YouTube Gaming - Launched!

[Srgnt_Ballistic]

Original Source: Tech Crunch

 

 

 

YouTube has been busy relaunching it's gaming focused streaming site YouTube Gaming. Tech Crunch has announced that tomorrow August 26th will be the day the site launches in the US and UK.

It's been pretty interesting watching as YouTube apparently made moves to acquire Twitch, only to have e-commerce and hosting giant Amazon do so instead. Earlier this summer YouTube announced, without great detail, that they will be going head to head with Twitch in the game streaming space.

Twitch seemed pretty welcome to the challenge. They are in the advantageous position of being the established standard with exclusive deals to steam eSports and game launches.

 

So what features will you want to see to make YouTube Gaming the site you go to for throwing up your dongers? A better chat system has been mention by most and pics on Tech Crunch indicate they have worked on this. 

 

Will you just follow your favorite streamers regardless of platform? If you're a streamer what kind of subscriptions split and other monetization will you want to see to make the switch? Are you on Hitbox? (Lolz). Check out more pics on the Tech Crunch site.

 

[CydiaDash]

SHOTS FIRED TWITCH

[xeromynd]

Hopefully this will give Twitch some incentive to start cranking on new features and options.

 

I'm sticking with #TeamTwitch

[MageTank]

Lol. That "Add me on Google+". Such a sick burn.

[manikyath]

if i can just use my google account, sure, why not.

 

that said, twitch is working hard at their html5 player, and a lot of the big streamers today are bound to twitch by contract (partners)

[Elfuego]

SHOTS FIRED TWITCH

 

Ah the infamous Demi lovato Autotunegate

[Agazed]

This will actually be bad for twitch. Popular youtubers might switch over.

[Atmos]

Perfect response from twitch lol...

[Atmos]

This will actually be bad for twitch. Popular youtubers might switch over.

 

If only they DIDNT already sign up as an affiliate with twitch to get subscribers eh?

[Srgnt_Ballistic]

YouTube Gaming posted this tweet with an animated GIF of a beating 8-bit heart (Their Logo). Does this add any validity to Tech Crunch's fairly unsubstantiated claims?

[Coombzy]

The features are there, but the community won't be however, this will most likely make Twitch rollout higher bitrate limits and source buttons to more streams. That 60 FPS streaming is a big thing. I also don't see mods or admins as a chat feature which is an issue for sure, Hopefully that's added later on.

[Mushious]

Might give it a go, see how I get on. I have more subs on youtube than I do on twitch, could be a good thing. Plus no more flash for anything.

[as96]

Any info if it will use HTML5 or Flash?

[TopWargamer]

Any info if it will use HTML5 or Flash?

I'm almost positive that it will use HTML5, especially since regular YouTube already does...

[Coombzy]

Any info if it will use HTML5 or Flash?

YouTube moved away from Flash earlier this year so i'd imagine it will be using HTML5.

[Srgnt_Ballistic]

If only they DIDNT already sign up as an affiliate with twitch to get subscribers eh?

The features are there, but the community won't be however, this will most likely make Twitch rollout higher bitrate limits and source buttons to more streams. That 60 FPS streaming is a big thing. I also don't see mods or admins as a chat feature which is an issue for sure, Hopefully that's added later on.

I know for certain they've signed a number of fairly big gaming content creators. Some of which already stream and have a huge following. I'm sure they'll do more to entice others. This seems really similar to the whole Vessel/YouTube thing.

There are weekly shows on YouTube, like Tech Talk w/ Jay and Barnacules that have pretty high concurrent viewer counts.

There was the ability to make users mods with the current YouTube Live chat format. I imagine there will be in the new one as well

It'll be awesome to watch and see how this pans out!

 

 

Might give it a go, see how I get on. I have more subs on youtube than I do on twitch, could be a good thing. Plus no more flash for anything.

 

Yeah same here. One of the challenges I've seen ppl face is how to balance working on two platforms.

