Zelda: Breath Of The Wild is now available in the US, along with the Nintendo Switch. The game has been heavily promoted and people have been very hyped to play the newest Zelda title. The excitement to play has been so large that the game has been seeing a steady climb of streams on Twitch, and many viewers have been rapidly tuning in to see the game in action. Twitch shows a list of the most watched games on the site, and we’ve been monitoring that list on Twitter as Zelda: Breath Of The Wild has been climbing that list in the past couple of hours. At one point, it was making an average of 1,000+ new viewers every couple of minutes. The game currently is the 4th most watched game on Twitch, as of this article’s writing, and still climbing. It’s very likely that the game will be charting even higher when the sun comes up in North America and more people wake up. In the meantime, all of the tweets can be seen below.
50 minutes after the Switch launched in the US east coast.
Look what's already popular on Twitch. pic.twitter.com/Zk7dlwg45y
— SSF1991 (@SSF1991) March 3, 2017
It just climbed up to 8th immediately after I posted this picture.
— SSF1991 (@SSF1991) March 3, 2017
40 minutes later. pic.twitter.com/RbHTzBOgCV
— SSF1991 (@SSF1991) March 3, 2017
Another 15 minutes later.
It hasn't even been 2 hours since the game came on on the US east coast. pic.twitter.com/3IdoGV2F6k
— SSF1991 (@SSF1991) March 3, 2017
The game is climbing Twitch's charts so fast that it just gained another 1,500 viewers in just 3 more minutes. pic.twitter.com/Jjp5SpYHvJ
— SSF1991 (@SSF1991) March 3, 2017
It's climbing by 1,000+ viewers every couple of minutes.
Insane.
— SSF1991 (@SSF1991) March 3, 2017
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It will never beat out league of legends. Even though it’s far superior, LoL has an insane twitch following.
Lol, I love the Twitter real-time updates showing it climb the ladder. ;D