As to be anticipated, Geoff Keighley has printed the viewership numbers from this 12 months’s Recreation Awards occasion, and after final 12 months, this 12 months’s present is now probably the most watched present in The Recreation Awards decade-long historical past.
Viewership this 12 months was up 15% over final 12 months with 118 million livestreams, Keighley introduced on Twitter.
This announcement wasn’t totally shocking, as every awards present the previous few years has been ‘probably the most watched Recreation Awards’ till the following present.
What will likely be extra fascinating to see is how subsequent 12 months’s numbers look. After all there’ll nonetheless be loads of bulletins and teases that’ll make gamers need to tune in, however after this 12 months it’s value asking what number of gained’t hassle.
Greater than in earlier years, The Recreation Awards garnered loads of controversy and criticism, with viewers calling out that whereas the present claims to be an evening celebrating the business and those that make video games, it doesn’t even give them sufficient time to talk after successful an award.
Keighley was additionally criticized for not talking on the layoffs which have devastated the business with greater than 9,000 folks estimated to have misplaced their job on account of layoffs.
With that in thoughts, consideration turns to subsequent years numbers to see if this 12 months’s critics are nonetheless simply as upset with the present as they’re now.
Supply – [Geoff Keighley]