Once again, the folks over at Streams Charts have gone and calculated some of the top categories broadcasted over on Twitch.tv for the entirety of 2022. In the ‘Sports’ category, racing games have once again made an appearance with both Trackmania and iRacing landing in the Top 10.
The category is led by the FIFA fanatics, with both FIFA 22 and FIFA 23 taking the first and third spots on the list, respectively. A general ‘Sports’ denomination split the difference in second while the football (soccer) craze continued with Rocket League, that fun little soc-car game we cover, taking fourth overall.
As far as the two racing game titles, Trackmania took the eighth overall spot on the list and iRacing was tenth. The report from Streams Charts attributes a majority of the viewing hours to Twitch Streamer ‘Wirtual’, who amassed 6.58 million hours of viewing of Trackmania’s 29.7 million hours total.
Rounding out the Top 10 list, iRacing once again finds itself among the top streamed titles for the third straight year, while Trackmania returns for its second. Back in 2020, iRacing jumped onto the charts in tenth and rose up to eighth in 2021.
Now behind titles such as Sports in general, as well as Poker (really?), and still behind those FIFA games, the NBA 2K games, and Chess (REALLY?!?), iRacing falls back to tenth but still on the list. No offense to the Poker and Chess players out there, but I can’t believe we are even counting these in the sport section.
2021’s chart had Formula 1’s annual title, F1 2021, on the chart down in ninth. The successor, F1 22, was not found on this year’s charts. Now with EA Sports together with Codemasters, we didn’t even feel this title was good enough to place as one of our Top 5 titles in 2022. It seems the Twitch community agrees.
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