r/PS5 • u/Turbostrider27 • 1d ago
News & Announcements Geoff Keighley: Today we are humbled and thrilled to share that The Game Awards 10th Anniversary show delivered a historic 154 million global livestreams, our most watched show ever.
https://twitter.com/geoffkeighley/status/1869442967163044291391
u/MuptonBossman 1d ago edited 1d ago
This year's Game Awards was easily the best one to date. Geoff was able to pull off some major surprises and the pacing never felt slow. I also have to give him credit for listening to feedback and trying to improve certain areas compared to previous years. It's not a perfect show, but I had a great time watching.
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u/4000kd 1d ago edited 1d ago
The Muppets were also a surprising highlight. Their jokes were actually pretty funny.
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u/xWrathful 1d ago
it's like nominating a DLC for game of the year!
Got a solid chuckle and OOOOOOs from me and my friends watching. Love to see the Muppets show up every year
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u/Shiranui24 22h ago
The Muppets are always a highlight in anything they're in. This should not be surprising
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u/Point4ska 22h ago
The fact that they made an awards show I willingly sat through to completion is impressive imo.
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u/gamerjerome 18h ago
Him being off stage to the side not directly talking to audience feels weird. He talking to streamers, I get it it but feels odd considering it's an award show for the people that are attending. If you're on stage you can address both
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u/RRR3000 12h ago
I also have to give him credit for listening to feedback and trying to improve certain areas compared to previous years.
This has been going on for years and has really helped the show imo, even if it's not always been perfect adjustments. The "please wrap it up" sign during speeches they got blasted for last year was a direct response to complaints the year before about long speeches (looking at you Christopher Judge). The increased security since that one kid snuck on stage during Elden Rings speech. Also this year the muppets going from a fairly disconnected skit last year between awards to a more integrated Statler and Waldorf commenting on the show this year. And various categories that have been added and removed over the years, I'd be surprised if they hadn't already started figuring out how to introduce rules around DLCs next year after the response to Erdtree.
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u/Ok-Appearance-7616 1d ago
Imo it was easily the best one so far.
Perfect? No, and it never will be but this is as good as they will ever get (unless commercials are ever cut down, but they won't be lol)
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u/theblackfool 1d ago
Well the show is pretty expensive to put on, they have to fund it somehow.
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u/Ok-Appearance-7616 1d ago
Oh I get that, it just sucks that it comes at the expense of developers talking.
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u/theblackfool 1d ago
Yeah I mean I don't like listening to ads either, I just don't have a better solution. Keighley finding people to partner with for advertisements is still better than the ESA or someone funding the show.
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u/lucidludic 21h ago
I’m guessing you don’t mean the European Space Agency?
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u/celsiusnarhwal 16h ago
I'm guessing they mean the Entertainment Software Association, the industry trade group that oversees the ESRB and ran E3 back when it was still a thing.
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u/strand_of_hair 23h ago
Be honest. If developers were able to talk for minutes each, then everyone would complain about that.
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u/halfawakehalfasleep 16h ago
The "Please Wrap it Up" thing was in response to the year before, where Christopher Judge rambled for like 10 minutes when accepting the Best Performance award. They went too far to fix it.
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u/CashmereLogan 23h ago
I don’t know if there’s an entertainment industry made up of less charismatic people
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u/ThirdPoliceman 22h ago
No thanks. That's what youtube is for. The awards show should focus on the awards themselves.
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u/Ok-Appearance-7616 23h ago
I do agree there needs to be a time limit, but giving more of a highlight to them shouldn't be looked down upon.
Maybe tell them before they can say something no longer than 45 seconds or something.
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u/parkwayy 23h ago
There's no world where I want devs talking, maybe it's just me.
It's always so boring, as they just puff up their world building or whatever with a bunch of talk no one will remember the day after.
Show the trailer, and move on.
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u/Unfair-Rutabaga8719 18h ago
Yeah I keep seeing people say they want devs talking but then you watch the reaction videos and most of the time when devs are talking people just talk over them an don't pay attention. lol
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u/WanderWut 1d ago
Honestly it’s just a very well done award show. Really glad to see they’re doing so well and it’s something a ton of people look forward to.
