If it was officially released on February 10, Hogwarts Legacy has actually been playable for many people since February 7, 2023, the developers having given access to the game in preview to all people who have purchased the Deluxe editions. Despite the controversy surrounding the game and the boycott launched by the LGBT+ community, following comments deemed transphobic by JK Rowling, the popularity of the game has not been impacted, quite the contrary. Indeed, according to figures available on TwitchTracker, Hogwarts Legacy achieved no less than 1.25 million concurrent viewers on Twitch, surpassing the figures of Cyberpunk 2077 and its 1.1 million viewers in December 2020. Before Hogwarts Legacy, Cyberpunk 2077 was the most popular single-player game on Twitch, peaking at 1.14 million concurrent viewers. According to Ginx.tv, the only games that have gathered more simultaneous viewers on Twitch so far are Valorant (1.72 million in April 2020), League of Legends (1.78 million in November 2019) and Fortnite (2 .3 million in June 2020). Two of these titles achieved these records during a pandemic, and in the midst of the explosion of Twitch and streaming.
Always in comparison with other games, we remember that Elden Ring had gathered no less than 910,000 simultaneous viewers, a figure which corresponds to the highest peak of attendance. The same goes for Dying Light 2 Stay Human, placed in fifth place with a peak of 620,000 concurrent viewers. Between these two sits Resident Evil Village and its peak viewership of 655,000 viewers in 2021. The bottom two spots are taken by The Last of Us 2 and God of War Ragnarok, which recorded 508,000 and 478,000 peak viewership respectively. viewers on Twitch. Suffice to say that Hogwarts Legacy therefore achieves a record for a single-player game on a platform that tends to highlight multiplayer game content. A great feat.