Pros & Cons
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- Easy to discover gaming videos and live streams.
- Mostly high-quality streams.
- Easy for content creators to monetize their work.
- Automatically archives streams.
- Excellent mobile streaming on Android.
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- Potentially harsh content ID restrictions.
- Difficult to separate live content from recorded content.
If watching another person play a video game sounds boring to you, you're in the minority. Live streaming is the biggest thing to happen to video game fandom since the invention of the Internet. At any given moment, there are probably more people watching videos of someone else play a game than there are people actually playing said game. Twitch.tv became a billion-dollar company by offering a centralized place to watch and host these streams. And since YouTube couldn't scoop up Twitch (Amazon did that) it is instead trying to beat the king of gaming videos at its own game, with YouTube Gaming. This service makes it a breeze to find and watch an endless supply of video game live streams and videos, as well as broadcast your own.
Interface
You can already watch plenty of gaming videos and live streams on YouTube. It's how people like PewDiePie have managed to make more money than some small countries. YouTube Gaming just presents that existing content in a new, gamer-focused interface.
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