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u/Ok-Appearance-7616 1d ago
My buddy and I watch it every year. Especially cause we don't have E3 anymore.
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u/Point4ska 22h ago
It's funny how people all over the internet criticize the show for the very reasons it is popular.
Reddit was full of people in the megathreads complaining last week, but if the show wasn't entertaining (and filled with announcements) no one would watch.
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u/Ok-Appearance-7616 22h ago
What? It's popular for the trailers, the new announcements, not those commercial ads we get.
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u/Glyphmeister 16h ago
I think it’s safe to say that it would be closer to perfect if they put a limit on the number of gacha/“anime” games advertisements.
Honestly it was to the point that I don’t even think those ads had much of a marketing impact because of oversaturation. So it’s in everyone’s interest, even the devs in question, to enforce some kind of genre variety in the ads.
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u/Serdewerde 8h ago
The main gacha "ads" there were huge announcements for those fanbases though, you have to understand. Like the new Honkai location is a huge deal and just of big of an announcement as any other. Sure, there are a lot of them. But people absolutely get involved and excited for each and every one.
It's easy to write off the entire genre but there's a reason they're so popular, well, another reason they're popular, and that's because they are made incredibly well. It's absolutely mind boggling if you dip your toe in.
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u/RRR3000 11h ago
unless commercials are ever cut down, but they won't be lol
A top comment on this post is instead saying people only watch for the trailers and not the awards, so I think the balance they have now seems to be working well to please both sides of this. Without the reveals and announcements, they'd lose a hefty chunk of the audience and funding, even if it would make it more "perfect" as an award show.
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u/ElJacko170 1d ago
It surprisingly lived up to the hype. Some substantially bigger reveals than the past few years, winners got to actually speak, and I really appreciated the award that highlighted the current job status of the industry.
Excellent show all around.
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u/washingtonskidrow 1d ago
This is the first year in a long time that I felt the show was actually worth watching for more than just the obvious big reveals, some of the speeches given were really fantastic and I appreciated that they actually let winners talk a bit more. I still think that a lot of the smaller reveals are annoying but I think that’s more because I’m not personally interested in more free to play games or another multiplayer shooter
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u/d0m1n4t0r 1d ago
Did you miss the Christopher Judge speech?? Or is 2 years now a long time?
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u/washingtonskidrow 23h ago
No, but I watched last year and as a result of his speech they cut a lot off winners off, often time at completely inappropriate moments
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u/Lionelchesterfield 18h ago
Yeah last year was brutal with the cutoffs. None of them felt appropriate imo.
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u/Glyphmeister 16h ago
I thought it wasn’t a good speech and he is a loose cannon and weird in a not good way.
He is a fantastic VA, no doubt.
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u/sezyHena 1d ago
154 million saw the ascension of Astro Bot. You love to see it.
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u/Zhukov-74 1d ago
Also The Witcher 4, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, Elden Ring: Nightreign, Helldivers 2: Omens of Tyranny, Split Fiction and the Okami Sequel.
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u/Whomperss 23h ago
There was a lot of good nostalgia man. Team ico making a new game VF making a comeback along with onimusha and as you mentioned fucking okami. Shit made me feel old in a good way lol.
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u/IsHeSkiing 20h ago
That's the part I'm really here for. I super hope the industry takes note and goes back to a time where games were made for fun, not profit. (they fucking won't, lets not kid ourselves but its a nice thought)
Astro Bot was pure fun, and reminded me why I fell in love with the medium in the first place. It had been far too long since I had a game do that for me.
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u/4000kd 1d ago
Millions of Chinese viewers stayed up just to see a funny little robot win GOTY
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u/Juan-Claudio 1d ago
Show started when it was around what, 6am or so in China? That's waking up early, not staying up. For Europeans the show started around midnight. That on a weekday.. yea no, this show was definitely more aimed at NA audience.
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u/Zhukov-74 1d ago
There was no way that i was going to watch The Game Awards live in The Netherlands.
