Twitch Streaming Returns To The Xbox Guide In New Dashboard Update

Snap was awesome. Very unique and almost a dream feature if done correctly. Was a shame to see it disappear. Glad Twitch is back!

Interesting timing of this update with elden ring being available on Friday.

Curious to hear other people's thoughts? But I really found mixer superior to Twitch. Legit sad when mixer closed up.

@GuyinPA75 better streaming quality. And I liked how they would bribe us to use it.

@GuyinPA75 I really liked Mixer too, especially the ability to mix streams and stuff, but I've been using this new Twitch integration for a week or two and it's pretty good over all, just barebones, and has a lot of room to improve at the moment.

The quality is good (the highest setting is 1080p 6000 kbps), the intregation is good, and it's all simple to use. It's easy enough to add camera (including webcams, unlike the PS consoles), voice, and chat options, and to balance them. All without extra equipment.

But some of the settings reset every time you stop streaming, so you essentially have to set it back up again each time. The camera is very zoomed in and there are no options to control the zoom.

All in all, I'm happy with it as a starting point.

I used snap a lot back in the day. Now used to watching/listening to a podcast while playing some games on a carefully placed phone or tablet.

Mixer was really good, I was sad to see it go.
That said, welcome back Twitch integration!

@GuyinPA75 much better streaming quality and features.
Twitch is pure garbage.

Can you use the Kinect for video, I thought it wasn't compatible with the Series S|X. Or is it just for Kinect games it doesn't work?

@K1LLEGAL Man, I used to use the heck out of the launch features of the Xbox One. Snap, Upload Studio, and some more that I'm most likely forgetting. I also used Twitch until I got a capture card, but I've been using it again lately because I've been too lazy lately to set up my stream manually lol.

Glad it's back.

The day after I decided to switch to Mixer from Twitch, the announcement came that they would kill Mixer. Mixer would have gained traction if given time. The pump and dump fate of that site was a tragedy. What they should have done to grow the site was secure events rather than single streamers. They should have done what Sony wound up doing and bought EVO. that would have forced the FGC onto their platform as well as communities adjacent to it. As well, they should have bought a Speedrun League.

Ah well.

I mourn for the loss of snap. Spent many a Sunday playing Forza while watching the game in the corner. We were promised a PIP mode, but that's never materialized.

I'd like to see more distribution sites support YouTube Live, NicoNico, mildom, Restream.io.

I miss Mixer. Purely because by BF and I used to use it to watch each other play a game and chat, and Mixer's lag was tiny compared to Twitch's of a few seconds so it doesn't really work in real time.

@PhileasFragg I could literally use my Mixer channel as a monitor and play a fighting game just fine.