With Hogwarts Legacy selling 25 million copies, 22 million copies in 2023, there was only one real question of whether one game could unseat it, given that it had already cleared Call of Duty. That was The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom on Nintendo Switch. Now, the final numbers are in, and Hogwarts Legacy still has the crown.
Nintendo has now reported that Tears of the Kingdom sold 20.28 million copies, lower than Hogwarts Legacy’s 22 million. We only had physical sales of Tears before this, but many thought that when the digital numbers came in from Nintendo, that it might overtake Hogwarts. But it missed.
Still, of course, in context, 20 million sales for Tears of the Kingdom is wild because it is of course only released on Nintendo Switch compared to Hogwarts Legacy’s PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, PC and Switch releases. So if we’re grading on a curve, Tears of the Kingdom probably has the more impressive figure. But in the end, Hogwarts Legacy is the first non-Rockstar game to be the sales leader of the year over Call of Duty in eons.
There have been no official announcements of what may be coming next for Hogwarts Legacy in terms of DLC or a sequel, however it was recently shared that something was coming in 2024, in addition to unshackled PlayStation missions for other platforms:
“As we near the one-year anniversary of Hogwarts Legacy, we wanted to let our community know that the Hogwarts Legacy PlayStation-exclusive content will be available on other platforms later this summer, along with additional updates and features for the game. Stay tuned in the coming months for more details on what’s coming to Hogwarts Legacy this year.”
The one planned Harry Potter release from Warner Bros. we know about is Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions, a standalone game that is not DLC for Hogwarts Legacy, but its own thing. Many speculate that’s why Quidditch wasn’t in Legacy as they were trying to double dip, and they actually had to write into the Legacy story why no one was playing Quidditch that year.
WB has recently commented about its success in video games by saying they want to pursue live service and engagement, despite the fact that Hogwarts Legacy found unprecedented success as a standalone, single player game with no microtransactions. It seems incredibly likely that a sequel would not be able to resist that temptation, likely to its detriment.
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