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Hogwarts Legacy tops Elden Ring sales in launch week

Biggest Harry Potter game release ever in the UK

Marco Wutz

Hogwarts Legacy tops Elden Ring sales in launch week
Hogwarts Legacy tops Elden Ring sales in launch week /

The stats for Hogwarts Legacy keep getting better: after storming the pre-order charts on Steam, breaking a viewership record on Twitch, and almost reaching a peak of almost 900,000 players on Steam, the sales charts from the UK paint an even brighter picture.

Hogwarts Legacy is the biggest ever launch among Harry Potter video games in the UK, reports GamesIndutry.biz. It beats out 2001’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone on physical sales both during launch week (by 60%) as well as the game’s second week (by 2%), which was its biggest saleswise due to the hype around the movie. That doesn’t even include Hogwarts Legacy’s digital sales yet, which are guaranteed to make the margin of victory even more impressive.

Hogwarts Legacy also tops Elden Ring’s launch week sales by about 80% – though last year’s celebrated open-world RPG had a great digital start, so we’ll have to wait for additional numbers before making a final comparison. Hogwarts Legacy beating the FromSoftware title, despite the hype around it, isn’t exactly a shocker, though, considering how big of a media franchise Harry Potter is.

Among consoles, PS5 beat Xbox Series X|S with 82% of Hogwarts Legacy sales, which again is not a shocker, considering Xbox is stronger digitally and those numbers are still missing, and the PS5 has simply sold a lot more units in the UK. Hogwarts Legacy also contains some exclusive content for Sony’s console, Haunted Hogsmeade quest, which is one of the best missions in the game. PS5 players might also be interested in the best Hogwarts Legacy PS5 settings to find the best compromise between graphical fidelity and performance.

Hogwarts Legacy claimed the top spot of the UK’s boxed sales charts with this great start, with usual top-sitter FIFA 23 banished to third place – God of War Ragnarök managed to clinch silver thanks to a PS5 bundle that includes it.

For more on the new wizard game, check our Hogwarts Legacy review as well as our full Hogwarts Legacy walkthrough.

For details around the controversy surrounding Hogwarts Legacy, read more in 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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