If you ignore a handful of multi-platform games, definitely.
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God of War is Blowing up on Twitch
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I've been watching God of War streams for a couple of hours now. Have no interest in buying the game (or a console for that matter) tho.
An exception doesn't prove a point though. What people are saying isn't wrong. BotW was big on Twitch shortly after it came out.
Plus, Labo is hugely different from a traditional video game and probably doesn't even appeal to the same demographic that watches people play video games on Twitch, so I don't really get what you're trying to get at.
It also doesn't help that Nintendo Labo is nearly impossible to stream normally. You need an entirely different setup than 99% of streamers currently have.
People are downplaying the hell out of God of War numbers for some reason.
I'm just offering a counter point for a similarly hyped game.
Very hard to stream. Requires a lot of setup and probably doesn't appeal to the Twitch audience.Maybe not AAA, but there was a lot of hype behind this for a while...
Maybe not AAA, but there was a lot of hype behind this for a while...
Ehhhhh Labo.
Deeper into game you can actually see how satisfying the combat is. With some games you can't really see the depth or combat, but with some more advanced attacks their are some attacks and combos that leave you going "whoah"
I found this article - http://metro.co.uk/2018/02/05/sea-thieves-closed-beta-1-twitch-330000-players-7287984/
So 330k viewers. I read about 380k somewhere, though. Don't have a link right now.
Lots of people who watch games on Twitch *do* buy the game and play the game but enjoy watching others play it as well.
Just because I watch Alton Brown cook on TV doesn't mean I don't eat too.
True, not "just for being new". For being new, being massively hyped by fans, having a huge marketing budget, a big brand name and having no major competition (as in no other big games out this week, no huge esports events etc). No need to be defensive, God of War will be a huge hit for Sony. Even without people trying to interpret something fairly normal as a highly unusual omen of sorts.
I was responding to you telling you why your "counterpoint" is a poor counterpoint. Labo is a wholly different product that appeals to a completely different set of people and like someone else stated, is going to be very hard to actually stream with a traditional setup.
Again, if this game is still pulling out even half of these numbers in a week, it may be noteworthy. As of right now, a new big ticket video game being at the top of Twitch isn't surprising in the least.
I don't think anyone is trying to downplay how much people like God of War or anything. I think they are (rightfully) downplaying how special God of War being at the top of Twitch on the day it came out is, because that's not uncommon for new releases.
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So....is Sony really good at combat games now? Between this and horizon which is open world, that's some pretty damn satisfying combat
I'd argue that it's not much harder to stream than most things in the Creative category on Twitch. One camera on cardboard, one camera on game. People do it all the time with drawing streams.
330k players, not viewers. The article even states that it had an average of 100k viewers.
There's a good website for Twitch trends called Sullygnome.
https://sullygnome.com/game/Sea_of_Thieves/7/summary
Uh huh, and you have proof the people watching it have no interest in supporting the game? That they're all just pirates? Get out of here with this.
Shit should be just as banable as assuming people using emulators are inherently pirates, if not more so, because it's the same exact nonsense. Watching a game on Twitch says absolutely nothing about intentions to buy and play the game,and assuming the worst of a person like that based on absolutely nothing is absolutely uncalled for and completely over the line IMO. Just absolutely no reason to go there. Absolutely none.
And I'm very disappointed at whatever mod denied my report of this post for exactly those same reasons. Calling people pirates in emulator threads ain't cool and absolutely doesn't fly (and for good reason), and I don't see why stuff like this should either. It's just a completely uncalled for, unprovoked attack that derails threads like this on the subject. I can see no good reason to allow it and really how that's reconsidered.
And even ignoring the whole piracy thing, there's still going after them all the same, calling the people who watch the game on Twitch "losers" who "deserve ridicule." If that's the decision fine, I'll respect it, but I really, really don't get it.
Did Labo not come out this week or something? Or are we already at the point pretending like its not a notable release
Come on, Labo is in a completely different category. Not remotely comparable.
Gaming streamers normally don't do creative streams. Different categories.
So now being factual is "downplaying". Good god big console exclusives make people act funny.
Every time a hyped release comes out and jumps to the top of Twitch people are convinced its meaningful. It's only meaningful if it stays there for months on end, which is how people knew PUBG was a phenomenon. GOW, like other single player games will blow up initially and then quickly fall down the list as the multiplayer games resume their hold on the top spots.
This game won't break any twitch records or do spectacular over a good period of time on twitch(will die out fast like monster hunter) coz game is on ps4 only and a lot of big and small streamers play on pc exclusively. Same reason why monster hunter wasn't streamed by many streamers.
Happy for its success though! 1st week 4 mil sales I'm hoping.
Happy for its success though! 1st week 4 mil sales I'm hoping.
Yeah, kinda. It's sneaking into a movie theater. It's watching through a window for free. It's enabling an army of annoying little gamer shits to run around and spoil some stuff they only experienced by proxy.
I'm gonna yell at that cloud. I don't mind being that old man. I know I'm in the minority, though. Feel free to ignore me while you watch single player games online. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go watch Black Panther on YouTube. Ya know, to see if I might want to buy it later.
I've streamed and watched the final boss fight. I'm not buying the game
It's a new game so of course it would blow up. This is not very surprising....however, I really don't understand streaming single player games.
Trihex does it all the time.
But would be the difference between a facecam and a Labo-cam? Just the angle, right?
Are we going to pretend that Labo doesn't appeal to a completely different audience than God of War, Twitch, and even video games in general? It's a cardboard toy set.
No one is saying these aren't good numbers for God of War. They are. But they aren't earth shattering for a massively hyped up new release, single player or not.