We love Geoff, but the terminology used to describe the success of The Game Awards 2021 is the kind of thing that makes our eyes roll out of their sockets. According to hype master Keighley, the event "delivered a record 85 million livestreams". It sure sounds impressive, but "delivered"? "Livestreams"? That's a weirdly specific, but also incredibly vague metric.
We think this means that, over the course of the show, 85 million livestreams of The Game Awards were opened at some point. If you clicked on the show by accident and then backed out after just a few seconds, we assume that would still count towards the total.
Look, we don't want to get too snarky. It's clear that The Game Awards attracts a massive audience these days, to the point where it's basically the biggest annual event in gaming — especially since E3 is barely a shadow of its former self. Mad to think about, isn't it?
Congrats to Geoff, we suppose. Say what you want about the guy, but he knows how to get people watching his shows!
[source twitter.com]
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I hate hearing every time this guy gets success....he just...he's everything wrong with the world rolled into one pair of overpriced scalped sneakers.
Of course, a record number of Youtube viewers. The same place where the likes of Pewdiepie are "celebrities" so......fair play?
The time was horrible for European viewers. With 3 or 4 hours earlier, it would have even more viewers and attention.
Oh look it's the BFF of Godjima. Nice that he has some fun too.
Jokes aside, massive numbers. Congrats to Geoff and team. It was the best Game Award Show, at least trailer-wise.
I’m still recovering from that night/morning. Unbelievably not worth it at all. I’ll do the same next year of course.
That surprising considering most of europe probably didn't watch it because of the time. So glad I skipped it though!
@PlayStationGamer3919 I like him more back in the day on Game Trailers Tv
It went too long and showed too little games and too much blatant advertising.
Hopefully enough people feel the way I do that the numbers will drop next year and they go back to a better format.
It seemed too rigid and formulaic to appease advertisers versus a fun celebration for gamers. Less production and more entertaining moments please.
Once again this proves the opinion of hardcore gamers who frequent websites like this one do not always represent the opinions and tastes of the average gamer. What is acclaimed by critics and the die-hard gamers occasionally matches the general public, but often it is not the case.
E3 still attracted a decent number of viewers, and Nintendo put on a great show. TGA was comparatively pretty painful to watch.
I for one can honestly say I won't be watching it next year. It was woke, nothing but adverts and crap that doesn't need to be in a game show.
Curious to see comparative numbers next year b/c I certainly feel like I read more bad than good. I'll try to remember to skip it, not b/c it was bad, I really didn't think it 2as that terrible, but a 30 minutes pre-show followed by 3 hours and 15 minutes of show is just tok long of a commitment when I care about less than half of the games.
I'd watch again for a 30 minutes pre-show followed by a 90 minute show, not 205 minutes. Too long.
I'm in the minority that actually thought it was an okay show. Granted I played Halo's campaign whenever something I didn't care about was on. Definitely could have trimmed some stuff to shorten it a bit but hey it still brought in the numbers and I'm sure the same will happen next year too.
The only good thing about this show is that Ming-Na Wen was there
Everyone online seems so cynical toward TGA and Keighley…I don’t know why. I enjoyed the show for the most part, and like that it makes a very big deal out of our beloved pastime. I’ll check it out again next year.
How is this possible?! From what I read in the internet no one likes to watch these. /s
@PlayStationGamer3919 what??? lol where did this even come from? geoff is cool...ya'll judge too much. He's one of the good ones.
My sister watched it. From what I can tell, it wasn't worth it. Also, the prizes were completely unimportant. It just seems a bit confused.
@nessisonett lol so it is worth it if your gonna do it again.
@MyThoughts31 it will still grow without you again. I didn't see any woke stuff.
@TaterSlap69 same and the fact geoff is open to tons of critism so he can make it better next year like the show being too long. these people are way to hard on him. He seems like a down to earth person.
@middyone Not really, I think I’m just a sucker for punishment.
@Athrum shocker. the internet lied and has a bunch of hate for something popular lol. where have you been.
@nessisonett oof
@middyone a five minute section on BLM at a gaming event is definitely woke
It is the same metric Microsoft uses for Game Pass now: engagement.
@MyThoughts31 you talking about a ad? just skip it dude...the actual show wasn't woke.
I wander at the tone of this reporting? Why so hostile? Again push square seems tired and cranky... sort it out, please.
All award shows are cringe inducing, but these are at least watchable in places.
Like them or loath them, their success is surely good for a past time I'd assume the author is still interested in?
I missed it... but at a minimum it was not full of 2D pixel art clones from the 80's and saturday morning cartoon party games.
Some of the announcements were ok... Kena, It takes 2 and Tales won.Good enough.
Most videogame hosts on all of these are awful, so that is a wash.
Give him at least a little credit for trying to hype up gaming in a world where everyone feels like they need to be angry or hate everything. It's definitely getting more corporate feeling but he's letting people say stuff like "F*ck the Oscars" without censoring them so he's not completely a suit...yet.
It's almost as if some latte-sipping, soulless, communications major, corporate shrill wrote that. Hmm... I might be on to something.
Surprised by the negative comments, I loved the fast pacing of the show. Didn’t get stuck too long in games I wasn’t interested in and got to see tons of games I never heard of
@PlayStationGamer3919 i don't have to be a fan to like and respect the guy. give props where it's due. the guy turned one of our favorite hobbies into something serious in terms of award shows.
Not having E3, this is what we have... I used to start thinking/dreaming about "yext year's E3" as soon as the the current year's ended... not the case with this show, but I don't think it does any harm either.
Oh, also I think it's fair to respect the work of people... like it or not, there's a lot of hard work put in this show.
easy to TGA 2021 have record in viership, when you trick your audience with a promise of 5 level Elden Ring anouncemts.
All these big events are a waste if time for me. I really dont care why stay up at horrible times doe stuff i can watch when ever i want just release some trailers and im good you think i give a damn about some idiot who mostly annoys the crap out of.
When you compare it to the last 3yrs, the show was improved for the better.
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