It took a bit longer than some Xbox One owners would have liked but in March the Twitch app for Microsoft's new game console finally got updated with a way to stream gameplay videos. This week, Microsoft announced that 108,000 unique Twitch users broadcasted their games via the Xbox One app in its first week since the update was released.
Microsoft added those numbers accounted for 22 percent of all Twitch game broadcast activity in that week. In a gentle jab against Sony's PlayStation 4, which had Twitch game video streaming features since the console's launch in November, Microsoft said, "To put that in perspective, according to Twitch, it took another console a month to achieve what the Twitch app on Xbox One did within its first week."
23 million minutes of Twitch game broadcasts have been created via the Xbox One since the app's update on March 10th, according to Microsoft. That includes 2.7 million minutes of video streaming just on March 10th and 11th. The average Twitch game broadcast on the console is fairly long at about 28 minutes. As expected, the recent sci-fi shooter Titanfall is the game that's getting the most use on the Twitch Xbox One app, with over 10 million minutes of footage so far.
Microsoft also revealed this week that each Xbox One owner is currently spending five hours a day playing games, using apps and watching TV though the the console. A specific breakdown of each activity was not revealed.
Source: Microsoft | Image via Twitch
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