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Youtube launching YouTube Gaming (Twitch competitor) this summer

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Maybe this will force Twitch to finally adapt html5 streaming across all platforms. The fact that YouTube can do it makes it a good difference.
 
This will take off but it will be slow. Last week a streamer was talking about the outreach Youtube was making to convince people like him to come over. He sees the financial benefit because youtube reaches a much larger audience but youtube requires everyone to go through a growth unlocking process that limits their streaming page in various ways until they hit certain performance benchmarks.

He's already cultivated a growing fanbase on twitch so he isn't interested in managing two accounts for now.

Personally I hope Twitch finally realizes their media player is garbage when compared to hitbox, mlg or youtube streaming and finally makes it less of resource hog so they can compete.




Glad to see they are having some fun with this serious competition, LOL.
 
Has Google tried to copy something of their own yet? Like a search engine.

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It was only a matter of time and it's weird that it took them so long to get here. With all the gaming videos that pretty much lead up to the streaming renaissance, I really thought that this would be something they already had planned but maybe it is the right time. It's always good to have a competitor and I like the way it looks too.

https://gaming.youtube.com/coming_soon

^ if you click some of the polygons here, they all have music...mostly nintendo games
 
Great news
for some reason Twitch always felt clunky and laggy to me
hopefully this new youtube stream website and apps bring the fluidity that youtube delivers.
 
Competition is good so I'm looking forward to this.
 
Competition is good but I think the culture of Twitch is too entrenched. YouTube's streaming before was fucking god awful. Good on them if they can get it turned around.
 
I come from the Twitch. Through streams, peoples, and channels to this place: Youtube. My format: Gaming, to subscribe and spend. To spend for my new found friends, their Likes and Favorites. To spend all my hard earned monies.

They say the streamer lives outside the net, and inputs games for pleasure. No one knows for sure, but I intend to find out!

RE-LOCATE!
 
MLG streaming weeps a tear

lol :P

I hope the stream quality is good, I'd switch from Twitch in an instant (and take my 2 followers with me).

http://youtube-global.blogspot.fi/2015/06/a-youtube-built-for-gamers.html



Wait. Wait. Does this mean this YouTube Gaming streams are not viewable outside US and UK? I don't see why streamers with any kind of significant international audience would use this YouTube Gaming thing if it meant sacrificing their audience.

I think it means you will be able to stream from there first.
 
You will get people looking to get big to switch to try and make it somewhere else. But I really doubt someone with tons of followers and a sub button is going to want to start all over. It splits the market I suppose.
 
It's about time. YouTube should've recognized Twitch's potential from the beginning and eaten their lunch then and there. Twitch never did anything that couldn't have easily been done on YouTube, and probably better.
 
Good, more competition. To be honest the unskippable 30 second ads on Twitch have gotten pretty anoying. They are just too long. Make them skippable after a couple of seconds or shorter (like 15s) all together. Maybe I'm spoiled but that's the internet we live in. 30 seconds are half a life time.
 
I already see that this will help only the bigger YouTube channels, large channels will gain even more exposure.

The advantage of the Twitch was that small channels can be exposed more easily because the gaming side of YouTube is already very saturated. eh..
 
Good, I hope it's successful. I have nothing but problems with twitch and I can't fix that, connection is always bad. Youtube however works fine.
 
I like the Twitch response (its a nice dig), but its weird because my daughter and every one of her friends now use Google+ instead of Facebook, they like that its all tied together. I can actually see this being a setup a lot will use, why have separate Facebook, Twitch and Youtube accounts when you can have a single Google account that works on Youtube, Youtube Gaming and Google+.
 
Youtube always worked better with streaming than twitch for me (as a viewer, not a streamer).

So all Youtube has to do is to just keep the exact same streaming service as it has always had, and that will be good (in other words, I can't wait for them to change how streaming works and make it unwatchable for me...)
 
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