Twitch itself answers the question "who watches other people play video games" with staggering statistics. In switching to the more specialized service, Sony was seen to be rushing to slam its ear to the ground, picking up current video-game trends without truly understanding them. Where Twitch focuses exclusively on video games and boasts the largest viewer number, Ustream forces game content to share space with computing tutorials and trade shows. Microsoft had announced a deal with the site prior to the gaming trade show, whereas Sony had touted a partnership with the more generalist Ustream.
Sony first announced that its PlayStation 4 was capable of streaming live to Twitch at E3 2013. Several pages of a 100-page post on gaming super-forum NeoGAF were devoted to belittling the fact that the hosts of "The Spartan Show" misidentified cult action-RPG Dark Souls as a first-person shooter to one caller.ĥ,000 people tuned in to watch 'The Spartan Show' on the PlayStation 4's launch night Callers aiming to troll were surreptitiously hung up on as the show's hosts pretended their connection had dropped. They continued in the week that followed, hosting "The Spartan Show" through The Playroom. The show's early calls were positive and cheerful, and riding a wave of post-launch adrenaline, the duo kept their show live through most of the PS4's first night. Sony Computer Entertainment president Shuhei Yoshida tweeted his approval shortly afterwards, confirming he was watching the impromptu broadcast. Among the first callers was Sony's own Adam Boyes.Ĭool to dial in to the even though I sound sick as a dog! Around 5,000 people tuned in to see a phone-in show helmed by a husband and wife duo on the console's launch night.
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" The Spartan Show" was one of the first PS4 live streams to gain a notable following on Twitch. Two disturbing questions remain: how did the streams turn sour so quickly, and why didn't anybody see these problems coming? Less than two weeks after the PlayStation 4's launch, Twitch banned streams of The Playroom. He's still too short to see out of the window, so he stands on a chair and gingerly pulls a curtain aside to peek out, before nervously shaking his head.
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They've been a young child standing silently in his house as an anonymous someone uses his TV to tell him he's "outside his window." The child's eyes grow wide and he turns around to check. Someone tells the child he's "outside his window'
They've had to explain to a local police department that they didn't have a child locked up in their basement after viewers called to tip the cops off to the suspected crime. They've stripped their wife naked as she lay seemingly unconscious on a couch. They've had sex in front of their TV screen. They've put shoes on their head at the exhortation of others watching their broadcast live. These stars have played with The Playroom's white robots, but they've also done stranger, darker things. Her husband stripped her clothes off as she lay on the couch, unconscious
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It's not an invented universe you're displaying in 720p for others to watch: that's your couch and coffee table, and those are your family members.
But streaming The Playroom is showing the internet your real world. Streaming a video game is like having someone watch over your shoulder as you play: both streamer and viewer are absorbed by the same rendered, imagined, computerized world. The PlayStation 4 can stream any of its games live. Using the PlayStation Camera, players can interact with them, kicking, flicking, and cradling them as they frolic and cower.īut on the world's biggest video-game streaming site, Twitch, the stars of The Playroom haven't been its robots - they've been its players. The Playroom - an alternate reality game that comes pre-loaded on PlayStation 4 - projects the miniature machines into players' living rooms. Small, white, and cute, they jump and wiggle around at the feet of their owner. The stars of Sony's The Playroom are meant to be its robots.
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