Elden Ring and FromSoftware seem to be on a serious roll, as the game is leaving multiple records in its wake. The most recent record Elden Ring has toppled is the peak Twitch viewership of FromSoftware games, as its peak reached more than triple the viewers that the company's previous games had achieved.
While these numbers are impressive, they are hardly surprising when one considers the fact that Elden Ring is currently one of the highest-rated games ever made. Elden Ring has been able to outshine the tough competition that it released alongside, which included Pokemon Legends: Arceus and Horizon Forbidden West. The game currently has a Metacritic score of 97 for PS5 and 95 for PC and Xbox, which places Elden Ring 15th on the list of the site's best-reviewed games ever.
This massive amount of fanfare allowed Elden Ring to reach over 890,000 viewers on Twitch, which meant that it now has the highest peak Twitch viewership out of all the FromSoftware games that had released before it. The last FromSoftware game to release was Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, which peaked at 280,000 viewers, while Dark Souls 3 peaked at a viewer count of 276,000.
For many, the game has been able to deliver on the hype that fans had built up for the game, which is likely why a Japanese game development studio gave its employees the day off to play Elden Ring. A company called Pocket Pair has given its employees the day off to play Elden Ring on release, as the company acknowledged that it would be difficult for its employees to concentrate knowing they had the game at home.
Despite the game's excellent review scores and Twitch viewer count, Elden Ring still had a few issues before its official launch. Thankfully, many of these issues were said to be fixed in a patch that released a few hours before the game came out. Elden Ring's 1.02 patch was said to fix the game's framerate issues, improve its controls, fix some NPC events, and also made some balance adjustments to the game.
Unfortunately, it also seems as though Elden Ring is struggling to reach 60 FPS on PS5 and Xbox Series X. While this has been disappointing for many players, it is still possible for FromSoftware to patch these issues in the coming weeks. It currently seems as though the game's framerate sits between 30-60 FPS when set to quality mode and between 45-60 FPS when in performance mode.
Elden Ring launches February 25 for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
