Pokémon Legends: Arceus is a new exclusive game for the Nintendo Switch console and the twentieth game in the Pokémon series. There players explore the Hisui region in search of Pokémons while also fighting enemies. The game was released on January 28 and was played by many popular Twitch streamers within a week. Streams Charts takes a look at the weekly results of Arceus on both the streaming platform and marketplaces.
*The statistics shown for Pokémon Legends: Arceus were collected from January 28 to February 3, 2022
In the seven days since its release, Pokémon Legends: Arceus ranked fourth on Twitch, generating 22.1M Hours Watched. The game was not able to overtake such titans of the platform as Just Chatting, League of Legends and GTA V, but we should remember that these categories have been in the top 3 for many months.
The last release in the series was Pokémon Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl on Switch on November 19, 2021. If we compare the Hours Watched of release week of both Brilliand Diamond/Shining Pearl and Arceus, the results show that Arceus overtook its predecessor by 27%, as well as doubled the Peak Viewers indicator.
Most popular Pokémon Legends: Arceus streamers of the week
Holding the first spot in the ranking of Pokémon Legends: Arceus streamers is the Spaniard Joaquín “elxokas” Dominguez. He was on the air for 40 hours and during this time collected 1.6M Hours Watched. Holding the second spot is aDrive with 613K Hours Watched, but let's taka a look at his airtime: 152 hours for a week. The top also featured the Frenchman Gotaga and the Japanese Stylishnoob4.
The most popular streamer of Pokémon Legends: Arceus in terms of Peak Viewers was xQcOW. Even though Felix only played for 6.5 hours, he reached the mark of 84K Peak Viewers. Note that LIRIK was the only other English-speaking streamer. The rest of the content creators are predominantly Hispanic – such as elxokas, Rubius and ibai.
The most-watched Pokémon Legends: Arceus clip for last 7 days
In terms of marketplace achievements, it should be mentioned that 6.5M copies of the game were bought in six days. This is a new record for the franchise and Switch games in general. The previous record belonged to Pokemon Sword and Shield with 6M copies during the release week.
Pokémon Legends: Arceus is off to a pretty good start in terms of streaming, but the big question is whether the game will be able to stay in the top categories by the end of the month. In addition, major releases such as Horizon Forbidden West and Elden Ring will be released in February, which will definitely affect the viewership statistics. Subscribe to our social networks to keep yourself updated on all the news of the world of streaming.
