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I wonder why Amazon is going after game developers, as the gaming industry looks like a crowded and low-margin market. Not to mention the free to try and matur
by twoquestions 11y ago
I wonder why Amazon is going after game developers, as the gaming industry looks like a crowded and low-margin market.
Not to mention the free to try and mature tools that developers already have (Unity, Unreal Engine, etc.)
- JshWright 11y ago> crowded and low-margin market Isn't that kind of Amazon's thing?
- benbristow 11y agoThe cloud service offerings. They can make a killing off of hosting the game servers and backend APIs.
- dharma1 11y agowouldn't it make more sense to focus on AWS offerings for Unity3D/Unreal Engine instead?
- benbristow 11y agoAs far as I know Amazon are going to start making their own games as well. Makes sense to use their own engine so they don't have to share any profits. https://games.amazon.com/ https://games.amazon.com/
- dharma1 11y agoAh, that explains why. And they might have some VR plays in mind, where it makes sense to have an engine they control
- Slippery_John 11y agoWell, since GameLift is engine agnostic you could use it in any engine, it would just not be so tightly integrated.
- jccalhoun 11y agoThat and to get people into their ecosystem. Make a game that runs on their firestick and a user might stick around to use Amazon Prime and rent a movie or something.
- notatoad 11y agoThat seems like a bit of a stretch. CryEngine isn't going to run on a Firestick or a cheap tablet, it's a full-on game engine meant for desktop computers or consoles, not mobile gaming.
- falsedan 11y agorun games on spot instance g2s & stream them to the sticks, ala http://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-own-highend-cloud-gaming-service-on-ec2.html http://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-own...