Citing internal data collected regarding Playstation 4 console usage, Sony Computer Entertainment America and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe have come together to announce that the integrated streaming capabilities of the PS4 have been used hundreds of thousands of time to merit millions of individual views.
Overall there have been nearly 800,000 gameplay broadcasts with more than 7.1 million spectators through the video streaming platforms Twitch and UStream – resulting in more than 20 million minutes of live gameplay streamed from PS4’s in less than one month. Ten percent of all content on Twitch has come from PS4 systems since the November 15 launch in the U.S. and Canada and the November 29 launch in Europe, Australasia and Latin America, based on average minutes broadcast. At the moment the top streamed games are Battlefield 4, Killzone: Shadow Fall and Call of Duty: Ghosts, all three of which have a high focus on online multiplayer.
Shuhei Yoshida | President of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios
PlayStation 4 is specifically designed so people can share their gaming experiences and interest in streaming live gameplay has surpassed our wildest expectations. We’re very excited to see gamers embrace live streaming from their PS4 system and we look forward to seeing how PlayStation gamers advance social gaming in the coming years.
