Destiny attracts Twitch's largest audience of the year for a console release

One of the biggest releases of 2014 generated a ton of buzz thanks to livestreaming video.

The gameplay broadcasting site Twitch revealed that fans tuned in to watch developer Bungie’s new sci-fi multiplayer shooter Destiny almost 20 million times in the first week of its release. Viewers collectively spent 240 million minutes watching the blockbuster in action. That makes Destiny one of the biggest livestreaming games of the year, and it shows the power of Twitch to reach massive audiences of gamers. That is one reason Twitch is so valuable to a company like Amazon. Earlier this month, that gigantic Internet retailer dropped $970 million to acquire Twitch.