Today is the dawn of a new age as Twitch has just announced that it has been acquired by Amazon. Yes yes, those Google rumors were false after all as Amazon has – apparently – made a better offer to Twitch.
As Twitch’s CEO, Emmett Shear, said:
“Today, I’m pleased to announce we’ve been acquired by Amazon. We chose Amazon because they believe in our community, they share our values and long-term vision, and they want to help us get there faster. We’re keeping most everything the same: our office, our employees, our brand, and most importantly our independence. But with Amazon’s support we’ll have the resources to bring you an even better Twitch.”
It will be interesting to see now what will happen with Twitch’s monetization and legal copyright issues; issues that arose earlier this Summer and affected a lot of TwitchTV users.
For what is worth, we believe it’s a good thing that Twitch was not acquired by Google. YouTube and Twitch are the two most famous sources for video-game walkthroughs/playthroughs and if Google owned both of them, it would eventually built a really dangerous monopoly.
According to the latest reports, Amazon has acquired Twitch for over $1 billion!
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ii guess amazons move into the video game market is the real deal. i wonder if we will see a full fledged system sometime or just there firetv app thing.
I agree that it’s better they’re not merging with Youtube in some kind of Game Stream Viewing monopoly of doom.
That said, I fear Amazon will repeat what they did with Comixology and their reluctance to move Amazon Prime Instant Streaming to non-Amazon hardware platforms…
I hope they have the good sense not to kill the golden goose.
instead of being partnered with twtich you’re gonna get a free amazon prime account lmao