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Hogwarts Legacy Has Generated $1 Billion in Retail Sales - Insider Gaming

Despite only releasing on current-generation consoles, Warner Bros. has announced Hogwarts Legacy has generated $1 billion in retail sales.

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Despite only releasing on current-generation consoles (release on past-generation today), Warner Bros. has announced Hogwarts Legacy has generated $1 billion in retail sales.

Within two weeks after its February 10 launch, the game sold more than 12 million copies and generated $850 million in global sales revenue. Last month, it was revealed via the Warner Bros. Senior Global Brand Manager that the game had achieved 256% to plan sell-thru at launch.

Despite Hogwarts Legacy’s success, the company posted a big loss, despite its streaming business turning a profit of $50 million for the quarter. With a total revenue of $10.7 billion in the first quarter, it means that Hogwarts Legacy amounted to around 9% of the company’s total revenue for that period.

Just yesterday, Hogwarts Legacy was reported via Newzoo to be the top-grossing title of Q1 2023.

With the past-generation console version released today, it’s likely that Hogwarts Legacy will continue to increase its earnings. On launch in February, Hogwarts Legacy racked up more than 1.3 million concurrent viewers on Twitch, making it the most-watched single-player game of all time on the platform.

 

[Topher]

 

[Umbasaborne]

Reee and /gamingcirclejerk are having a group therapy session as we speak

 

[Oddvintagechap]

Reee and /gamingcirclejerk are having a group therapy session as we speak

“gamingcirclejerk” doesn’t sound like a place they would have a problem with this

 

[Senua]

 

[Heisenberg007]

Amazing performance! Good games do sell. Who knew!

 

[Umbasaborne]

“gamingcirclejerk” doesn’t sound like a place they would have a problem with this

At first they were funny. They made fun of online forum babies. Then they became super authoritarian and started banning any one from their sub reddit who was also a member of the hogwarts legacy sub reddit

 

[Gudji]

 

[onQ123]

If only that other website would have let people talk about it they could have generated 2 billion by now

 

[Heisenberg007]

Assuming 50% of the copies were sold on PlayStation (very reasonable), that means $500,000,000 revenue on PlayStation.

Sony's net profit would be almost $150 million! And this is BEFORE the PS4 version landed today.

What a masterstroke to choose to market this game.

 

[CheeseCake]

Reee and /gamingcirclejerk are having a group therapy session as we speak

That sub is an absolute circus.

Here's the thing though:

Do not comment on that sub unless you're absolutely 100% certain you're going to say something positive/that the sub agrees with, otherwise you will get banned.

I always go on that sub to laugh at some of the shittiest takes in gaming history and just, honestly, enjoy the charade. It really is a circus. There's plenty of clownery there.

 

[The Alien]

Gonna celebrate with some Bud Light!!

 

[AJUMP23]

What percent goes to Rowling.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

That sub is an absolute circus.

Here's the thing though:

Do not comment on that sub unless you're absolutely 100% certain you're going to say something positive/that the sub agrees with, otherwise you will get banned.

I always go on that sub to laugh at some of the shittiest takes in gaming history and just, honestly, enjoy the charade. It really is a circus. There's plenty of clownery there.

I lasted about 2 days on that site. I just couldn’t help myself.

Someone made a topic like “as a gay gamer, am I entitled to have the same number of gay romance options as straight ones in RPGs? I’m going to say yes.” And all the responses were like “oh yes, oh, of course you are! No reasonable person could possibly disagree with that!”

I posted a response like “I hope someday we can engineer a society where 50% of people are gay so that you have the romance options you are entitled to” and that was that lol. No regrets.

 

[Fake]

Thats a big number.

 

[Hayabusabruh]

 

[PaddyOCanager]

What percent goes to Rowling.

Depends on if they paid royalties upfront or not. I'm guessing they most likely did, so she's not actually earning a percentage of each sale.

 

[IFireflyl]

I already mentioned this in another thread, but I really don't want people to miss this if they want it:

Don't forget that you'll have another chance to grab Merlin's Cloak/Robe today with the Twitch livestream. It occurs at 9:00 AM Pacific/10:00 AM Mountain/11:00 AM Central/12:00 PM Eastern.

 

[AJUMP23]

Depends on if they paid royalties upfront or not. I'm guessing they most likely did, so she's not actually earning a percentage of each sale.

I would like to see that contract. I assume they have to have the license with WB, and then WB has to pay Royalties to Rowling. I am sure Rowling also has right of refusal on some things as well. If I have to guess she gets a percentage of what WB gets.

 

[Saber]

Celebrating the release of PS4 version in great style then.

 

[mckmas8808]

Assuming 50% of the copies were sold on PlayStation (very reasonable), that means $500,000,000 on PlayStation.

Sony's revenue would be almost $150 million! And this is BEFORE the PS4 version landed today.

What a masterstroke to choose to market this game.

