Hogwarts Legacy Soars to the Top of Yet Another Sales Chart

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The planetary success of Hogwarts Legacy continues, with a new report revealing that the hit action-RPG topped the Australian sales chart in its launch week. This development underlines the game's early momentum which is already at a point where Avalanche Software might want to reconsider its lack of Hogwarts Legacy DLC plans.

So far, the new Harry Potter game broke a 22-year-old sales record in the UK and became the most-viewed single-player title in the history of Twitch, as well as WB Games' biggest Steam launch to date. These early milestones alone already make it one of the most successful games of the year, especially seeing how it has yet to reach half its target platforms. Namely, Avalanche Software is still working on porting the game to last-generation consoles, which boast a combined installed base of nearly 300 million units, according to turn-of-the-year data.

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In the meantime, Hogwarts Legacy continues to dominate PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S sales charts, with the latest evidence of that trend emerging from the Oceania region. The Interactive Games and Entertainment Association reports that the RPG debuted at the top of the weekly sales charts in both Australia and New Zealand, outselling NBA 2K23 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, which placed second and third, respectively, in both markets.

FIFA 23 and Grand Theft Auto 5 rounded off the top five best-selling games in Australia and New Zealand for the week ending February 12, 2023. The bottom halves of the two countries' charts are a bit more varied, although both include Middle-Earth: Shadow of War and The Last of Us Remastered. However, while Australians also bought The Last of Us Part