YouTube is not resting on its laurels, as the competition is getting tougher (Facebook, Twitch, Netflix,...), so it announced the arrival of a new sub-site and an independent application, with which they want to keep the toys with them. For fans of computer games, they promise the arrival of the YouTube Gaming portal in the summer, which will provide better support for streaming video while playing games.
Unlike specific sites such as Netflix, has Google most of the content that the competition has. Which is both a blessing and a curse. "All in one place" namely, it means that it must target customers with the right content at the right time. New this time, a portal within a portal YouTube Gaming (this joins music, cooking, children's, etc.), focuses on video game lovers. With it, Google wants to prevent the outflow of visitors to the competition and here we are referring mainly to Twitch, which the tech giant wanted to buy last year, but was shunned by Amazon.
All PC users with a web browser that supports the programming language HTML 5, will now instead sweeten it by streaming video content while playing games all the way there up to 1920 x 1080 resolution pixels and with an average frequency of up to 60 frames per second (fps). When streaming video content while playing "games", it will also allow displaying video guides, speed playing,... And if you are wondering if there is such a thing as watching someone else play a game, the answer is yes. "E-athlete" PewDiePie has for example almost 40 million subscribers!
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YouTube Gaming will be dedicated to all players of various games. It will initially be available in the US and UK, but will roll out gradually elsewhere. They will also have something from the portal content authors, as visitors will be able to let them gratuity, which will be just icing on the cake advertising profit, which Google will divide between them. The subpage will have different sections where they will be arranged 25 thousand games, and videos will be available for each, "live streaming" (live broadcast) and all other content related to it.
More information:
gaming.youtube.com
