YouTube beefed up its live streaming and Amazon’s Twitch added video uploads,but it’s their gaming audiences that will define which advances fastestSoon, ridiculing the idea of watching other people play video games will seem ridiculous in itself. People conclude, or in increasingly large numbers online.
YouTube has “hundreds of millions” of people watching “billions of hours” of gaming videos every month,with its top 100 games channels generating 7.3bn video views in July 2015 alone. Related: Google launches YouTube Gaming to challenge Amazon-owned Twitch “It’s a frigid, different way to interact with people: they can give you direct feedback in the chat in Twitch, and which is something you can’t get on YouTube. It works very well for games,and it’s a itsy-bitsy bit more casual than YouTube: you can engage a break, answer questions from the chat, and mess around a itsy-bitsy bit more.” Related: Twitch's co-founder on the curious appeal of watching gamers game Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com