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

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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.'" http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png (http://twitter.com/home?status=Is+Amazon+Making+a+Sub-%24300+Console+To+Play+Mobile+Games%3F%3A+http%3A% 2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1fyaa19) http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png (http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fsto ry%2F14%2F01%2F29%2F2348207%2Fis-amazon-making-a-sub-300-console-to-play-mobile-games%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfaceb ook) http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png (http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://games.slashdot.org/story/14/01/29/2348207/is-amazon-making-a-sub-300-console-to-play-mobile-games?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=googleplus)

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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.