Report: Google acquires Twitch for $1 billion
Google's YouTube division reportedly taking the lead in acquisition.
Google has reportedly reached a deal to buy twitch, after months of rumors regarding an acquisition.
Venture Beat reports that the sticker price on the video game streaming service was put at $1 billion. YouTube is said to be in charge of the acquisition. Both Google and Twitch have declined to comment, but the word has been circulating of this possible deal since May.
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replySteve Watts posted a new article, Report: Google acquires Twitch for $1 billion.
Google's YouTube division reportedly taking the lead in acquisition.-
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Indeed. I'm sure they'll make screwing up comments and profiles via G+ a priority.
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That would be a surefire way of killing the social side of twitch.
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No longer make money on streaming, for one. How can you keep subscribers when they have to sign in to some arcane, poorly thought out facebook clone that doesn't even work half the time just so they can post highly filtered contents?
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Nooooooooooooo
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Also holy shit, a billion? That's nuts.
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Well, this sucks.
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Please sign into your G+ Account to watch this stream.
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Has anyone else noticed that twitch has a more efficient video player than youtube?
On my Core 2 Duo laptop I can watch 1080p on twtich, but 720p is the highest I can go for smooth playback on youtube.
Hopefully google takes the hands-off approach like facebook is doing with oculus.-
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I doubt it. They want to spread that G+ virus everywhere.
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there's nothing in his post that suggests that he somehow separated the impacts of the player from the decoder. he's seeing the effects of both. they both affect the impact on the viewer's system. higher bitrate absolutely takes more power to decode than a lower bitrate stream, even if they're both 1080p30.
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I'd be interested in seeing his CPU vs GPU usage for Youtube and Twitch, I don't think there's enough of a bitrate disparity to make a noticeable difference in decoding performance. But I also I can't seem to find any solid information on the bitrates Youtube uses for its transcoding. :(
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on my mac it's super noticeable. literally the difference between the fans running at full and the fans at idle, just going from one twitch stream to the next. this is largely due to flash being awful on mac, but it's the same awful for all the streams. the only difference is which stream i'm viewing
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I also get crazy CPU usage numbers on Twitch for high resolution and high frame rate stream playback (like 50%+ for 720p60 on my 2500K), but Twitch started running trials in the past month or so for hardware acceleration for their player. I don't think they've pushed it live for everyone yet as it was causing some bizarre playback problems, but I thought maybe that could be a contributing factor for the difference in performance EnhancedInterrogator was seeing.
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2014: The Year of the Acquisition
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ouch.
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Oh wait, you meant we weren't as horrible as beats. Huzzah!
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Oh no. :(
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Well that sucks. I mean I don't blame the owners for selling out. If Google tries to integrate it's services with Twitch it will kill it as a platform. I guess it's time to move on to the next thing.
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I really don't get the hate for Google+.
Yes the integration sucked on YouTube and could have been a lot better but they probably heard the feedback and make it better next time.-
I doubt it. They could have fixed the integration on YouTube after the fact easily, and yet they haven't. If they won't put in the effort there, what makes you think they'll put in the effort here?
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