10 Video Game Trophy Stats You Won't Believe

And now for some trophy data that provides insight into the mind of the average person playing recent mega-hit Hogwarts Legacy - and the results are pretty damn surprising.

Ask even the most casual Harry Potter fan which of Hogwarts' four houses is the most popular and the overwhelming majority will tell you Gryffindor, given that it's the house into which Harry himself was sorted.

Yet the trophy and achievement data for Hogwarts Legacy tell a shockingly different story. The game awards an achievement early on depending on which house the player selects, and across both PlayStation and Xbox, Gryffindor is actually edged out by Slytherin.

It's a genuinely unexpected statistic given that players generally opt for the more virtuous and "good" options in most video games, and so why would so many players opt to join the house most commonly associated with evil misdeeds?

While it's fair to say that Slytherin gets an incredible amount of focus in the books and films compared to both Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw, seeing them triumph over Harry Potter's own house is genuinely shocking.

Does the game's own Sorting Hat perhaps have an accidental bias towards Slytherin, or are players just a little more mischievous than we've given them credit for, considering you're free to ignore the Sorting Hat and pick your own house?