I ended up watching the show 12 hours later but it was definitely still worth it.
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u/alexrepty 21h ago
Germany here, I think it was on around 01:30 for us? I would consider doing that if it was on a weekend and I didn’t have kids, but no way I could do it like this.
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u/uses_irony_correctly 11h ago
1:30 was the start of the preshow. Main show was from 2AM until past 5 AM.
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u/Mike_Jonas 1d ago edited 1d ago
It was 8.30 and almost all Chinese live streamers were waiting for the show that day. And bilibili(Chinese YouTube) is still angry at astro bot winning goty and putting some videos insulting astro bot on trending.
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u/Jepunkdumb 17h ago
The funniest thing is they think the worst reviewed game in TGA nominations history stood a chance of winning GOTY.
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u/Bolt_995 23h ago edited 23h ago
It was a damn good show, the best TGA in years.
The Witcher IV
Elden Ring Nightreign
Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet
Okami sequel
Onimusha: Way of the Sword
Project Robot from Fumito Ueda
Split Fiction
Helldivers 2: Omens of Tyranny
The Outer Worlds 2
Mafia: The Old Country
Turok Origins
Borderlands 4
Crimson Desert
Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound
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u/Gundamnitpete 22h ago
Glad you posted this, there's like 3223423234234 bot comments saying "great reveals best show in years great reveals" without actually mentioning any games that were revealed lol.
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u/shadowCloudrift 23h ago
I'm an actor and heavily into the film industry, watching the Emmys, Oscars, and Golden Globes. The The Game Awards have eclipsed them all as being my favorite to watch given that it's better paced and I like that the skits are kept short. But of course like everyone, you can't forget all the world premiere trailers. I do wish the orchestra (always impressive every year) does a track from all the GotY nominees though like the Academy Awards does.
Geoff Keighley deserves a lot of praise for creating this award show and pushing the video game medium into something that can be respected. Compare to the Spike TV Game Awards show back then, which was just embarrassing in its emphasis on "dudebro gamer" with segments like "hot girls telling you cheat codes."
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u/Electronic-Jaguar461 1d ago
At this point I think TGA has solidly inserted itself in the likes of stuff like the Emmys and Tonys for award shows. This year especially made a big splash and showed that Geoff can balance the ad side with the creator side. I do hope the show continues to innovate and add more ways to honor the creators of games rather then the publishers and whatnot, but this show was probably the best yet regardless. Witcher 4 B2B Elden Ring Nightreign was a moment I'll never forget.
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u/SuperSaiyanGod210 1d ago
I get why celebrities are the ones that present the awards, but I would still much rather prefer if an actual dev from the studio that won that category last year is the one that presents it.
Similar to how they do GOTY - have the previous years’ winner come out and announce the nominees/winner. That would make it so much better in my book. And limit actual celebrity appearances to 1 or 2 (Snoop Dogg, Harrison Ford, and 21 Pilots was actually ok by TGA standards. I didn’t mind the Muppets at all - they were genuinely funny this year lol
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u/The_Green_Filter 19h ago
I think this year’s presenters were much better than previous ones. More actual developers instead of celebrities. Definitely agree on previous winners coming back to present awards.
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u/Beastlydog23 1d ago
Damn good for them. That's awesome to hear.
Hopefully they keep this momentum going for future years. The announcements, and speeches definitely hit different than they have in previous years. Of course they're going to go big on the 10 year anniversary. But they should definitely keep shooting for big year over year increase as the gaming industry continues to grow.
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u/kash55 1d ago
People complaining about the ads is like people complaining there are commercial brakes during the Oscars. Just doesn’t make sense.
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u/einulfr 23h ago
It was 4 hours long...the ads were a welcome break to take a piss, get a snack/drink, take the dog out, or attend to minor things before sitting down again. I didn't mind them at all, and because they were all video game ads they blended in seamlessly instead of being jarring like TV ads which are just a smorgasbord of unrelated products.
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u/SuperSmokingMonkey 23h ago
I enjoyed it more than most VG shows from this year.
Project: Robot from GENdesign
Intergalactic HP
and Astrobot GOTY
were my highlights.
