You can now watch Twitch streams with your Nintendo Switch

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(Pocket-lint) - Twitch has travel to the Switch.

The Twitch app is present disposable arsenic a escaped download successful the eShop. It's a basal app, implicit with 3 main tabs: a Home tab with recommended streams for you to watch, a Browse tab to observe streams by crippled oregon category, and a Search tab to look for streams. Clearly, it's lone for watching streams.

Here's the statement for the app:

"Watch livestream gaming videos, Esports and immoderate IRL broadcast connected your Nintendo Switch device! Sports are here. Tune into your favorites: basketball, baseball, soccer, football, swimming, wrestling, hockey, pool, and overmuch much done speech shows, league channels, Fantasy, and ESports."

In examination to the Twitch website oregon app, the Switch app is much limited. You can't usage the Twitch app connected Switch to watercourse your gameplay. You besides can't spot a stream’s chat connected your Switch’s surface oregon a TV screen. However, if you scan a QR code, you tin spot the chat connected your phone.

Also, to motion successful to your account, you tin either scan a QR codification connected your telephone oregon participate an eight-digit codification shown astatine https://www.twitch.tv/activate.