First State of Play of 2025 Sets Record With Over 2M Concurrent Viewers

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Summary

Sony’s State of Play event achieved record-breaking numbers with over 2 million concurrent viewers.
The event logged 1.96 million hours watched, with an average of 1.8 million viewers.
Housemarque’s new game “Saros” was revealed at the event, starring actor Rahul Kohli.

Did you like Sony’s State of Play digital event last week? While some might have mixed feelings about it, the event seemed to be something PlayStation fans had been waiting for a while. Interest peaked enough that the show achieved record-breaking numbers.

For the first time, a State of Play stream broke two million concurrent viewers across the different platforms where people can watch the event.

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The data was compiled by Stream Charts, which also mentioned other impressive stats. The 40-minute event logged 1.96 million hours watched, with an average of 1.8 million people watching, another new record set by the show.

The exact numbers from the show are as follows:

1,955,586 Hours watched
2,182,165 Peak viewers
1,805,157 Average viewers
1,123 channels streamed

Co-streamers from around the world also streamed the show, and for the first time, over 1,000 channels covered a State of Play. Most of the watch time was via YouTube Live, though some did come from Twitch.

The official PlayStation YouTube channel was the most popular broadcaster of the event (understandably so). Sony had three livestreams for the most recent State of Play (English, Japanese, one with English subtitles).

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Tides of Annihilation was one of the big new games revealed during Sony’s February 2025 State of Play.

The biggest reveal at the show was Housemarque’s latest in-development project titled “Saros.” No gameplay of it was featured, though there was a cinematic announce trailer for it that confirmed actor Rahul Kohli (Midnight Mass) will be the game’s protagonist.

The turnout for the latest State of Play just shows how thirsty people are for new games on the PS5. However, the show also brought in a good number of questions on other first-party project that we were hoping would be part of the show like Marve’s Wolverine, Ghost of Yotei and more.

You can check out a summary of the February 12 State of Play here in case you weren’t able to watch it live.