{"id":611434,"date":"2023-02-24T08:49:42","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T14:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/24\/hogwarts-legacy-sells-12-million-units-in-first-two-weeks\/"},"modified":"2023-02-24T08:49:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T14:49:42","slug":"hogwarts-legacy-sells-12-million-units-in-first-two-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/24\/hogwarts-legacy-sells-12-million-units-in-first-two-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Hogwarts Legacy sells 12 million units in first two weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Warner Bros. Interactive and Avalanche Software revealed today that their recently launched Harry Potter game, Hogwarts Legacy<\/a>, has sold over 12 million units within its first two weeks of launch. It also made $850 million in global sales. The title also set records on Twitch, being the biggest single-player game launch on the streaming platform. It hit 1.28 million concurrent players at its peak.<\/p>\n

According to Warner Bros., Hogwarts Legacy is now the most successful game in the Wizarding World\/Harry Potter franchise. David Haddad, president of Warner Bros Games, said in a statement, \u201cOur development team at Avalanche delivered an amazing, high-quality Wizarding World experience that truly fulfills the fan fantasy of life at Hogwarts and our publishing teams have executed a globally impactful launch campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n

The publisher also revealed players have put 280 million hours into Hogwarts Legacy already. In addition to the game\u2019s success, Warner Bros also reported a rise in engagement with the overall franchise, including a 300% rise in traffic on Wizarding World websites.<\/p>\n

The game\u2019s launch has been shrouded by controversy, with some gamers calling for a boycott over the alleged transphobic views of the Wizarding World creator, J.K. Rowling. While Rowling did not have active involvement in Hogwarts Legacy\u2019s development, she benefits financially from its success.<\/p>\n

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February 23, 2023 2:55 PM Hogwarts Legacy goes outside of the school.Image Credit: Sony Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. Warner Bros. Interactive and Avalanche Software revealed today that their recently launched Harry Potter game, Hogwarts Legacy, has sold over 12 million units within<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":611435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38332,3341,46],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-611434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hogwarts","8":"category-legacy","9":"category-technology"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}