Amazon Spent Big Bucks On Crytek's Engine

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kinisking on 06 April 2015

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shikamaru317 said:

Ka-pi96 said:

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Amazon video games.. Maybe they will start making gaming consoles. That'd be cool

You mean like the Fire TV?

That was more of a set-top box than a game console. Sure it can play games, but Cry Engine seems like overkill for the indie-esque Amazon first party games we've seen for Fire TV so far. It seems like they might be planning an actual AAA capable console that can compete with Xbox One and PS4.

This would imply the X1 is competing with the PS4 but it isn't

Competing means you have a chance to win
This train is long gone

Amazon would want a console that is competing with the PS4 for FIRST PLACE
You don't enter a business to lose so yes they would only target the PS4 as their rival and not the paralympic athletes the X1 and the WiiU are.

If they can do that?
Its hard to say - To be honest this market doesn't have place for 4 home consoles and it would be pretty hard to differenciate a 3rd platform going for the same audience as Playstation and Xbox.
One would need to drop out - Hint : it isn't the one going for 500 Million shipped consoles =)*

* Nintendo is doing its own thing.They aren't anywhere near competing for the same audience as the others.Obviously they would like to but they can't as long as they don't understand the rules of this game.

it actually didnt apply that at all. It was just stating that they were making one to compete with both of them. And yes it is competing actually. If a person wants an 8th gen console, they have to decide between wii u, xbox one, and ps4. that means that theyre competing for that persons favor. sony still views them as a threat and you know that. Thats proven by them admitting that xbox stole their sales this holiday season. and if amazon did make a console it would be 9th gen. And if xbox two is as strong as ps5 and they dont mess up like they did with x1, then you can bet that itll be much closer than this gen.

Ltd predictions by the time 9th Gen comes out

Ps4:110million

Xbox one :75 million( was 65)

Wii u: 20 milliion

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Ka-pi96 said:

shikamaru317 said:

^I'd prefer an Amazon console to Google, Apple, or Samsung personally. Might just be me though. Though Amazon would to have to work pretty hard to build a strong enough 1st party to convince me to buy their console before upgrading my PC, or buying a Wii U or PS4.

I dunno, a huge retailer like Amazon making their own proper console just seems very iffy to me. When people go on Amazon to buy games or consoles it wouldn't surprise me at all if the ones for the Amazon console were highlighted everywhere while all other consoles were hidden away and hard to find.

Pssshhh, everybody knows that the least-biased place to browse for videogames is Bing.

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Insidb said:

Ka-pi96 said:

shikamaru317 said:

^I'd prefer an Amazon console to Google, Apple, or Samsung personally. Might just be me though. Though Amazon would to have to work pretty hard to build a strong enough 1st party to convince me to buy their console before upgrading my PC, or buying a Wii U or PS4.

I dunno, a huge retailer like Amazon making their own proper console just seems very iffy to me. When people go on Amazon to buy games or consoles it wouldn't surprise me at all if the ones for the Amazon console were highlighted everywhere while all other consoles were hidden away and hard to find.

Pssshhh, everybody knows that the least-biased place to browse for videogames is Bing.

I'm imagining a Bing console now. It will come bundled with every XB2

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kinisking said:

it actually didnt apply that at all. It was just stating that they were making one to compete with both of them. And yes it is competing actually. If a person wants an 8th gen console, they have to decide between wii u, xbox one, and ps4. that means that theyre competing for that persons favor. sony still views them as a threat and you know that. Thats proven by them admitting that xbox stole their sales this holiday season. and if amazon did make a console it would be 9th gen. And if xbox two is as strong as ps5 and they dont mess up like they did with x1, then you can bet that itll be much closer than this gen.

Not necessarily. It could just be a late 8th gen console.

the absolute earliest it could come out is 2016. They would need to build at least 3 AAA exclusives by that time. dont see it happening.

Ltd predictions by the time 9th Gen comes out

Ps4:110million

Xbox one :75 million( was 65)

Wii u: 20 milliion

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I wouldn't mind an Amazon console, I already shop on Amazon and their account setup is easy for most people and their store is straightforward, they could easily have an online store for their console sorted out, they just need to grab some studios attention and court some devs, get some marketing and higher specs than the PS4/XB1 to give it an edge.

More competition is always good, especially with how this gen is going, there needs to be an uproot at some point in time, it may as well be within the next few years.

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