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[Laieon]

I mean there weren't wizards and trolls and flying brooms either.

Maybe there was.

 

[poppabk]

It's sad when a 1/10 sex toy like this gets all those sales but the 9/10 Lelo sila suction barely enters into the orifice, I mean conversation. Sex toy innovation is stagnating.

 

[BigStef71]

That's $425 million a piece!

 

[Halo is Back]

So many innocent lives lost because of this game.

 

[sandbood]

Elden Ring sold 20M across 5 platforms in a year, and was the second best selling game of 2022 worldwide. Hogwarts did 12M across 3 platforms in 2 weeks... lol

Elden Ring sold 12M in 18 days. We did you get the info about ER being the number 2 in 2022? Pokémon SV and COD are above ER.

 

[belmarduk]

A great game worthy of the success!
While it is gratifying to see such a great game sell so well, it is equally gratifying to see the harassment campaign fail so spectacularly. The next time these ogres want to ban a game, nobody will listen.

 

[BadBurger]

On a budget of $150 million, with Sony helping with the heavy lifting / spending on marketing. The devs earned their bonuses and then some this year.

 

[Inspector Q]

A visual representation of what these constant Hogwarts Legacy news updates are doing to Resetera members:

 

[mckmas8808]

Next gen only too, incredible

You sure? It's not on PS4 Xbox One?

 

[NickFire]

You sure? It's not on PS4 Xbox One?

Not yet. Spring I think.

 

[BadBurger]

You sure? It's not on PS4 Xbox One?

Those versions ship on April 4th, and the Switch edition has been slated for late July. So there's still many more sales to be had.

 

[Kumomeme]

 

[TheGrat1]

Joanne Kathleen Rowling:

 

[El Pistolero]

Oh wow! This thing is gonna sell close to 30 millions, me thinks.

 

[Gamerfan81]

 

[ergem]

On a budget of $150 million, with Sony helping with the heavy lifting / spending on marketing. The devs earned their bonuses and then some this year.

Hoping j.k rowling would tweet about the success of the game to rub it in. She must have earned a lot of royalty.

 

[gow3isben]

How much of that 850 mill goes to JK Rowling? At least 30-40 mill might?

 

[BeardGawd]

they want to talk about it so bad I bet.

If it had flopped they'd be talking about it nonstop.

How much of that 850 mill goes to JK Rowling? At least 30-40 mill might?

I wonder this too. If it was my IP I'd charge like 10% of revenue as a Royalty fee. So if this breaks 1 Billion that's a cool $100 Million my way. Even at 5% that's a nice $50 mil. I wonder if we have any stats on things like that? Probably depends on the IP.

 

[gow3isben]

Damn she gonna end up with 10% increase in her net worth because of this game

 

[HotSauceEnema]

Elden Ring sold 12M in 18 days. We did you get the info about ER being the number 2 in 2022? Pokémon SV and COD are above ER.

‘Elden Ring’ Was The Second Best-Selling Video Game Of 2022

Elden Ring was edged out of first place at the end of 2022.

www.forbes.com

But they only cite NPD so must be US only

 

[Silver Wattle]

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Damn.

If it wasnt for the Reee and trans boycott, WB could had sold 12,000,040 copies.

 

[Deerock71]

I may pick this up on Switch for a double-barelled whammy.

 

[k_trout]

what pisses me off about the success of Hogwarts Legacy is that I never know if someone online is talking about this or Half Life

 

[Pilgrimzero]

Fun game. Hope a sequel gets made.

Also I hope they make learning and using the Dark Arts have actual consequences.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

For those of you talking JK Rowling royalties, I wonder too.

The $850M is retail dollars. So the wholesale price is around 70% of that, so you're still talking about $600M already. By the time the game sales end, it'll probably cross $1B cost price.

Just assuming $1B for sake of a benchmark, For every 1% royalty she pockets herself, that's $10M per percentage point. Or perhaps she has a flat fee like $2 per copy. Who knows.

Love it. JK has to do a tweet on the moolah to rub it in SJW faces.

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

This game had the best free advertising ever.

 

[geary]

HL>ER confirmed

/s

 

[MasterCornholio]

 

[ikbalCO]

Holy hell.

And its not even on ps4 and xbox one yet.

 

[onQ123]

Holy hell.

And its not even on ps4 and xbox one yet.

The Switch release is going to send it through the roof

 

[PeteBull]

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

it doesnt pander to them, its different to acknowledge something vs actually promote stupid shit, same with rowling, she isnt anti trans but she isnt anti biology either

 

[Tommi84]

12 million?! At this speed, they'll have 20million in no time

 

[Nautilus]

I'm dead at all the people in here saying "that will show the woke crowd!" because by all definitions the game itself is "woke". You have lesbians, transgender people, and people of colour all over the place.

i'm still very early in the game.But honestly that by itself doesn't really make the game woke. Maybe outside of the trans NPC, nobody really cares if there are black NPCs or gay NPCs, as long as they are not preachy about that, or try to constantly "educate" you about that.(Or that most of the characters in the game are that)

And again, very early in the game and all, but that doesn't feel that's the case.

 

[DerivedDataCache]

Epic right now:

 

[ShadowNate]

I'm glad the creators and developers for this will be getting paid handsomely, at least those who profit from the sales the game makes.

Not that one guy who tweeted that he worked on it but won't be buying it because he is an ally to his family of trans people. But he obviously is not getting anything from sales anyway.

 

[MMaRsu]

Epic right now:

Epic? Why

 

[DerivedDataCache]

Epic? Why

UE4

 

[MMaRsu]

UE4

Thats just a one time fee

 

[drganon]

Not surprising. Game is good and is set in a very popular fictional universe. People on Twitter and resetera thinking boycotts would work were out to lunch.

 

[ZoukGalaxy]

GOOD.

 

[Jayjayhd34]

From the article:

"according to numbers released Thursday by the video game company"

These are official numbers.

They shared on twitter so take it’s official congratulations are in order. Not mention this almost guarantees a sequel. Just need to finish some side quest myself and get lvl 34.

 

[Filben]

Some people right now

 

[nightmare-slain]

Elden Ring is gonna get wrecked!

Hopefully this means a sequel is happening.

Get fucked Ree/Twitter

 

[nightmare-slain]

what pisses me off about the success of Hogwarts Legacy is that I never know if someone online is talking about this or Half Life

Why would anyone be talking about Half Life in 2023?

I think it's safe to say if you see it then 99.9% likely they mean Hogwarts.

 

[Skifi28]

Why would anyone be talking about Half Life in 2023?

Well, they did just release a trailer for half-life with Ray tracing.

 

[Bonfires Down]

Well, there it is.

Probably looking at 30M+ lifetime then.

 

[NahaNago]

I wonder if it will break 20 million by the end of the year.

 

[k_trout]

Why would anyone be talking about Half Life in 2023?

I think it's safe to say if you see it then 99.9% likely they mean Hogwarts.

I hear you, I know I got to get with the times, but youre talking to someone who still double takes and wonders why everyone is still talking about Harry Potter 37 years after Troll came out.....ill get my coat

 

[Satansblade]

If it had flopped they'd be talking about it nonstop.

I wonder this too. If it was my IP I'd charge like 10% of revenue as a Royalty fee. So if this breaks 1 Billion that's a cool $100 Million my way. Even at 5% that's a nice $50 mil. I wonder if we have any stats on things like that? Probably depends on the IP.

Royalties are nowhere near 10%. Tops, she's making 2$ per copy. 2-3% are what the most popular IP holders make. You need to remember, she's did no work and took no risk. She's getting millions, on top of the flat fee she was paid for rights to the IP.