Streaming your gameplay footage isn't always easy, but everyone seems to want to get in on the act hoping to be the next big name YouTube or Twitch gamer to make it rich and play games for a living. It's a hard graft with some high-entry costs, but not for much longer. Intel, SteamLabs, Zotac, Simply NUC, and Shuttle have all teamed up to make some new miniature computers which can comfortably stream games at 1080P 60FPS.
"Our goal with the personal streaming PCs was to build simplicity into the complex process of setting up a streaming rig," Ali Moiz, CEO of Streamlabs, told PCGamesN, "which is something that everyone in the streaming industry can get behind."
The first device out of the collective will be called the SimplyNUC EasyCAST and will come fitted with an Intel CPU. We're not entirely sure which one just yet, but we'd expect something around a modern Core i5 to make it possible, but likely one that's clocked a little lower than usual so that cooling in the four-inch x four-inch form factor isn't too complicated.
The big selling point, according to the developers though, is easy set up. They want to remove some of the barriers for entry by including everything in the little streaming box that potential new stream gaming gods will need.
"Configuring a streaming setup from scratch is a painful experience. You need to find, download, and install software, configure your bitrate and encoding settings, design and build your scenes…the list goes on. This partnership solves all that. These personal streaming PC’s are optimized out of the box and are ready to stream as soon as the device is turned on, making high-quality broadcasting much easier for both newcomers and experts."
The SimplyNUC EasyCAST will debut towards the end of October, with other devices from manufacturers like Acer and Zotac using he same form factor will debut in early 2019.
