So happy God of War getting all them views. I honestly feel if they had just done another God of War with better graphics it would not be getting all this attention. Love the change in direction.
Also the view counts on games like Watch Dogs 2 are definitely deceptive. It wouldn't have 7 million plus views if it only has 40k likes. It must an ad in front of other videos.
I noticed how high the God of War demo's view count was the other day and wanted to compare to game I thought was comparable in popularity, Gears of War 4. It wasn't even close, Gears has less than a million views is there an explanation for that?
That Gears video is not on an official channel, it's just some shady rebroadcast from a random Youtuber.
Oh you're right, but I just checked the official xbox page and their version has even less, around 130,000 views. I know that teaser trailer was really popular, just odd the gameplay demo hasn't been.
Well, first of all, Gears of War 4 was already known. There was even a BETA I think. So it doesnt have the same impact of a first show like God of War. Second, I think the fadigue is getting serious with Gears.
Gameplay demos don't usually get as many views as trailers. Hence that sound of silence trailer for Gears 4 having 15 million views.
I wouldn't put too much stock into it.
Well, that actually happens very often. In fact, the official upload (in the xbox official youtube chanel) has way less views than the one in OP. I think OP picked the trailers with more views regardless of official chanels or not.
In regards to that, there is something I just found it. Alongside the official upload of the gameplay demo of God of War in the PlayStation chanel (the one in the OP, with almost 8 million views), there is another upload from the GameNewsOfficial chanel on Youtube, that managed to reach 2.8 million views too! Here:
https://youtu.be/SljB_5WWOho
Which means that when aggregated we have almost 11 million views for the God of War E3 demo just with these two videos.
Ding, ding. I think we finally found our E3 winner
Prob not worth it, since all the numbers are different now, some changed drastically
I thought people hate Kratos (well in Neogaf anyway).
Thank you for this thread. I had not seen the new Mass Effect Andromedia Trailer. It is really good!. So hyped for this. (Not so much for those with higher view counts..)
Why is the number of likes for games like ReCore and Ghost Recon so low? For example:
Spider-Man: 2.3 million views and 40k likes
Mass Effect: 2 million views and 29k likes
Forza Horizon: 1.8 million views and 36k likes
But:
Ghost Recon: 3.6 million views and 4k likes
ReCore: 1.7 million views and 7k likes
Is this because of ads?
Wow, everyday you learn something on GAF. Had no idea the ads counted as views, and you guys brought to my attention the views/like & dislike proportion and it is really weird.
Even a trailer like Halo Wars 2 which has over 4M views only has 25K likes with a bunch of trailers which have less than 2M having double the likes of that
That must be bolstered by ads then, surely? Later when I'm back in the office I was going to drop all these numbers in a spreadsheet and try to get an average on number of Likes vs. number of views. I find this stuff fascinating - this is why I have a job where I work with statistics!
Technology era and peoples hope the second game will be better like assassins creed!Watch Dogs 2, really? Even though I think the game looks good, I would've figured the fist game being garbage would've killed anyones enthusiasm about this
Sony haven't cared about GT in years, each game has seen a massive drop in quality and promotion. This GT Sport crap will be the first game that sells less than a Forza game - book it!
man FFXV! those numbers seem awful for what FF once was
Seems alright for a terrible trailer.man FFXV! those numbers seem awful for what FF once was
I might be wrong but I think that story trailer is being shown as an ad heavily (which contributes to views) and thus there is a lot of people who don't care about the game being forced to watch the trailer and thus clicking through and disliking. I could be completely wrong though.I'm curious why the Horizon: Zero Dawn trailer with 6.5m views has so many dislikes. The ratio of likes to dislikes on the gameplay demo is completely at odds with it.
Okay so which of these videos got pushed as ads?
How exactly do you dislike an ad?I might be wrong but I think that story trailer is being shown as an ad heavily (which contributes to views) and thus there is a lot of people who don't care about the game being forced to watch the trailer and thus clicking through and disliking. I could be completely wrong though.
Maybe clicking the ad doesn't take them straight to the trailer, but they could go directly to the video after seeing what they found to be an annoying ad and dislike it. Or just click the ad and get taken to the website, click the trailer embed there and dislike? It's probably a stretch but that's what I see being most likely. There's not really another explanation for that insane amount of dislikes (in comparison to other popular trailers).How exactly do you dislike an ad?
That seems plausible but I've never heard of people going out of their way to dislike an ad so who knows.Maybe clicking the ad doesn't take them straight to the trailer, but they could go directly to the video after seeing what they found to be an annoying ad and dislike it. Or just click the ad and get taken to the website, click the trailer embed there and dislike? It's probably a stretch but that's what I see being most likely. There's not really another explanation for that insane amount of dislikes (in comparison to other popular trailers).
Looking at the comments (where there is heaps of spam) it's probably bots. So disregard that stretch of a theory lol.That seems plausible but I've never heard of people going out of their way to dislike an ad so who knows.
Oh you're right, but I just checked the official xbox page and their version has even less, around 130,000 views. I know that teaser trailer was really popular, just odd the gameplay demo hasn't been.
