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by benbristow 3790 days ago
The cloud service offerings. They can make a killing off of hosting the game servers and backend APIs.
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jccalhoun 3790 days ago
That 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.
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notatoad 3789 days ago
That 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.
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falsedan 3789 days ago
run games on spot instance g2s & stream them to the sticks, ala http://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-own...
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dharma1 3790 days ago
wouldn't it make more sense to focus on AWS offerings for Unity3D/Unreal Engine instead?
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benbristow 3790 days ago
As 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/

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dharma1 3790 days ago
Ah, that explains why. And they might have some VR plays in mind, where it makes sense to have an engine they control
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Slippery_John 3790 days ago
Well, since GameLift is engine agnostic you could use it in any engine, it would just not be so tightly integrated.
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