Amazon Developing a Console

Polygon has a report up on their site saying that Amazon is working on a game console with the Android architecture. I'm assuming that Scirra's new exporter will work well with this. Could be a nice opportunity for Construct 2 users.

Exporting to multiple devices in Construct 2 sure is coming in handy.

Amazon Reportedly Launching Console

-Ben

sman118,

Nice find, thanks for the info. This could be interesting, we'll have to wait and see if they can get it right ;)

Oh damn, so another Ouya coming up. This is good news for developers.

Hopefully with the Amazon brand, it will fair well quickly. 8D

If they handle it anything like the Kindle, they'll be putting a big picture of it on the Amazon homepage for months. I don't know if the market needs all of these machines, but its nice to have a lot of different avenues for indie developers to release games.

Oh damn, so another Ouya coming up. This is good news for developers.

Hopefully with the Amazon brand, it will fair well quickly. 8D

How does the Amazon brand help sell a gaming console?

It's like saying Adidas are releasing a gaming console. Like....what?

Also it's not like Amazon users are avid gamers. Most normal people still consider buying games a complete waste of money.

> Oh damn, so another Ouya coming up. This is good news for developers.

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> Hopefully with the Amazon brand, it will fair well quickly. 8D

How does the Amazon brand help sell a gaming console?

It's like saying Adidas are releasing a gaming console. Like....what?

Also it's not like Amazon users are avid gamers. Most normal people still consider buying games a complete waste of money.

Oh i dunno, seems they sell new products pretty good.

"In Q1 2013, based on shipments, IDC placed Amazon as the fourth-largest tablet maker, behind Apple, Samsung and ASUS. The US company moved 1.8 million units and held a 3.7 percent share of the market, numbers higher than in Q1 2012.

With the extended availability of its Kindle Fire HD tablets, Amazon becomes a threat to ASUS' place on the podium. The Taiwanese maker shipped 2.7 million fondleslabs and had a 2.7 percent market share in Q1 2013, numbers close to Amazon's. As one of the most popular and largest e-commerce websites in the world, the latter can close that gap in the coming quarters."

betanews.com/2013/05/23/amazon-hunts-more-market-share-takes-its-appstore-and-kindle-fire-tablets-global

Most normal people? I'm not even going to comment on that...