Hogwarts Legacy scores fifth No.1 as it surpasses Elden Ring's sales | UK Charts

It's another week at the top of the UK boxed charts for Warner Bros' huge hit Hogwarts Legacy. It has also been No.1 in the weekly digital data, too. In fact, after just five weeks, the game has now surpassed the lifetime sales of Elden Ring in the UK (digital and physical).

[rlow1]

Thank god nobody listened to the immature thinking of a few.

[Mr Pumblechook]

GamesIndustry.biz's Christopher Dring has stopped reported the platform sales ratio breakdown of Hogwarts Legacy.

10 Points to Slytherin for whoever can guess the reason why.

[neutralgamer1992]

It's always the vocal minority who's shouting from top of the mountains. Same way Ukraine wanted atomic heart to not be available for sale on platforms. It's gaming please leave the political agendas out of our hobby

[GamingSinceForever]

At least Ukraine had a legit reason. Let's be serious here.

[neutralgamer1992]

GamingSinceForever

Putin doesn't ask a game developer before starting a war. Atomic heart was in development for a long time and developers delivered a great game for their first try. How is it right to punish the developers and costing them resources that could help them grow

There are always 2 sides of the coin. Ukraine has had multiple opportunities to end this war but it seems they are fighting for the freedom which was guaranteed to them with UN last April. So are they really fighting for freedom or for keep receiving 112 billion in aid since the war. Their president is giving speeches everywhere on the world stage

[XbladeTeddy]

"Ukraine has had multiple opportunities to end this war but it seems they are fighting for the freedom which was guaranteed to them with UN last April."

Obviously they're fighting for their freedom instead of ending the war and not fighting for it. Absolute idiot.

[shinoff2183]

From what I read they wanted banned sales in Ukraine. Completely understandable imo.

[adamwparker]

I'm glad to see that the developers didn't get punished from the opinions of one solo person who really had nothing to do with their actual project.

[BandarHub]

Why are they using Elden Ring as a comparison?
Elden Ring is niche game and has earned it way to 20 Million Sales due to its quality.
Hogwarts Legacy piggybacks on the Harry Potter name and
Overall although Hogwarts Legacy has surpassed Elden Ring, Elden Ring is in a completely different league.
Hogwarts Legacy is a very average game.

[Vengeance1138]

Elden Ring just piggybacks off of Dark Souls success, its nothing new or unique.
People have been looking for a game like Hogwarts since Harry Potter first existed and they finally have it and with the quality of a masterpiece to boot.

[BandarHub]

There is a big difference between both, Niche(Elden Ring) piggybacking off Niche(Dark Souls) whereas Hogwarts piggybacks a global sensation(Harry Potter franchise).

Hogwarts Legacy: Quality of a masterpiece, do not make me laugh.
Lets start with Elden Ring. Saying Elden Ring does nothing new is rubbish. It has revolutionised the open world and has set a new standard.

With all open-world games, you usually get basic AI-driven enemies who are cannon fodder. Elden's ring brings that difficulty souls borne with the Ai-driven enemies into the open world and has been expertly designed to stand in the player's way. In Hogwarts, you do not have that level of difficulty as the enemies are easily dispatched a mixture of basic combos. Even the bosses do not stand a chance against Glaius followed by Diffino. Hogwarts has bad balancing in difficulty and there is no challenge for player who have a firm grip on combat.

Elden Ring does not forgo the established formulae of a level design set by previous souls-borne games. Whether you are going into storm-veil or underground into Nokron. The level design is an intricate and great level of depth. Hogwarts is very average in its level design and still latches into the open-world scan and follows the same formulae. It's boring.

All of the catacombs in Elden Ring have a boss at the end and a hefty reward when defeated. Now compare that to the caves you find in Hogwarts...in which you take two turns and the result has a 99% chance of giving you an underpowered amour....It gave me Destiny 1 flashback

Let's not talk about story, we know which one is superior.

Hogwarts suffers from modern-day Open World fatigue. Instead of crafting a world built with unique characters and doubling down on immersing the player in that world through they designed to go into a generic route. Apart from Hogwarts, everything else is just boring open-world design.
The developers essentially when for the option that would appeal to the everyday gamer which is the dopamine-induced tick box open-world design.
Developers underestimate the average gamer's ability to play a game. You do not have to make the game easy for them to finish it. If the game is interesting enough they will have the desire to complete it not matter what.

[Vengeance1138]

@BandarHub

K.

[MadLad]

That piggyback game dominated everything and all last year.

[Sonic1881]

"It has revolutionised the open world and has set a new standard."

