That’s it, after months of waiting, the Hogwarts Legacy machine is officially launched and the least we can say is that success is there. The first tests were also rather conclusive and even if it was difficult to have doubts as to the enthusiasm that the game was going to arouse, know that the latest Twitch statistics should convince the last skeptics.
1.3 million viewers on Hogwarts Legacy: new Twitch record for a single player game
The numbers are there Hogwarts Legacy actually broke the viewership record simultaneously for a solo game on Twitch with a peak of 1.3 million viewers reached last night. An impressive number that surpasses the 1.14 million achieved by Cyberpunk 2077 when it was released in December 2020. Having become essential in the world of video games, the live-streaming platform Twitch is today a real barometer of the interest aroused by games.
Note that Hogwarts Legacy is only accessible to players who have pre-ordered it to date and that its global release remains fixed for this Friday, February 10, which makes it all the more impressive. Despite the debates around the boycott of the game, spectators seem to be there for the moment and it is possible that the number of spectators will continue to increase from this weekend.
It remains to be seen whether Hogwarts Legacy will come close to the all-time records achieved by League of Legends with 3.11 million spectators and by Fortnite which had gathered 2.28 million spectators on the famous streaming platform.
The global release of Hogwarts Legacy remains scheduled for February 10 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X / S and PC, April 4 on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 and finally July 25 on Nintendo Switch.