Battlefield 1: 8,436,563 views --- 301,669 likes
God of War: 8,303,591 views --- 187,680 likes
Watch Dogs 2:* 7,934,545 views --- 44527 likes
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: 6,362,805 views --- 134,390 likes
FIFA 17: 5,771,336 views --- 122,869 likes
Spider-Man: 5,057,472views --- 84,035 likes (3 official channels - PS/Marvel/Insom)
South Park: The Fractured But Whole: 4,524,654 views --- 16,654 likes
Halo Wars 2: 4,341,384 views --- 24,858likes
Ghost Recon: Wildlands: 3,812,475 views --- 3,982 likes
Titanfall 2: 2,924,912 views --- 43,737 likes
Mass Effect Andromeda: 2,050,225 views --- 29,921 likes
Forza Horizon 3: 1,857.869 views --- 36.705 likes
Death Stranding: 1,737,856 views --- 13,784 likes
ReCore: 1,718,347 views --- 7,205 likes
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition:** 1,658,953 views --- 24,204 likes
Pokemon Sun and Moon: 1,684,673 views --- 35,550 likes
Horizon: Zero Dawn (gameplay demo):*** 1,420,027 views --- 23,724 likes
Resident Evil 7: 1,379,117 views --- 16,936 likes
Days Gone: 1,333,876 views --- 20,884 likes
Detroit: Become Human: 1,258,104 views --- 28,013 likes
Prey: 1,212,099 views --- 13,402 likes
Gwent: 1,154,168 views --- 2,240 likes
Quake Champions: 1,166,188 views --- 11,804 likes
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare: 1,147,562 views --- 28,854 likes
Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue: 1,084,534 views --- 20,776 likes
The Last Guardian: 952,257 views --- 14,503 likes
Batman: Arkham VR 922,560 views --- 9,379 likes
Dishonored 2: 864,177 views --- 17,599 likes
Tekken 7: 769,531 views --- 4,864 likes
Crash Bandicoot in Skylanders Imaginators: 752,768 views --- 9,414 likes
Final Fantasy XV: 751,903 views --- 9,254 likes
For Honor: 661,087 views --- 8,862 likes
Yooka-Laylee: 643,532 views --- 16,584likes
Gran Turismo Sport: 576,895 views --- 8,640 likes
Sea of Thieves: 592,684 views --- 6,985 likes
Scalebound: 498,632 views --- 4,762 likes
Madden 17: 493,999 views --- 3,632 likes
Gears of War 4 (gameplay demo): 493,227 views --- 2,889 likes
Dead Rising 4: 487,792 views --- 10,513 likes
Farpoint: 462,727 views --- 3,289 likes
The Elder Scrolls: Legends: 444,217 views --- 2,825 likes
Star Trek VR: 320,727 views --- 3,262 likes
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered: 298,516 --- 12,386 likes
State of Decay 2: 288,092 views --- 4,966 likes
Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens: 261,401 views --- 6,689 likes
Steep: 237,214 views --- 1,774 likes
Paper Mario: Color Splash: 236.363 views --- 6.372 likes
NieR: Automata: 231,186 views --- 6,509 likes
Ever Oasis: 228,414 views --- 4,166 likes
Trials of the Blood Dragon: 226,845 views --- 561 likes
Gravity Rush 2: 216,627 views --- 2,527 likes
We Happy Few: 215,953 views --- 5,762 likes
Bound: 183,871 views --- 3,864 likes
Just Dance 2017: 164,225 views --- 2,349 likes
Monster Hunter Generations (gameplay demo): 113,795 views --- 1,499 likes
*Although this is the official E3 trailer for Watch Dogs 2, it was uploaded last Friday, a few days before Ubisoft conference.
**Bethesda mixed in their Fallout 4 and Fallout Shelter news in with the Skyrim trailer.
***A true trailer was released for Horizon: Zero Dawn a few days before E3, and it currently has 6,524,843 views and 43,842 likes. However, for this thread, I stuck to videos specifically released for or at E3.
Share your thoughts.
Updated a bunch of these numbers on behalf of the OP. (or because I was doing it anyway)
I knew God of War was popular but that's insane. Good to see Zelda and Spider-Man so high too.Updated a bunch of these numbers on behalf of the OP. (or because I was doing it anyway)
lol at gif
GT will still sell more, probably not by that much though. Racing genre is on the outs all around.
God of War is probably first if you count the PlayStation EU version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRhzFqA1f7o
Zelda: Breath of the Wild is also nearing one million on Nintendo Japan alone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjPidZXIuzs
Crash Bandicoot doubters can eat that.
Updated a bunch of these numbers on behalf of the OP. (or because I was doing it anyway)
the war of total views and likes has begun.
Updated a bunch of these numbers on behalf of the OP. (or because I was doing it anyway)
There is also this upload of the God of War gameplay demo on GameNewsOfficial, with almost 3.4 million views:
https://youtu.be/SljB_5WWOho
So yeah, God of War is by far the first. When counted together it is at 11.5 million views.
I'm still blown away by God of War. Was not really expecting it to be that well received but damn, the public is thirsty for more Kratos.