It depends on who is streaming more than anything. When the biggest channels on the platform are all on a new release it skyrockets.
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God of War is Blowing up on Twitch
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It depends on who is streaming more than anything. When the biggest channels on the platform are all on a new release it skyrockets.
Maybe they are kids with no income to buy a PS4 or the game or their parents tell them no?
I could see the give me God of War difficultly being streamed pretty often. Seems to extremely difficulty with even the developers recommending hard.
the maximum concurrent number of viewers was slightly larger, but in the other hand viewership will die out a lot quicker because it isn't a multiplayer title.
Sea of thieves at its peak was around 260k. God of war at its peak was just shy of 300k.
And sea of thieves was on PC as well so it had a larger audience interested in the game because of that.
Regardless, at its peak Far cry 5 didn't reach the same amount of concurrent viewers as God of War has.
There was a great point brought up earlier - somebody can be watching LIRIK play with no intention to purchase or play the game since they don't own a PS4. I don't buy for a second that Sea of Theives has a larger audience interested in it compared to God of War solely because one is available on two types of machines whereas the other is only available on one.
God of War is a much bigger IP than Sea of Thieves will be in the forseeable future. Naturally, more people would be interested in watching the game be played.
Exclusivity actually increases viewership/interest. You keep stating Far Cry 5 being on every platform as if that means it should have more viewers. That's not how it works. Now if GOW outsells FC5, that'll be incredibly impressive.
God of war is a cinematic game so obviously lot of people will choose to see it as a movie through twitch or youtube, in addition to that is the most hyped game of this year.
PC+XBOX+SWITCH crowd will prefer to see it from twitch. In general, people that don't own a ps4.
Until monday god of war can do big numbers, after that it will vanish.
PC+XBOX+SWITCH crowd will prefer to see it from twitch. In general, people that don't own a ps4.
Until monday god of war can do big numbers, after that it will vanish.
I can imagine some of the Twitch streamers doing difficulty challenges. That combat is fucking amazing and would warrant this kind of interest.
When did I say this? Are we talking about twitch viewers or sales?
On ps4 it will outsell fc5, but not overall.
Which could be as simple a factor as someone like Lirik just not being on at the same time as other big streamers during its peak day. The twitch viewship numbers people keep pointing at are more there just because of what large streamer is currently on. Lirik and Soda alone are almost 100K of the total, when one of them stop the stream, their viewers aren't going to all jump to another stream, most just log off twitch for the day until he's on again since they all have fostered userbases. Peak viewership is incredibly finicky to look at.
Now, all the bigger streamers wanting to play GoW on release date is more of a reasonable thing to look at. There's clearly interest in the game from that.
Piracy for losers? I guess you don't realise game devs/publishers not only give Twitch streamers free copies of their games, they also do sponsored streams where they pay top streamers to play their games for exposure...some of the sheer ignorance on display on this forum sometimes is honestly mind-blowing.
This might be the single dumbest statement I have read on a video game forum before. Congrats.
I follow someone that does a 40 hour charity stream every year, 26 hours in a row is stupid but not unbelievable.
SOT went over 200k without a single score. Hype increases viewership.
Yeah except for games like League which came out in 2009 and consistently are in the top five.
New games aren't guaranteed to do anything on Twitch. Twitch viewership doesn't mean much in terms of sales either.
There's a lot of streamers who do 24 hour streams without sleep. They do it because viewers demand it.
1 person died during one of these streams iirc.
I guess a legit concern with twitch and games like god of war and the whole waking simulater argument is that you can just watch these kind if games on twitch and get the full experience for free. But then I can always just watch the halo 6 campaign for free whenever that comes out to. So it's like that whole walking simulator argument is stupid.
people who get their fill of a game while watching a stream were never going to buy the game to begin with. There are lots of games I will never buy that I watch.
Didn't realize that God of War was being called a walking simulator.
Lol even Disguisedtoast is playing it and i have only seen him play Hearthstone(his main game) Pubg and Fortnite.
The characters walk and talk, thus it is a walking simulator!
I think the point is that it didn't mean much for sea of thieves for it achieving that high
Is "doing bunkers" good?
And when it was SoT everyone was super quick to point out that it doesn't mean anything.
I can't imagine the psychology behind haggling over a 15% difference in twitch views.
And when it was SoT everyone was super quick to point out that it doesn't mean anything.
I can't imagine the psychology behind haggling over a 15% difference in twitch views.
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Well those people are wrong, including me if I said that but I cent recall.
Sea of thieves was one of Microsoft's best selling exclusives in a while.
I wouldn't call watching someone play a game the "full experience". Like I can watch and appreciate PUBG streamers/pro players who are much, much better than myself get ~20 kills and win a chicken dinner, but in no way does it compare to the feeling of playing and winning a game yourself, far from it.
I mean it just seemed like a random question to me lol. I only thought you asked it because you interpreted my comment as me saying GOW will sell more than FC5
I don't think there's anything to get out of it since the ratio is so inconsistent
