Hogwarts Legacy breaks twitch singleplayer game concurrent viewers record

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JRPGfan said:

curl-6 said:

Total sales are have surpassed 30 million as of last month:

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/harry-potter-franchise-future-tv-series-video-games-1236201249/

Absolutely insane sales.

Whats crazy is the drama it had when it launched.
Reviewers refusing to review it, games journalists refusing to give it any space or pr ect.
On resetera its not even allowed to be spoken out, you can get banned for it, they call it "the wizard game" instead.
All because they believe JK Rowling to be transphobic.
There were boycotts towards it.... because they wouldn't support such a game, because of who is behind the IP.

Meanwhile most normal people are just like "cool, a harry potter game".

Honestly I have a wildly different take from this. Especially being in a liberal space, a lot forums banned the discussion of the game because the conversation just fell into extremisms, political war arguments. 

But almost all of the major publications supported the game and through its launch it was surrounded by excitement, especially the Playstation State of Play dedicated gameplay deep dive. It's success was never a surprise unless you were deep into the warring fractions imo.

As always the general public stances can't be deduced by twitter hot-takes or viral forum posts.

Super happy for this game and hope they're more ambitious with the next. I still haven't got past the first few hours because the combat didn't quite stick. Although the hogwarts fantasy is fun, I think I crave a darker story.