Last spring, I published one of my 1st analysis using Gamoloco data, focusing on the top 20 games on Twitch in March. Castro has to be one factor behind this game's success and maybe another could be the seemingly ever-growing popularity of the Fifa Ultimate Team mode.Ĭastro_1021 recorded almost 1/3 of all of FIFA's live viewership in 2015 The case is quite special since almost 1/3 of FIFA's viewership in 2015 was recorded by one single community channel, Spanish-speaking castro_1021 from Bloomingdale, IL, who totalled a whopping 19M hours watched throughout the year. The last game I haven't talked about is FIFA.
#TOP 5 MOBA GAMES 2015 PC#
Maybe with time, the trend favoring esports PC games on Twitch could be altered.
Just like Minecraft, Destiny manages to rank that high without an esports community, and as a console game mostly: that's 2 factors it's usually pretty hard to fight against on Twitch, showing this game might have opened a new branch for console FPS and MMO's. By Twitch success standards it is, as it was only released in September 2014. H1Z1 is quite a nice surprise though, it will be interesting to see how it does in its 2nd year.ĭestiny at #8 could also almost be considered a new game. When it comes to new games, Twitch viewers tend to favor Survival games, yes, but when it comes to games in general, esports win everyday. Right below Minecraft, H1Z1 is the sole survivor from last week's Top 10 new games and the Survival genre. The fact that's it's ranking that high without esports supporting its community is yet another sign of its uniqueness. Minecraft is very much like another infinite universe of play inside our already infinite real-world universe. Remember Legos? How many stories would you be able to tell yourself and your mates with infinite, interactive Lego blocks?. The genius game, how come Minecraft so high on Twitch? I think it's associated with creativity and storytelling. Outside of the 6 games carried by esports, we have Minecraft. Call of Duty, by the way, is the only game that's not exclusively for PC or PC-centric out of those 6. Outside of the Big 4, 2 other games in the top 10 also got there for the most part because of esports: Starcraft 2 and Call of Duty. In this regard, esports on Twitch are very much like regular sports on TV: they allow the biggest live viewership boosts. Last August, Twitch broke its record for maximum concurrent viewers on the platform at 2.1M, precisely at the time when the finals for ESL One Cologne and the North American LCS Finals were both being streamed.
What the numbers seem to show is that esports can generate tremendous passion among those who get hooked, which then leads to major live viewership peaks. Why these 4? Why so big? Of course esports come to mind as these 4 games are the biggest Esports platforms out there. And among the Big 4, there's the BIG ONE: that's League of Legends of course, watched almost twice as much as its closest competitor. If we were in NCAA basketball we'd call them the Big 4 or something. Four PC games, League of Legends, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, DotA 2 and Hearthstone, are litterally dwarving the competition on Twitch.
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