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Hogwarts Legacy is back at the top of the UK physical charts following its release on Nintendo Switch, plus Black Friday discounting, pushing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 to second place.

Black Friday deals have boosted sales for several titles, including EA Sports FC 24 at No.3, which benefited from a 115% sales boost from being part of a PS5 bundle.

The same goes for Assassin's Creed Mirage, which has moved from No.10 to No.8 following a 165% rise in sales. Gran Turismo 7 and Forspoken also re-entered the charts at No.15 and No.16, respectively, due to being bundled with the PS5.

Meanwhile, three new titles debuted in the UK boxed charts this week. Super Mario RPG at No.6, followed by Bluey: The Video Game at No.7, while Persona 5 Tactica came in at No.34.

Elsewhere, retailer promotions saw games such as The Last Of Us Part 1, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and Resident Evil 4 re-enter the Top 40. Other titles, including Minecraft Legends, Final Fantasy 16, The Crew Motorfest, and Lego 2K Drive, also benefited heavily from price reductions.

Here is the GfK Boxed Top Ten for this week ending November 18, 2023:

Last Week	This Week	Title
8	1	Hogwarts Legacy
1	2	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
2	3	EA Sports FC 24
4	4	Spider-Man 2
3	5	Super Mario Bros Wonder
New entry	6	Super Mario RPG
New entry	7	Bluey: The Video Game
10	8	Assassin's Creed Mirage
6	9	Nintendo Switch Sports
33	10	Mortal Kombat 1

Early Black Friday deals put Hogwarts Legacy back at No.1 | UK Boxed Charts

Hogwarts Legacy is back at the top of the UK physical charts following its release on Nintendo Switch, plus Black Frida…

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[Mr Moose]

Great game, deserves all the success.

 

[Saber]

This game should come with a free sticker of that pronoum reeera person screaming nooo

 

[SJRB]

Remember: ZERO nominations at the Videogame Awards.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Biggest new game release of the year keeps on winning!

 

[DeepEnigma]

 

[Woopah]

Damn that's a big launch, looks like it will be a profitable port

 

[Salty Popsicle]

Is the Harry Potter IP now a larger draw than Marvel and Star Wars? I wouldn't be surprised; Disney has run those two franchises into the ground for the past decade.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

If I were a 'content creator,' I would react to the awards dressed up as a Hogwarts student, with my wall adorned with a bunch of portraits of Madame J.K. Rowling and give away a copy of the game for every winner.

 

[[Sigma]]

Still haven't even really thought about playing that Wizard game lol. Just had other games on my mind.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Is the Harry Potter IP now a larger draw than Marvel and Star Wars? I wouldn't be surprised; Disney has run those two franchises into the ground for the past decade.

nope. The last "harry potter" movies were shit as movies and as a money making endeavor.

 

[Tsaki]

Excellent! The platform release schedule for the game has been a genius move. They can optimize as much as possible for each hardware AND be constantly in the news cycle.

Is the Harry Potter IP now a larger draw than Marvel and Star Wars? I wouldn't be surprised; Disney has run those two franchises into the ground for the past decade.

To be fair, Fantastic Beasts seems to do the same for Harry Potter

 

[StereoVsn]

After watching that DF analysis video I thought that less people would jump in. Then I remembered that most people don’t watch graphics analysis videos.

 

[Disco Dave]

Imagine the sales figures if the game wasn't boycotted.

 

[Tsaki]

If I were a 'content creator,' I would react to the awards dressed up as a Hogwarts student, with my wall adorned with a bunch of portraits of Madame J.K. Rowling and give away a copy of the game for every winner.

That would do wonders for viewership actually, especially if it'd give headlines to the more "socially considerate" news sites/"journalists"

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

From IB (sales estimations):

Highest #1 game in 2023 (UK retail)

1. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - 208.000 units
2. EA FC 24 - 154.000 units
3. Hogwarts Legacy - 135.000 units
4. Marvel's Spider-Man 2 - 116.000 units
5. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III - 105.000 units
6. EA FC 24 (2nd week) - 80.000 units
7. Hogwarts Legacy (Switch launch week) - ~68.500 units
8. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (2nd week) - 56.000 units
9. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor - 55.000 units
10. Hogwarts Legacy (2nd week) - 46.000 units

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

 

[[Sigma]]

Expect them long legs.

 

[ADiTAR]

I just got Tunic on sale, I thought about buying it but the cutbacks look to be too much.

 

[Putonahappyface]

 

[Banjo64]

I bought it for my Oled. It’s pogalogs.

 

[ADiTAR]

From IB (sales estimations):

Highest #1 game in 2023 (UK retail)

1. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - 208.000 units
2. EA FC 24 - 154.000 units
3. Hogwarts Legacy - 135.000 units
4. Marvel's Spider-Man 2 - 116.000 units
5. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III - 105.000 units
6. EA FC 24 (2nd week) - 80.000 units
7. Hogwarts Legacy (Switch launch week) - ~68.500 units
8. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (2nd week) - 56.000 units
9. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor - 55.000 units
10. Hogwarts Legacy (2nd week) - 46.000 units

Isn't this missing Wonder? how much did that do?

 

[M.W.]

Mid game, but good sales.

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Isn't this missing Wonder? how much did that do?

Not my data, but someone else on IB said that it got around ~80k (launch week)

 

[Bernoulli]

COD dropping quickly

 

[Tsaki]

Isn't this missing Wonder? how much did that do?

