In brief: Twitch released a native app for the Nintendo Switch this calendar week. However, the service doesn't integrate into the platform as well as it does PlayStation and Xbox, and the features are express compared to the PC version or website. Nonetheless, this increases the small but growing number of streaming apps for the Switch.

The Twitch app on Switch doesn't allow you host a stream. Sharing your gameplay or posting clips isn't integrated into the Switch like it is into PlayStation or Xbox (though the Switch does let you share screenshots). Instead, it'southward but for watching Twitch channels, and information technology does get the job done in that regard, with functional scan and search tabs. Of grade, the video quality is every bit good as it tin can be on the Switch'southward 720p screen.

Other than the lack of hosting streams, the only other pregnant limitation in Switch's Twitch app is that it won't display streams and conversation windows simultaneously. The conversation will appear on a streamer's page before you start watching, but engaging while viewing a stream requires using a mobile device. However, the app does permit y'all use QR codes or an activation link to brand logging in smoothen.

It is somewhat light-headed that chatting while watching a stream on the Switch requires users to log into a mobile device's installed Twitch app. Since Twitch for iOS and Android already allows chatting while viewing a stream, it raises the question: why non simply watch on mobile?

The only advantage of using the Switch and mobile together that I can think of is that information technology might offer more than screen existent manor if your mobile device is a smartphone with a small screen. Splitting the two into separate screens might exist more than comfortable for some.

The Switch doesn't have nearly as many streaming apps as the other consoles, but it does take YouTube, Hulu, and Funimation.