The launch of Hogwarts Legacy has brought the Harry Potter universe back to the forefront and has achieved the unthinkable, that users who have never had contact with the franchise are taking an interest in it. That is why we have asked ourselves what are the games that have arrived in the last 22 years and that 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 players that there is no resounding success in terms of sales of video games based on the movies that began to be released from 2001. Well, it turns out that if we look at the rankings of the best sellers will realize that this appreciation ‘if it is founded and that a huge number of adaptations have passed through our hands that have not achieved the figures that one might expect from a saga like this.
So we are going to review the Top of the games that have managed to sell the most and we have ordered them from least to greatest. Do you remember any of them? By the way, can you guess how many units have cumulatively sold all the games released for consoles and computers since 2001 that have been 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 didn’t have particularly high sales and stayed at just over 1,000,000 units sold, so it doesn’t seem like too many. It is true that the games of the movies generally passed quite discreetly and proof of this is that some were left without their video game adaptation years later.
3. Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4
As always, the LEGO-like movie games triumphed and in this case the one that covered the years 1 to 4 of Harry Potter got a pretty decent number of units sold since they exceeded 2,700,000 . They are surely, until the arrival of Hogwarts Legacy , the best and funniest releases of 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 film was released, and this was evident in the desire that fans had to enjoy video games. Only on PlayStation it reached 8,000,000 units sold , which is not bad for the time and we can consider it the great success of the entire franchise within the industry.
1.Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
In the first place we find the adaptation of the second Harry Potter film, that of The Chamber of Secrets , which continued at the top of the wave both in theaters, as well as in bookstores and video game stores. In this case, Electronic Arts managed to sell 9,000,000 units worldwide for several different platforms. From here, videojuegoly 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 any Harry Potter game before Hogwarts Legacy ?