Elden Ring has already hit the box office and received excellent ratings, but there is one more metric where the game delivered serious results.
The statistics were published by IGN, citing data from YouTube Gaming.
Popular games in the first 60 days after their release:
- Elden Ring - 3.4 billion views.
- GTA V - 1.9 billion views.
- Red Dead Redemption 2 - 1.4 billion views.
- Super Mario Odyssey - 828 million views.
- The Legend of Zelda: Breathe of the Wild - 638 million views.
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - 456 million views.
Two subtleties are noted:
- Many games were held back by the scale of YouTube at the time. For example, GTA V came out in 2013, when YouTube had a smaller audience than in 2022, when Elden Ring came out.
- Google doesn't reveal the games that had more views on release than Elden Ring, but still lists it as one of the most played games, not the most popular.
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The most popular videos about Elden Ring in the region of release (they have more views now).
- CoryxKenshin – Elden Ring is Rage Game of 2022 (6.2 million views),
- AshesWolf Elden Ring - MAX LEVEL 713 VS Bosses Gameplay (5.7 million views),
- Boomstick Gaming – ELDEN RING | Get “Overpowered” At The Very Start (5.3 million views),
- Joel Haver – Elden Ring by NPC's Perspective (5 million views),
- JackSepticEye – Best Game In The Last 5 Years (4.8 million views).
Channels that had the most views on Elden Ring at the time of release:
- RageGamingVideos (946 thousand subscribers) - 71.6 million views,
- FightinCowboy (1.07 million subscribers) - 39.6 million views,
- Arekkz Gaming (1.29 million subscribers) - 39 million views.
Separation by content type:
Video - 71.3%.
Streams - 25.98%.
Shorts - 2.72%.
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Top number of boss videos:
- Margit, Terrible sign.
- Drawing, Blade of Michelle.
- Godric the Hundred Hands.
- Radan Beach Stars.
- Dragon Guardian of the Tree.
Top number of videos by main character classes:
- Samurai.
- Hero.
- Scoundrel.
- Astrologer.
- Warrior.
Elden Lord Award for contribution to the Elden Ring community (titles attributed to Google):
- VaatiVidya (2.27 million followers) - lore specialist,
- Fextralife (574 thousand subscribers) is an omniscient guide,
- Distortion2 (313 thousand subscribers) – master moves seekers,
- Zullie the Witch (439 thousand subscribers) - a connoisseur of "soulsbournes",
- RichaadEB (568 thousand subscribers) is a musician with a dead soul.
It is also noted that the video from Let me solo her has collected more than 25 million views.