Summary
- New reports reveal that the broadcast of The Game Awards 2024 has broken ratings records for the annual awards ceremony with more than 4 million viewers.
- The official YouTube Game Awards boasted over 1 million peak viewers, while several other channels broke the 100,000 viewer mark during the broadcast.
- Astro Bot served up the big winner of the show, winning “Game of the Year” and three other awards, while major games like Elden Ring Nightreign and The Witcher 4 were announced.
Highly anticipated release in 2024 Gaming awards broadcast set a new viewership record for the annual event, with the awards ceremony celebrating its tenth anniversary. The annual awards show has become one of the most auspicious events of the year within the gaming community, both honoring the past year and looking to the future. The Game Awards usually hosts a number of major new game reveals alongside a suite of awards and often brings bombshell announcements from developers like FromSoftware and Sony. This year's show was said to be the biggest Game Awards to date.
The Game Awards 2024 show saw a lot of excitement from fans, with the top games of the year leaving the show with plenty of accolades. Astro Bot served as the night's biggest winner, winning four out of seven nominations, including the prestigious “Game of the Year” award. Breakthrough indie hit Balatro also saw success at the Game Awards, winning 3 awards including “Best Indie Game” and “Best Mobile Game” and tied for Metaphor: ReFantazio second most wins at the event. The success of the featured games has now reportedly been reflected in the live show as well.
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Every award Astro Bot won at The Game Awards 2024
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As Insider Gaming reports, a chart from popular streaming aggregator Streams Charts reveals that the 2024 Game Awards have broken the show's records. The 2024 Game Awards reportedly saw the highest number of concurrent viewers to surpass the 4 million mark, peaking at 4,003,578 viewers. Viewership was split between multiple channels, with the official YouTube broadcast of The Game Awards peaking at 1,250,470 million viewers and Twitch at 397,518. Popular streamers such as Asmongold and MoistCr1tikal also peaked at over 100,000 viewers when they streamed the event together.
Game Awards 2024 broke viewership records
- Total number of hours watched: 15,267,555
- Combined high-end concurrent viewers: 4,003,578
- Combined Average Online Viewers: 3,105,266
- Total number of channels: 1.498
- Broadcast time: 4 hours, 55 minutes
Most watched channels
- The Game Awards (YouTube): 1,250,470
- The Game Awards (Twitch): 397,518
- IGN: 171,407
- Zackrawrr: 114,513
- penguin0: 111,481
In addition to the hardware that was presented to the winners, The Game Awards also welcomed a lot of major gaming announcements. During the show where Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree has been nominated for Game of the Year, officially revealed by FromSoftware Elden Ring Nightreign as a co-op sequel to the 2022 Game of the Year winner. Several older franchises also saw new reveals at the event, with Capcom showing off new Eyes and Onimusha games, while CD Projekt Red officially announced The Witcher 4.
The 2024 edition of the annual awards was full of surprises for fans between new announcements and unexpected winners. Balatro creator LocalThunk joked about the indie game's overwhelming success after the show, asking fans where they could find the trophy shelf for the game's three awards. Fallout Executive producer Jonathan Nolan also joked about his series taking “Best Adaptation”. Arcanaindicating that he originally expected to lose to Riot Games' animated series. The Game Awards 2024 was packed with lots of excitement and surprises to make it an unforgettable show for many fans.