Interesting that you say that about Elden Ring. The game was great but I don't know if it set a new standard 🤔 Another thing that's interesting is that I liked Bloodborne a lot more than Elden Ring and that was a linear game

[andy85]

@bandarhub just because you didn't like it doesn't mean it's not a masterpiece. Many didn't like ER too that doesn't mean it's not great. It scored 88 and that was including reviews that voted it down simply for JKs views. It would be 90+ if judged only on the game. And that's a masterpiece. Games don't have to be difficult for the sake of it just to be great. Most games are easier like HWL, doesn't mean they're bad. Saying it has bad level design makes you sound ridiculous to be honest. The castle is outstanding design. What did ER revolutionalise? It was Dark Souls in an open world and substandard graphics, it did nothing different we haven't seen before. Awesome world building I'll give you that but what else?

[purple101]

Fair point . Also it was the only decent game released on Xbox. Where playstation gamers had a choice...
Xbox owners had elden ring and that's all for those months so I assume everyone looking for a new game brought it. Still sold more on ps tho :)

[SurgicalMenace]

You've got to be kidding me...revolutionalized the open world and set a new standard?!?! Morrowind had more to offer than Elden in terms of open world offerings and that games 20 years old. The amount of knob shinning going on with Elden is insane. What was the standout first of experience had in Elden? The "I get to ride a horse to my next battle instead of walk" wares off as soon as you've got your fast travel points unlocked. Name one feature that was never encountered until Elden? One....I'll wait.

Hogwarts, though worlds easier, is a true representation of what people have wanted in the Harry Potter universe for decades. I have absolutely no interest in Harry Potter but damn is that game enjoyable enough to get an absolute outlier to play it. More detailed world, land traversal, flight, entertaining story, beautiful graphics, etc all outperform Elden's most advanced offerings.

Lastly, to call a game that's cleared 17 million sales niche is an illustration of just how delusional your perspective is.

[Snookies12]

Hogwarts Legacy is not an average game... It may not be a masterpiece, and it is a bit formulaic in its open world design. But what it does, it does extremely well. It's a great, maybe even fantastic game. You don't need to try and downplay that, just to make Elden Ring look better. Both are wonderful games, for different audiences.

[BandarHub]

The standards have changed since the advent of the SoulsBorne series. Indie and AA games know very well how to adapt whereas AAA games have been very Formulaic.
With significant expenses for AAA games, in return, the game needs to be as generic and formulaic as possible so they can appeal to the average gamer. This is why Ubisoft doesn't change their formulae, they have a template for their design and all they do is replicate it. Their games are a dopamine-inducted checklist of tasks that appears as though the player is making progress. It is a very safe design and does not require an ounce of creativity.

Hogwarts is not bad, but it could have been so much more. Not that I did not enjoy it, I had a decent time walking around Hogwarts but it dwelled too much into a formulaic design which is fast getting old.
I would rather take segmented-level designs like God of war over the open-world design of Hogwarts. It would have been better thought out and designed.

[CrimsonWing69]

I think because it was a massive selling game for last year and came out near the same time as Hogwarts.

Both are open-world RPGs and were highly anticipated.

It's not anything to take offense on. In displaying sales numbers we tend to need an example for juxtaposition. Elden sold 20 mill, whereas Hogwarts made those numbers even faster.

It's just for comparison, nothing more. Nobody is saying Hogwarts is better than Elden or vice versa.

And I wholeheartedly disagree that Hogwarts is "a very average game". I think what Avalanche did with Hogwarts is nothing short of exceptional and made me feel that "awe" kind of feeling while exploring an area. The details in Hogwarts and all the other optional things to see makes that world feel alive.

[neutralgamer1992]

BandarHub

Let's stop saying this or that game set the standard. Most games now a days are using features fron other games and ER while great didn't reinvent the wheel. Not every game has to reinvent the wheel IMO

Just have quality content and that's the hat both ER and HWL got

[BandarHub]

There is no open-world game that does Enemy AI as well as Elden Ring not even BOTW.
The game did not reinvent the wheel it added structure to an open-world game which was fast getting stale.
Elden ring should be held to the new open world standard. Not talking about the difficulty but ways to test the player. Most open-world games give players everything they need without a way to test their skills and keep them on their toes.
Hogwarts does not have that, similar to Assassin's creed and Farcry.

[neutralgamer1992]

BandarHub

Hopefully other developers will utilize and use in their games. End of the day developers help each other

[chobit_A5HL3Y]

you're trying too hard to come off as a "hardcore gamer" and are coming across as elitist and just oblivious. why does it bother you that they're comparing it to elden ring at all? if anything, it just shows how well elden ring did to be compared to a top-selling game over a year later.

and i seriously doubt you've even played potter to make the claim that it's, "a very average game".

[Redemption-64]

I think it hurt them Hogwarts legacy is selling better.

[BandarHub]

Not hardcore or elitist but passionate instead.
It is important that we are because if we gatekeep or we are going to have these Jornos dictate what is best for us. And we all know what Jornos are like nowadays. This way when i see people comparing scores of games I cant take them seriously.
They were the reason why Japanese developers stopped making jrpgs for consoles anymore and started making more westernised content. I am sure we do not want a repeat of that.

