Hogwarts Legacy sells well, Warners Bros. share price increases. The number surpasses several tech giants such as Amazon, Meta, and Tesla.
Since visiting gamers in early February 2023, this Harry Potter RPG game has been able to achieve extraordinary results. Its arrival can immediately top the leaderboards as the best-selling Steam game.
The profits earned by Warner Bros have increased so significantly. The positive impact affected their share price, which jumped from USD 9 per share to USD 16 , we reported from PCgames, Friday (3/3/2023).
Even though it actually still hasn't matched the previous high, which was USD 77 , at least this increase in share price surpassed Amazon, Meta, and Tesla.
Since early 2023, Tesla shares have indeed grown by up to 60%. Then the other two, namely Meta, rose 38% and Amazon 11%.
It's just that, when compared to last year in a similar period, Warner Bros shares increased by 64%. The company responsible for launching Hogwarts Legacy sold 12 million copies in its first two weeks.
The amount of income achieved is very large. The figure is USD 850 million .
There is no doubt about the existence of this game. The problem is that when it was first released, Hogwarts Legacy has captured the hearts of gamers, then quickly became very popular on Steam and Twitch.
Hogwarts Legacy Popular on Steam and Twitch
At that time, BenjiSales, a market analyst in the gaming industry, revealed quite interesting data. Referring to the SteamDB page, Hogwarts Legacy managed to collect 489,139 gamers playing simultaneously.
This number beats the game made by Bethesda Softworks entitled Fallout 4. Since its release on Steam on November 10 2015, this game has touched 472,962 peak players.
Talking about peak players, Cyberpunk 2077 still holds the top position. CD Projekt Red as the game's developer has successfully broken the peak player record of up to 1,054,388 gamers.
However, if you switch to Twitch, Hogwarts Legacy is able to outperform Cyberpunk 2077. The popularity of the game adapted from the Harry Potter series by JK Rowling is increasingly booming on this online streaming platform.
The results of the assessment from TwitchTracker, Hogwarts Legacy has a peak view of up to millions of viewers. To be precise, that number touched 1,253,916, above Cyberpunk which gathered 1,140,960 gamers watching simultaneously.