Metal Gear Rising Meme Power Surge

MEME POWER ANALYSIS METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE RESURGES THANKS TO MEME POWER Although it's almost 10 years old, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is seeing numbers it hasn't seen since launch. CONCURRENT PLAYERS UP 1000% since April 2021, monthly average Concurrent player numbers grew from ~300 to ~800 average over 2021, but then exploded in popularity in January 2022, reaching ~2000 average, when "Jetstream Sam Thinking" and other related memes gained notoriety. The game is also experiencing the biggest peak in achievement activity across all platforms since 2018. Jul '19 2020 Jul '20 2021 Jul '21 2022

An infographic shows Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance experiencing a dramatic increase in concurrent players and achievement activity, with a large image of a character from the game in the background. The joke is that viral memes, especially the “Jetstream Sam Thinking” meme, revived interest in an almost decade-old game and caused its player numbers to surge. It is sent as a reaction to memes unexpectedly making an old game, topic, or franchise popular again.

• @dustinthehead / 6856 2022-05-23