Hogwarts Legacy Dominates Key Market in Third Straight Week
The planetary success of Hogwarts Legacy continues with yet another impressive performance in the United Kingdom, where the new Harry Potter game 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 claiming Hogwarts Legacy has been dominating sales charts all over the world.
The home country of Harry Potter already demonstrated its love for the Wizarding World in the game's debut week, when Hogwarts Legacy broke a 22-year-old sales record and demolished first-week physical sales of heavy hitters such as Elden 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 Legacy managed 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 new Harry Potter game has been going against four new top ten-worthy releases this time around, with the most high-profile title from that lot being Kirby's Return To Dream Land Deluxe, which debuted at number three. The rest of the debutant contenders were Octopath Traveler 2, Atomic Heart, and Like A Dragon: Ishin, which ranked sixth through eighth—in that order—during the observed period.
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