Hogwarts Legacy has continued its impressive launch by conquering two more major markets, with a new report stating that the Harry Potter RPG topped the latest weekly sales charts in both South Korea and Taiwan. This achievement further illustrates the game's rapidly growing momentum which already saw Hogwarts Legacy break a 22-year-old sales record in the United Kingdom and dominate Steam's top sellers lists in dozens of countries the world over.
Not only did Hogwarts Legacy turn into a strong contender for the biggest title of the year within days of its release, but its explosive success is also likely to continue for a while yet. Seeing how Avalanche Software is still working on ports for last-generation consoles, the hit open-world RPG has yet to become available to hundreds of millions of potential buyers come spring and summer.
Steam Stats Reveal Countries Where Hogwarts Legacy is Most Popular
In the meantime, newly published insights from Bahamut GNN and MediaCreate revealed that Hogwarts Legacy debuted at the top of weekly sales charts in South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. While this data doesn't include actual sales figures estimates, its rankings have some overlap and are consistent with an earlier report that does. Namely, Famitsu already reported that Hogwarts Legacy topped Japanese retail sales in its launch week, estimating that it outsold the second-placed Pokemon Scarlet and Violet 2.5 to one in the Far Eastern country. One caveat with both of these sources is that neither includes digital sales in their unofficial estimates, seeing how those are only known to the publisher who's unlikely to disclose them until later this year.
Looking at the regional picture, the Harry Potter craze appears to be going strong
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