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Hogwarts Legacy’s sales numbers soar ahead of release

Pre-order numbers point to huge launch

Marco Wutz

Hogwarts Legacy’s sales numbers soar ahead of release
Hogwarts Legacy’s sales numbers soar ahead of release /

Hogwarts Legacy’s release is still a month away, but the pre-orders on Steam would make you think there’s only a few copies remaining up for grabs.

According to Steam’s data, the game was the eighth biggest top-seller in the first full week of 2023 from January 3 to 10, jumping up 15 ranks compared to the previous seven days. This was also the title’s sixth week inside the top 100 sellers on the platform despite calls for a boycott from some online communities.

Since then, Hogwarts Legacy has climbed another few ranks, sitting at number 5 at the moment.

The game developed by Avalanche Software, the studio behind Disney Infinity, sits comfortably behind FIFA 23, Elden Ring, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2022), three of the best-selling titles of the last year.

Suffering from a series of delays, the open-world game set in the Hogwarts School for Wizardry during the 1800s was originally supposed to be available in 2021.

Pre-ordering grants players the Onyx Hippogriff Mount, while an optional Digital Deluxe Edition contains a Thestral Mount, a Dark Arts Battle Arena, Dark Arts Cosmetic Set, Dark Arts Garrison Hat, and an early access period of three days.

Hogwarts Legacy is slated to release on February 10, 2023, on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. A version for PS4 and Xbox One is set to be launched on April 4, 2023, with the Nintendo Switch edition following on July 25, 2023.

With the PC version already gaining momentum four weeks before release, we’re likely looking at a very successful launch.

For details around the controversy surrounding Hogwarts Legacy, check out the linked explainer.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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