In just a week from now, we'll likely find out the truth about Amazon's living room ambitions. The company has sent out invites for an event in New York at 11:00AM ET on Wednesday, April 2nd that promises to offer an "update for our video business." Amazon has long been rumored to be working on a set-top box for the living room to compete with the likes of the Apple TV, Chromecast, and Roku's popular streaming boxes.

The most recent rumors say that the device will run a version of Android and will be able to play games. A leaked image even revealed what the game controller for the set-top box could look like. It's expected that the set-top box will be based on a "forked" version of Android, much like the company's Kindle tablets. That means that it wouldn't have access to the Google Play store or certain Google apps — instead, users would download from Amazon's own storefront. Of course, a centerpiece to the device would likely be the company's Amazon Instant Video service and its free TV shows and movies for Prime members.

According to rumors, the device has been delayed multiple times. At one time the company hoped to have the product ready in time for the all-important holiday season, but it missed that date entirely. Nevertheless, we'll find out what Amazon has up its sleeves next week — we'll be there to cover the event live.

This article focuses on the more obvious media streaming, however we all have read the rumors of Amazon game development plus game controller. Android does have a full gaming SDK now that Amazon would build off of as well.

So how do you think this will do? Ouya has a mediocre launch, but was recently pushed by the Amazon gold box deal and sold decently.

Another oddity is that almost all DVD/BR players, smart TVs, and of course your phones/tablets all have an amazon app to do the regular media stuff.

Why are they doing this device if it were not for a bigger push into more media options like games?

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a await excitedly to see what they have to offer. i don't think it will be a device i will want but i'm all ears for now.

I think these guys will do good. Amazon really knows its customers and how to price their products right. It should be interesting

Amazone recently launched their cloud platform, the guys of eve online already talked about it.. Its expected that there will bea streaming game service