Twitch may be trying to laugh off YouTube Gaming's big announcement today, but there will be a lot of businessmen with furrowed brows right now. The video sharing giant has revealed its streaming initiative on the eve of E3 2015, touting a summer release date in the US and UK. Essentially, it will allow you to broadcast gameplay footage live, while also enabling you to follow some of your favourite personalities.
It's promising a totally tuned interface which will enable you to follow specific games – such as Call of Duty, for example – and will provide you with updates when your favourite streamers are online. Content providers will also be able to convert broadcasts to YouTube videos with the click of a button, so they'll be archived for the rest of time. While the firm does have a slightly shaky history in the streaming sector, it appears to be taking things seriously this time.
A part of us is still puzzled by the popularity of watching others play, but we reckon that it works really well for certain titles; Street Fighter tournaments are excellent fun, for example, and we really like receiving instant help in releases like Bloodborne and Dark Souls. The question is: are you willing to switch from Twitch? Turn off the chat stream pronto in the comments section below.
[source youtube-global.blogspot.co.uk]
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If I could visit my 18-year-old self, I'd have said: don't go to University and don't build a website and learn how to become a reporter - buy a webcam and film yourself screaming at PlayStation games.
Seriously, though, this sounds cool... I've never really been into Twitch because I personally think the video player runs like rubbish. Probably my creaky computers, mind!
I have tried on occasion to stream using Twitch. Such a complicated mess. If Youtube can make it user friendly, it will take over Twitch within a year.
That being said... I have so little time to game right now. I'd rather PLAY games than watch others play them poorly.
@XCWarrior As long as a year? I give it six months if it works properly...
Yes(:
My kids watch way too many gaming videos on Youtube, but theyve never watched twitch or anything else live. I think they enjoy the pun heavy scripts and pop culture references, and glitches, glitches galore. They might be inclined to tune into watch someone play live, but I have a feeling even they wouldnt watch for long as they would prefer the more edited stuff. Though maybe that guy and his gamergirl jen who do Minecraft videos together, they seem to have a pretty good chemistry on the fly.
Point is, twitch will have to come up w/ something special if Google is coming after them, Youtube is just too ubiquitous. My kids watch Youtube vids on their 3DS, Im not even sure if Twitch runs on those.
If I here stampylonghead one more time I may have to enact what his name says.
I love this idea but if it is not done right twitch will come stamp on YouTube's long head @themcnoisy last part is dedicated to you
Love using twitch, you can learn hints and things about game you didn't know about, and it's live so you can usually get a question answered right then and there, chance to win keycodes and other cool stuff
@get2sammyb I think there is a market for QUALITY streaming. I really cant watch pewdiepie or nerdcubed or even the guy with the super deep voice. They are just rubbish and I have no idea how they can make a living doing that.
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