End of applause for Facebook Gaming. After two years of activity, the app dedicated to video games will be removed from online stores on October 28, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, announced in a press release shared by Cory “Gothalion” Michael, a streamer who previously officiated on the platform.
Facebook Gaming primarily serves as a centralized platform where Internet users can play cloud games, but also follow and interact with content creators. Like Twich, it is possible to watch and comment on live streaming video games, as well as integrate discussion groups dedicated to popular titles.
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When it launched in 2020, at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, Facebook Gaming was aimed at competing with Twitch, Amazon’s leading video game streaming platform. The app had even attached the services of certain videographers known to attract streamers. In vain.
However, the planned closure of Facebook Gaming does not mean the end of the Meta subsidiary’s ambitions in this area, since the group led by Mark Zuckerberg simply intends to transfer the functionalities to the Facebook application.
Twich: an indisputable hegemony
Facebook will not have managed to shake the dominance of Twich, which currently remains number one in the sector of live streaming of video games on the Internet.
According to a report published in early August by the company Streamlabs (a branch of Logitech dedicated to streaming games), in the second quarter of 2022, Amazon’s platform attracted 76.7% of viewers watching video games live, compared to 15.4% of Youtube. Gaming and 7.9% for Facebook Gaming.
Source: BFM TV
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