Twitch TV moves into 4th place in bandwidth use.

[Mai72]

1. Netflix
2. Google
3. Apple
4. TwitchTV

"I make a living attempting to beat video games on my show, and people watch," says Jayson Love. His stage name is Man, and his show is Man vs. Game. In each episode, viewers watch Love take on a different game. Most recently, he played Dark Souls II.

Love broadcasts his gameplay over Twitch from the basement of his Montana home between midnight and 8 a.m. Most of the show, the live gameplay dominates the screen, and Love's face and shoulders are seen at the bottom corner. The appeal of the show is as much Love's humor and personality as it is his gaming skills.

Nearly 170,000 people follow his channel, and Love says he could make six figures this year.

 

[Mai72]

God damn! Six figures for playing video games? He got into streaming video games when TwitchTV was once Justin TV, so I guess he got in at the right time.

Damn he is one lucky guy.

Anyway, so what's the chance that TwitchTV could replace watching cable TV?
Does anyone here watch TwitchTV?

 

[Printer Bandit]

let's make it first:

http://www.twitch.tv/

 

[Mai72]

Printer,

do you stream games from Twitch?

*We should have an Anandtech stream.

 

[Paratus]

I've started watching pro SC2 on there. I think Twitch could be to real time what YouTube is to video.

 

[JujuFish]

I check in on TwitchPlaysPokemon from time to time, but that's about it.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

ive never even heard of that website

 

[mikegg]

Twitch is actually a pretty good service and a well done site. They just need to add more features and polish a few things.

Some of their games can get up to 200k simultaneous viewers during tournaments. I personally watched many hours of professional SC2 players play.

 

[zerocool84]

People don't understand why the new consoles integrated streaming, it's huge business and only getting bigger.

 

[Mai72]

People don't understand why the new consoles integrated streaming, it's huge business and only getting bigger.

I'm wondering if it could be a direct threat to cable television?

Young people are doing things differently now.

 

[herm0016]

the whole thing is watching others play video games? wha?

 

[someone16]

the whole thing is watching others play video games? wha?

Its actually pretty cool if you find the right guy to watch. Alot of the times I find it more entertaining watching them play than playing the game myself.

 

[Schmide]

I've put in 100s of hours. Mostly LCS championships.

 

[MongGrel]

Personally I can do it myself, but I do not like the fact you've all these people sucking up bandwidth off the internet to stream for gameplay.

Seems an awful waste of bandwidth for a lot of people doing it that probably suck 99% of the time.

 

[MongGrel]

People don't understand why the new consoles integrated streaming, it's huge business and only getting bigger.

And overloading something that is all ready stressed.

*shrug*

 

[MongGrel]

I'd never bother, I've been on the top of many MMO lists at various times, watching someone play a game to me would be boring compared to playing.

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

I'm wondering if it could be a direct threat to cable television?

Young people are doing things differently now.

No. Maybe in some countries (Gaming is a lot bigger in Korea than in Europe or the States), but in most countries there's not enough people interested in watching it.

Not to mention that even those who do watch gaming broadcasts (I sometimes watch the LCS streams, although usually not live) often also watch TV shows and -movies, which aren't always going to be available online immediately.

I'll be following Game Of Thrones S4 for example, although I'll probably watch it online so I don't have to sit through lots of commercials.

The ones that watch those streams tend to be the ones that were playing games instead of watching cable already, the ones that were watching soaps on TV aren't suddenly going to switch to watching someone play CoD or something.

 

[ImpulsE69]

..and this is why the human race will fail. People will watch anything..no matter how redundant.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

How the shit is that beating out YouTube, Amazon or porn?

 

[MongGrel]

I'll be following Game Of Thrones S4 for example, although I'll probably watch it online so I don't have to sit through lots of commercials.

GoT is on HBO to begin with, I watch it online just because I get it in 1080P then rather than 720P.

Aren't any commercials involved on HBO methinks.

 

[TridenT]

Its actually pretty cool if you find the right guy to watch. Alot of the times I find it more entertaining watching them play than playing the game myself.

Yeah, definitely.

If you watch Let's Play on YouTube, I think those guys are pretty funny sometimes (Mostly for GTA V, can't speak for some of the other shit). Some of their novelties wear off, but sometimes it's hilarious anyway.

 

[mikeford]

How the shit is that beating out YouTube, Amazon or porn?

Porn doesn't all stream off a single service, otherwise guessing porn remains numero uno.

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

GoT is on HBO to begin with, I watch it online just because I get it in 1080P then rather than 720P.

Aren't any commercials involved on HBO methinks.

Shows how much TV I've watched in recent years

 

[Destiny]

Some porn stars are playing League of Legends and make more by getting donations to support their streams...
once you make twitch partner you get a few dollars per 1000 viewers for each commercial rolled.


There was one girl streaming games and got viewer donations to attend a DOTA 2 tournament europe and she got $2000 in one hour!!

 

[TROLLERCAUST]

I love Twitch. I also love Let's Plays on Youtube. Better than TV. :thumbsup: