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Katowice25012 Posts
DUN DUN DUN https://gaming.youtube.com/coming_soon
YouTube announced something about how they are going to launch a streaming service. There isn't much detail on their teaser site yet but Polygon and GameSpot have articles up detailing some plans, including rewinding and a "new low latency option". Personally I'm mostly just hoping for the HTML5 player that has been in the rumor mills.
From their press release on it:
As a kid, I spent hours on the living room couch playing video games with friends, taking turns trying to beat Ganon in "Ocarina of Time" and trading Pokémon until I had all 151. Soon controller passing and Game Boy link cables gave way to network multiplayer and PC LAN parties. Eventually, my living room became a virtual one, with a network of gamers sharing experiences and discoveries.
Today, the gaming world is much more diverse than the one I grew up with, and the community has created new formats that have made gaming more collaborative and interactive. On YouTube, gaming has spawned entirely new genres of videos, from let’s plays, walkthroughs, and speedruns to cooking and music videos. Now, it’s our turn to return the favor with something built just for gamers.
This summer, we'll launch YouTube Gaming, a brand new app and website to keep you connected to the games, players, and culture that matter to you, with videos, live streams, and the biggest community of gamers on the web—all in one place.
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If this has HTML5, YTG has imminently won it for me. With how unstable Flash has been compared to HTML5, I would choose a HTML5 service all days of the week
Not to mentioned that I personally feel that Twitch hasn't improved that much in quite a while...
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YouTube has had on-site streaming for years. The question is whether or not they can make it not suck.
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On June 13 2015 03:40 WindWolf wrote:
If this has HTML5, YTG has imminently won it for me. With how unstable Flash has been compared to HTML5, I would choose a HTML5 service all days of the week
Not to mentioned that I personally feel that Twitch hasn't improved that much in quite a while...
They will now. Google nipping at their heels just put the fire back into them and Amazon. This should be fun to watch.
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Will they showcase this off at E3? 
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They should use HEVC. Then streamers could all go 1080p 60fps.
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doesn't affect me and many other europeans thanks to licensing issues.
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Is this even a thing in Germany?
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Here they come.
Death of Twitch inc.
Honestly, to me, YT will just crush Twitch. Twitch works very poorly when you got a low connection, YT to the contrary just works well...
The only important data to me will be the ads remuneration figure on YT. If it's bigger on YT, then it's just instant death to Twitch. The other way around, Twitch might still have a chance.
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On June 13 2015 03:43 Plansix wrote:Show nested quote +On June 13 2015 03:40 WindWolf wrote:
If this has HTML5, YTG has imminently won it for me. With how unstable Flash has been compared to HTML5, I would choose a HTML5 service all days of the week
Not to mentioned that I personally feel that Twitch hasn't improved that much in quite a while... They will now. Google nipping at their heels just put the fire back into them and Amazon. This should be fun to watch.
Yes, Twitch has been in desperate need of competition since quite some time now.
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On June 13 2015 03:40 WindWolf wrote:
If this has HTML5, YTG has imminently won it for me. With how unstable Flash has been compared to HTML5, I would choose a HTML5 service all days of the week
Not to mentioned that I personally feel that Twitch hasn't improved that much in quite a while...
HTML5 won't help if there's not anything worthwhile to watch (except tournaments). I do agree though.
I personally don't expect anything major out of this just yet.
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Katowice25012 Posts
On June 13 2015 03:43 IntoTheheart wrote:Will they showcase this off at E3?
Travis Gafford was live tweeting stuff during a demonstration so I guess some people have seen it, no idea if they're just teasing it now or doing a public thing yet.
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On June 13 2015 03:45 SkrollK wrote:
Here they come.
Death of Twitch inc.
Honestly, to me, YT will just crush Twitch. Twitch works very poorly when you got a low connection, YT to the contrary just works well...
The only important data to me will be the ads remuneration figure on YT. If it's bigger on YT, then it's just instant death to Twitch. The other way around, Twitch might still have a chance.
Twitch is owned by Amazon, so that won't happen. This is two of the largest tech companies in the US going toe to toe in the same market. Neither will wipe the other one out.
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Anything that makes Twitch's almost complete monopoly less important is great
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On June 13 2015 03:45 Musicus wrote:
Is this even a thing in Germany?
probably not, there is no yt streaming in germany.
unless they can sort out their problems in that regard they are fighting a losing battle. the german market alone is big enough to make the switch from twitch to yt gaming impossible, and germany isn't even the only country without youtube streaming i've heard.
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GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts
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haha lol I thought that Youtube had made a SC2 team named Youtube gaming xD Would have been awesome =P
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This will have an HTML5 player, a limit of 1080p60fps @9Mbps, transcodes available for everyone.
The only issues so far I've seen are that general browsing of streams and usability is lower than Twitch. But frankly, that's the easy part. YouTube clearly has the proper distribution network and the HTML5 player makes...such a huge goddamn difference.
edit: Should also add that the new stuff seems to have a 15 sec or so delay, as opposed to the current YouTube streaming delay.
On June 13 2015 03:43 IntoTheheart wrote:Will they showcase this off at E3?
Likely. They are having a more private-ish press event on it right now.
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OHH MY GOD!!!! Been waiting this for years. My prays are heard. Finnaly. #FuckLaggyTwitch
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Well played Twtich. I bet they have known this was coming for a while.
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