Hogwarts Legacy was officially 2023’s biggest game, beating out The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

Now that Nintendo has shared total sales of Zelda for 2023, it can be officially declared that Hogwarts Legacy was the best selling game of 2023 worldwide.

Zelda: TotK: 20.28 Million Hogwarts legacy: 22 Million

Congrats to Avalanche Software!

  • Silvia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    422·
    9 months ago

    Slightly unfair to say, though. Hogwarts Legacy got a multiplatform release. TOTK only released on Switch.

    Counter-point for fairness, It’s impressive that TOTK got that many sales on it’s own while being stuck on one platform!

    Either way, 2023 was a good year for gaming. Lots of fun stuff got released and I hope we can keep this trend going.

    • slimerancher@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      6·
      9 months ago

      Yeah, the idea wasn’t to undermine TotK’s sale numbers or show it wasn’t a great game, but to celebrate another game that did really good. Even though it got a huge help from it’s IP recognition, but still, it’s great for the devs / studio.

      2023 was a really good year for games. And yeah, let’s hope this continues, and that things are improved for devs / employees in gaming industry.

    • Willie@kbin.social
      2·
      9 months ago

      I hope Nintendo announces something soon, I feel like there’s only like 5 games coming out this year.