Sony’s latest State of Play showcase was seemingly an enormous success for the corporate. In keeping with SteamCharts, the State of Play livestream had greater than 2.2 million reside viewers, making it the primary time that one in every of Sony’s streams has been seen by so many concurrent viewers ever.
In keeping with the figures launched by SteamCharts, the State of Play, at its peak, had 2,257,132 concurrent viewers. The common concurrent viewers for the showcase got here out to 1,918,406 viewers throughout greater than a thousand totally different channels. On Twitch alone, the official PlayStation stream had probably the most concurrent viewers on the time, peaking at 741,789 viewers.
Going by information aggregates, the newest State of Play is now the third most-watched livestream for a gaming or tech showcase in 2025 to this point. It sits proper behind the March 27 Nintendo Direct, which had 2.72 million peak concurrent viewers, and the Change 2 showcase Nintendo Direct from April, which had 6.3 million viewers.
For some further context, the second most-watched State of Play was the one from February 12 with 2.1 million peak concurrent viewers, which is adopted by the one from January 2024 with 1.6 million viewers.
The latest State of Play showcase had a bunch of various sport trailers, from Capcom’s Pragmata to a VR-only sequel to traditional stealth franchise Thief. IO Interactive’s 007 First Mild additionally acquired a 2026 launch window, together with a trailer exhibiting off its gameplay for the primary time. Koei Tecmo even unveiled Nioh 3 throughout the showcase. Sony additionally took a while for itself to unveil its struggle stick.
