Ready to compete with Amazon 's Twitch is YouTube in collaboration with Google , who together announce the creation of a new application for gamers everywhere.
YouTube Gaming is officially launching this summer , and according to announcements, it is expected to provide its users with thousands of games and their respective communities, providing news, new videos and live streaming services related to them, as well as connecting them with other gamers.
The main goal of the new promising application is to defeat all other similar applications and emerge as the leader in the gaming space, an ambition that will inevitably place YouTube Gaming against the currently dominant Amazon's Twitch
The new app aims to create the largest gaming base to date, with games from “Asteroids” to “Legends of Zelda” and around 25,000 other games all having their own channel on the app.
Each user will have the ability to add games to their list and automatically be informed about them, at the same time they will receive notifications for live streaming and the platform will provide them with suggestions for similar games that they may like.
Initially, the service will be available in the US and Great Britain, during the summer.
And as for the background of the whole story, a related publication states that Google had intentions to buy Twitch, but Amazon… caught up with it, and so Google with YouTube Gaming will want to take its revenge. In another publication by Ars Technica regarding the extent to which YouTube Gaming can compete with Twitch, it seems that the already great appeal to millions of users worldwide gives it a great advantage, as well as the fact that the competing service does not provide long-term video recording, and most users of Amazon's gaming platform already upload their videos to YouTube...
