Pokemon Red's current success could grow Twitch into an operating system of its own.
The game usually takes 25 to 30 hours to complete, however gamers have been at it for 16 days, sometimes reaching 100,000 people CBC News reported Friday.
"It has delivered a huge and sustained audience for days on end and captivated the attention of the entire Twitch community," Matthew DiPietro, vice president of marketing at Twitch told The Polygon. "The incredibly high volume of chat activity has helped us to hone our chat system to deal with massive loads like we're experiencing. It has also made us all think deeply about creative social experiments that can be done on Twitch. This is one of the most interesting things we've seen on Twitch since we launched, and we hope to see more experiments like it," DiPietro told The Polygon.
"You never know. Twitch Plays Pokémon is an interesting proof-of-concept though. We encourage everyone to think about new ways to leverage Twitch's platform and community for creative gaming endeavors," DiPietro told The Polygon.
"This is unique in the history of Twitch," DiPietro told The Polygon. "And when you consider how game developers might capitalize on features and functionality like this, the sky is the limit."
According to USA Today, over 500,000 people have attempted to wrap-up The Pokemon Red game on Twitch USA Today reported Wednesday.
A Twitch user transferred a copy of the game onto the video platform community, last week and it has been a creative popular insanity ever since with the game that came out on Nintendo Gameboy in the United States in 1998 USA Today reported.
Viewers on Twitch's channel participated by entering a command in the technology's chat box. Users can also put a,b, start select, up, down, left, and right into the box. The words Anarchy, and Democracy were entered.
