Ninja reveals why he almost quit streaming for good after Mixer move Metro Public Relations[jwplayer 91I9RIGm]Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins is well-known, to put it lightly, but his streaming plans are not. In an interview on July 31, the gaming superstar and his wife, Jessica, revealed that quitting entirely was a consideration at the peak of his frustration with Mixer. On Twitch, Ninja\u2019s biggest stream ever, a Fortnite quad with Drake, Travis Scott, and the NFL\u2019s JuJu Smith-Schuster, reached 4.4 million people and, at its peak, hit 616,693 concurrent viewers. On Mixer, his biggest stream ever reached 2.2 million viewers and hit a 85,876 concurrent viewership high point. He may have known the dip was coming, but that doesn\u2019t change how it felt. \u201cIt was expected\u2026and frustrating,\u201d he said. One year ago today, @Ninja played with @Drake and everything changed \ud83d\ude4c pic.twitter.com\/KpOAgNwt07 \u2014 B\/R Gaming (@BRGaming) March 15, 2019 Ninja moved from Twitch to Mixer in 2019 and is now a free agent as Microsoft\u2019s streaming platform surprisingly shut down in June 2020. Although Mixer experienced a 149 percent increase in total hours watched from 2018 to 2019, impressive relative to Twitch\u2019s 20 percent increase, that improvement still couldn\u2019t break the streaming scene open. While the jump, bolstered by Ninja and shroud signing exclusivity deals, netted Mixer 354 million total hours watched in 2019, Twitch still reigned supreme at 9.3 billion. With such a stark contrast in audience, Jessica revealed that she reminded her husband that he could stop streaming entirely if he wanted. \u201cWe can stop this life,\u201d she said. Although certainly frustrated, he didn\u2019t relent. Citing belief in the platform and a desire for it to succeed, he remained dedicated to his stream and appears to have grown from the somewhat humbling experience. Speculations over his next deal are aided in part by the context of deliberations over his Mixer switch. While many believed that the contract money, which has since been revealed to be about $30 million, was the defining factor\u2014Ninja\u2019s camp is adamant that it was only part of the equation. In the interview, he explained that Twitch had made \u201ca very nice offer\u201d as well, but that Mixer was more intriguing given its capacity for higher-quality video and flexibility in non-gaming pursuits. Additionally, his wife explained that part of his decision to leave Twitch was spurred by plateaued growth on the platform and a failure to \u201clisten to us\u201d amidst negotiations. Now, he asserts that he is \u201ca lot more comfortable and relaxed\u201d because his brand survived the frustrations of a viewership downturn and, more recently, the absence of streaming at all. As for his next deal, a YouTube stream spurred some rumors, but the gaming icon has remained noncommittal. What\u2019s clear, though, is that he wants a deal with technological streaming capacity, but balanced by the flexibility to pursue non-streaming content and partnerships, including in Hollywood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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