Ninja explains why he believes Twitch is by far the best streaming platform
Tyler ‘Ninja’ Blevins doesn’t think any other streaming or video site could dethrone Twitch. In his opinion, it’s not even close.
Ninjas’s undoubtedly one of the biggest names in the streaming space and may be better suited than most to discuss Twitch’s dominance over different platforms.Remember when he went to Mixerand was back within a year?
After coming back to the site where he became such a big name, he doesn’t think anyone will be slaying the purple streaming giant anytime soon.
Ninja thinks no platform is even close to Twitch and he doesn’t even consider YouTube a competitor
He also thinks Mixer had fraction of a chance if they used him, Shroud, and advertised properlypic.twitter.com/zKv4nZa84A
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“There’s literally nothing else but Twitch,” Blevins said during an August 8 Fortnite stream. “Like, I almost don’t even look at YouTube as a competitor. In the sense that like, if someone has a favorite YouTuber streaming on YouTube, they’ll watch them there.”
Ninja could be on to something here. Even thoughYouTube has been trying to expandits video game streaming section, we see time and time again Twitch getting most of the big names and their viewers. At this point, the site is basically synonymous with streaming itself.
“What other platform is there dude, at all?” he asked. “That is just solely livestreaming, that competes with Twitch?”
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Ninja did suggest Mixer had a “fraction of a chance” to possibly take on Twitch. That being said, they apparently didn’t use the resources (ie: himself and shroud) theypaid so much for.
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There’s always the possibility we could see some new site come up, or YouTube fine-tuning or throwing enough cash at their streaming services to be on-par with Twitch.
But for now, it does seem like Ninja is right, and there’s nothing out there that can really give the site a run for its money. At least, not yet.
