The launch of Hogwarts Legacy brought the Harry Potter universe back to center stage and achieved the unthinkable, which users who have never had contact with the franchise are interested for her. That’s why we asked ourselves which are the games that have arrived in the last 22 years and have sold the most, as proof of their success also in the video game industry.
a strange feeling
Indeed, there is a clear feeling among gamers that there is no resounding success when it comes to sales video games based on the films that began to be released from 2001. Well, it turns out that if we look at the rankings of the best sellers, we will realize that this appreciation ‘if it is founded and that they a huge number of adaptations have passed through our hands that have not reached the numbers that one would expect from such a saga.
so we We are going to review the Top games that have managed to sell the most and we ordered them from smallest to largest quantity. Do you remember? By the way, can you guess how many units have sold cumulatively all the games released for consoles and computers since 2001 that were based on JKRowling’s novels? Well, the amount amounts to more than 40 million units. Not bad…
4. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Released in 2004 for the consoles of the time, this game did not enjoy particularly high sales and it remained at just over 1,000,000 units sold so that they do not seem too many. It is true that the games of the films generally passed with enough discretion and the proof is that some remained without their adaptation. video game years later.
3. Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4
As always the LEGO type movie sets have been successful and in this case the one covering years 1-4 of Harry Potter got a pretty decent number of units sold as exceeded 2,700,000. They surely will be, until the arrival of Hogwarts Legacythe best and funniest releases from the Harry Potter universe ever seen.
2. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (PlayStation)
It was the first of all, released in 2001, the same year the movie was released, and it was reflected in fans’ desire to enjoy video games. It was only on PlayStation that it reached 8,000,000 units soldwhich is not bad for the time and can be considered the great success of the whole franchise within the industry.
1. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
We find in the first place the adaptation of the second Harry Potter film, that of There Chamber of Secrets, which continues to lead the wave in theaters, as well as in bookstores and video game stores. In this case, Electronic Arts managed to sell 9,000,000 unitss worldwide for several different platforms. From here, video game speaking the saga was no longer what was expected and never reached the amounts that others sold in those same years.
And you, do you remember a Harry Potter game before Hogwarts Legacy?
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