Pretty cool how they're placing such a high priority on getting all this stuff ready in time for Titanfall's launch. Literally rolling out the red carpet.
Sounds like they really thought this thing out, too. Although, I'm a bit of a twitch streaming rookie, so I may highlight things that aren't much of a big deal at all.
- Follow whoever is broadcasting by viewing their gamer card.
- Setup notifications for when one of your favorite broadcaster's are on.
- your twitch activity is updated in the friends app and activity feed of your followers.
- broadcasters can invite friends into a private party from the chat stream, allowing them to voice chat outside of the broadcast. (good they thought of this, because sometimes you might want to have a private chat with a friend without everyone else hearing what you're saying.)
- Kinect also allows you to easily include your picture-in-picture video feed and audio commentary along with the game broadcast (good - don't always want to be broadcasting my face over an online video stream.)
- Twitch chat experience, offering 10 lines in the chat stream and allowing viewers to choose their name color and post emoticons.
I think that's everything. One of the things I've always liked most about this system is how the different parts are so nicely setup to work together, some really nice integration, especially with Kinect, and this just makes that whole thing even better.
You can join anyone's game though.
I wonder how the performance is going to be. Does the XB have a dedicated chip for streaming for streaming like PS4? Or i'm guessing one of the 3 OS's will make it work smoothly.
I would like to think it doesn't impact performance of the game too much, if at all, or else that would be a bit disappointing. That said, don't games already run pretty solidly despite all the other things you can do in addition to gaming, such as with snap, or even having the game minimized on the home screen?