And Phil says that console says don't matter. WTH is wrong with him?

$150 million in 3 months! That's crazy!

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Reee and /gamingcirclejerk are having a group therapy session as we speak

And most of the people on Reee have surely played it.

Maiden Voyage or Manabyte (I forget who) posted an image of a Reeee anti-JK member group. And most of the people had in their status they were playing Hogwarts. Even one of the mods.

If even they are all playing, just imagine how many of the normal folks on that board played it.

All closet JK and HP fans.

 

[peronmls]

I love Harry Potter, but this game could have been and looked a lot better. They should have expanded outside of Hogwarts. That would have been worth the price.

 

[Heisenberg007]

And Phil says that console says don't matter. WTH is wrong with him?

$150 million in 3 months! That's crazy!

And with 0 game development costs or risks!

Sony can easily fund 1 massive AAA game with this money or 2-3 Returnal or Horizon Zero Dawn type projects.

 

[killatopak]

Really happy for HP fans.

I think the last time I really liked an HP game was the Chambre of Secrets on GBA.

 

[AtomicStarving]

boycott worked, huh?

 

[DeepEnigma]

 

[HTK]

I'd love to drop this bitch in Sudan or Syria. Better yet Ukraine.

 

[Davevil]

 

[mejin]

J.K. Rolling in cash.

 

[GymWolf]

The crazy purples right now

The rest of the world:

 

[fart town usa]

Well deserved. I still haven't played it but it looked great from the few times I watched my wife play it. Team worked hard and made a quality game. Happy for them.

 

[Termite]

That's a huge amount of money but I still think it was mismanaged.

They could have made Hogwarts Legacy: Year 1, and so on, for 7 years. Given the insane quality of the Hogwarts school they've created, they could have sustained that with the content they have here. Slap a persona-esque school system over your core game design and go from there.

Instead, you're given free reign of Hogwarts right away (it's amazing but overwhelming) and then most of the game takes place in bland open world fields doing bland open-world things. The school itself feels almost wasted as it is. You take like 5 classes in total, lol. The rest of the time you're out brutally murdering poachers (um... proportionality?) and "rescuing" beasts (read: poaching).

The art, music, and general game design here could have supported a ton of games had they not spunked it all on a third-rate open world game design.

 

[FunkMiller]

OH GOD. THAT'S ONE BILLION TRANSGENDER PEOPLE DEAD.

 

[Putonahappyface]

If I could customise a car horn, I'd have her scream.

Also thanks for the hernia.

 

[mxbison]

Funny how people suddenly love Ubisoft style game design when it's Harry Potter.

 

[Tsaki]

Hopefully a good chunk of that billion is allocated to the studio so that they have everything they need to build upon in the sequel. Talent retention, talent acquisition, tech and pipeline upgrades. It would be a shame to see all of that go to their other failing endeavours.

 

[STARSBarry]

Funny how people suddenly love Ubisoft style game design when it's Zelda.

Fixed for you.

The real issue with Ubisofts game design is not the design mechanically. People love it, they can't get enough of it when other people make it. The diffrence is that Ubisoft rip out everything that should be an award to the player for doing side objectives or side quests and put it on a premium ingame shop instead for real money. This means you don't feel as rewarded when playing as other games, because Ubisoft have designed the game to push you towards the cooler stuff that they sell for real money.

Hogwarts didn't do that, hence the relatively high praise.

 

[Thief1987]

It's a very sad thing that you can put famous brand on an utter mediocrity and make a bank.

 

[MarkMe2525]

I believe these big hits are great for the industry as a whole. Hopefully it will push some production companies to push to have their games to be as feature complete and beautiful as this one. The money is out there for them, they just have to earn it.

I realize not everyone loves this game, but I found the title impressive.

 

[ahtlas7]

It’s really a magical experience.

Make good entertainment, get rewarded!

 

[Beastclaw Raider]

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

What is this about? Is she mad she doesn’t get to use the men’s bathroom?

 

[Stare-Bear]

An amazing feat but after finishing it it’s a lot of filler. Hopefully they’ll release some dlc that adds new locations and enemies.

 

[sachos]

I hope these last single player hits like RE4, GoWR, ER and HWL send a clear message to publishers/devs.

 

[Stare-Bear]

I would love a breakdown of how much Jk makes from this game.

 

[Lasha]

And with 0 game development costs or risks!

Sony can easily fund 1 massive AAA game with this money or 2-3 Returnal or Horizon Zero Dawn type projects.

You two are adorable. The obsession with Microsoft is unhealthy. Are you capable of posting in any thread without going to console war nonsense? It's embarrassing at this point.

 

[StueyDuck]

Dope...

Really the only game that's grabbed my attention so far this year... that and a bit of sons of the forest

 

[blastprocessor]

EPIC will be making bread on UE4.

 

[Bragr]

How does he get up though?