Hogwarts Legacy Debuts at Top of Japanese Sales Chart
Hogwarts Legacy has continued its impressive launch by topping the Japanese sales charts in its debut week, outperforming Nintendo's latest hit by a huge margin. The new Harry Potter game already broke a 22-year-old sales record in the UK, in addition to becoming WB Games' biggest-ever Steam launch and seizing the title of the most-viewed single-player game in Twitch history.
Less than a week into its release after a brief early-access period, Hogwarts Legacy already appears to be in the running for the most successful game of 2023. Making matters even more impressive is the fact that the action RPG has so far only reached half its target platforms. Avalanche Software previously announced plans to do a staggered release of Hogwarts Legacy and is currently still working on porting the game to last-generation consoles.
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In the meantime, the latest Harry Potter game continues to sell incredibly well, with the latest piece of evidence attesting to that trend coming from Japan. Famitsu estimates that Hogwarts Legacy sold 67,196 copies during its debut week in the Far Eastern country, outselling the second-placed Pokemon Scarlet and Violet by nearly 40,000 units. Of course, the new Pokemon games have been out for months and already sold nearly 5 million units in Japan, but that's not to downplay the local success of Hogwarts Legacy, which outperformed the next five best-selling titles combined during the observed period.
Furthermore, this data is for physical retail only, and while digital purchases aren't as huge in Japan as in the West—e.g., Nintendo games have been fairly evenly split across the two channels since 2020— it's still plausible that the total
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