Gamer 'Shroud' Leaves Twitch for Mixer Following Tyler 'Ninja' Blevins

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Just hours later on announcing his decision to leave Amazon's Twitch in favor of Microsoft's Mixer, gamer Michael 'Shroud' Grzesiek fabricated his debut on the new platform with more than 78,000 concurrent viewers, according to Lightstream Studios' live analytics tool, Arsenal.

He appear his plans to exit Twitch before on Thursday in a sudden motion that left many of his 7 meg+ followers on the platform stunned. According to Mixer, the move will allow Shroud to "(engage) with his audition in new and heady ways" via the platform'south interactive features such as Sparks and Embers. "… the next chapter is here, and I am excited and motivated to evangelize the best alive streams yet for me. The motion to Mixer allows me to focus on what I love: gaming", Grzesiek said in a statement.

Same shroud. New home.https://t.co/eZV2GBBSsY pic.twitter.com/AHaajkjees

— Michael Grzesiek (@shroud) October 24, 2019

Shroud's move to Mixer follows a similar decision from celebrated gamer, Tyler 'Ninja' Blevins, who earlier this twelvemonth jumped on the Mixer bandwagon, hosting his first stream on the platform from Lollapalooza, a four-twenty-four hours music festival in Chicago. He also publicly invited Kyle 'Bugha' Giersdorf — the teen who recently won $3 million for winning the countdown Fortnite World Cup — to join him on the new platform.

In instance you lot don't known it already, Mixer is the revamped (and re-branded) version of an existing game streaming platform called 'Beam' that Microsoft acquired in 2017. It remains one of the minor players in the sector, while Twitch continues to boss the mindshare of gamers worldwide. Still, with the recent high-profile acquisitions, it is clear that Microsoft is making a big push into the game-streaming industry, and it won't be a surprise if it becomes a bigger histrion going frontwards.