If I am understanding it correctly, it includes physical sales of the #1 game of a week. Since the first week sales of Mario were behind Spiderman 2, SM2 took that week. Mario's second week is lower than 46,000 (Hogwarts's 2nd week). I hope I didn't misunderstand the information.

 

[[Sigma]]

COD dropping quickly

lol

 

[MrA]

Wow I assumed, Hogwarts soft opening on switch, i wonder if Harry potters strength in the UK gave it a proportionally strong opening compared to the rest of the world

 

[analog_future]

One of my top 5 games in a very, very stacked year.


An incredible experience for Harry Potter fans. Can't wait to see what Avalanche Software/Portkey Games releases next.

 

[Woopah]

Wow I assumed, Hogwarts soft opening on switch, i wonder if Harry potters strength in the UK gave it a proportionally strong opening compared to the rest of the world

I imagine that would be the case for all versions.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Wait.....70% of all Hogwarts total sales is on the Switch....after 1 week?

 

[MrTired]

Wait.....70% of all Hogwarts total sales is on the Switch....after 1 week?

No of this last week

 

[Rockondevil]

Is the Harry Potter IP now a larger draw than Marvel and Star Wars? I wouldn't be surprised; Disney has run those two franchises into the ground for the past decade.

As others said the Fantastic Beast movies were doing this for WB.
However I'm sure if those movies didn't ruin it for people the TV show certainly will.

 

[Banjo64]

Is the Harry Potter IP now a larger draw than Marvel and Star Wars? I wouldn't be surprised; Disney has run those two franchises into the ground for the past decade.

 

[Ronin_7]

Seems like a huge week for Hogwarts damn

 

[rofif]

Remember: ZERO nominations at the Videogame Awards.

clearly worst game of the year. Pathetic fucks.
It's my goty probably. That game is comfort food... and I am not... I was not a HP fan

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

Good stuff.

 

[Fabieter]

Is the Harry Potter IP now a larger draw than Marvel and Star Wars? I wouldn't be surprised; Disney has run those two franchises into the ground for the past decade.

Potter Fans waited decades for a proper rpg and while it didn't hit excactly what I hoped it came damn close for the first try.

 

[Fbh]

Is the Harry Potter IP now a larger draw than Marvel and Star Wars? I wouldn't be surprised; Disney has run those two franchises into the ground for the past decade.

I think in a way it is, but only because it hasn't been milked as much as Star Wars.
Star Wars has a long history of videogames, from shooters to racing games, sidescrollers, RPG's, action adventure games, etc.
HP basically only has the movie tie in games and the Lego games. This is basically the first proper AAA HP game, and in a lot of ways it's the dream game a lot of fans have been wanting for a long time.

If WB starts to milk it with big HP games every 2-3 years I imagine it will eventually settle down into Star Wars sales numbers.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

"Don't worry, preventing it from getting any GOTY nominations will stop it's momentum!"

- 120 game "journalists", probably

 

[BadBurger]

No surprise. In my observations on social media it seems a whole lot of millennials who read the books as kids only have a Switch for gaming in their household, so I knew it would rocket back up the charts after the release in a region or two in the world.

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

Is the Harry Potter IP now a larger draw than Marvel and Star Wars? I wouldn't be surprised; Disney has run those two franchises into the ground for the past decade.

I'd say so, though with Marvel we should distinguish between Spiderman (and maybe Wolverine) vs the other games. I'd be interested to see Spiderman 2 sales against PS5 Harry Potter sales, specifically, tho I'd imagine currently HP is ahead (it did have since February to sell copies).

Disney/Marvel 100% need to rebuild both IP though, they're lucky the have companies like SIE/Insomniac working with their IP (lol @ the people who think Disney/Marvel have leverage to force SIE/Insomniac to go multiplatform or lose the license).

 

[BennyBlanco]

Is the Harry Potter IP now a larger draw than Marvel and Star Wars? I wouldn't be surprised; Disney has run those two franchises into the ground for the past decade.

Yes. The Avengers game was a historic flop.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Yes. The Avengers game was a historic flop.

They destroyed Marvel vs. Capcom too

 

[Raven117]

clearly worst game of the year. Pathetic fucks.
It's my goty probably. That game is comfort food... and I am not... I was not a HP fan

Maybe not my game goty, but definitely cozy comfort food and a great first “real” game by the devs.

Probably top 5 games of a very crowded year. The game world was outstanding. The combat was serviceable, some quests were excellent, while some were meh.

 

[Deerock71]

Great game, deserves all the success.

This seems to sum up the sploobies here that thought WB shouldn't have bothered with a Switch port. What's the point, right?

Meanwhile, WB:

 

[kazuyamishima]

Wait.....70% of all Hogwarts total sales is on the Switch....after 1 week?

Estimated launch week numbers in the UK (Physical):
- PS5 111k
- Nintendo Switch 48k
- Xbox Series X 24k
- PS4 + Xbone 25-28k

Data thanks to IB Forum.

 

[rhodesianshepard]

Hogwarts is just a decent game. Not sure how many nominations it actually deserved. It's like Colin Kaepernick. If he was still a good QB then teams would have signed him, even with the controversy. It would have been much more interesting if Hogwarts Legacy reviewed in the low 90's, then the outrage would be crazy and much more warranted