Overwatch 2 beta launches on Twitch with record numbers and a historic milestone for the saga

They managed to collect one and a half million viewers of the games in the saga on Blizzard.

Gamers who are fans of Hero Shooters have been waiting for the news of Overwatch 2, the next chapter of the saga, for a long time. snowstorm It hasn’t been released at any point yet. However, we’ve made some progress recently, thanks to a closed beta on PC starting this week.

It was quite a hit on Twitch, debuting on day one (Tuesday). 469,000 viewers Those who came to meet at different directives of the broadcasters of the match. Good reason for that drop that there are rewards given to users who watch the stream.

Overwatch has recorded 1.46 million viewersThis beta helped the saga reach a milestone on the Amazon streaming platform in the hours that followed: one and a half million concurrent viewers. Thus, Overwatch is in the top 10 games with the highest peaks on Twitch, breaking the previous record of close to half a million in January 2018.

The second part beta includes access to the 5v5 PVP game mode, the new Push Mode and the Ping System. As for the heroes, there are new versions of Orisa, Doomfist, Bastion and Sombra. new character accommodation. Below, we leave the games with the highest ratings on the Amazon platform to contextualize the success of Overwatch.

The highest peaks on Twitch

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With this success, it looks like Overwatch 2 can be revived a kind of stagnation in recent years. If you want to delve into this in depth, we recommend this special article in which we will tell you why Hero Shooters are so trendy and why they are now losing their old power.