Twitch is now on Nintendo Switch — here’s how to get it

Twitch is now on Nintendo Switch — here'south how to go it

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Unless you've been living under a rock for the by few years, Twitch is now a big bargain, to the extent that people can now make a living out of streaming games, so it'due south no surprise that fifty-fifty the Nintendo Switch has got a Twitch app.

Twitch is bachelor at present through the Nintendo eShop as a free download; simply navigate to the eShop app on your Switch, search for Twitch and the option to download it will exist served up to you.

Once downloaded and installed, the app itself is expressionless like shooting fish in a barrel to use, with a unproblematic selection of tabs; one for the homepage, ane for browsing channels, one for sign in and ane for searching.

In many means, all you need is the home tab as it serves up a total selection of live channels it thinks you'll like, equally well equally categories that it reckons may be of involvement to you lot. There are as well collated streams recommended for fans of games like Apex Legends and Expressionless past Daylight.

Twitch is a neat add-on for the Switch equally it means when you've finished a gaming session and fancy giving you thumbs and fingers a residuum but not ready to exit the gaming world for good; you tin merely lookout others playing.

That's besides the kicker, as watching is all yous'll be doing. The Twitch app doesn't let you lot stream your games from the Switch or Nintendo Switch Lite. Nor volition you be able to encounter the Twitch chat similar y'all can in a smartphone app. So this version of Switch is very much for people who desire to sit back and really watch someone's gaming action without feeling the coercion to annotate.

Some might feel it would be better to simply use Twitch on a smartphone. But the Switch'south display is still pretty solid for watching content, albeit at 720p resolution. And with the new Nintendo Switch OLED you lot become a brighter, more than contrast-rich display, so if you have that Switch model, and then it could be great for Twitch watching.

Roland Moore-Colyer is U.G. Editor at Tom's Guide with a focus on news, features and stance manufactures. He often writes about gaming, phones, laptops and other $.25 of hardware; he's also got an involvement in cars. When not at his desk-bound Roland tin be found wandering around London, frequently with a look of curiosity on his face.