IActually, I saw it break 20k briefly on my end. Twitch numbers are pretty imprecise, depending on what site you're using.
EGX just last week got around 34k
TGS got around 36k...and that was around 3 AM in the US.
Keep in mind, ESL isn't an established fighting game tournament. It's a CS:GO tournament with SF5 on the side. Also, peak stream numbers usually hit on Sunday evening in the U.S., not Saturday night.
People should stop this, man....
Viewership numbers for SFV aren't what people expected before the launch of the game, specially if we keep on mind where USFIV left it.
There was hype for the game the first 2 months. I recall Winter Brawl doing almost 70k and now it's hard to see bigger majors doing 25K.
Let's all accept that SFV has killed the momentum gained with SFIV in terms of making this a successful eSport to watch.
Capcom it's the only one to blame due the backlash the game received at launch. And also SFV not being as appealing to watch as SFIV (Maybe it's the lack of character variety compared to the huge cast SFIV had idk).
What I'm try to say it's that we shouldn't try so hard to justify the viewership every time someone kinda says it's poorly. I doesn't help.
I really hope Capcom it's able to revert it with some twists for season 2 like they did with SSFIV. It's sad to see how things are going after the end of SFIV.
I'm going to predict something. If SF V doesn't find something to gain viewership back, I'm 100% sure Smash Melee will top it at EVO, and maybe there won't be ESPN to cover it up this time...
