Didn't The Game Awards receive more viewers than the Super Bowl? It used to be referred to as, like, "the Oscars for video games", but now it's immensely more popular than the Oscars.

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zimpenfish 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Didn't The Game Awards receive more viewers than the Super Bowl?

To be fair, barely anyone (in global terms) watches the Super Bowl.

You are correct though - [0] claims 171M for TGA with [1] claiming 125M for the Superb Owl 2026.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_Awards_2025

[1] https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/20...

	▲	mmooss 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There's no cite for the 171 million, which is a bit hard to believe. There are cites (which I didn't check) for these claims. Maybe they are counting people watching clips on Twitter? According to Streams Charts, the ceremony peaked at 4.4 million concurrent viewers—the most in its history and a 9% increase from 2024—including 1.4 million viewers on the official YouTube broadcast (an 8% increase) and 1.8 million on Twitch. On YouTube, the ceremony peaked at 2.4 million total concurrent viewers (a 9% increase), including a record 8,600 co-streams.[6] More than 16,500 creators co-streamed on Twitch—a record for the show, representing a 50% yearly increase—with total unique viewers and hours watched each increasing 5% from 2024.[6][114] On Twitter, posts about the show increased by 12%, with more than 1.79 million posts from December 10–12, while the broadcast and related videos received over 60 million views.[6]

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NeutralCrane 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There is absolutely no way The Game Awards got more viewers than the Super Bowl. I’d love to see a source because I have serious doubts.

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lazystar 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

games are global - NFL is solely american.

	▲	bryanrasmussen 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		OK, but how many markets are Games Awards actively televised in? I believe they have been watched more on YouTube, when I hear watched more than NFL in context of TV discussion I don't think YouTube is the distribution channel, however I followed the wikipedia link and it says "streams" which OK, not how I thought it was being ranked. If we are ranking on streams however, does this take into account streams of parts of each media? For example streams of Bad Bunny's halftime show, streams of important plays, versus streams of individual awards being presented? I don't actually care either way, much, since I don't like American football, don't generally like team sports, and don't spend time gaming, but somehow I think the comparison between the two in online streams throws the metrics off.

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Trasmatta 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

See the sibling reply for sources. A big part of it is that TGA is a worldwide thing.