Online gaming communities have been around as long as there has been online gaming. Gamers are a very active and passionate community that knows how to make full use of online resources to share tips, cheats, and gaming experiences. The Internet is full of sites, blogs, and forums dedicated to discussing the minutiae of how to finesse the numerous gaming worlds. Sony’s PlayStation 4 has social features built right in to make this community experience an integral part of its play, making it easy for this console to develop a large and loyal following.
A big part of spreading Playstation 4’s popularity is player-created tutorial videos that teach players of all levels how to succeed at a game. Tutorials are not only a great way to spread knowledge and generate interest in the game, but they are also a great way for a player to show off their mastery of the game. The thing is that, as you would expect, gamers are a very technically savvy lot. They are not going to have much patience for videos that are so compressed that the game’s sophisticated graphics are blurred and their color distorted, or delivered over an inadequate platform that causes a lot of buffering and other playback issues.
PlayStation 4 gamers who want to want to stream video tutorials in HD quality over a robust hosting and playback infrastructure need look no further than TikiLIVE, the premier online content delivery platform. TikiLIVE can take your Playstation 4 game captures and encode them for playback on any standard HTML5-enabled tablet, smartphone, or set-top boxes such as Roku. Your game tutorials can then be streamed in high definition over a rock-solid connection anytime, anywhere.
Setup for Broadcasting Your PS4 Game Play
TikiLIVE makes it a snap to broadcast your PlayStation 4 game play with its HD Wave Broadcaster. To start streaming your games and tutorials, you need:
- Your PlayStation 4 game console
- A capture card
- An HDMI splitter
- A TikiLIVE channel
Connect your PlayStation 4 console to the HDMI splitter and then connect outputs from the HDMI splitter to both your monitor and to your capture card-equipped PC. Play your game and narrate, with the capture card enabled to record your game play. From there, set the TikiLIVE HD Wave Broadcaster to stream the capture to the designated channel. TikiLIVE’s Monster encoder renders the capture for playback on all desktops, laptops, iOS and Android smartphones and tablets. Your PlayStation 4 content can also be watched on TVs equipped with a set-top box such as Roku.
The HD Wave delivers a top-quality high-definition image that beautifully displays every color and detail of the game screen with high-quality audio. Stream PS4 game tutorials, tournaments, level walkthroughs, anything you want to share on your PS4. While it’s streaming, record it all and post the videos in your Media Library for on-demand viewing on your channel.
Use TikiLIVE’s Social Media Integration to Drive Traffic to Your Channel
Once you’ve established your TikiLIVE channel as a resource for PlayStation 4 gamers, you’re going to want to let the gamer community know about it. TikiLIVE’s social media integration makes it a breeze to promote your channel on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+.
Use TikiLIVE’s message center to send and receive messages and build relationships with other gamers and broadcasters. Keep channel subscribers updated with your RSS feed. Schedule live game streaming events or tournaments with TikiLIVE’s channel scheduling tool, and send posts and tweets about them with the click of a button. Post updates about your channels to the WordPress site that comes with every TikiLIVE account.
You can also host teaser/promo videos about your PS4 channel in the TikiLIVE Media Library and embed them in YouTube and other video sharing sites to boost your profile. On popular gamer sites and forums, gaining new viewers is as easy as posting a link to your TikiLIVE channel.
Built Up a Library of Gaming Tutorials? Run Them Continuously on a Playlist
If you record all your game streaming sessions and want to share them, you can do two things with TikiLIVE. You can post them for individual video-on-demand viewing and you can set them to play on a continuous loop on your TikiLIVE channel. With TikiLIVE’s Channel Manager, you can create a playlist to run on your channel in which you specify which videos to play, what order to play them in, and if you want them to play in a scheduled block of time or on a continuous loop. This feature gives you the power to create your own IPTV station dedicated to all of your PlayStation 4 content that can be accessed around the clock, anywhere in the world.
TikiLIVE’s Analytics Show Your Channels’ Reach
Once you’re broadcasting your PlayStation 4 content with TikiLIVE, it can be helpful to see how many people are tuning in, where they are tuning in from, on what types of devices, and other data that gives you a picture of your audience and helps you decide how to promote your content. TikiLIVE’s sophisticated analytics tools provide a comprehensive breakdown of your viewers’ habits and statistics on numbers of viewers, how long they stay tuned in, bandwidth consumed by your channels on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis, and other data than can guide how you focus your efforts in promoting your channels. This data can also give you insights into how to tailor your content to match your audience’s typical viewing patterns, to appeal to specific geographical areas, and so on.
Reach and Teach the Gamers of the World
If you’ve got skills and want to share your expertise with others who want to improve theirs, use TikiLIVE to capture all the excitement and show them what you know! TikiLIVE’s HD Wave presents the graphics at top quality and won’t keep your viewers hanging with buffering or other playback hiccups. It’s easy to get started, but if you do have questions, we offer live support 24/7.
