shikamaru317 said:
This is cool to see, I'm really glad to see Hogwarts do well and I really hope that WB doesn't f up the sequel with GaaS elements like they recently suggested they would; you hardly need GaaS to make money when you are moving this many copies of a fully singleplayer game. I'm not sure it would have happened if CoD had been stronger this year though, I think I read that CoD MW3 sales were down by like 30% compared to MW2 last year, likely due to the poor reviews, so if CoD had been a proper non-rushed release this year, just those 2 months of November and December sales might have been enough for CoD to top Hogwart's February-December sales. |
I'd argue that the fact that COD is still #2 even as an expansion sold as a full priced game and the worst rated COD in history says more about how reviews don't affect COD, Lmao. I'm thinking COD fans just aren't stupid and know this was a DLC released as a full game so the price doesn't match the product and will be more inclined to wait for a price drop.
It's a big achievement for Hogwarts Legacy though, only Red Dead Redemption and GTA have managed to knock COD from #1 over the past 10-15 years? But having said that, it did release in February and the Harry Potter IP is still huge which has a very enthusiast audience, along with a casual market that knows it well, gamers have been clamouring for an AAA Harry Potter for the past 10+ years as well.
It's going to be close I reckon, COD will still have big sales in December, how is HL selling on Switch? Could tip it over COD.
