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Meet YouTube Gaming, Twitch's Archenemy
An anonymous reader writes: As expected Google has launched its answer to Twitch, YouTube Gaming available on the web, Android and iOS. Techcrunch reports: "We played with the Android app before the launch, and here's how it works. When you open the app, you are presented with a search bar at the top, a few featured channels at the top and then a feed of the most popular channels. The current featured channels don't focus on esports like most Twitch channels. Right now, you can find a 12-hour stream of NBA 2K15, and official stream of Metal Gear Solid V, a speed run of Until Dawn and an Eve Online live show."
It has a search function!!! Thats amazing!!!
Twitch has been doing this for years why have they never thought of that??
(Amazon owns Twitch yet fire tv has no search in twitch app)
Minimum threshold fixed. Thanks!
It's like spectator sports, but the audience may also be a player of the game.
I never got the appeal of spectator sports but I do like to watch someone skilled play a game, so that I can learn from it and become better myself.
Although frankly, I prefer watching stuff that's pre-recorded so I can skip through boring and mundane bits. At the cost of not being able to interact with the broadcaster. But let's face it, that never really happens in the really popular channels anyway, you just get drowned in the flood of chat, and the chat ends up being ignored by the player, and there is only conversation between spectators.
Always read at -1, don't let others decide what you should and should not read.
Its a spectator sport, like watching someone play games at the arcade. Also useful for seeing how the game plays if you are considering purchasing it.
It's already horrible, I tried it this morning. I made an account. It wanted my real name (used a fake one of course), needed to verify my phone number, and had to create a whole YouTube channel (which was difficult due to a faulty redirect) just to be able to choose my display name. And of course, it automatically makes a g+ page for your YouTube channel, because why not. Overall it was an awful experience. They don't even tell you what you need to do, they just let you figure it out on your own and hope you already have a conception of how yt/google accounts work. Oh, and all of this was just to be able to use the chat, nothing else.
Until there's an app on both of these platforms, this is going to be an also-ran.
enjoy the pure HTML5 experience you've all been clambering for. oh wait, you mean HTML5 didn't turn out to magically efficient?!
Imagine Twitch, only with YouTube commenters in the chat.
sub f{($f)=@_;print"$f(q{$f});";}f(q{sub f{($f)=@_;print"$f(q{$f});";}f});