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Official: Amazon Acquires Twitch for $970 million in cash
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Servbot #42
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It's not better they both the same, they both business for profit. Also i dunno when everyone started hating google, i thought they were cool.
Same here, screw them if this affect us in a negative way.
Amazon has apps for prime on all of them. Including iOS.
It would be retarded to not have twitch apps on consoles, especially since people stream from thrm.
Fushichou187
Member
If they offered a combo Turbo/Prime subscription for a slight discount I would snatch that up in a heartbeat.
EightBitNate
Member
lol could you imagine the outrage if R* went mobile only
Agreed. Twitch's biggest problem seemed to be they grew so damn fast and Amazon can help with hosting and storage issues. Seems like a good fit and good move for both.
nothing changed with Comixology, I'm guessing the same will be true here
Sounds like a move to complete with Youtube...
soon enough:
"Unveiling Twitch Gaming! A subcatagory buried within a subcatagory that's buried within another subcatagory dedicated to gaming streams! Check out Our live stream of the VMA Red Carpet Ceremony right now on the front page!"
soon enough:
"Unveiling Twitch Gaming! A subcatagory buried within a subcatagory that's buried within another subcatagory dedicated to gaming streams! Check out Our live stream of the VMA Red Carpet Ceremony right now on the front page!"
notoriousKTR
Member
The Google hate in this thread is comical.
PachinkoChampBruh
Member
And still not enough to buy Twitch, lol Sorry Floyd.
lol, you wrong.
I personally like the news. Amazon seems to do well with the stuff it gets (they do their homework and seem to want to make people happy). On top of that, Google does not need to get Twitch, it would leave too little competition for Youtube and already there's noise about people not happy with what they are doing with Youtube. Google gets Twitch, a lot less places for Let's Players and reviewers to go to.
They deleted Google Wallet tho
Amazon could blend Twitch in well with their own affiliate program. If there's a game someone sees in a Twitch stream or certain equipment used by a broadcaster, it can be easily bought.
Amazon also has their own cloud storage and compute services.
Can see this as a net benefit for Twitch and Amazon.
If they make Twitch and put it under the Amazon Prime or Fire umbrella, eh, nope. Maybe not that great.
Amazon also has their own cloud storage and compute services.
Can see this as a net benefit for Twitch and Amazon.
If they make Twitch and put it under the Amazon Prime or Fire umbrella, eh, nope. Maybe not that great.
Exploratory
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Honestly would that be that bad? Does it kill you if there's a simple link to the game being played?
dantevsninjas
Member
Amazon is the last company I would have expected to make this move. Real odd, it'll be interesting to see how this plays out. Hopefully they won't try to shoehorn in any prime bullshit.
OriginalThinking
Member
Not true. Google doesn't sell your data it just uses your data to match companies advertisements to your search history/gmail habits etc. The other companies do not see your data.
It's an important distinction which is often lost in the mix.
Pancakes R Us
Member
All these big guys just buying out companies left, right and centre is quite depressing.
MrTroubleMaker
Member
Interesting, I thought google was buying them for a billion, I wonder what happened.
I think it's good because Amazon is so hungry to beat Google in the "web entertainment" competition, that they'll likely put serious money into Twitch, and try to improve the user experience to make it even better service than it has been so far. I can see Amazon push home streaming forward and developing products to make streaming easier for everyone. I can see it having positive outcomes for end-users: streamers will get more viewers, viewers have more content to choose from.
Not saying Google wouldn't have done the same, but I just think Amazon has more reasons to put resources behind this.
Not saying Google wouldn't have done the same, but I just think Amazon has more reasons to put resources behind this.
-COOLIO-
The Everyman
they tried to get people to use their real names while commenting on youtube. somehow that counteracts all of the cool things they make and their rampant philanthropy. the internet is a fickle mistress.
OriginalThinking
Member
Not really new. You should look into the ownership of the world food chain. Much scarier!
