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[cormack12]

 

[SEGAvangelist]

And they all just wanted some damn hair.

 

[Cakeboxer]

Damn, no wonder everybody thinks the other 500+ gaming awards don't exist. Biggest show = win.

 

[clarky]

When there was only 1.1m watching via the official stream i find this very hard to believe.

 

[Calverz]

That's great and all Geoff but I'd have rather watched the 2004 game awards….

 

[SEGAvangelist]

Damn, no wonder everybody thinks the winners are the gaming Oscars.

 

[LectureMaster]

For her.

 

[Hookshot]

I wasn't one of them. Hooray for time zones.

 

[intbal]

99% of those watching were only interested in seeing new trailers.

 

[SEGAvangelist]

99% of those watching were only interested in seeing new trailers.

And they were good trailers. Geoff did a good job with the show this year, IMO.

 

[Magic Carpet]

It was a good show. A really good shoe.

 

[asdasdasdbb]

When there was only 1.1m watching via the official stream i find this very hard to believe.

They probably counted people who watched some portion of it.

I watched it because TW4's official video is age gated... but if you watched the stream there was none. That's all I watched tho.

 

[Trogdor1123]

99% of those watching were only interested in seeing new trailers.

What's your point? The people tuned in.

 

[phant0m]

meanwhile, less than half of that watched the Paul/Tyson fight and Netflix completely shit the bed.

(Netflix originally published '60M households', this was later bumped to 108M active streams...still a lot less)

 

[Salz01]

How does it compare to academy awards?

 

[sharp weiner]

Max Concurrent watchers please.
We need a stat that gamers can understand.

 

[Cakeboxer]

Max Concurrent watchers please.
We need a stat that gamers can understand.

4 million on Youtube/Twitch

 

[ULTROS!]

Isn't the 150m = the entire gaming population?

 

[Z O N E]

Easy to get that many viewers when everyone and their grandmother was making up some crazy stuff trying to hype the show. In the end, no Half Life 3 and no holy shit moments.

 

[Kenpachii]

Well done, i liked the show this year.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

But gaf told me these awards don't matter?

 

[TheGodfather07]

Show was good but an hour longer than it needs to be.

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

Isn't the 150m = the entire gaming population?

How if Switch alone sold 140M consoles? And consoles is just a fraction of the gaming community anyway.

 

[xenosys]

This is why Black Myth was nominated.

Those sweet China views.

 

[PatientGamer]

People don't want to admit it, but the VGAs are the Oscars of the gaming industry.

Sorry to disappoint.

 

[near]

People don't want to admit it, but the VGAs are the Oscars of the gaming industry.

Sorry to disappoint.

People can hate all they want, but it's the best gaming event of the year.

 

[AJUMP23]

For her.

2024 is the year of Sydnee's

 

[jzbadblood]

In a post-E3 world we need this kind of hype event with big announcements. Even if it sucks.

 

[Rat Rage]

Somebody do the math: there were about 1 million viewers on youtube. I don't know how many there were on twitch. Even if it was significantly higher, let's say 3 million on twitch, then that's 4 million.

Where are the other 150 million? I call bullshit!

 

[LordOcidax]

Those 150 million are more fake than my million dollars bank account Geoff has not limits.

 

[mckmas8808]

Damn, no wonder everybody thinks the other 500+ gaming awards don't exist. Biggest show = win.

Exactly!

 

[mckmas8808]

Somebody do the math: there were about 1 million viewers on youtube. I don't know how many there were on twitch. Even if it was significantly higher, let's say 3 million on twitch, then that's 4 million.

Where are the other 150 million? I call bullshit!

Those 1 million viewers and concurrent live viewers. Not "total" number of viewers.

 

[Celcius]

The show is fun, hype, and a good time.

 

[Mahavastu]

How does it compare to academy awards?

According to this the Oscars had around 20mio live tv viewers.
Probably only US, no youtube.

 

[Maltosier]

People don't seem to understand the difference between concurrent viewers and unique viewers over the course of the entire show.

Very rarely do viewers watch from start to end in one sitting.

Geoff is definitely just saying over the course of the show there were that many unique impressions made. Even people who tuned in for like 2 seconds and left.