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| Amazon into gaming?? |
According to VG247, the Amazon game console will be priced just under $300 and will compete with products from the likes of Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo, as well as the likes of Ouya and other Android-based consoles. Besides gaming, the console will allow for streaming of games, movies and other multimedia content. The news comes not too long after Amazon was first rumoured to be contemplating releasing a gaming console or a TV streaming device. As rumours suggest now, both types will be seemingly packed into one unit.
Sources have told the publication that publishing sources from various companies have been meeting up with Amazon’s executives to get a lowdown on the hardware of the console. While the console is being referred to using multiple codenames within the company, it doesn’t seem to have found a final name yet.
Word is that the console’s hardware production will be taken care of by Kindle designers, Lab 126. The prototype version being shown to publishers right now reportedly looks like the revamped PSone, as it is grey and oblong in shape and about the same size, but with sharper edges. Currently, publishers are being shown the console’s abilities to run Android and iOS games. Of course, it is possible that a lot of things, including the console’s looks, will end up changing before it is finally released to the public.
Signs that Amazon could be looking at targeting the living room have been around for a while. The company already has the Prime Instant Video service that allows for unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows. And the company has even taken to producing original content for the same, just like Netflix. Amazon surely seems to have plans to take this service into the fold too.
Amazon had earlier this month sent out invites to a recruitment event in Bostonfor “a new revolutionary V1 [Version 1] product that will allow us to deliver Digital Media to customers in new ways and disrupt the current marketplace.” The invite went on to read, “We believe this new product will be even bigger than Kindle!” Consider us intrigued!
Signs that Amazon could be looking at targeting the living room have been around for a while. The company already has the Prime Instant Video service that allows for unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows. And the company has even taken to producing original content for the same, just like Netflix. Amazon surely seems to have plans to take this service into the fold too.
Amazon had earlier this month sent out invites to a recruitment event in Bostonfor “a new revolutionary V1 [Version 1] product that will allow us to deliver Digital Media to customers in new ways and disrupt the current marketplace.” The invite went on to read, “We believe this new product will be even bigger than Kindle!” Consider us intrigued!
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