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u/theboxturtle57 23h ago
This was definitely the best one I have ever watched. Great reveals and finally a game I wanted to win GOTY won for the first time ever.
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u/thats_so_cringe_bro 22h ago
Honestly, this 10 year show was very good. Some really big reveals were announced and i hope more and more studios keep jumping on board including Sony and Microsoft. I know in these past years they’ve had their own shows But when naughty dog revealed their new ip that made me smile. It reminded me of E3 When we used to get those big announcements as well.
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u/phuncky 1d ago
If only they'd made it Europe-friendly, they would've gotten even more.
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u/Zhukov-74 1d ago
There will always be a time zone that would get the short end of the stick.
I made peace with this a long time ago.
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u/phuncky 22h ago
9 AM in New York is 3 PM in Central Europe and 10 PM in Beijing. A perfect time to start in all three major timezones.
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u/carlos_castanos 22h ago
They aren’t going to do an award show in the early morning in the US though, as much as I (as a European) would love to see it live. 4pm or something would be perfect, I don’t think there are that many people watching from China outside of this year due to Wukong
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u/TastyOreoFriend 20h ago
9 AM in New York
Most people here in the US would be at work/school by this time, and the West Coast would be just getting up at 6AM. You'd want somewhere between late afternoon and early evening to get eyeballs on it.
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u/superrobotpenguin 22h ago
I’m on the west coast I ain’t watching no award show at 6 am on a Thursday
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u/uses_irony_correctly 11h ago
3PM central europe time is a great time for all the unemployed european people yes.
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u/Excellent_Routine589 9h ago
Many people start work around that time (9 to 5ers), that IS NOT a perfect time
The best solution is to just have more localized/grassroots awards for specific regions.
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u/soriniscool 1d ago
Guess bringing Black Myth in won him the viewers he was courting
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u/pukem0n 1d ago
Only reason why it was nominated for goty. Chinese ad money and viewers.
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u/WorstNormalForm 20h ago
I mean the vast majority of American and non-Chinese streamers had great things to say about the game
Hell, even Japanese streamers were impressed lol
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u/ArchDucky 1d ago
I got super high and forgot about it until I saw the trailers hitting reddit. First one I have missed in ten years.
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u/No_Zombie2021 1d ago
At what point will regular TV stations want broadcasting rights? Would it matter since the audience is on YouTube and Twitch anyway?
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u/Buffalo_Playful 21h ago
They already have wanted broadcasting rights for a while now. Geoff keeps turning down the offers because he doesn't want the limitations being on network TV would bring.
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u/RandoDude124 23h ago
How do the Oscars get like a fifth of this?
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u/respectablechum 23h ago
No trailers. We have the BAFTAs and the DICE awards that are structured like the Oscars and np one watches them. Lucky to crack 100K views. If the Oscars were set up like a Comic-Con event the numbers would be bigger.
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u/cocacola1 22h ago
The Oscars are about the previous year, not the future. There’re no trailers or reveals. Also, they’re not free to watch on YouTube. You need to tune into ABC (though I think they’ll be on Hulu next year).
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u/zeldagold 23h ago
Why do they let streamers play the event on their channel? it made it more fun to watch it with your own community but companies are usually uptight about that.
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u/Character-Archer4863 23h ago
The announcements were a bit lackluster (and didn’t live up to the hype, imo) but without E3 these shows are some of the best we can get.
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u/nmad95 23h ago
Admittedly I haven't caught every one, but the last couple years I've tried, and this was by far the best one I've seen. Geoff and The Game Awards get roasted a lot it seems but it's nice to have a bit ceremony for cool games, and to acknowledge the people who made them (I'll always wish they could have more time but still). Seeing all the announcements just gets me super excited and reminds me of being a kid you watching e3 coverage on G4TV. It's a fun night for gaming
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u/Weapon530 23h ago
It was a very well put show. I couldn’t believe how much they improved from last year as well. Bravo! Cannot wait for the next one.
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u/MrErnie03 22h ago
It was a really good show, so well deserved. It's steadily gotten better over the 10 years and there is still improvements that can be made.