[marldorthegreat]

This will actually be bad for twitch. Popular youtubers might switch over.

I hope linus does tbh. It might run better. And might get better ratings.

[jarr456]

I'll probably like YouTube gaming better than twitch. Twitch just doesn't steam as good as even live YouTube :\

[EChondo]

This will actually be bad for twitch. Popular youtubers might switch over.

I doubt it unless Google has fixed their content/copyright policies. On Twitch you can stream whatever music you want while you game, but since Google hasn't fixed their policies I doubt YouTube Gaming will allow it.

For example, Utorak stopped using YouTube as his main platform and switched over to Twitch because he enjoyed streaming more and didn't want to deal with YouTube streaming because of their policies, he has almost 200k subs and many other content creators followed as well.

If anything it'll just be a backup streaming service to Twitch, Twitch has its own problems, but they aren't as bad as Google's.

[TroubleKlef]

I remember when Twitch replied back. Twitter went insane lmao.

 

Google has to do a couple of things to in order to compete with Twitch.

 

1. Be more lenient in copyright claims.

2. Have a low latency chat.

3. Easy to watch codecs.

 

and lastly and probably the hardest one, create a streaming culture. Twitch (although aids at times) has a chat culture that will be really hard to replicate. The Kappa's, the xD's, the TSM wonnered, and other things are (in my eyes) really important.

[Bouzoo]

I doubt it unless Google has fixed their content/copyright policies. On Twitch you can stream whatever music you want while you game, but since Google hasn't fixed their policies I doubt YouTube Gaming will allow it.

For example, Utorak stopped using YouTube as his main platform and switched over to Twitch because he enjoyed streaming more and didn't want to deal with YouTube streaming because of their policies, he has almost 200k subs and many other content creators followed as well.

If anything it'll just be a backup streaming service to Twitch, Twitch has its own problems, but they aren't as bad as Google's.

 

Not sure about policies, but I think Google might "buy" few popular streamers. Also I remember during E3 many had issues or stuttering on Twitch. Youtube? Zero. A huge deal. It's quite ironic considering Amazon owns Twitch.  :lol:

[EChondo]

Not sure about policies, but I think Google might "buy" few popular streamers. Also I remember during E3 many had issues or stuttering on Twitch. Youtube? Zero. A huge deal. It's quite ironic considering Amazon owns Twitch.  :lol:

If they do buy streamers that won't make me switch over personally. Maybe YouTube didn't have issues because the amount of people watching on there was like 10% of the amount that was watching on Twitch? 

 

Either way it'll be a "wait and see" scenario, I don't believe in Google enough to deliver a better service than Twitch. Every single service/system that touches Google's hands ends up in the trash. However I am willing to eat my own words tomorrow, but I doubt I'll be doing so.

[Swndlr]

When I hear YouTube Gaming -

 

[AlwaysFSX]

Great, YouTube accounts are still beyond fucked up in my eyes so I don't even see the point of having chat there.

[Bouzoo]

If they do buy streamers that won't make me switch over personally. Maybe YouTube didn't have issues because the amount of people watching on there was like 10% of the amount that was watching on Twitch? 

 

Either way it'll be a "wait and see" scenario, I don't believe in Google enough to deliver a better service than Twitch. Every single service/system that touches Google's hands ends up in the trash. However I am willing to eat my own words tomorrow, but I doubt I'll be doing so.

You wouldn't believe it but was the other way around, there were count numbers, Youtube had more viewers.   Don't want to go to specific into numbers, but people were reporting that Youtube was fine on 350k viewers and at the same time Twitch went down (iirc Twitch didn't hit 150k at any point but I might be wrong). 

No seriously, I'm glad Google is making this, mainly because competition. If they can help Twitch to become better or vice versa why not? I'm curious what's Google's plan to get people. Except you know, people heard of Youtube, here 4/5 people don't know what Twitch is, even those that call themselves techies/gamers.