By Jon Porter
Video game streaming is big business. Since being founded in 2011, the leading video streaming service, Twitch, has amassed over 100 million monthly unique users watching over 2 million monthly streamers.
In total around 241 billion minutes of video games have been streamed through the service as of February 2017, which is an impressive number indeed.
It might not yet be a match for YouTube’s 1 billion users, but Twitch’s growth was enough to convince Amazon to buy it for $970m back in 2014.
All this growth in the video streaming space has Microsoft interested, and the company has launched its own streaming service, Beam, which is receiving a significant update alongside the forthcoming Creators Update.
New for the update will be Beam broadcasting through the Guide, and the Beam app on Xbox One. Broadcasting via the Guide will be available starting on March 29 for Xbox users and on April 11 for Windows 10 users.
We sat down with Microsoft’s Partner Group Program Manager, Chad Gibson, to understand more about the service, and how it’s hoping to compete in a market that’s been cornered by Twitch. Here are five reasons to care about Beam.
1. It’s super low latency
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Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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