The Game Awards achieve a historic audience record

Last weekend’s event was the Game Awards ceremony which had a special flavor this year. In fact, it was 10th anniversary partywhich celebrated a decade of awards, announcements and celebrations around the video game industry. An event which will have kept all its promises, both in terms of shows and audience with a new record of 4 million spectators simultaneously.

More than 4 million spectators LIVE for the Game Awards

Broadcast live from Los Angeles on December 12 (on the night of December 12 to 13 for us in France), the 10th anniversary of the Game Awards ceremony was a huge success. As for the show with some really impressive announcements: The Witcher 4the stand-alone ofElden Ring, The Outer Worlds 2, Split Fiction, Borderlands 4the return of Virtua Fighterbut also‘Onimushaof prick andEyes. We can also cite Mafia The Old Countryand of course Intergalactic : The Heretic Prophetthe new game and new license from Naughty Dog. It’s been a long time since a video game ceremony had been of such high quality. During the evening, it is the excellent Astro Bot who was sacred “game of the year”.

The public was visibly there with a new audience record: 4,003,578 viewers LIVE. The official broadcast of the Game Awards on YouTube peaked at 1,250,470 million viewers and Twitch at 397,518. Added to this are numerous official co-streamers who contributed to the visibility of the event.

It will be interesting to wait for the result now. global audiencesincluding rebroadcasts. Since the first edition in 2014, the Game Awards have continued to break records, year after year. In 2023, with a total of 118 million spectatorsthe Game Awards ceremony was the most followed awards ceremony in the world with almost ten times the audience of the Oscars for cinema.

Game Awards audiences (overall, including rebroadcast):

• 2014 – 1.9 million spectators – Game of the year: Dragon Age Inquisition (EA / Bioware)
• 2015 – 2.3 million spectators – Game of the year: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt Red)
• 2016 – 3.8 million spectators – Game of the year: Overwatch (Blizzard)
• 2017 – 11.5 million spectators – Game of the year: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo)
• 2018 – 26.2 million spectators – Game of the year: God of War (Sony / Santa Monica Studios)
• 2019 – 45.3 million spectators – Game of the year: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (FromSoftware)
• 2020 – 83 million spectators – Game of the year: The Last of Us Part 2 (Sony / Naughty Dog)
• 2021 – 85 million spectators – Game of the year: It takes Two (EA / Hazelight)
• 2022 – 103 million spectators – Game of the year: Elden Ring (FromSoftware)
• 2023 – 118 million spectators – Game of the year: Baldur’s Gate III (Larian Studios)
• 2024 – … millions of spectators – Game of the year: Astro Bot (Sony / Team Asobi)

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