Personally, Google is creepy top to bottom whereas Amazon is creepy but in less threatening ways. Who knows what Google really wanted with Twitch. Plus Amazon has a pretty good track record with acquisitions. Sites like Woot, IMDb, Goodreads and Zappos all appear to remain relatively independent and/or are noticeably improved since they were acquired (in my opinion). They weren't absorbed into a mega corporation and robbed of an identity. If Twitch can leverage AWS to improve the experience and keep refining their mobile/set top experience it seems like a win
SerTapTap
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That'd be pretty cool. Though I play mostly indie games so I'd probably never see one red cent.
SirJackDaniels
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Lesser of evils.
PoorChoices
Member
This is impressive. Not the Amazon buying Twitch part, that's whatever.
the $970 million IN CASH. To put that in perspective, here's what we assume $80 million looks like. Huell for scale.
Now imagine that multiplied by 12 and 1/8th. That's how much it would be.
I hope when Twitch and Amazon were talking about price, Twitch just asked for a 'boat-load of cash", and Amazon just said "Fuck it, just 2- Day Prime Ship them a boat full of hundreds."
the $970 million IN CASH. To put that in perspective, here's what we assume $80 million looks like. Huell for scale.
Now imagine that multiplied by 12 and 1/8th. That's how much it would be.
I hope when Twitch and Amazon were talking about price, Twitch just asked for a 'boat-load of cash", and Amazon just said "Fuck it, just 2- Day Prime Ship them a boat full of hundreds."
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The Everyman
this is so weird to me. what do you mean?
AgentP
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Amazon has been turning into Apple, lots of pay walls and proprietary hardware. Everything they touch turns to shit lately.
Canis lupus
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Glad it wasn't Google.
deltatheta
Member
Say goodbye to the Twitch Android app, I guess.
By "in cash" they mean it's not a stock transfer as opposed to physical dollars.
When I'm looking for a job in a few years I'm 100% going to avoid them based on the stories I've read lol.
I'm curious to see what will be locked behind Prime.
That's not Amazon's style. And it wouldn't make much business sense for them.
Because Google isn't consumer oriented but Amazon is? At least for now, who knows what the future holds.
thereisnoif
Member
Well now!
OriginalThinking
Member
It's unfounded paranoia. If Google was interested in Twitch (still completely rumored) it would be for the same reason they bought YouTube. To advertise to you and use your data to serve ads that aligned to your interests.
Which has always been optional anyway as no one forces you to use Google products. Heck, you don't even have to sign in to YT to watch videos.
TylerDurden4321
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At the moment... after the shock has settled down a little, I'm almost MORE surprised how many more GAFfers prefer amazon over google. Over here in my country (germany) amazon's been getting nothing but bad press. The media over here consistantly - there's really no other angle! - pictures amazon as megalomaniacal fashists (not in the racist sense) that would never settle for anything less than complete world domination.
As far as I'm concerned google is still a company for me, it's doing what it does, even data crunching your privacy, to make more money. Amazon isn't even really INTERESTED in making a lot of money. The thing they want is MARKET SHARE. They want to be the biggest thing there is, one corporation to end them all. It's even scarier than google's thirst for companies with robot know-how to me.
I'll admit, I'm an amazon prime customer since 2007 (I think), but I only see twitch in better hands with amazon in the short term. In the long term Amazon will probably integrate Instant Video into Twitch and will go after youtube and netflix together.
As far as I'm concerned google is still a company for me, it's doing what it does, even data crunching your privacy, to make more money. Amazon isn't even really INTERESTED in making a lot of money. The thing they want is MARKET SHARE. They want to be the biggest thing there is, one corporation to end them all. It's even scarier than google's thirst for companies with robot know-how to me.
I'll admit, I'm an amazon prime customer since 2007 (I think), but I only see twitch in better hands with amazon in the short term. In the long term Amazon will probably integrate Instant Video into Twitch and will go after youtube and netflix together.