TwitchCon 2015 Day One Roundup: PlayStation App With Chat Support, Separate

Twitch‘s new Playlist and video-on-demand options attempt to close the gap between its live and archived content, highlighting previous broadcasts as well as live shows.

Biggest one is video uploads-sans viewing. On top of that, you’ll be able to give them custom thumbnail art and arrange them in playlists.

The new and improved app will introduce live streaming of all Twitch channels and brings all of the popular features available on other platforms, such as chat integration. Whisper is the icing on the cake: Popping out private messages directly in the Twitch app and site is a fancy little feature that YouTube Gaming simply doesn’t have yet. Coming in Fall 2015. Today it was announced that a dedicated Twitch app will be available on multiple PlayStation platforms in the Americas, starting with PS4 next month and followed by PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita and PlayStation TV.

The keynote presentation also featured several announcements related to its industry partners.

The app will enable you to view any stream on the aforementioned systems – even those not being played natively on a Sony machine.

Twitch Chief Executive Emmett Shear said the “ton of new ways to communicate” would allow the company’s 100 million monthly users, who spend 1.5 hours a day on average on the service, to form stronger bonds with video-makers and fellow viewers. With uploads, that means that users can create videos, but won’t have to livestream them first.

More details will be coming to the Twitch blog soon.