Pushing Buttons: I don’t get Twitch – but we’ve been watching people play games since the arcades
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It occurred to me recently, when I was reading a press release about how many billions of hours have been spent watching popular Twitch streamers, that there is now a generation of gamers who have probably spent much more time watching other people play games than they have actually playing them.
It’s a thought that makes me feel about 400 years old – when I was a teenager it would take several minutes to load a single screenshot on a website via a stuttering dial-up modem. I was in my early 20s during the whole YouTube and Twitch phenomenon, and I was working for IGN, the biggest games website at the time. I was one of
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