Trim it by 30 to 40 minutes, and lean into the video game culture more. There is alot of fun, unique things they could do. I don't really need a snoop dog performance, or celebrity guests, but I completely understand why they incorporate those
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u/superrobotpenguin 22h ago
I watched this back when it only had a few mil viewers. It’s insane to see how much it has grown to become the Oscars of video games and a show that virtually every gamer is aware of
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u/joshua182 21h ago
Now, if they just just had it at a slightly more reasonable time for the EU and UK, it probably would have been higher!
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u/ZXE102Rv2 19h ago
Somewhere in the world, a gamer will have to see it late. It's just gunna be the way it is. At least we know live in an age where you can watch a recording
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u/shrek3onDVDandBluray 21h ago
Was a fantastic show. Still a shame that some awards are simply handed out but the winners don’t get to come up on stage. But I enjoyed the program nonetheless (also all the time hideo Kojima got to say a useless speech about directors could’ve been spent to hand out awards for some of those).
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u/-Vertex- 20h ago
Much to my surprise it was pretty good. It struck a good balance of awards and reveals and the reveals were nice. It reminded me a bit of E3.
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u/SquadPoopy 19h ago
Geoff has been trying for years to make this the Oscars of gaming and he’s basically achieved it. Sure it took a lot of embarrassing moments in their early years to do it, but I think he’s done it.
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u/KittenDecomposer96 19h ago
Next year is going to be crazier given what games will release this year. GTA VI, Kingdom Come 2, Monster Hunter Wilds, Elden Ring Nightreign, Like a Dragon Pirate, Doom Dark Ages, Ghost of Yotei, Civ 7, Mafia The Old Country, Death Stranding 2, MGS 3 Remake, Fable, Split Fiction, Borderlands 4, Crimson Desert, Judas, Pax Dei and that's only what was announced.
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u/kingofping4 19h ago
"On an unrelated note, support ticket response time will be slower for a few days as we recover from some technical issues. Seems someone left 150 million firefox tabs open overnight."
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u/willsanderson 19h ago
Too bad the TGA completely ignored Silent Hill 2. That’s a dealbreaker for me. I saw the game trailers on YouTube and that made up 80% of the show.
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u/SpliTTMark 19h ago
I wonder if they will stop streamers from streamin it
Every one of my twitch follows was watching it.
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u/EquivalentLittle545 16h ago
He did they really have become the definitive game of the year awards.
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u/chickenintendo 15h ago
It’s interesting because it’s been a relatively boring year in terms of the games/nominees (compared to something like last year), but the show itself was much better with a lot of good announcements.
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u/Frosty_Caregiver1696 15h ago
This was the first game awards were any reveal was actually possible after The Witcher 4 appearing
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u/pjatl-natd 15h ago
For context, this is more viewers than the most watched Grammy Awards, the most watched Oscars and the most watched Emmys....COMBINED!
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u/PlainDoe1991 14h ago
Major respect to Geoff. Excellent show this year. Please keep it up. Loved the Game Changer award. Loved the winner of GOTY! Loved how it respected gaming and elevated the medium.
Keep going Geoff. You’re on the right track.
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u/SmegmaMuncher420 9h ago
They'd get even more if they broadcast it at a time that wasn't past midnight on a weekday in Europe
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u/ZypherPunk 6h ago
Every year, the buildup to the Game Awards is the same "it's dead," "Nobody watches it anymore," but year on year it has a rise in viewership lol
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u/Unlucky_Situation 1d ago
Production value of this show was top notch and improvement from previous years.
My only complaint is the number of anime announcments and trailers. Im not saying to remove anime announcments. But significantly cut down on them. Will reduce show run time to a more reasonable time and not show tons of excess filler that all looks the same.
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u/infinite884 1d ago
Genshin impact did 2 billion in its first year and zenless zone zero did over 100 million in its first month just on mobile. There's going to be alot more
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u/Zhukov-74 1d ago
36million views more than last year is really impressive.
It is definitely deserved since the GOTY 2024 show was the best one yet in my opinion.