Hogwart’s Legacy is already essentially the most profitable Harry Potter recreation of all time
With only one week of bodily gross sales, Hogwarts Legacy is just not solely the highest vendor of the week, however has additionally set a brand new franchise launch document. The most recent entry within the UK’s twenty sixth largest franchise, forward of the Legend of Zelda, outsold the earlier document holder, Harry Potter and the Thinker Stone, by 62%. The very first Harry Potter recreation was launched one week earlier than the primary film and even with that increase, Hogwart’s Legacy is comfortably primary.
Evaluating Hogwarts Legacy to different winter launches, it has outsold final yr’s Elden Ring by 80%. A lot of the recreation’s gross sales, 82%, had been on the PlayStation 5 although last-gen variations, and most significantly, the Nintendo Swap model, gained’t be out for a couple of extra months.
God of Struggle Ragnarök grew one other 10% this week and is quantity two once more off the unimaginable gross sales of the PlayStation 5 bundle. Final week’s prime title, FIFA 23, dropped 3% and landed within the third spot. Equally, Mario Kart 8: Deluxe had a ten% lower in gross sales and is quantity 4 for the week.
Name of Responsibility: Fashionable Warfare 2 is at its lowest placement, sixth, since launch after dropping floor with slowly declining gross sales. Useless House drops from third to seventh following a 52% drop in gross sales however nonetheless faring higher than each different January launch. Spongebob Squarepants the Cosmic Shake plummeted from quantity 10 all the way in which all the way down to quantity 34 in its second week of gross sales following a 60% gross sales drop.
The remainder of the highest spots are full of Nintendo Swap video games boosted by discounted costs. Animal Crossing: New horizons went from twelfth final week to fifth this week with a 40% gross sales enhance. New Tremendous Mario Bros U Deluxe jumped 8 spots to position on the chart for the primary time in months.
Beneath are the best-selling boxed video video games within the UK for the week ending February 11, 2023:
