Lurkit: State of the Streaming market in Q1’24
Grand Theft Auto V is #1 - maybe there is no reason for Rockstar to release the next game?
The company analyzed the top 500 games on Twitch by the hours watched.
Key findings
In Q1’24, 52,108 games appeared on Twitch. The top 500 accounted for 69.8% of all viewing hours.
The number of hours users spent watching games from the top 500 reached 3.8 billion hours. This is 10% more than in Q1’23.
67.2% of hours watched are accounted for by games from the top 20. 88.3% - for games from the top 100.
Grand Theft Auto V (479 million hours) is the most viewed game in the first quarter.
Fortnite is the top game in terms of streaming hours. It accounts for 8.12% of all streaming hours among the top 500 games.
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The top 10 most successful developers' games account for 59% of all hours watched. This is less than 63% in Q1’23. Riot Games is the most successful developer in terms of watched hours (671 million hours across all games).
❗️Lurkit included Hidden Path Entertainment in the list of most successful developers. In reality, it is a studio that helped Valve create CS:GO, so when data is exported for CS2, it is listed among the creators.
25 games released in the first quarter of 2024 made it into the top 500 for Q1’24 in terms of hours watched.
Palworld is the most successful new game of the quarter, with 76 million hours watched. This is 128% more than Helldivers II.
