San Francisco (AFP)
The online game superstar "Fortnite", Tyler "Ninja" Blevins, announced Thursday that she was leaving the platform Twitch players, owned by Amazon, for its rival Mixer, a subsidiary of Microsoft.
"I'll be playing Mixer on a full-time network now," says the young American with multicolored hair, in a video on Twitter in which he monkeyed a press conference, answering questions he poses to himself decked out of disguises.
"I feel like I'm going back to the roots of streaming like this," he says. This transfer is a victory for Microsoft, which is trying to boost its community of players and could benefit from the arrival on Mixer millions of fans of "Ninja".
More than 5.4 million people have already seen its fake press conference online.
Last year, Tyler Blevins told the ESPN sports media group that his gaming activities earned him seven-figure monthly earnings.
Another star of Fortnite, the American Kyle Giersdorf, aka "Bugha", became in New York last Sunday the first single world champion of the game, which allows him to pocket $ 3 million, at 16 years.
Fortnite, a global cardboard, has shaken up the gaming sector when it was launched in 2017.
Microsoft says it works on a new generation console but that cloud games were now at the heart of its strategy.
Google plans to launch the streaming video service Stadia in 14 countries from November. The new gaming platform is targeting a Netflix-like subscription model that would allow gamers to access games on the cloud from any device.
The Microsoft Xbox game console competes with Sony's PlayStation, as both groups attempt to adapt to a new era of cloud-hosted games - the cloud-based internet.
Microsoft is also capitalizing on the success of its Xbox with an xCloud service, while the sector scans Amazon to see if it will manage to launch its own games, with its AWS cloud activity and the popularity of Twitch.
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