<story><title>Amazon’s Twitch Acquisition Is Official</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/25/amazon-will-officially-acquire-twitch/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>staunch</author><text>Twitch is not going to be another YouTube success story. There just aren&amp;#x27;t enough great uses for live streaming yet and video game streaming is very far from being mainstream. Twitch obviously can&amp;#x27;t believe it&amp;#x27;s very close to reaching NFL-like status either or it wouldn&amp;#x27;t sell for a mere billion and change.&lt;p&gt;Amazon or Google will piss off or drive away the Twitch user base. The users will all move to Hitbox.tv or any number of new sites that will pop up. It&amp;#x27;s easy to do live streaming, it&amp;#x27;s just expensive. This acquisition will bring funding and Yahoo will buy the next popular live streaming site.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>weixiyen</author><text>Twitch.tv is more important for anyone who follows E-Sports than any other property out there, Cable or Net.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m on Twitch.tv more than ABC, NBC, CBS, etc for 8 months out of the year (football season excepted).&lt;p&gt;And I&amp;#x27;m definitely not the only person who is like this.&lt;p&gt;No kids are leaving Twitch as long as it doesn&amp;#x27;t get rebranded.  Amazon just needs to run it as a separate product.</text></comment>
<story><title>Amazon’s Twitch Acquisition Is Official</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/25/amazon-will-officially-acquire-twitch/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>staunch</author><text>Twitch is not going to be another YouTube success story. There just aren&amp;#x27;t enough great uses for live streaming yet and video game streaming is very far from being mainstream. Twitch obviously can&amp;#x27;t believe it&amp;#x27;s very close to reaching NFL-like status either or it wouldn&amp;#x27;t sell for a mere billion and change.&lt;p&gt;Amazon or Google will piss off or drive away the Twitch user base. The users will all move to Hitbox.tv or any number of new sites that will pop up. It&amp;#x27;s easy to do live streaming, it&amp;#x27;s just expensive. This acquisition will bring funding and Yahoo will buy the next popular live streaming site.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vetler</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s true that video game streaming is far from being mainstream, but considering how engaged kids are in gaming now, I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s far-fetched to see it only becoming more popular in the future.&lt;p&gt;There is already a lot of money in esports, so I&amp;#x27;ll go out on a limb here, and say that it&amp;#x27;s only a matter of time before it becomes mainstream.</text></comment>