Streaming Megastar Ninja Leaving Twitch for Competitor Microsoft's Mixer

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Ninja is arguably the world's most popular streamer on Twitch and the most popular person to play Fortnite and has made quite a career and splash, even being interviewed by ESPN. Ninja however has decided to take his...hammer? (no idea what you use in Fortnite) and join Microsoft. Microsoft must have showed up and gave him a dump truck of money because he's already extremely successful on Twitch and the fact he's going to Microsoft's barren wasteland Microsoft has tried to cultivate as an alternative to Twitch, presumably on the assumption that even a fourth of his audience follows that'll give them their biggest audience and exposure probably ever.

Source: Kotaku

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Is this some sort of power move to strike back at Twitch?

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45 minutes ago, Zeus said:

Is this some sort of power move to strike back at Twitch?

I think they're just desperate and want to be able to say that the biggest streamer in the world streams on their platform a year before they unveal a new console. Either that or Microsoft is ready to go to war with Bezos and Amazon at least in the streaming market. I don't see Playstation ever trying something like this, but they're not very invested in their own streaming platform.