“Game of the Year Incoming” – Fans Celebrate as Hogwarts Legacy Creates a New Viewership Record on Twitch Before Its Official Launch

The Harry Potter series has been a grander franchise that has gifted the community a whole new utopian world. Inspired by this, the much-loved video game title Hogwarts Legacy seems to be having a glorious response from the community. Certainly, this new achievement on Twitch has left the crowd stoked.

Since February 7, early access players have been enjoying Hogwarts Legacy with some additional perks that came in with the Deluxe edition. Only hours away from its full-fledged release, the game has kept the fans on their toes. From spells to the majestic quality of Hogwarts, the game will reflect the inspiration from the Harry Potter series.

Seeing the audience’s excitement, one does wonder if it will surpass the launch day sales of Cyberpunk 2077. As early access was made available, streamers like xQc, Shroud, and others played the game on their stream. Along with a majority, Hogwarts Legacy seems to have set a historical record even before its release.

Fans are excited as Hogwarts Legacy becomes a fan-favorite game on Twitch

While the fans were counting the days waiting for February 10 to come, Hogwarts Legacy was busy making records. Recently, video game journalist Benji Sales tweeted, “Hogwarts Legacy Early Access has passed the All-Time Steam Peak of Fallout 4. Hogwarts Legacy is now the #2 highest peak in history for a paid single-player only game (Elden Ring has multiplayer) only behind Cyberpunk 2077.”

However, this is not the record that we are talking about here. As hours went by, Hogwarts Legacy welcomed another accord in its treasure. To share the amazing news, Hogwarts Legacy tweeted, “Thanks to YOU #HogwartsLegacy is officially the #1 Single Player game ever on @Twitch with 1.28M peak concurrent viewers at launch.”

Thus, it can be said that the domination of the majestic game went to Twitch to set up a new record even before its launch. As soon as this news went online, fans came out in support of the game and the team working behind it. A Twitter user, who seems to be an early access user, said, “It’s the no.1 best game I’ve ever played. Thank you to all involved for bringing this into our lives. 🥺.”

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To extend their support, another Twitter user said, “Game of the year incoming.” Such reactions reverberated in the tweet thread, one can see the reactions of the people to the tweet below:

Given the reactions of the people, it can be said that the game has made for itself a firm ground for becoming a memorable title in the video gaming community. But one has to wait for the future to unfold to see how many new records this game breaks. Do you think this game will become 2023’s Game of the Year? Do tell us in the comments below.

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