Gamescom Opening Night Live host Geoff Keighley has revealed how many views this year's presentation racked up, and if his count is to be believed, then this year's show was much more popular than last year's.
Per a post on Keighley's X (formerly Twitter) account, Gamescom ONL 2024 managed to amass "more than 40 million video views", which amounts to "double that of 2023". That's not bad at all.
Naturally, Keighley's numbers must be coming from multiple platforms, because the Gamescom Opening Night Live 2024 show only has 1.2 million views on YouTube. Keighley doesn't break down viewership by platform, though, so we're left guessing on that one.
Keighley also says in his post that the in-person Gamescom event welcomed around 335,000 visitors this year, which is an increase on 2023's total of 320,000.
In short, it sounds like Gamescom 2024 was a much more popular event all around than last year's, so we can reasonably expect next year's showcase to increase its viewership and attendance even further, right?
If you missed out on Gamescom Opening Night Live 2024, it aired last Tuesday and featured around two and a half hours of reveals and announcements for both new and existing games.
We got to see reveals for the likes of Borderlands 4, a new Dying Light game, and Tarsier Studios' spooky Reanimal, which looks strongly reminiscent of Little Nightmares (which makes sense given that Tarsier worked on the first two installments of that series).
Remarkably, just six of the announcements made during Gamescom ONL 2024 are confirmed to be coming to Nintendo Switch right now, so it looks like that Switch 2 announcement Nintendo promised us can't come soon enough.
If you missed Gamescom ONL 2024 and you want to catch up with the show, you can do so right here. Be warned, though: it's long. Grab yourself a cup of coffee or something.
