Hogwarts Legacy Twitch viewership hits 1 million

Hogwarts legacy has surpassed the impressive mark of 1 million concurrent viewers on Twitch. In fact, the game has surpassed 1.3 million viewers at the time of this writing. This is despite protests against the Hogwarts Legacy boycott due to controversial comments from JK Rowling and other Twitch streamers like Hasan saying many will not stream Hogwarts Legacy due to bullying.

Hogwarts Legacy breaks the top 20 for most viewers on Twitch

To put the 1.3 million number in context, that would put Hogwarts Legacy in 14th place for the highest number of peak viewers in Twitch history. Lost Ark, which ranks at #14 according to TwitchTracker, had a peak of 1.27 million viewers, while Rust, currently at #13, secured 1.36 million viewers.

Given that the game is currently only in Early Access, that number could continue to grow over the next few days, and catapult even further when it launches globally on February 10th. This number is also impressive because Hogwarts Legacy does not have a multiplayer component, unlike the majority of the most popular games on Twitch.

One of the reasons for these exceptional numbers is the Hogwarts Legacy Twitch Drops promotion, which offers players up to five exclusive in-game cosmetic items such as Merlin’s cloak. These are earned by watching around two and a half hours of Hogwarts Legacy on the platform.