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Twitch on the rise of Xbox One broadcasting and future of PS4 streaming (update)

Twitch broadcasting came to the PlayStation 4 first, but it's coming to the Xbox One better, at least for now.

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AngelicIceDiamond3707d ago

"Because Sony wanted their integration built in on the hardware level, they handled it themselves with our guidance, while we worked on the app in-house for Microsoft, but ensured it aligned with their vision and roadmap."

MS approached them on a intimate level it sounds.

Great for both Sony and MS for making this thing happen finally. Feel like we're getting spoiled with all these great games to take advantage of these social features.

adorie3707d ago (Edited 3707d ago )

"Sony wanted their integration built in on the hardware level"

"while we worked on the app in-house for Microsoft"

I'd like to know who has the deeper integration.

4Sh0w3707d ago (Edited 3707d ago )

adorie they basicly are the same as far as I can tell except micro chose to hold it back from launch to have some extra features built in:

"Xbox One's app, due to hit on March 11, will arrive with some new features including the ability to archive streams and for viewers to join a broadcaster in game."

I believe I read Twitch on X1 is different from ps4 because will also have the ability to go to a full-screen view of the game you're playing or use an on-screen viewer indicator to keep an eye on how popular your live broadcast is.  Still the slickest new feature for me is that you can join in the broadcasters game.

dantesparda3707d ago

The PS4 ver. can go full screen and it shows you how many viewers are watching you. The only thing missing so far, is the ability to join someones game, (but it does have a interect button, so maybe it does have it) and if not then its coming cuz Sony showed that in Gamescom

FamilyGuy3706d ago

Archiving your streamed sessions is also missing from the PS4 version. Meaning you can stream but you can't save a recording of your stream to your Twitch account or any other for that matter. You record and upload OR you can stream but you can't do both at the same time.

Archiving and being able to join a streamers game session are the two biggest features that the X1s version of Twitch has over the PS4 version.
The X1 version can also watch any game session no matter the device the stream is coming from as apposed to the PS4 version only able to see PS4 streams but you could just use the PS4 web browser to do that too so it's not as big a deal as the other two features.

dantesparda3706d ago (Edited 3706d ago )

@familyguy

The ability to join a streamers game in progress is in the Ps4 too, it even has a "interact" button, its just not being utilized by developers yet/much right now and you can watch the streams on the Andriod/iPhone with the PS app. The only real thing this has over it is just the archiving, but come on you know they can just update it and add it in. Plus PS4 also can do all the same things with Ustream

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Mikey322303707d ago

Sony also has the "Join Game" feature... its just not implemented by devs. (it was talked about way back when the PS4 was unveiled.

I really dont see many feature differences at all. unless you really call going Full screen a feature? its more a UI tweak that sony should also allow the option for.

dantesparda3707d ago

You can go full screen on the PS4 too

christocolus3707d ago

A lot of gamers are going to be streaming titanfall at launch. Smart move by ms. Definitly a great game to launch the service with. Will be looking out for pvz streams too.

AutoCad3707d ago

anyone know what is acceptable upload speed to stream?
i know i wont be able to stream just for the fact that Time Warner is trash and fios not in my area.

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ThanatosDMC3707d ago

It's best if you're hardwired.

DEEBO3707d ago

i already have the mar11 update.i updated my controller,i can brodcast and watch twitch and my surround sound settings are DD now.

MS gave me code for early updates before they come out but they ask for feedbacks on their website.

BLKxSEPTEMBER3707d ago

I have the update to but I cannot stream from my X1 using twitch. Your the first person I've seen say that. How do you do it?

Dudebro903707d ago

He's wrong. Broadcasting isnt available yet. You can say Xbox broadcast, but it just opens up the twitch app.

DEEBO3707d ago

I never tried to brodcast so i don't know if it works or not hell i got the ps4 and i never brodcast a game just not my thing.

i know it says it at the bottom of my gamer tag and DD works now too

Lulz_Boat3707d ago (Edited 3707d ago )

what about the "interact" feature?? uh?

oh... :)

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Disney Dreamlight Valley teases part two of paid expansion

Disney Dreamlight Valley devs have officially teased the second part of the paid expansion titled The Spark of Imagination.

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Starting out a new farm, but need help choosing a name? Check out this article for a 100 farm name ides for Stardew Valley.

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Bethesda Needs to Reduce the Gaps Between New Fallout and Elder Scrolls Releases

Waiting a decade for new instalments in franchises as massive as Fallout and Elder Scrolls feels like a waste.

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-Foxtrot14h ago

Microsoft have Obsidian but I feel it's Bethesda who just don't want to play ball as they've always said they want to do it themselves.

Once MS bought Zenimax in 2020 they should have put the Outer Worlds 2 on the back burner, allow Bethesda to finish off its own Space RPG with Starfield (despite totally different tone why have two in your first party portfolio with two developers who's gameplay is a tad similar) and got Obsidian for one of their projects to make a spiritual successor to New Vegas.

When the Elder Scrolls VI is finished Bethesda can then onto the main numbered Fallout 5 themselves.

The Outer Worlds 2 started development in 2019 so putting it on the back burner wouldn't have been the end of the world, they'd have always come back to it once Fallout was done and it would have been nicely spaced out from Starfields release once they had most likely stopped supporting it and all the expansions were released.

If they did this back in 2020 when they bought Zenimax and the game had a good, steady 4 - 5 years development, you might have seen it release in 2025.

We are literally going to be waiting until 2030 at the very earliest for Fallout 5 and all they seem bothered about is pushing Fallout 76.

