Current Events > Hogwarts Legacy is the #1 best selling release of 2023

(+) Yeah! (+)

https://x.com/HogwartsLegacy/status/1724472267378188371?s=20

Huh?

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zelda, starfield, and bulders gate 3 all sold more than 15

leafsRULE posted...

zelda, starfield, and bulders gate 3 all sold more than 15

lol that one is player engagement from game pass subscriptions

Huh. That's pretty neat.

Can I hook up with a qt Ravenclaw gf?

Sounds like bs. No way it sold more than zelda

Imagine if this game was more Bully and less Assassins Creed. Hogwarts was the best part of the game and even that was just a dressed up fetch quest hub.

The best selling game of most years is cod, followed by FIFA

Axiom posted...

Sounds like bs. No way it sold more than zelda

It seems like they're both pretty even in terms of sales. Plus Hogwarts was on all the platforms too

Good for it.

Axiom posted...

Sounds like bs. No way it sold more than zelda

TotK is only on Switch. Hogwarts Legacy is on seven platforms.

Hayame_Zero posted...

TotK is only on Switch. Hogwarts Legacy is on seven platforms.

Nah its bs like I thought. Zelda sold way more

Zelda sold at least 7 copies and Hodworts sold at least 3, so clearly Zelda is destroying it.

literally been out longer than all the other games lol

It's the best selling game before September. So starfield, baldurs gate, FIFA, cod, mario wonder, all wouldn't be counted

So about that boycott...

Are people STILL upset over this game?

People are upset that it didn't get a GOTY nomination cuz it's mediocre af

BurmesePenguin posted...

Zelda sold at least 7 copies and Hodworts sold at least 3, so clearly Zelda is destroying it.

Hogwarts sold 15 million which makes sense considering it's out for 7 platforms, but Zelda is still king at 18.5 million sold.

MrMojoRising posted...

People are upset that it didn't get a GOTY nomination cuz it's mediocre af

Eh I enjoyed it but a lot of it was just busy work like the animals capturing. The fuck was the point of that other than to annoy me. Just let me find ingredients

Axiom posted...

The fuck was the point of that

Padding like any other Ubisoft-like to make it seem theres content.

Flauros posted...

Are people STILL upset over this game?

No one is upset over the game. None of the drama is over the game itself. The game is caught in the middle.

Okay, this is great obvious bullshit, so I was a bit curious.

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*Based on sales through Septber 2023 - Source: Circana, GSD & Internal estimates

Okay, the internal estimates are already funny enough and is basically "we just made it up", but I wanted to check at least one other source.

I just took the first one, Circana:

https://twitter.com/MatPiscatella/status/1714634354842804431

Notice that "*" at Zelda and Mario Kart 8?

The embedded tweet doesn't show you the footnote. this footnote is golden. You cant make it up.

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Flauros posted...

Are people STILL upset over this game?

who's upset ITT?

Karovorak posted...

You cant make it up.

This is some good work you did.

I wanna know if MK8 is a top ten selling game of the year if you include digital sales.

pauIie posted...

who's upset ITT?

user Flauros apparently

Flauros posted...

Are people STILL upset over this game?

I think the most fun part is all the whiny snowflakes that cried about this game and tried boycotts are trying to hold their heads up high and act all mature about it now. "Nah, I didn't throw temper tantrums over it every single day before it released. No one was mad at the game itself. You were just automatically banned from most forums if you made mention of the game at all, not bothered at all, no sir".

PesticideDream posted...

I think the most fun part is all the whiny snowflakes that cried about this game and tried boycotts are trying to hold their heads up high and act all mature about it now. "Nah, I didn't throw temper tantrums over it every single day before it released. No one was mad at the game itself. You were just automatically banned from most forums if you made mention of the game at all, not bothered at all, no sir".

You are a sad person...

Can I make Enoby Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way?

PesticideDream posted...

I think the most fun part is all the whiny snowflakes that cried about this game and tried boycotts are trying to hold their heads up high and act all mature about it now. "Nah, I didn't throw temper tantrums over it every single day before it released. No one was mad at the game itself. You were just automatically banned from most forums if you made mention of the game at all, not bothered at all, no sir".

PesticideDream is also upset.

Axiom posted...

Sounds like bs. No way it sold more than zelda

Or Pokmon. Think it did 16 million or something ridiculous opening weekend. Was record breaking for a series that consistently breaks sales records for their platforms for decades at this point.

PesticideDream posted...

I think the most fun part is all the whiny snowflakes that cried about this game and tried boycotts are trying to hold their heads up high and act all mature about it now. "Nah, I didn't throw temper tantrums over it every single day before it released. No one was mad at the game itself. You were just automatically banned from most forums if you made mention of the game at all, not bothered at all, no sir".

? Who exactly are you thinking of besides Gunpla that did *anything* about the boycott? From what I recall it was exclusively topics about how the boycott was going to fail, and constantly trying to get Cyric to post.

Good let those boycott ppl get butthurt

Rise_Makaveli posted...

Or Pokmon. Think it did 16 million or something ridiculous opening weekend. Was record breaking for a series that consistently breaks sales records for their platforms for decades at this point.

Well Pokemon released last year so most of its sales would have been then

CompatibleGreet posted...

Good let those boycott ppl get butthurt

Who? Who are these fictional people?

Well it makes sense. Harry Potter is a huge franchise, you get both gamers and fans wanting in. Not to mention the stupid boycott which was the worse boycott I'd ever seen lmao.

All of that made it insanely popular >_>

Edit: Also did a quick search, Tears of the Kingdom sold more from what I see

rynobot posted...

Who? Who are these fictional people?

Memory may be fickle but it seems silly to suggest that nobody except for gunplagirl was calling for a boycott over this game. Cause otherwise what, CE tore itself apart for nearly a week all because people were in agreement that boycotts are pointless and that there was nothing wrong with buying this game? Lol please.

SpiritSephiroth posted...

Not to mention the stupid boycott which was the worse boycott I'd ever seen lmao.

I assume you were born within the last 15 years because if you don't know of the Disney boycotts of the late 1990's to early 2000's then you have no understanding of "worse boycotts".

Flauros posted...

Are people STILL upset over this game?

Forever? Forever ever? Forever ever.

Wasn't there a Call of Duty boycott, where the boycotters bought the game anyway? That's probably the most stupid.

The Hogwarts controversy only made non-transphobic Potter fans feel bad for wanting to play a game. The transphobic ones? They revelled in it.

A_Good_Boy posted...

Memory may be fickle but it seems silly to suggest that nobody except for gunplagirl was calling for a boycott over this game. Cause otherwise what, CE tore itself apart for nearly a week all because people were in agreement that boycotts are pointless and that there was nothing wrong with buying this game? Lol please.

Correct.

Like, I quite literally only remember two Gunpla boycott topics and then a neverending deluge of "lol at the boycott" topics. This, of course, ignoring the fact that Gunpla had two alts and there were actual boycott topics on the HL board itself that weren't made by Gunpla.

The conditions placed on this being the "#1 best selling release of 2023" reminds me of this scene in The Jerk...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUQkbXWwJhQ

It barely beat Luigis Mansion 3 figures

ellis123 posted...

Correct.

Like, I quite literally only remember two Gunpla boycott topics and then a neverending deluge of "lol at the boycott" topics. This, of course, ignoring the fact that Gunpla had two alts and there were actual boycott topics on the HL board itself that weren't made by Gunpla.

No, it seems kind of silly to suggest that several 500 topics over a week were driven primarily due to people engaging with a single user. Just because she had the most dramatic blow up over the game doesn't mean she was the only one upset over this game.