Call of Duty: Modern Warfare launch day stats.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is a highly anticipated FPS that has launched on October 25^th. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is a reset on the whole franchise which goes back back to it's roots. As the name fits, it actually is a Modern military of today's.
Of course depending on where you live the launch time had differed. The main launch time was 9 PM EDT Oct 24^th and we will take this as the start time for the first 24 hour launch day stats.

All data on this page presented is collected by Twitchstats and directly taken from Twitch API and shows data between 9 PM, Oct 24^th to 9 PM Oct 25^th.

The highest concurrent peak viewers for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare for the first 24 hour was reached exactly at 3:40 PM EDT with 372,631 viewers and 9,226 channels. This was a pretty good number but Modern Warfare premium multiplayer event that happened on August 1^st on Call of Duty’s own channel had 386,833 viewers. This marks COD: Modern Warfare as the 9^th highest concurrent peak record on Twitch in 2019.

Here is a table that shows the average viewership for the first 24 hour launch stats of COD: Modern Warfare;

Average Viewers	Time/Date
200,806	Oct 24^th, 9PM – 10PM
264,387	Oct 24^th, 10PM – 11PM
278,032	Oct 24^th, 11PM – 12AM
256,051	Oct 25^th, 12AM – 1AM
230,963	Oct 25^th, 1AM – 2AM
213,468	Oct 25^th, 2AM – 3AM
196,093	Oct 25^th, 3AM – 4AM
181,111	Oct 25^th, 4AM – 5AM
160,236	Oct 25^th, 5AM – 6AM
151,399	Oct 25^th, 6AM – 7AM
157,777	Oct 25^th, 7AM – 8AM
166,320	Oct 25^th, 8AM – 9AM
192,746	Oct 25^th, 9AM – 10AM
215,663	Oct 25^th, 10AM – 11AM
251,725	Oct 25^th, 11AM – 12PM
282,331	Oct 25^th, 12PM – 1PM
299,651	Oct 25^th, 1PM – 2PM
327,933	Oct 25^th, 2PM – 3PM
355,234	Oct 25^th, 3PM – 4PM
364,488	Oct 25^th, 4PM – 5PM
342,430	Oct 25^th, 5PM – 6PM
314,405	Oct 25^th, 6PM – 7PM
289,023	Oct 25^th, 7PM – 8PM
229,838	Oct 25^th, 8PM – 9PM

As the table above shows, the viewer count for prime times are above 300k and even on dead hours it stays above 150k, not a bad launch at all. However, as a highly anticipated FPS, there were higher expectations.

Between these hours, COD: Modern Warfare had an average of 10-13k Streamers streaming the game in prime hours, which meant a lot of streamers were playing the game on launch.

The most watched and most successful streamer for the launch day of Modern Warfare was obviously, DrDisrespect.

DrDisrespect had highest concurrent peak of 96,133 viewers watching him play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare on launch day. This was interestingly, highest concurrent viewership and a record Doc has reached in 2019.

Let’s not forget that DrDisrespect had a 24 hour stream and his biggest competitor, Shroud, had left Twitch for Mixer in an exclusive deal. This seems to work in favor of Drdisrespect as his viewership had increased quite a bit, at least for COD: Modern Warfare. Shroud going to mixer will definitely make Doc grow but that is a write-up for another time.

On the launch day, DrDisrespect had an average viewership of 50,764. This is quite a bit higher than normal average viewership Doc reaches. In the first hours of the launch day of COD: Modern Warfare Drdisrespect had 84k to 88k average viewers watch him.

Here is the most watched Modern Warfare streamers on the launch day;

Streamer	Average Viewership
DrDisrespect	50,764
Montanablack88	26,215
Timthetatman	24,789
Alanzoka	22,001
Lirik	18,715
Nickmercs	18,666
Summit1g	16,165
Hanryang1125a	14,522
Gotaga	14,184
Nadeshot	9,744

In conclusion, COD: Modern Warfare launch was a success. It was less than the expectations but it was a strong entrance to the Twitch streaming scene.

A lot of the FPS was excited to see it launch and it is actually more important to stay relevant and have high viewership count steadily for the coming weeks and months is much more important metric to judge the success of COD: Modern Warfare. We will be watching closely…