Geoff Keighley’s Game Awards 2015 were an overwhelming success as they pulled in 2.3 million viewers. It wasn’t perfect but it was an entertaining show and is likely to be back next year. Geoff also announced that the top streaming platforms for the Game Awards 2015 were Twitch and YouTube.
“With the growth this year and all the sponsor support, I feel pretty confident we will be back next December for The Game Awards 2016,” he said.
“A tighter production technically, a shorter run time, and more on-stage awards,” Keighley said. “The format feels good, and it’s been nice to see the audience response — two solid years means we’re on the right path.”
“Next year will be about adding other elements around the show,” Keighley said. “One thing I wanted to do this year was a big eSports tournament the day of the show, but we just didn’t have enough bandwidth to get it done.”
Pfft. I only watched a little bit, but I heard it pretty much sucked.
Between the Call-out against Konami, the tribute to Iwata and some appearances plus some games getting what they deserve (and the Joy of Splatoon defeating COD in Best Multiplayer and Shooter), I hardly disagree against your statement.
It DID suck! I discovered that within the first 30 minutes. There was no Nintendo announcements at all. Just a short tribute to Satoru Iwata. I bet over half of those 2.3 million viewers were disappointed.
Dude, there never was a confirmation from Nintendo that they were gonna make an announcement, that was just a rumor.
Also, saying that it all sucked just because there was no Nintendo announcement is very close-minded.
Well I’m not watching next year’s event
I only watched it this year because of the pre-CONFIRMATION that Nintendo would have “new content” to show at the event. Aaaaaand nothing.
Same. All of those so-called “world exclusives” they were supposed to reveal, and not even ONE of them was from Nintendo.
You do know that this “Nintendo announcement” was a rumor based on the fact that Reggie was going to the Game Awards, right?
The Game Awards 2015 had the same problem as Nintendo’s E3 2015 Digital Event: they got too much hype because of how awesome they were the year before, so we expected too much this year.
Regardless of the possibility of you and me having an argument of dumb proportions on a near future, I want you to know, that your profile name is awesome.
This wasn’t expecting too much- this year’s failures were on them. A combination of biting off more than they could chew, and them taking one step forward but then three steps back.
How did they bite off more than they could chew? I believe you already know, but humor my explanation. Just look at Ultra Smash, amiibo Festival, and Triforce Heroes. Especially for the first two, you can tell they were rushed in various aspects in order to be out by the holiday season (US in an extreme lack of content compared to two prior games on N64 and Gamecube, and AF in that, well, everything in general was awful and it actually made the idea of using amiibo NOT fun).
Well i hope it keeps coming back. Developers deserve recognition. It about them not just us.
You said it man, you said it.
The Game Awards were horrible, not only did we not get the announcements from Nintendo that apparently Geoff said we would but the content itself was boring and uninteresting.
I definitely will not be watching it next year.
So you watched an award gathering for the announcement instead of, you know, see who got the prize and for what? it sounds pretty much like watching something for the wrong reasons.