Although YouTube has long been chock-full of gaming videos, YouTube Gaming puts all that content in one place, giving over 25,000 games their own branded channels, and, more importantly, giving users a new, simpler way to stream their gameplay live.
ith the new live-streaming feature, YouTube Gaming joins the ranks of the hugely popular gaming site Twitch.tv, which Amazon acquired for nearly $1 billion last year (Google reportedly tried to buy it, too).
Twitch response to YoutubeGames:
Sure, YouTube is launching new live-streaming features, but Wyatt thinks the most valuable part of the new gaming app is that it will be bolstered by all the other videos users have uploaded over the years.
"You’re going to be able to go to League of Legends game page and see all the great content that’s there," he says. "VoD, eSports, live-streams, the top-five plays. There’s no place on the Internet where you can do that, other than the YouTube Gaming app."
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