The Game Awardsceremony was a night of celebrating the best the industry has to offer, announcing a plethora of titles that are on the horizon, and even including a surprise or two (planned or otherwise).The Game Awardsmay be over for the year, but the games announced there will no doubt have an impact in the coming months or even years.
Games industry analyst Benji-Sales on Twitter has gathered data based on the new trailers revealed for The Game Awards, revealing the top 8 trailers to emerge out of the show. There are some surprises among them, of course, including howFinal Fantasy 16doesn’t manage to crack as many views as some of these titles. To gather this information, Benji-Sales compiled all trailer uploads of 30K views or more from The Game Awards, developers, publishers, outlets, and so on, excluding reaction videos and breakdown videos of the trailers.
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The clear pack leader is theStar Wars Jedi: Survivorgameplay trailer, which has accumulated 4.9m+ views (more than double the second most popular trailer). The second most popular trailer wasHades 2,as it racked up 2.4 million views, but it was no doubt one of the most surprising trailers there. Supergiant Games doesn’t typically do sequels, so to do so withHadesspeaks to the popularity of the IP. Third place isArmored Core 6, the next game fromElden Ringdeveloper FromSoftware, which appears to be leveraging its pedigree with Souls titles to hopefully revive its once cult classicArmored CoreIP (that faded into obscurity roughly ten years ago). It garnered 2.2m+ views.
The other games to crack the top 8 includeSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s Batman reveal(2.1m+), Kojima Production’sDeath Stranding 2(1.9m+),Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty DLC (1.6m+),Diablo 4(1.5m+), andTekken 8(1.4m+). While these may just be the top trailers at the showcase, it speaks to how much exposure smaller games can get when paired alongside industry titans in a singular showcase.
Of course, notablymissing among the various trailers at The Game Awards was Xbox’s forecast of games, such asRedfallandStarfield. While there are plenty of reasons as to why, potentially even including the Activision Blizzard acquisition and its challenges, recent comments from Xbox higher-ups suggest there are plans on horizon, leading to rumors of an early 2023 Xbox showcase for the year. For now, fans just have to wait and see.
