This is pretty funny.Remember they have about 15 years of sales data on the gaming industry. They know exactly what gamers of all stripes are interested in.
*takes swig of peach schnapps*
You know what KiNeSis?
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Yea lol that's an interesting way to look at itThis is pretty funny.
Amazon doesn't have the hardware design chops to compete with Sony or Microsoft. period.
Yea, Nintendo.
On the Apple gaming console.So how will we play any Mario games?
Why is it that the reactions in this thread are so much different than the ones found here? Why is Amazon perceived as being much better suited to making a set-top box than Google? Upon clicking this thread I expected similar reactions, with posters claiming that the market is way too bloated and that this would be another Ouya. Is it because they claim to be focusing on the core?
Amazon is not a hardware company, so I'm not too sure about this. I'm very happy with my Kindle, but the hardware in that is a far cry from what's needed for a console. I'll take a Nexus 7 over a Kindle Fire any day.
Amazon is not a hardware company,
GTX 680 power in a box at $499? I'll be there day 1.
Why is it that the reactions in this thread are so much different than the ones found here? Why is Amazon perceived as being much better suited to making a set-top box than Google? Upon clicking this thread I expected similar reactions, with posters claiming that the market is way too bloated and that this would be another Ouya. Is it because they claim to be focusing on the core?
Amazon is not a hardware company, so I'm not too sure about this. I'm very happy with my Kindle, but the hardware in that is a far cry from what's needed for a console. I'll take a Nexus 7 over a Kindle Fire any day.
Don't get too excited, it is an android (or similar, amazon skinned android like kindle) "console". It's main purpose might not even be games.
On the Apple gaming console.
On the Apple gaming console.
Looking at the tweets, the controller remark makes me wonder if they're going to make their own steambox, using their own digital distribution instead of steam.
This will be very, very hard and expensive. MS still almost messed it up. You could argue they did given how much they needed to dip into their cash reserves initially. It is extremely expensive and incredibly complex to do this not just in making the device, but building the relationships and processes to get 3rd party support for it. Everyone forgets, but MS had to delay the OG launch a few weeks as they were 2 weeks behind on production trying to get Intel and Nvidia integrated correctly. I really am not sure how they plan to try in come in at the low end either. PS3 and 360 prices benefit from huge economies of scale and publishers devote resources too it in order to target millions of owners who bought systems at higher prices earlier. When MS and Sony came in, they did it at the high end like everyone else was at the time. Given the network externalities of the dude bros playing with their friends on PSN and XBL, it is going to be even harder to get those prime customers.
Another thing is Ed Fries made an amazing pick up of Bungie that MS was able to build an audience around on with Halo and sports. The thing is Fries already had teams he could switch on to Xbox to fill in gaps with stuff like Fuzion Frenzy. In the end he still felt he needed to purchase Rare to completely round his library out.
If Amazon is going to do this, they better be prepared to lose a chunk of their $9 bil in cash reserves to make this work. They probably won't though and will be overly optimistic in their projections of how much marketshare they'll take.
The only thing this time around that Amazon doesn't have to worry as much about is trying to lure Japanese developers. MS spent a lot of resources trying to get developers that were more important back then.
are you an insider?
I'm interested but I feel 4 big consoles is too many for the market. One of them is going to have to go.
That's the only thing that makes sense.
But another console? Amazon is big but will people really sway from established PS/XBOX brands for a console nowadays?
It'll be an android set top box to stream their amazon instant video service and for games. It won't be anything amazing
I think there's a lot of room to make a $99-$199 console this generation, especially if it does a few other things and ties in with Prime etc.