RaidenBlack12h ago(Edited 12h ago)

Its not just only Todd not playing ball.
Obsidian have made a name for themselves in delivering stellar RPGs, but most famous once have always been sequels/spin-offs to borrowed IPs like KOTOR 2, Neverwinter Nights 2, Fallout: New Vegas, Stick of Truth etc.
Obsidian wants to invest more in their own original IPs like Outer Worlds or Pillars of Eternity with Avowed.
Similar to what Bluepoint & inXile wants to do or Kojima is doing (i.e not involving anymore in Konami's IPs).
So yea, even if New Vegas has the most votes from 3D Fallout fans, Obsidian just wants to do their own thing, like any aspiring dev studio and MS is likely currently respecting that.
But a future Fallout game from Obsidian will surely happen. Founder Feargus Urquhart has already stated an year ago that they're eager to make a new Fallout game with Bethesda, New Vegas 2 or otherwise. Urquhart was the director of the very first 1995's Fallout game after all.
And don't forget Brian Fargo and his studio inXile, as Brian Fargo was the director of Fallout's 1988 predecessor: Wasteland

KyRo8h ago(Edited 8h ago)

Obsidian should take over the FO IP. They're do far better with it than Bethesda who hasn't made a great game for almost 15 years

RaidenBlack2h ago(Edited 2h ago)

@KyRo
So, by 15 years, you mean Fallout 3 was the last great game Bethesda made?
You don't consider Skyrim a good game, which came out 13 years ago?
I'd consider Fallout 4 a pretty decent game as well. It's Story & RPG elements were a bit downgrade from New Vegas but the exploration and shooting on the other hand, were upgrades.
FO76 was disappointing and Starfield could've been better at launch I'll agree.

Duke198h ago(Edited 8h ago)

I disagree. Part of these games is the support for the mod community. If they move to releasing a "next game" every 2 or 3 years, the modding support plummets and the franchises turn into just another run of the mill RPG.

Make the games good enough to withstand the test of time, to keep people coming back to them and expanding on them with mod support.

--Onilink--5h ago(Edited 5h ago)

I dont think anyone is saying they need to come out every 2 years (not to mention almost no game is released that quickly anymore)

By the time Fallout 5 comes out, it will be more than 15 years since Fallout 4 came out (same with ES6 coming out 15 years after Skyrim). Even if you want to use F76 as the metric for the most recent release, that one came out in 2018. It will be a miracle if F5 comes out before 2030

The point is that for a studio that doesnt seem to operate with multiple teams doing several projects at once, that their projects normally take 4-5 years as a minimum, and that now they even added Starfield to the rotation, it becomes a 15+ years waiting period between releases for each series, which doesnt make sense. Imagine that Nintendo only released a mainline Mario or Zelda game every 15 years…

They either need to start developing more than 1 project at a time, let someone else take a crack at one of the IPs or significantly reduce their development times

Duke194h ago(Edited 4h ago)

Why should someone else take a crack at one of the IPs? Look at what happened to Final Fantasy as a recent example - there is pretty clear FF fatigue setting in because they are now pumping out titles in the franchise every few years. Pumping out more games faster doesn't always make a series better.

There are plenty of options to make new games, not just create more titles in the same universe at a faster pace.

-Foxtrot1h ago

"Why should someone else take a crack at one of the IPs"

He's literally just told you why

We're waiting like 15 years before a sequel comes out, it's insane

Skyrim came out in 2011, the next game is expected to come out in 2027 at the earliest so that's 16 years apart while Fallout 4 came out in 2015 and might not release until 2031, again 16 years.

We're fine with Bethesda trying new things and doing new IPs like Starfield but adding a new game to the cycle now means a bigger wait. Also Starfield didn't meet most peoples expectations, can you imagine waiting 15 years or so for a sequel and it's disappointing? It would feel even worse because you would have to wait another 15 years to see if they manage to come back from it.

They need to give it to another developer, we don't need main numbered titles but a spin off of Fallout and Elder Scrolls should be cycled in between the long gaps of the main releases.

Once again you are making out people want these games as quick as possible when all we want is a standard development time of at least 4 years or so rather than waiting 15.

mandf5h ago

Yeah I’m going to say it, who cares about the modding community when making a game? Half the time developers only tolerate modders because they fix there game for them.

Skuletor7h ago

Yeah, let's all advocate for smaller gaps between series' releases, then we'll probably get headlines about how the series have dropped in quality and they could have benefited from more time in the oven. Let them cook.

SimpleSlave6h ago

"how the series have dropped in quality and they could have benefited from more time in the oven" So every Bethesda game then? Got it.

Listen, I would agree if this was about From Software or something, but Bethesda?

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C'mon now. What timeline are you from?

Skuletor4h ago

Think about it, they're already bug filled messes on their current schedule, can you imagine how much worse it would be if they rushed things?

-Foxtrot1h ago

@Skuletor

Who's saying to rush the releases? No one is saying that...

People just don't want to be waiting 15 years for a sequel, they aren't working on the game for that long, you do realise that right? The issue isn't coming down to them working on the game and us "rushing them", it's the fact they are working on other games like Starfield now meaning bigger gaps before they even get started on them.

I bet you any more Elder Scrolls VI only entered full development last year when Starfield was finished despite being announced in 2018.

Duke194h ago

I mean you aren't wrong. People are going to complain about anything

isarai6h ago

Hows about you focus on quality, just a thought 🤷‍♂️

Sciurus_vulgaris5h ago

Bethesda [or Microsoft] would have to reallocate internal and external studios towards fallout and elder scrolls titles. Bethesda has the issue of developing 2 big IPs that are large RPGs on rotation. If you want more Fallout and Elder Scrolls, development will have to be outsourced.

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