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Minecraft tops YouTube list of most-watched video games in 2019 – Eurogamer.net


Minecraft is, by far an away, the most popular video game on YouTube, according to new figures released by the video platform as part of its end-of-year round-up.

To celebrate the imminent evaporation of 2019, YouTube has unveiled its latest Rewind video, offering a brisk, but still almost entirely insufferable, run-down of the things viewers have fixated on the most over the last 12 months.

The most pertinent section (for us at least), arrives around the 2:30-mark – but if you’d rather not subject yourself to YouTube’s nonsense, allow me to supply the key details.

Coming in high at number five, with an impressive 29.6 billion views, is online creation platform Roblox. That’s followed by Garena Free Fire (a free-to-play mobile battle royale game if, like me, you didn’t have the faintest clue), with 29.9 billion views. Next up is Grand Theft Auto 5 with 36.9 billion views, and just missing the top spot at two is Fortnite with 60.9 billion views.

The clear winner, however, still holding off the competition over a decade after its original release, is Minecraft. According to YouTube, developer Mojang’s much-loved survival sandbox adventure beat Fortnite to number one by over 40 billion, managing to accrue a staggering 100.2 billion views in 2019.

Minecraft has, of course, long been a firm favourite on YouTube, but the game has had something of a resurgence in recent times. Controversial YouTuber Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg returned to his Minecraft roots in June this year (the game featured in his first-ever YouTube video nine years earlier) pulling in over 34 million views.

Since then, PewDiePie has regularly returned to Minecraft, and other big-name YouTubers, such as Sean “Jacksepticeye” McLoughlin, have followed suit – all helping propel Minecraft passed Fortnite in terms of video views for the first time since January 2017.

It has, of course, been Minecraft’s year in many ways. Not only did the game celebrate its tenth anniversary back in May, figures released by Microsoft around the same time suggest that Minecraft, having now sold over 176 million, could well be the best-selling game of all time.





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