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[Putonahappyface]

 

[GnomeChimpsky]

 

[midasmulligan]

Imagine what they would have made if it wasn’t for that massively successful boycott /s

 

[adamosmaki]

Must be the reset Era ban cutting into their sales. Probably lost hundreds of sales maybe even a couple of thousands

 

[JackMcGunns]

Transphobes... Transphobes everywhere...

More like salesphobes

 

[LectureMaster]

 

[nemiroff]

"But, but without the boycott it'd sell 120 million copies!" /idiot

 

[Fart Knight]

Those lifetime sales are gonna be

 

[Cert.in.Death]

 

[Catphish]

It's a great game. Been playing it exclusively since launch. It's the best open world game since RDR2.

It's not perfect, but it is fucking awesome, and I really hope they introduce some kind of multiplayer element into it.

The world they've built, with all the beauty and detail, it deserves to be shared with friends.

They arguably have a solid foundation if they wanted to go MMO with it...

 

[EDMIX]

OMG. Thats better than RDR2. Almost CoD and GTA numbers. holy shit.

We felt this game could do massive numbers. Happy we picked the highest on that poll a few weeks ago lol

Solid team, solid IP. Much deserved. I'm loving the game so far and things I dislike like some audio issues and small glitches are not enough to have me give it a really, really low score or something. For a game of this magnitude, this is fucking impressive for a team that has never made a game exactly like this. Hype for what they do with a sequel as they have laid out an amazing foundation

 

[NeroDaGod]

When you make great games, you get great results.

 

[Mr Moose]

$850 million vs $725 million.

But then again math isn’t my strongest suit

That didn't include PC (launched a year later), but still... 12+M is amazing, especially since this doesn't include PS4/Xbox One/Switch sales.

 

[ExcitableBoy]

It’s done very well on TERF island as well

 

[analog_future]

Holy fuuuuuuuck that's insane

 

[Bragr]

Very impressive, expect a sequel within 3 years.

Harry Potter has the potential to be Spider-Man-level-of-franchise, they can milk this in many ways as long as they keep some quality on it.

 

[Revolutionary]

Not surprised. HP is a massively popular franchise, and the 'boycott' only helped sales. Also helps that the game is damn good.

 

[yazenov]

You don't go woke, you don't go broke?

 

[intbal]

So, what's a conservative estimate for the additional sales on 8th gen machines?
5 million in the same time period?

 

[Jaybe]

 

[Myths]

Well, you can expect this to be the marketing model of constant citation whereby devs (outside of the ones specially for this game) try to carbon copy it. Similar to how COD was/is often looked at as a development blueprint for success.

 

[Saber]

Who would guess people just want to "magic go brrr". As a Harry Potter fan myself, this puts a smile on my face.

This boycott should be written in all history as the biggest and most ridiculous fail of all time.

 

[ckaneo]

$850 million vs $725 million.

But then again math isn’t my strongest suit

Lol, I can tell

 

[Sir Vilhelm]

I wonder how many of those sales were out of spite.

Funny enough mine was, never a Harry Potter fan but I am really enjoying this game. All the outage got me to play something I am really enjoying that I would have missed out on entirely otherwise.

 

[Fahdis]

I did my bit by buying two copies. Will buy a third just to rub it in. We need to stand up to the nut jobs.

I will gladly take the 3rd copy off your hands if you do buy it at some point.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

My avatar bet stands, 20 million first month.

 

[kyliethicc]

sheeesh

 

[shaddam]

The boycott really worked. I and some of my "twitter friends" bought it mainly for triggering weirdos. The game is really good too

 

[ZehDon]

 

[ahtlas7]

Amazing numbers!

 

[just_jr]

 

[lughnasadh123]

Holy Hermione...

 

[onQ123]

Switch & PS4 / Xbox One will take this number up to 20 million

 

[ManaByte]

Bought it on all three platforms.

 

[KingXtreme81]

Proud to have purchased 4 copies.

1 digital Deluxe for myself
1 physical for myself for collection
1 digital for my brother
1 digital for my nephew

I love it, as have by bro and nephew, An absolutely amazing game; 60 hours into my play through. Beat it, love it, still playing it. Should they ever decide to put out additional content, I’ll buy it for myself, as well as my fam.

Buy it, folks. Incredible.

 

[eye__writ]

You don't go woke, you don't go broke?

The game is very inclusive and "woke", so that makes no sense.

 

[Oddvintagechap]

This whole thing is hilarious.

“Woke” game became big with bigots out of spite.

Everyone I knew probably became super aware of the game because of all the “bad” press. They didn’t read the articles. Not that they would care Jk is a “terf” feminist. They assumed the game was super hyped. And I mean everyone single one. Im talking about Call Of Duty annual buyers here.

The game itself is Ubisoft standard, yet we got Elden Ring level hype.

I consider myself to be extremely understanding, progressive even. But I hate people that unreasonably bitch. So ill consider this a W.

 

[TheDraconian]

Gonna reach 30million sales in no time. Deserved.

 

[onQ123]

This would be amazing but hate to be a downer but can’t see any sales numbers in quotes. from Warner brothers hours played yes,

I’m sure they would have released this information if had broke the 10 million mark when they announced hours played.

would love to be wrong though because it would be fucking awesome if true.

Guess you love it because you're wrong lol

 

[Rival]

I opted for the Deluxe PC version and am loving it so far. I don’t have a lot of time to play games but I’m about 12 hours in. I bought this game having never read a HP book or watched any of the films. Now I’m watching the films and will eventually read the books. What a great universe.

 

[Boss Mog]

I'm not a Harry Potter fan but it seems like the team managed to deliver a game that fans of Harry Potter would enjoy so kudos to them. The fact that this pisses off the blue-haired mob is a nice bonus too.

 

[SegaManAU]

Luckily we all boycotted this game to keep the figures down!

 

[Satansblade]

Now its gonna be a huge franchise and we get to watch them scream again!!!

 

[LiquidMetal14]

Hell yes bring on the sequel

 

[mxbison]

Yeah it's pretty crazy, people at work I didn't even know play games are talking about it.

Probably also helps that they aren't tired of the standard AAA open world mechanics yet.

 

[samoilaaa]

Hell yes bring on the sequel

yeah i hope they will use all that money to make a sequel with everything improved

 

[Dr. Samuel Hayden]

Excellent.

 

[StylishMGTOW]

 

[Sakura]

You don't go woke, you don't go broke?

The game is pretty "woke" to be honest though.

 

[Bekind]

As big IP as Harry Potter is world wide, i thought Hogwarts Legacy would have sold at least 20 million copies by now, LOL.

Guess this just really shows how impressive Elden Ring really was. Being released one week after one of Sony's most popular first party title game HFW, still managed to sell over 12 million in two weeks.