Millions More Watched The Game Awards 2025 Than Super Bowl 60, Apparently

The Super Bowl and The Game Awards are, fairly clearly, very completely different occasions, however trying on the reported numbers for each side-by-side raises some curiosities, with Geoff Keighley’s presentation final December showing to trounce Sunday’s showdown between the Patriots and Seahawks.

NBC Sports shared that the community’s telecast of Super Bowl LX (or 60, for these innumerate with Roman digits) was the most-watched present in NBC’s historical past, averaging 124.9 million viewers. That makes it the second-most-watched tv program in United States historical past, behind final 12 months’s Super Bowl on Fox. Moreover, this 12 months’s large recreation reached a excessive of 137.8 million viewers in the course of the second quarter, which is the very best viewership peak ever in American tv.

In the meantime, The Game Awards 2025, throughout which Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 took the highest prize, is claimed to have reached over 171 million world livestreams, an 11% improve from final 12 months’s ceremony/barrage of reveal trailers.

For extra context, NBC counts viewership from NBC, Peacock, Telemundo, NBC Sports activities Digital, and the NFL+ streaming service, whereas The Game Awards streamed on YouTube, Twitch, Steam, TikTok, Instagram, Fb, and a heap of platforms from China, Japan, and South Korea, together with Bilbili, Weibo, and a bunch you’ve got possible by no means heard of. The numbers would possible be fairly completely different if the Super Bowl had been streamed on that many free platforms.

The Game Awards cites StreamCharts for an estimated variety of 4.4 million peak concurrent viewers throughout YouTube, Twitch, and “different Western platforms,” a paltry determine in comparison with any Super Bowl broadcast. We’ll must take the award present organizers’ phrase in regards to the large determine of 171 million streams and assume it comes from worldwide viewers.

The Seattle Seahawks handily defeated the New England Patriots, 29-13, in an final result that usually lined up with a Madden NFL 26 simulation. Between the Super Bowl commercials for playing apps and AI was a spot that includes Woman Gaga singing the Jigglypuff music celebrating Pokemon’s thirtieth anniversary.