Don’t get too excited to show the world all your “sweet killz” with your fancy new Xbox this Friday. Microsoft today announced more details about the Xbox One’s Twitch integration, the most notable of which is that the service won’t be available on the new console’s launch.
From the Xbox Blog:
We are working to ensure the initial Twitch on Xbox One broadcasting experience meets the expectations of the Twitch community, so while this feature won’t be available right away, we’ll let you know as soon as it is ready. Our goal is to deliver it during the first part of 2014.
While it is worth noting that Twitch is working and even performing fairly well on the PS4 this delay likely won’t give Sony any advantage over Microsoft through the holidays since both systems are going to be sold out everywhere you look regardless.
But let’s forget about that for just a second and instead focus on what’s really important: SUPER SICK ACHIEVEMENTS!
Microsoft is including 10 achievements for the Twitch app right off the bat. Now you can pad your gamer score without even having to play a game!
- Watch one hour of live video on Twitch to become a Newcomer
- Watch 10 hours of live video on Twitch for Competitive
- Watch 100 hours of live video on Twitch for Best Viewer
- Watch one hour of live video on Twitch channels that have less than 10 viewers to be the Hipster
- Watch 10 hours of live video on Twitch channels that have less than 10 viewers and become theTalent Scout
- Max Bandwidth is received by watching a single channel on Twitch for more than eight hours consecutively
- Around The Clock is exactly that, just watch at least one minute of live video on Twitch in each hour of a full day
- Prime Time, simply: watch a total of 10 hours of live video on Twitch between peak viewing hours from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m., on a weekday
You can read more about some of the different features at the blog post detailed below.
Source: http://news.xbox.com/2013/11/xbox-one-twitch-new-details
