Youtube is finally making its debut on the PS4 console today. But you already knew that.
You saw the blue clickable headline, and it gave you everything you needed to know. Either you’ve got too much free time on your hands, or you want to know why this is one of the most baffling events I’ve seen in the gaming industry since the Gabe Newell siege on Valve HQ.
If you own a PS4, you might know where I’m going with this already. Take a look at the picture of a PS4 controller below.
Still don’t see it? Try flipping your head upside down.
There, you see it now? Between the pleasure pad, D-PAD Up arrow and L1 buttons? That’s the share button, and you’ve likely never used it before.
What does the share button do, you may ask? Well, it’s a convenient little doohickey that allows you to post recorded gameplay footage directly to Facebook, PSN, Twitch, and the like. Sony only recently added support for Youtube, as you’ve already been made aware.
What I find baffling here is the fact that, save for Twitch, most anybody who’s recording game footage for internet distribution is doing it for Youtube and not so they can post 3 hours of Destiny Loot Cave grinding to Facebook. Pewdiepie, Markiplier, Two Best Friends Play, and most any other famous gaming personality is based in Youtube. Twitch tends to be pretty eSports and PC dominated, whereas youtube can’t seem to stop growing- so why the wait?
This isn’t just Sony, either; the 3DS got Youtube service extremely late as well, as did the Wii. I’m not even trying to make a jab at Sony or Nintendo here, I’m just genuinely confuzzled by how, of all the consoles to get official Youtube support almost a year after release, it would be the PS4, the only console with a share-to-social-media button literally built into the controller itself.
So go download y0utube, I guess. Or don’t.
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