Is The Gold Rush for Gaming channels over ?

Makeing a New Gaming Channel. worth the effort?

  • yea go for it man!

    Votes: 37 71.2%

  • nah it over done mate.

    Votes: 15 28.8%
  • Total voters
    52
Be better or be different. If you do that then it doesn't matter how much competition there is, you'll be providing greater value in some way and earn subscribers. Being different isn't all too hard either, you can for example play games that don't get much coverage and have a loyal fanbase (like old school RPGs, or stuff like that for example), or perhaps come up with a particular set of challenges you have to complete in a certain game - there's so many different things you can do to be original, get creative, and you can make any kind of channel succeed.

I suggest telling him to go for it, but he should have the right idea in mind about what he wants to do. If his goal is "to be a big gaming YouTuber" then he's gonna get frustrated and quit early on. If his goal is to entertain and have some fun in the process, he'll do well, enjoy the whole process, and eventually grow and get larger too. :)
 
I think you have to get lucky and/or post things that you might not want to post. Niche Youtubers will find it hard. On my channel I have Postal 2, Red Faction (the original), WRC 5, Seb Loeb Rally Evo, 7 days to die and my 2 biggest videos are Call of duty. They can literally jump to massive numbers overnight. In fact I have one doing that right now and I am top of search function if you type in Splash hack which is helping, but all my others, the ones I genuinely care about, get overlooked. I don't want to be a Call of Duty Youtuber. I like the game, I just don't want to be pigeon holed like that. I have to wonder whether or not I should carry on until I get the numbers and p**s off all my fan base, or just carry on doing what I am doing and hoping these views go on to the rest of my videos more. It is getting me down and making me say, no I don't recommend it.
 
JesusGreen said:
Be better or be different. If you do that then it doesn't matter how much competition there is, you'll be providing greater value in some way and earn subscribers. Being different isn't all too hard either, you can for example play games that don't get much coverage and have a loyal fanbase (like old school RPGs, or stuff like that for example), or perhaps come up with a particular set of challenges you have to complete in a certain game - there's so many different things you can do to be original, get creative, and you can make any kind of channel succeed.

I suggest telling him to go for it, but he should have the right idea in mind about what he wants to do. If his goal is "to be a big gaming YouTuber" then he's gonna get frustrated and quit early on. If his goal is to entertain and have some fun in the process, he'll do well, enjoy the whole process, and eventually grow and get larger too. :)
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Thanks I'll make sure to show him this and thank very one for the support. Also yea its funny now I kinda wanna start a gaming channel haha[DOUBLEPOST=1454628594,1454626613][/DOUBLEPOST]
TheBossman said:
I think you have to get lucky and/or post things that you might not want to post. Niche Youtubers will find it hard. On my channel I have Postal 2, Red Faction (the original), WRC 5, Seb Loeb Rally Evo, 7 days to die and my 2 biggest videos are Call of duty. They can literally jump to massive numbers overnight. In fact I have one doing that right now and I am top of search function if you type in Splash hack which is helping, but all my others, the ones I genuinely care about, get overlooked. I don't want to be a Call of Duty Youtuber. I like the game, I just don't want to be pigeon holed like that. I have to wonder whether or not I should carry on until I get the numbers and p**s off all my fan base, or just carry on doing what I am doing and hoping these views go on to the rest of my videos more. It is getting me down and making me say, no I don't recommend it.
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Yea just don't over think it man if you. REALLY like to play those other games do it people will se that from you and they will feed off of your enjoyment :) just play what makes you genuinely happy ppl will watch
 
Razz_ said:
Thanks I'll make sure to show him this and thank very one for the support. Also yea its funny now I kinda wanna start a gaming channel haha[DOUBLEPOST=1454628594,1454626613][/DOUBLEPOST]
Yea just don't over think it man if you. REALLY like to play those other games do it people will se that from you and they will feed off of your enjoyment :) just play what makes you genuinely happy ppl will watch
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I wish it worked like that I really do, but I played a 7 Days to Die on my channel Monday that has got five views and was 1080p 60fps and a game I love, I did a Call of duty video yesterday that has got over 300 views on realtime and was horribly compressed by what I had to do to get the footage. Demoralising.
 
If you're original, you can succeed. However, I see you doing commentaries over GTA and Battlefront as well as doing tutorials. These have already been overdone.
 
TheBossman said:
I wish it worked like that I really do, but I played a 7 Days to Die on my channel Monday that has got five views and was 1080p 60fps and a game I love, I did a Call of duty video yesterday that has got over 300 views on realtime and was horribly compressed by what I had to do to get the footage. Demoralising.
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Wow that sucks :/ I guess cod is still popular ?[DOUBLEPOST=1454632868,1454632788][/DOUBLEPOST]
MeowCaptain said:
If you're original, you can succeed. However, I see you doing commentaries over GTA and Battlefront as well as doing tutorials. These have already been overdone.
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I see ur point every thing been overdone
 
Its hard to do things that havent been overdone at this point. I recently started doing vids myself and still trying to think of a niche to get noticed with gaming. Theres only so much you can do with a straightforward level based game like what im doing now, and minecraft is severely overdone, but I still enjoy playing and commentating which will eventually go a long way.
 
We live in a time period where our generation Ys and later don't have too much room to invent too many different things; you have an idea you thought of that was really good and go to look into it only to find out that someone else thought of it before you, it happens and it always will, but if you let that dictate what you can and can't do (within reason) then you'll never get anywhere, you might be able to do things differently, your own way and possibly even a better way.

Look at the phone industry, a multi-billion $ industry where none of the manufacturers seem to have much different from each other to offer, yet are offered so much money for the products they make. They won't know how successful they could have been until they try.
 
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