Is Amazon Making a Sub-$300 Console To Play Mobile Games? [Slashdot]

[DP ServBot]

itwbennett writes "Yesterday, a story suggesting that Amazon was planning to launch a sub-$300 Android game console made the rounds. A $300 box to play mobile games on your TV? ITworld's Peter Smith doesn't buy it. 'If Amazon is working on some kind of set-top box, it's going to be about streaming,' says Smith. 'Music, video, and games. Remember back in November when Amazon announced G2, a new AWS instance type designed for streaming GPU intensive tasks like games? Combine Amazon's G2 cloud servers and an Amazon set top box for console-like game streaming, plus supporting Android and/or iOS games (possibly the latter would also be streamed), and of course support for Amazon Video and MP3, and we're getting closer to something that may be worth $300.'"

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[jonebone]

I wanted to post this, it's actually pretty interesting. Should be Android powered like the Ouya.

At $300 it seems destined for failure and priced way too high, but let's see what product they produce first. If anyone could produce a new viable console, it would be either Amazon, Google or Apple.