Hogwarts Legacy is one of the most highly anticipated games of this year. Obviously controversy has already arisen around the concept and author of the source material, but there are many who are still excited to experience the unwritten mythology that WB Games Avalanche created in Hogwarts Legacy‘s signature wizarding world. Hogwarts Legacy is still tentatively slated to release sometime this holiday, but as that window approaches without a concrete release date to look forward to, fans have become skeptical that that window will be fulfilled.
Recently, Hogwarts Legacy may have received a potentially substantial leak from Amazon’s UK retailer. The shopkeeper now lists a compendium art book titled The Art and Making of Hogwarts Legacy: Exploring the Unwritten Wizarding World that is available for pre-order. Notably, the art book has now been spotted with a December 6 release date on the UK version of the site. This has led fans to believe that the game will then be officially released along with the book, and there are multiple parallels supporting this release date of another art book compendium being released by Insight Editions.
Gotham Knights’ Collector’s Compendium Gives Credence to Hogwarts Legacy
The most important evidence to date that Hogwarts Legacy‘s release date is indeed December 6 is due to Gotham Knightsanother property of Warner Bros. Interactive and WB Games. Gotham KnightsOfficial Collector’s Compendium will be released on the same day as the game, October 25, and the pre-order listing on Amazon correctly matches this information.
interesting, Hogwarts Legacy‘s own compendium is listed with what fans believe is a temporary date of December 31 on Amazon’s NA retailer, while the UK retailer lists it with a release date of December 6. This may be due to Amazon’s UK listing accidentally leaking the release date, where the NA retailer has yet to confirm the date to avoid ruining the intended release date. However, as VGC has previously mentioned, Gotham Knights‘ compendium officially released on a Tuesday. This seems to coincide with Hogwarts Legacy‘s compendium release on December 6, which also happens to land on a Tuesday, and could further confirm its legitimacy.
Amazon’s UK retailer changing its date from the aforementioned December 31 placeholder may or may not be suggesting an official release date for Hogwarts Legacy is forthcoming. While this information appears to be quite a leak with enough to distinguish it as legit, eventually fans will have to wait for an official confirmation to be announced. Before that happens, fans should still take this Amazon UK list with a grain of salt.
If Hogwarts Legacy had been delayed, it probably would have already happened
Further, Hogwarts LegacyThe compendium’s release date, if true, would also indicate that the game won’t be delayed. With the holidays only a few months away, it’s strange that no official release date has been announced yet. This has led many fans to believe that Hogwarts Legacy could be delayed again, either due to internal development issues or some other concern in the final months of pre-launch polishing. Hogwarts Legacy may operate here under special circumstances, where without a confirmed release date they can still delay it further if necessary and not completely disrupt fans’ expectations of when it might be ready to launch.
The only thing fans had to get rid of is a release window from this holiday, and that can still be pushed if WB Games Avalanche needed it. However, the compendium suggests that no such delay will occur and fans will receive the game when WB Games Avalanche previously said they would. This would come as a relief to players whose highly anticipated games were recently delayed, and would mark this fall and holiday season as particularly special for WB Games releases featuring both Gotham Knights and Hogwarts Legacy.
Hogwarts Legacy will be released in the holiday of 2022 for PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S.
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