1) I'm sure with Amazon's resources behind them, Twitch will get their infrastructure up to snuff in more remote regions of the world.
2) Amazon could surely afford to compete with Google on sub share % if need be. Furthermore, it's not just a matter of offering a higher sub share. It's (sub share) * (# of subs). Twitch has a very good head start on the latter.
As someone lives in Asia currently , I can approve this completely , I am watching videos from YouTube without any lag or any other problem , but believe me , watching videos from twitch is completely nightmare (at least for me)
Re:A YouTube built for gamers
by thefreeman on Saturday June 13, 2015 @09:31AM
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You are confusing megabits and megabytes. You likely read that it requires minimum 6 megabytes per second to stream 1080p/60fps. That would be 42 megabits. And that is a minimum. Depending on your settings you could need much more then that. Not to mention Australia has notoriously bad internet in general.
Re:A YouTube built for gamers
by fernandotakai on Saturday June 13, 2015 @11:20AM
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I have 150/50 fiber internet in brazil -- 50% of the time, i cannot watch a 1080p twitch stream, while i can watch a youtube livestream.
twitch infrastructure is notoriously bad for anyone that is not american.
Re:A YouTube built for gamers
by Dylan16807 on Saturday June 13, 2015 @02:15PM
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Often twitch gets terrible for me until I load a VPN, and I'm in America. They're probably getting screwed on peering.
Re:A YouTube built for gamers
by batiudrami on Saturday June 13, 2015 @10:10PM
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No, it's six megabit. You can right click on a stream and choose "playback stats" and it will give you a live bitrate as well as some other details. On my connection I can comfortably stream 4K YouTube or Netflix, but Twitch shits itself at anything more than 720p.
Re:A YouTube built for gamers
by anon012012 on Friday June 12, 2015 @11:48PM
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It's like butchers and supermarkets... The butchers, they can't compete. It seems doomed to be centralized. They're not creating another service as much as they're organizing their supermarket.
I'd guess Google should buy Twitch then but I'm just a coder not a business person.
Re:A YouTube built for gamers
by Bhullnatik on Friday June 12, 2015 @11:45PM
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It's almost sure that they tried, but the deal didn't go through. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitch.tv#Acquisition_by_Amazo...
The problem they will face is not that gamers are loyal so much as for many people "live video game broadcast" is Twitch, so people are unlikely to notice live streams if they're elsewhere. This is solvable though - most streamers upload their VODs to YouTube anyway so they can easily notify users when a streamer is live.