3DS owners may be able to watch Twitch streams on their systems sooner rather than later.
Twitch is looking into the possibility of bringing its increasingly popular streaming platform to handhelds such as Nintendo’s 3DS in the form of a viewing application, according to a GamesIndustry International interview with Twitch COO Kevin Lin.
Speaking about the service’s recent foray into mobile gaming, Lin speculated on the company’s next step. “Handhelds. That's something we'd love to do,” he noted. “On handhelds it's more of a server/CPU concern, but we definitely want to do it. We want to build viewing apps, that's much less CPU intensive than broadcasting."
Twitch’s game-centric streaming channels are viewed by 45 million unique viewers each month and feature over a million broadcasters. The company’s services are becoming more and more prominent, with Twitch streaming capabilities baked into current-generation systems such as PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
Nintendo has begun streaming key content on Twitch as well, such as its extensive E3 programming and the Pokémon National Championships. Despite a lack of native streaming support on Nintendo hardware, the company’s game content has proven popular on the service, with a crowdsourced playthrough of an emulated version of Pokémon Red becoming an internet sensation earlier this year.
