Twitch app launching on Xbox 360 today
A Twitch app is coming to the Xbox 360 today, and the streaming video service will host an exclusive broadcast on conjunction with the Xbox reveal next week.
Twitch TV, the game-centric video streaming service, is available as an Xbox 360 app starting today. That means Xbox Live Gold subscribers can kick up their heels and watch streaming videos on their nice large screens with minimum fuss and muss.
To help kick off the service, Microsoft is partnering with Twitch to host an exclusive broadcast just after the Xbox reveal event next week. It will be presented by Larry Hryb (aka Major Nelson) at 12 PM PDT on the Twitch app and site.
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replySteve Watts posted a new article, Twitch app launching on Xbox 360 today.
A Twitch app is coming to the Xbox 360 today, and the streaming video service will host an exclusive broadcast on conjunction with the Xbox reveal next week.-
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I wasn't talking about the other stuff, just the hardware "share" button that would screen capture segments of games... I think MS is going to beat that feature...
MS might beat the streaming stuff if it's just BC out of the box, since that's really Sony's way at doing BC at this point, as well as improving their digital distribution platform.
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I used it a year or so back and it was kind of a mess. Like it was just random assortments of feeds with no real structure to it. Is it better now?
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It's constantly requested on their forums. I'm surprised no one has just built an unofficial one.
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It doesn't matter, just weird because there is no easy way for console gamers to stream their stuff without dedicated hardware and PCs.
Will change with the next generation most likely if MS follows Sony down that road.
While it's awesome for you and the other people who like stuff such as SC2, LOL, DOTA, etc, the majority of console only gamers don't give a shit. Not that there aren't streams of consoles games, it's just way more popular in the PC space. Anyway, hope this app is better than their garbage iOS offerings.
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Yeah, I know console games are streamed and said as much above.
Fighting game streams are probably the most popular in that space and closest to PC streams (or destroying it at large events like evo), but the average users still need extra dedicated hardware to stream that stuff, it's not simple. Not that it's not simple on PC either if you want quality, but anyone can stream any game on PC If they want to, not just the stuff that has it built in like BLOPS2 on 360 does.
There is a following for fighting games and the bigger tournaments have the technical stuff covered, they also have live commentary which can make or break a stream. The matches also matter, way more interesting than watching someone's direct feed of Halo or CoD generally, as evidenced by the general numbers of viewers. Fighting games are basically a platform agnostic anomoly, too. It doesn't really matter if the game is running on a console or arcade cabinet or dishwasher, they'd still have a following and still played with the same arcade sticks as they've always been.
Anyway, it will be interesting to see how streaming console games changes in the next generation if accessible to all, and if something like this twitch app for viewing on 360 is popular at all with non-console streams such as Starcraft 2.
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We've known about it for awhile on Twitch.
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Twitch is also the destination for a lot of fighting game tournaments and those definitely aren't PC.
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I might be able to watch giantbomb live streams now!
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The app functions well, with a couple of caveats that don't really impact me.
- no channel search. You can filter by game and find a channel there.
- they have only made available a certain number of the top live channels. Great if you want to watch major events or popular streamers, not if you want to watch your buddies stream.-
yeah, I just read it's the top 300 streams, fuck that. I just want to be able to login and see the streams I have bookmarked, was looking forward to this because the plex plugin sucks ass
