Xbox Live program manager Chad Gibson tells Engadget it's a matter of completing the following steps (from in-game): pushing the Home button, opening Snap, choosing Twitch and jumping back into the game. Not aggressively complicated, but certainly not as simple as the voice command option (or a Share button, for that matter).

Like Twitch on PS4, you can turn off video/audio capture as you wish and toggle comments. Also like the competition, streaming controls can be left or removed as "snapped" along the right rail -- should you choose to unsnap it, a "bug" will let you know that recording's on. And no, despite the HDMI-in ability (not to mention the myriad other media playing options) on Xbox One, you won't be able to stream anything other than games to Twitch. All our dreams of a CNN-based Mystery Science Theater 3000 knockoff, dashed in one instant!

It's not clear if Xbox One's broadcasting has a similarly adorable standby screen to PS4 if you dump to the Dashboard during a broadcast*, but it will outright cut off (read: end, non-restartable) if you attempt to load media in place of a game. The broadcast can be restarted, of course, but anyone watching must rejoin and, well, it sounds like kind of a hassle.

Twitch, like the Xbox One's other software, will evolve as time goes on. We expect to see far more customization abilities in the future, as neither console is coming anywhere close to the level of support offer on PC. For now, though, we're glad to see competition between Microsoft and Sony driving innovation in console-based broadcasting.

Update: *Microsoft tells us that, if you hit the Home button to go to the Dashboard while broadcasting gameplay, "the stream gets paused and you see a pause animation on the Twitch viewing side."