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Hogwarts Legacy finished as 2023’s best-selling video game in the U.S. market in dollar sales. It is the first year since 2008 that a non-Call of Duty or Rockstar developed title ranked 1st Rock Band. (twitter.com)
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[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 26 points 10 months ago

Does this stat take release date into account? Otherwise it seems like a pretty meaningless metric. An AAA game that releases in January is going to have better sales for the year compared to one that releases in October.

[-] JowlesMcGee@kbin.social 17 points 10 months ago

It doesn't, but most game sales are front loaded at release. Having 8 months on the shelf still makes a difference, for sure, but it's still notable that it was number 1.

[-] slimerancher@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Call of Duty always release near the end, but is still the number 1 game every year.

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

What's crazy to me is that after the first week or two, I didn't see anyone talking about it. I kind of assumed it either flopped or was mediocre but I guess people just silently played it?

[-] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 24 points 10 months ago

It has that mainstream appeal as in being a brand parents know (Harry Potter) and being pretty inoffensive (i.e. no guns and blood or sex and partying) so I imagine just about every kid with a system it runs on and in the age bracket of 6-16 got it for Christmas or their Birthday despite not being on the wishlist.

[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

And it is actually pretty fun, if really simple in a lot of ways.

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Good point!

[-] Blamemeta@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

I think that boycott did the opposite of what it was supposed to

[-] weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

As boycotts tend to do.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Something something Streisand effect.

But probably not, I'm guessing most people weren't aware there was a boycott.

[-] iheartneopets@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

If assholes wanna play a boring game to own the libs, then that's on them, lmao. Similar to them buying barbie and bud light shit just to set it on fire when they are mad

[-] Murvel@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Own the trans-commubity you mean. And people played it because bassically nobody could give a rats ass about the boycott..

[-] Aussiemandeus@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

I love qualifiers and how detailed they can get.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

Rock Band

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

This is really cool Rock Band

[-] meant2live218@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Looks like the original tweet ended as (Rock Band) to indicate the game that took #1 back in 2008, and either OP or the auto-titler missed the parentheses?

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