Amazon Announces Fire TV with Minecraft!
New hardware to take on Google and AppleTV has games
"Listen, this thing's tiny, it's incredibly powerful, and it's unbelievably simple," so said Peter Larsen vice president of Amazon's Kindle unit, introducing Fire TV, which costs $99 and is available today
He went on to show the UI for the strikingly AppleTV like device - and yes, there is a Games element in the menu: and it also comes with Minecraft.
In terms of specs the unit comes with a small remote control device with a built-in mic for voice search (see the image), and the following specifications:
• Fire TV has "3x" more power than the competition (Google's Chromecast & AppleTV)
• It has dual-band WiFi.
• It has 2GB of RAM. "That's 2 to 4 times more than these other products on the market right now."
• It has a dedicated GPU, "the kind usually found in smartphones."
• It has a quad-core processor.
• The UI menu items include: Search, Home, Movies, TV, Watchlist, Video Library, Games, Apps, Photos, Settings.
Introducing the games element was Mike Frazzini from Amazon Games who explained that the games controller - not the remote - costs $40 and comes with some Amazon Coins. Games themselves have "an average cost" of just under $2 at $1.85.
Along with Mojang, Ubisoft and Take-Two are developing for the box - as is Amazon with its own titles.
On the non-gaming front, well. It streams movies and TV.
He went on to show the UI for the strikingly AppleTV like device - and yes, there is a Games element in the menu: and it also comes with Minecraft.
In terms of specs the unit comes with a small remote control device with a built-in mic for voice search (see the image), and the following specifications:
• Fire TV has "3x" more power than the competition (Google's Chromecast & AppleTV)
• It has dual-band WiFi.
• It has 2GB of RAM. "That's 2 to 4 times more than these other products on the market right now."
• It has a dedicated GPU, "the kind usually found in smartphones."
• It has a quad-core processor.
• The UI menu items include: Search, Home, Movies, TV, Watchlist, Video Library, Games, Apps, Photos, Settings.
Introducing the games element was Mike Frazzini from Amazon Games who explained that the games controller - not the remote - costs $40 and comes with some Amazon Coins. Games themselves have "an average cost" of just under $2 at $1.85.
Along with Mojang, Ubisoft and Take-Two are developing for the box - as is Amazon with its own titles.
On the non-gaming front, well. It streams movies and TV.
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