KOF XIV is last
EVO 2017’s download is complete, and peak numbers have been recorded for all of the main stage finals streams. How did they do? Well let’s take a look. Note that all this data isjustfrom Twitch.
Street Fighter Vis on top (no surprise as it’s the main event) with 179,072, followed byTekken 7(145,667),SmashWii U (143,008),Smash Melee(128,121),BlazBlue: Central Fiction(97,605),Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3(84,952),Injustice 2(45,557),Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2(38,518 – I wish more people watched this as it’s the best fighter at EVO), andKing of Fighters XIV(32,760).
These numbers are down overall from last year for some games, though several have been swapped around to different days. In 2016Street Fighter Vhad a slightly improved 182,716 at its peak,Meleehad a shocking 219,125 on a Sunday,Guilty Gear Xrd Revelatorhad an impressive 136, 914 (three times as big as this year), andUltimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3had 121,878 in 2016. Another surprising bit of data is thatMortal Kombat XLdid better last year (104,586) than NetherRealm’s brand newInjustice 2.
Some other takeaways include the rising popularity ofTekken 7, the fact that people are finally tuning out forMelee(though it did have a shocking Saturday placement andSmashWii U was on Disney XD, which garnered it own set of hype), andBlazBlueonce again returned to the main stage and put up big numbers. It was an interesting EVO with some great matches, and it spurred me into playing a bunch of the featured games this past week.
EVO 2017 finals[Twitch] [image source]
