Amazon has ultimately announced its response to Apple TV / Chromecast / Rokuin the form of Fire TV . But it ’s not stopping at cyclosis . Amazon ’s taking on the play Earth , too .
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Apparently , Amazon will be lend in thousands of games from “ some of the biggest developers ” include Disney and EA . And no you wo n’t be stick around using that tiny controller ( although you may if you ’re a masochist)—Amazon has introduced their very own game controller . Of naturally , you ’ll have to shell out $ 40 for it ( in addition to the $ 100 for the box itself ) , but that does at least give you1,000 Amazon coins , to boot . Which will in reality be helpful ! Games will be come to you at about $ 1.85 a pop , but according to an Amazon White House , “ thousands will be complimentary . ”
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And the FireTV may be diminished , but it ’s pack some serious specs — or at least serious enough to be plenty capable of handling the games we ’ve seen thus far . In that little black box seat , Amazon ’s pack a 2 GB of RAM , a quad - core processor , and a consecrate GPU . And at least according to Amazon , that means three time the power of Apple TV , Roku , and Chromecast .
As for the games themselves , you ’ll be see the likes of Minecraft , Monsters ’ University , Asphalt 8 , Sev Zero , and Tower Defense . Amazon ’s also carry the original mental object melodic theme with some original games in the works over at Amazon Game Studios . In addition to the controller , you ’ll be able to catapult games from any of your roving devices onto your TV and still control them from the machine itself .
compare to the quietus of Fire telly , this play aspect is the only feature that really sets Amazon aside from the contender . Meaning it ’s only a affair of time before we start see the others play some serious catchup .
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