Hogwarts Legacy biggest non-fifa/cod game launch in Europe since RDR2

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Zippy6 said:

UnderwaterFunktown said:

If anything that cements just how ridiculous CoD and Fifa sales are (mostly in Europe for the latter ofc). This probably also doesn't include digital for Nintendo games, but I doubt anything other than Scarlet and Violet is in the same league when it comes to launch sales.

Yeah I'm sure it doesn't include digital sales for Nintendo. Don't believe anyone but Nintendo has that info neither NPD or this. Though it's worth noting how skewed Pokemon is to Japan. It did Ship+Digital a colossal 10m first week but 4m of that was in Japan. So 6m FW ship+digital for outside Japan so I wouldn't be surprised if Hogwarts still beat S/V in Europe even if it didn't WW.

Here's sales for some of the games in the list:

Red Dead Redemption 2 - 17m Globally (First 2 Weeks)
Pokemon - 10m Globally (6m outside Japan) (First Week)
Cyberpunk 2077 - 13m Globally (First 3 Weeks)
Elden Ring - 13.4m Globally (First 5 weeks)
TLOU Part 2 - 4m Globally (First Week)
God of War Ragnarok - 5.1m Globally (First Week)

I think the 10m for Scarlet and Violet might actually have been sell-through? They weren't super explicit about it, but they did use the word "sold" and I think the assumption at the time was at least that it was sell-through. Probably not a huge difference, but yea I agree that when it comes to Europe (and generally outside of Japan) Hogwarts Legacy quite likely beat it.