Hogwarts Fundamentally is an average game, an average story, average level design, and average gameplay but the graphics is amazing.

[andy85]

You're knocking Hogwarts for being an average game (it's clearly not) average story..sorry but it's miles above Elden's story? And how you can say it's average level design is ridiculous, sure its not to the standard of ER but what is?

[IamFrasierCrane]

Niche games don’t sell 20 million copies. Dark Souls 3 sold over 10 million copies as well. This isn’t 2009, From Soft games have been popular for awhile now and have global recognition.

Hogwarts Legacy is getting compared to Elden Ring for many obvious reasons.

-Both are single player focused games.
-Both games have sold extremely well.
-Both are open world RPG
-Both are clear GOTY contenders for their respective years, as well as sharing the same release window. (Elden Ring obviously won their GOTY)

There’s plenty of reasons for the comparisons and it’s great to see single player games sell so well.

[Ninver]

You're a hater but I respect your ability to not hide it.

[GotGame818]

From your comment, I guess you didn't even play Legacy, because it is challenging! Maybe try the game not, in STORY MODE, if you've even played it! 😂🤣😅

[BandarHub]

Play it on the hardest difficulty like I do other games. I have no reason to put energy into lying and writing comments on Hogwarts.

The game has no balance in difficulty and like I said in other comments its a lazy design.
"It isn't easy! If you even got to the cave with spiders, you would know that."
That was easy as well. Throw venomous tentacula to do damage over time, use decendo when Its about to attacks and burn with Incendo, confringo and unleash all your damage spells on it...rinse and repeat.

[GotGame818]

Dude, 99% of us disagree with you! Just drop it. Legacy is a fantastic game, I think you're full of hot gassy air, but just let it go!

The fact is Hogwarts legacy has outsold Elden Ring, in just weeks! People including myself like the game. It isn't easy! If you even got to the cave with spiders, you would know that.

[shinoff2183]

For me elden ring just bored me. Nothing drove me to continue. Hogwarts is atleast fun, although ill admit i had an itch to play start ocean first departure for the umteenth time so put hogwarts on hold but star ocean is dope with a capital d

[anast]

Nice.

[solideagle]

is it just me who is happy to see GOW: Ragnarok in Top 10 :) Awesome game, my only £70 purchase since 2018 :p I am sucker for sales hehe

[anast]

That's a good buy too. I'm with you, I don't buy many full price games. Although, there a few that do get the day 1 treatment.

[DrDoomer]

JK Rolling in moolah.

[got_dam]

I really like both games. I think elden ring is the better of the two, but Harry Potter is a powerhouse IP. Not surprised that a decent game in the setting would sell like crazy.

[Hereandthere]

I wonder if it sold better on ps5 or series sx?

[purple101]

That's a silly question. Even NBA2k now sells better on ps; In xboxs own back yard.

[Stanjara]

Xboxers don't buy games.

[GamingSinceForever]

I haven't gotten this game because I never was into Harry Potter.

As a non-fan is this game really that good? Is it worth picking up?

[Dutchman141]

I've never been into Harry Potter either but seeing it on youtube it caught my interest, it seemed to be a nice game, especially the combat, so I bought it.
I can highly recommend it when you're into open world rpg style games, Hogwarts Castle is fantastically made and there's much to do, and indeed the combat is a lot of fun.

[GamingSinceForever]

Thanks. I’ll get it today.

[gunnerforlife]

Jk must be laughing all the way to the bank knowing the minority who are men dressed as females and their cheerleaders can't stop her Baby's success.

[Godmars290]

Wonder how much the "Forbidden Fruit" factor contributed to that.

[Demetrius]

Shows well crafted single players are ALWAYS WELCOME and cherished a lot of us actually enjoy them seriously bring on more classics next is Spider-Man ps5 😎🔥

[Silver_ShadoWolf]

Hogwarts three enemy variety and simple combat vs the game that stomped 90% of its playerbase with the first boss. Hogwarts will never be played as much as Elden Ring

[SurgicalMenace]

Sooo, your logic tells you that the game that outsells the other is played less? Interesting...

[ChiefofLoliPolice]

Like I said before... To the Twitter mob...time to pack it up, take the huge L and go home. Your virtue signaling only worked against you. All that free publicity you gave the game and I bet that's also what contributed to the games success.

Hogwarts Legacy was a smash hit with sells milestones that a very exclusive club of AAA games ever make it to.

People don't care about what JK Rowling said (even though she stated facts) they just want to play a HP RPG game. JK Rowling got her royalty checks, the good people who worked on this game for paid, and we got to play the best HP game ever!

I hope Rowling comes back to direct the new movies.

[Demetrius]

Absolutely!💯

[Demetrius]

I still roaom around hogwarts for hours lol it’s so well crafted that school is gorgeous inside and out

[gold_drake]

im glad its so successful and that ppl didn't listen to wokeness.