I wonder why people think "The most suitable games for the console are likely to be similar to those currently taking tablet devices by storm"; the completely different control scheme makes me think that console games would be most suitable for a console.
Sub 300? That's in the realm of wiiU's price point. I don't think I'd trade my wiiU for an android box. Sub 100 would be more attractive.
As one of the only people to actually purchase an Nvidia Shield, I can't see this working out very well. There just isn't a very good market for Android games, nothing worth a dedicated console at any rate.
I am skeptical. There is no ecosystem of apps for this to succeed as a console. I feel they are doing this to shoehorn Amazon Prime Video and their video rental/selling service; and they can't directly compete as that alone considering the saturation of set-top devices. A console is a great way to make it in to that space, as Microsoft has done, but this seems too little too late unless they can come up with some serious special sauce.
So Amazon's model is to make money from the subscription service...hopefully that's a typo at $79/month.<p>I think Amazon can be successful in the gaming industry, given the fact of their customer base, model of free to play, but I think the gold in this plan is the internal game dev teams.<p>I'd be very curious to see if they will allow indie devs.
Not sure how this is going to compete with $50 to $75 Android sticks that will perpetually get better and more powerful by the year. Spend $199 or $250 for what benefit exactly?
game console + apple tv competitor could be interesting - especially if its running android and you can put your own apps on it - do we have any other tv connected devices running android currently?<p>We cut the cable cord almost two years ago and have an apple tv that we love and a roku thats a bit meh; give me something with a real app store and plenty of content and id probably switch.