According to the latest earning report from Warner Bros. Discovery, Hogwarts Legacy has crossed $1 billion in just over three months. Despite the controversy surrounding the title and the franchise author, Hogwarts Legacy has emerged as one of the most successful releases for Warner Bros. Games to date. The company's latest earning figures suggest that it may have an ambitious few months ahead for the game.
Although launched in early February, it didn't take much time for Hogwarts Legacy to generate excitement among the fans. During its early access launch period, Hogwarts Legacy became the biggest WB Games launch on Steam, just days before global release. At the time its peak player count hit 489,139 on Steam and currently sits at a whopping 879,308, almost six times more than the peak player count for the company's second-biggest title on the platform, MultiVersus. The game's early momentum carried well into the months following the global launch and prompted WB Games to declare Hogwarts Legacy as its biggest and best-selling game.
In the Warner Bros. Discovery earnings report for the first quarter of 2023, the company stated that Hogwarts Legacy has sold 15 million copies and has generated over $1 billion in retail sales since its release. The reported figure comes weeks after the company claimed that Hogwarts Legacy sold 256% more than WB Games' predicted sales. It's also worth noting that this sales milestone is entirely attributed to PC and current-gen consoles. Now, with Hogwarts Legacy releasing on Xbox One and PS4 today, it wouldn't be surprising to see the title cross even bigger sales figures in the coming months.
Interestingly, Avalanche Software initially planned to release Hogwarts Legacy cross-gen, with Xbox One and PS4 versions going online in line with the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S editions. The launch of the previous-gen version was later pushed by a few months to May 5, indicating that the developers may have looked to focus on the optimization for the consoles. However, this isn't the final release for the company as Hogwarts Legacy is set to launch on Nintendo Switch by July 25.
Beyond the console launch, fans have wondered what the future holds for the massive hit in terms of new content. While the company hasn't confirmed any DLC expansions for the game Hogwarts Legacy did get new cosmetic DLC as part of a Twitch Drop. In any case, only time will tell whether Hogwarts Legacy fans will see any narrative expansions anytime soon.
Hogwarts Legacy is available now on PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X, with a Switch port releasing July 25.
Source: Warner Bros. Discovery
