2025's Summer Game Fest is its biggest to date, with viewer numbers up 89% on last year's show

Between YouTube, Twitch, and X/Twitter, nan livestream topped 50m views collectively.

Summer Game Fest saw its highest viewership jump 89 percent year-over-year, making 2025's show nan biggest to date.

Between YouTube, Twitch, and X/Twitter, nan 6th June livestream topped 50 cardinal views collectively, mounting a caller grounds for nan show organised and hosted by Geoff Keighley.

Per StreamCharts (via Variety), YouTube saw nan astir views connected The Game Awards' YouTube transmission (which is, of course, Keighley's different seasonal show), pinch views up 43 percent compared to 2025. According to StreamCharts' analysis, nan mean assemblage besides accrued by 30 percent, while highest viewership for SGF connected Twitch was besides up by 38 percent.

More than 1300 organization co-streamers, "ranging from assortment broadcasters to Japanese VTubers", shared nan provender live.

"In total, nan highest concurrent assemblage for SGF reached much than 3 cardinal unrecorded simultaneous viewers crossed Twitch and YouTube, pinch important year-over-year maturation connected some platforms successful position of mean viewership, watch time, and co-streams," a property merchandise stated.

It's now nan second-biggest gaming/tech show of 2025, 2nd only to Nintendo's Switch 2 showcase. March's Nintendo Direct is third, while Xbox Games Showcase and June's State of Play travel successful 4th and 5th place, respectively.

Interestingly, this month's PlayStation State of Play is likewise breaking records for Sony, arsenic its June showcase smashed anterior highest concurrent viewership records, making it nan astir celebrated State of Play hosted to date.

Need to drawback up? Here's everything that was announced astatine Summer Game Fest 2025, and here's everything that happened astatine Sony's June 2025 record-breaking State of Play.