The year Overwatch launched, it was recognized during the keynote of TwitchCon 2016 as the streaming serviceвЂ™s most popular title. Overwatch may not have the largest Twitch presence right now, but that wasnвЂ™t always the case. However, that was before games like Valorant, Apex Legends, and Call of Duty: Warzone flooded the multiplayer shooter market and started chipping away at OverwatchвЂ™s fandom. By November 2019, Blizzard reported its successful hero-based shooter had increased its player base to 50 million people.

A little over a year after its release, Overwatch touted 35 million players. That leaves us with just outdated information. Again, though, that doesnвЂ™t even tell us how many people are streaming. At the time of writing this, though, Overwatch had around 16,000 viewers on Twitch, which is relatively low considering another popular hero-based shooter, Valorant, had over 72,000 active viewers. Particularly because not everyone streams on Twitch and Google isnвЂ™t too forthcoming with statistics from YouTube. So, even if it were trustworthy, one would have to account for an unknown margin of error.ДЄdditionally, while Twitch is a good gauge of OverwatchвЂ™s lingering interest, itвЂ™s not indicative of how many people are playing concurrently. Unfortunately, even sites like PlayerCounter, which claim to have proprietary technology that can compile active player data, admit that their system isnвЂ™t flawless. In fact, the only real numbers we have to work off of are from, outdated information from Blizzard, and Twitch stats. The tricky part about determining how many players are still playing Overwatch at once is that itвЂ™s available on multiple platforms, none of which really release real-time player data like Steam.

Overwatch Concurrent Players: On The Decline?

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