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Xbox One Twitch app broadcasts at higher quality than PS4

720p streams and archiving support for Twitch on Xbox One. That'll be nice for Titanfall!

by Martin Gaston on March 4, 2014

It looks like broadcasting to Twitch might be better on Xbox One than PlayStation 4.

Canny Reddit user rotj ran Microsoft spokesperson Larry 'Major Nelson' Hryb's recent stream of Plants versus Zombies: Garden Warfare through the Twitch Analyser, which determined the Xbox One Twitch output is of a greater resolution than that of PlayStation 4.

Major Nelson's stream was broadcast at a resolution of 1280x720, while Twitch streams on PlayStation 4 weigh in at 960x540. Both platforms output at 30fps.

Additionally, Xbox One Twitch streaming will not broadcast audio from Party Chat, and streamers can see chat and viewer statistics without them being displayed on the stream.

The Xbox One will also allow streamers to archive their streams, which is a much-requested bit of functionality the PS4 currently lacks.

Twitch streaming on Xbox One will roll out with the platform's March update, which promises to improve, among other things, the Party Chat experience. Microsoft is making no secret about the fact that it's implementing these features to make way for the launch of Titanfall on March 11.

 

Per the Gamespot Article...



It is near the end of the end....

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looks like bundling kinect was worth every additional penny.



the wait was worth it  plus it looks streamers screen looks better then on the ps4 

heres the archive of his stream http://www.twitch.tv/majornelson/b/508108676


I saw Major Nelson's stream and it was pretty impressive. Funnily enough, no face cam :)



Wow. That's pretty cool.



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kowenicki said:

Yes, although when I referred to this the other day I was called naive for believing it. I was told it was  just the marketing people of twitch trying to get ONE owners to use it by saying it was the best even though it wasn't. You see it is impossible for something to be better on the ONE?

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=6100241

Good ol' VGC forum.

To be fair they have said they hope to bring these improvements to the PS4 too when they are able.


Got to keep fighting that console war. Its always funny when things like this happen

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Great for any streamers on the One. From what Ive watched on the PS4, that looks miles better. Wonder when we will get the upgrades.



                            

Well to be honest the Xbox One twitch app poops all over the PS4 version



Can you use Kinect as a face cam? The Stream quality was actually really good, hopefully PS4 owners get an upgrade.



Pretty great news that it is looking so good. Makes me excited to use Twitch.

Hopefully PS4 gets an update to create parity at some point.




       

iceland said:
Can you use Kinect as a face cam? The Stream quality was actually really good, hopefully PS4 owners get an upgrade.


yes you can major said he didnt use becuase he didnt have his home studio set up  also you can put the face box on any cornor of the screen