The company recently released Screen Recorder, an app that lets you live broadcast what’s on your mobile device’s screen to Twitch or YouTube. The app is intended for use with games, but Sony says you can use it for pretty much anything—just don’t go broadcasting inappropriate content or infringing material. Sony doesn’t specify this, but presumably the YouTube hook goes to YouTube’s stard ve service not YouTube Gaming, which is supposed to launch this summer. In h 2014, Twitch announced its developer tools would add the ability to broadcast mobile third-party apps. In typical Sony style, this is yet another service that requires a Sony phone. To use Screen Recorder you must be rocking either an Xperia Z3+, Xperia Z4, Xperia Z4v, or the Xperia Z4 Tablet. esumably the hope is that more people will be lured over to Xperial thanks to apps like Screen Recorder. That strategy hasn’t worked out so far, but since Sony isn’t getting out of the mobile game anytime soon, I suppose it has to keep on trying. y this matters: The phenomenon of video games as spectator sport has exploded in recent years thanks largely to the efforts of Twitch. The service claims more than 100 million visitors each month, 35 million installs of the Twitch mobile viewing app. Most of that audience is craving Dota 2 Gr Theft Auto V action, but why not put Clash of Clans or Subway Surfers right next to it? Mobile gaming attracts far more people than traditional gaming anyway, there’s already an audience for walkthroughs on Angry Birds games Cy Crush. o knows? You could become the next Twitch star by tapping your way through Star rs: Tiny Death Star.
