Persevering with its spectacular development of year-over-year development, it’s been revealed that The Recreation Awards 2023 set a brand new viewership file for the annual streaming ceremony. This 12 months’s The Recreation Awards, which befell on December 7, obtained roughly 118 million streaming views throughout the varied platforms the present was out there on.
The Recreation Awards 2023 had 118 million livestreams throughout platforms, setting a brand new file for the present
Information of The Recreation Awards’ record-breaking 12 months got here courtesy of the present’s host and producer, Geoff Keighley.
In a post on social media, Keighley acknowledged that this 12 months’s ceremony set a brand new viewership file of 118 million livestreams throughout quite a few streaming platforms. These spectacular numbers helped The Recreation Awards 2023 change into the most-watched present within the occasion’s 10-year historical past and symbolize a 15% development in viewership over final 12 months’s occasion.
Along with honoring the proficient groups behind a few of 2023’s largest releases, The Recreation Awards 2023 additionally performed dwelling to huge bulletins just like the reveal of God of Warfare Ragnarok’s Valhalla DLC.
Offering a bit extra context to this 12 months’s development in viewers, Keighley gave a quick breakdown of how The Recreation Awards carried out throughout totally different platforms. The most important development got here from the 4K feed of the present on YouTube, which noticed a 53% leap in viewership in comparison with final 12 months as over 900,000 avid gamers tuned in to the stream at one level. Along with the official livestream of The Recreation Awards, avid gamers might additionally tune in to one of many hundreds of channels that co-streamed the occasion on YouTube and Twitch. These fan-led streams helped increase the present’s attain even additional, with the height viewership on Twitch sitting at just below 2 million folks.
This record-breaking 12 months for The Recreation Awards helps additional cement its function as one of the vital high-profile occasions in gaming. Whereas The Recreation Awards have confronted some criticism through the years for putting extra emphasis on trailers and recreation reveals than on recognizing the creators being awarded for his or her work, it stays one of the vital broadly accessible methods for avid gamers to get their first glimpse at upcoming releases. And with the latest announcement that E3 is formally lifeless after years of failed makes an attempt at reinvention, its doubtless that The Recreation Awards’ place of prominence within the gaming trade will solely proceed to develop.