>>31176943>Better video qualityDefinitely. Big enough buff to switch? No.
>Better chat latencyThis is a debuff to holos. Chats on streamers 5K and up are already pretty much unreadable.
>Smaller pay cutRemains to be seen with the pay cut on the table.
>Larger potential audienceTwitch MAU: 140 million
Youtube MAU: 2.5 billion
Are you serious, the platforms aren't even comparable.
But all that pales to the point that hololive grew significantly because of clips, which link directly to their channels and streams, and moving them off that platform destroys that. I am not going to click on a link taking me to an external website from Youtube where I probably wouldn't be logged in or even have an account.
Besides that, there are other issues with Twitch that specifcally debuff holos:
You get categories on the front page constantly prioritizing the games which just come out, which holos can never play because they have to wait for permissions.
You get the Vtuber tag constantly recommending competitors to you when you end, which, let's not sugarcoat it, hurts you more than it helps if everyone already knows who you are but not the others.
And recently with things like DOTA streams bordering on 100K viewers not even showing up unless you specifically go into that category and look for them, there's been pretty good evidence that Twitch's algorithm tends to bury streams with niche audiences that focus only on one particular genre, game, or category - and it's very likely that Vtuber watchers fall into that category. Which makes perfect sense - you don't recommend vtuber streams to non-vtuber watchers, because it seems like the people who watch vtubers never seem to watch non-vtuber streams.
And of course, you can't put out your music-related stuff on Twitch. Which also serve a purpose in gathering viewers, because people go, say, Yoasobi song->Suisei cover->Suisei stream on autoplay.
Twitch might be great for indies starting out, but if you're already one of the big fishes, it doesn't provide the tools you need.
