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by93 Escort Wagon ( 326346 ) writes:
But seriously, do more than a handful of people care about video game speed running records?
bygodrik ( 1287354 ) writes:
mmm... yes!
Right now the GamesDoneQuick twitch channel is casting a "just chatting" rerun and there are 1500 people watching that rerun live.
The VODs for special events can make about a million views.
On the YT side, the WR that is two month old for Super Mario Bros sits at 330K views. The former WR sits at 930K view. One of the influential former WR for Kosmic sits at 6.3M views.
If you look at speedrun history videos, they do well too. For instance, a history of tetris speedrun from this year did 5M views.
And remember that the market is somewhat segmented per game. There is some overlap between the communities interested in particular games, but not massive overlaps.
So, yeah, quite a few people care!
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