Nitter link: https://nitter.net/matpiscatella/status/1747983570222875017
Hogwarts Legacy finished as 2023’s best-selling video game in the U.S. market in dollar sales. It is the first year since 2008 that a non-Call of Duty or Rockstar developed title ranked 1st Rock Band.
https://twitter.com/matpiscatella/status/1747983570222875017
13 Comments
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca · 25 pts · 2y
Does this stat take release date into account? Otherwise it seems like a pretty meaningless metric. An AAA game that releases in January is going to have better sales for the year compared to one that releases in October.
JowlesMcGee@kbin.social · 15 pts · 2y
It doesn't, but most game sales are front loaded at release. Having 8 months on the shelf still makes a difference, for sure, but it's still notable that it was number 1.
slimerancher@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Call of Duty always release near the end, but is still the number 1 game every year.
glimse@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y
What's crazy to me is that after the first week or two, I didn't see anyone talking about it. I kind of assumed it either flopped or was mediocre but I guess people just silently played it?
ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com · 23 pts · 2y
It has that mainstream appeal as in being a brand parents know (Harry Potter) and being pretty inoffensive (i.e. no guns and blood or sex and partying) so I imagine just about every kid with a system it runs on and in the age bracket of 6-16 got it for Christmas or their Birthday despite not being on the wishlist.
Zahille7@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
And it is actually pretty fun, if really simple in a lot of ways.
glimse@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
Good point!
Aussiemandeus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
I love qualifiers and how detailed they can get.
can@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y
Rock Band
Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
This is really cool Rock Band
meant2live218@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Looks like the original tweet ended as (Rock Band) to indicate the game that took #1 back in 2008, and either OP or the auto-titler missed the parentheses?
Vespair@lemm.ee · -16 pts · 2y
lemmyvore@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 2y
TBF the graphics, setup and intro were pretty good (esp if you're a fan of the series). The problem was that it went absolutely nowhere after that, beyond "you're at Hogwarts and it looks pretty". I guess that was good enough for enough people to put it over the top.
Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 2y
Literal children?