Getting together all the best gear for streaming isn’t the easiest task. It can be expensive, especially when you’re just starting out and want your setup to look as clean as the pros you watch on Twitch. It’s not easy to find discounts on the best webcams for streaming, either (though at least they’re not as scarce as they were in 2020!). But the increased popularity of streaming and video chatting means there are a lot more options to pick from than there used to be.
I’ve managed to wade through the rubbish and pull together some great Prime Day streaming deals, so you don’t have to go scouting when you could be filming that sweet, sweet content.
Some of the gear below is at better than half price right now. These are also prime gaming accessories from top brands that we’ve tested ourselves, so you can get the best understanding of their performance before parting with whatever hard-earned cash you haven’t already spent on a GPU deal.
Take the HyperX Cloud Alpha for example: my old colleagues have been singing the praises of this thing for eons and it’s still one of the best gaming headsets around, even today. It might not have RGB to make your stream light up, but it’s a damn great headset, and your audience will recognise that you stand for quality.
Gaming headset
A quality low light webcam and some lighting
Condenser microphones
For a discounted streaming microphone, there’s currently two great HyperX designs to chose from. Our Andy outlined the differences in more detail in an earlier deal post, but it mainly comes down to whether you want to glow up, or go crimson. Either way, they’re both great for streaming. Just one’s going to make you look a lot more menacing in the dark.
Two types of chairs
The Twitch aesthetic is all about the racing-style gaming chair, but your back will thank you if you instead invest in a high quality office chair; the good ones are better ergonomically, more comfortable, and built to last for years and years. That said, they can be pretty dang expensive; this gaming chair, by comparison, is good enough to tide you over for a couple years.
