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So the other week images of a controller sparked rumours and talk of Amazon entering the cloud gaming market. The problem being the controller in the images has been around for a while, it's not new it's just something Amazon has run out of stock on. I mean you can buy the controller on Ebay right now.
The controller was part of Amazon's first push into gaming with the Fire TV where they sold the fire controller as a separate thing while allowing you to play games on the Fire TV. I actually have some games on the Fire TV because for a few years ago Amazon was giving out free games on their app store and some of the free apps were made compatible with Fire TV sticks or in my case the Fire TV. (These are apps you download and install on the device)
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Again a photo I actually took lol |
However it I think it is worth speculating about a possible Amazon Cloud Gaming service
EVERYTHING BELOW THIS POINT IS SPECULATION
so I'm not the most technical person when it comes to computers etc but that also means I can hopefully come up with some interesting ideas and theories about a possible future Amazon Cloud streaming game service.
Firstly while no information seems to be known about the Strange space on a Chromecast Ultra and as far as anyone knows it's not accessible by the user. Amazon displays the information on their Fire TV Sticks and the new Fire TV cube in a nice handy table.
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With Amazon already owning Twitch thus having plenty of experience of steaming, coupled with having had a prior attempt at selling games with the Twitch game store it does seem like the groundwork could be there to try and create a cloud streaming service similar to Google's Stadia and like Stadia is meant to integrate into Youtube it's possible Amazon could build in some kind of Twitch streaming to the service. Also with Amazon doing free games with Amazon Prime if you link to your Twitch account I can easily see them maybe included one or more game for the Amazon Cloud gaming service (if it ever happens) as part of that deal to encourage people to use the system as Amazon does seem to like bundling free stuff for their other services in with Prime.
So anyway that's my thoughts on this whole Amazon cloud gaming service rumour and some speculation on how if they did it they could try and change some things possibly
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