Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl has the largest first-week viewership on Twitch than any other Pokémon game

Saying Pokémon is a popular franchise underscores how big the series is, so knowing that Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl did well isn’t earth-shattering news. However, learning how well a Pokémon game does on streaming platforms, including Twitch, is still impressive.

Gamesight compiled the total hours viewed for all recent Pokémon games on Twitch during each games’ launch week, including Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, remakes of the fourth generation of Pokémon games known as Diamond and Pearl. According to the data Gamesight compiled, Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl had 18.4 million hours watched in its first week.

Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl had one million more hours than Sword and Shield had on its launch week on Twitch. Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl had an average of over 99 thousand viewers, peaked at 252 thousand viewers, and the games were streamed for over 388 thousand hours in its first week.

Pokémon games have increasingly become more and more popular to stream, with each major release making headways on all streaming platforms. It is still impressive how much better Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl did when compared to its recent predecessor, probably revealing the popularity of the fourth generation of Pokémon games.