin, which ranked sixth through eighth—in that order—during the observed period.
FIFA 23squeezed in betweenHogwarts Legacyand the newKirbygame on the latest UK physical game sales chart, while its top five was concluded byGod of War Ragnarokand the evergreenMario Kart 8 Deluxe. Apart from the aforementioned debutant trio, the bottom half of the weekly list was completed byCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 2andMinecraft: Switch Edition, which placed ninth and tenth, respectively.
WB Games likely places great stock in the home country ofHarry Potter, given how numerous industry watchers estimate that the UK is the sixth-largest video game market on the planet, boasting nearly 40 million players with $5.5 billion in combined annual spending habits. Furthermore, recent estimates suggestHogwarts Legacytopped the physical sales charts in Japanand South Korea, which dwarf the UK in total gamer spending by a factor of five, during its launch week.
The newHarry PotterRPG has also been doing great in other parts of the world. According to previous reports,Hogwarts Legacydebuted at the top of Oceania sales charts, in addition to dominating physical game sales in Taiwan, among other markets.
Hogwarts Legacyis out now for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S, with PS4 and Xbox One versions coming April 4, and a Switch port dropping July 25.
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