Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard is much bigger than the Sony Bungie deal but it’s the latter that has somehow seen more discourse on Twitter than the former. That’s according to Rishi Chadha, the global head of creator and gaming content partnerships at Twitter. In an interesting thread, Sony’s acquisition of Bungie was right up there with FromSoftware’s Elden Ring in seeing some of the highest gaming tweet volume in Q1 2022.
Sony Bungie acquisition came weeks after Microsoft Activision deal
Sony’s acquisition of Bungie has often been described as the company’s response to Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, but both console manufacturers had been in correspondence with their respective game companies for a while. Coincidentally, however, the announcements came only weeks apart. Microsoft announced its acquisition in mid January, followed by Sony towards the end of the month.
So in other Twitter-related news:
With nearly 800M Tweets in Q1’22, the gaming conversation on Twitter is bigger than ever!
Here are our Q1’22 Gaming insights , starting off with some of the biggest gaming moments from last quarter.
Follow along below to learn more pic.twitter.com/6Bl4kzfBwp
— Rishi Chadha (@RdotChadha) April 5, 2022
Elden Ring’s launch day tweet volume and tweets about Fortnite’s new season rounded up the top four topics in Q1 2022. In a follow-up tweet, Chadha revealed the top ten games that are most tweeted about globally. Genshin Impact topped the list followed by Wordle. Ensemble Stars, Apex Legends, and Final Fantasy rounded up to the top five. Elden Ring sat at number seven, which is an impressive position considering the game released in March. Mojang’s ever-popular Minecraft finished at no. 10.
Here were the most talked about games across the globe.
Wordle coming in at #2 is a testament to the game’s grasp of the TL (shoutout to everyone keeping their daily streak alive!), & @ELDENRING making the list so quickly after launch speaks to the popularity of the game pic.twitter.com/RDtzzIPokI
— Rishi Chadha (@RdotChadha) April 5, 2022
In other news, the latest Gran Turismo 7 update adjusts credit payouts, and Dying Light 2’s New Game Plus is coming later this month.
[Thanks, ResetEra]
