Amazon's Fire TV Can Run Unreal Engine 4
Devs already playing around with Amazon's Fire TV.
Last week, Amazon introduced us to its own media streaming solution, Fire TV. Amazon made the device available right away, and early adopters and developers have already delved in to see what the system is capable of. Over on Gamasutra, Chance Ivey reports that it's possible to get the new Unreal Engine 4 running on Amazon's $99 hardware.
Ivey explains in a blog post that while new hardware and software lack technical documentation or instructions necessary for the task, Amazon and Epic Games provided a jumping off point to get things going. The process requires an Amazon Fire TV unit (duh), a Windows machine with the latest UE4 SDK, and Android Development Tools (Fire TV is based on Android, just like the Kindle Fire), and involves setting up Unreal Engine for Android deployment. You can then hook up a controller to navigate.
The end result is a demo that Ivey describes as choppy and grainy. Still, it offers a little peek at the potential for UE4 applications for Amazon's set top box. If you have a Fire TV, check out Gamasutra for the full how to.
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But if it was a phone with these specs it would be $700.
I'm inclined to agree, but then, AMD's new AM1 platform can almost get you a computer for just over $100. Granted nowhere near as neat as the Fire TV, but considering the Fire TV could be subsidised by sales of movies, games, music and even other products on amazon, it seems like they could have made it much more capable. For example, if Apple really is going to give us a beefed up Apple TV, they could pretty easily release something that tops the Fire TV on hardware by simply putting some of Apple's cut on downloads towards offsetting the hardware costs, and Google could potentially do the same, so it's not like the Fire TV is exactly leap-frogging the other offerings by such a big margin. I think Ouya definitely needs to do something along these lines, as it's looking pretty pathetic as a gaming platform right about now.
But if it was a phone with these specs it would be $700.
But if it was a phone with these specs it would be $700.
Display, Battery, Cameras, (depending on region) Radios/Modem, Storage....
But if it was a phone with these specs it would be $700.
Lol no it wouldn't, even a phone with those specs that includes the 1080p OLED screen, expensive FCC submission fees, radio and modem fees, storage, cameras, antennas, mics, speakers, handset taxes, etc - you know all the expensive parts - a phone of this caliber would cost about 500USD unlocked. 100 bucks sounds about right for just the bare-bone development board with RAM added, which is essentially all this box is.
zepid you should know large firms mass produce in order to cut costs thus they are spending like 189 $ for a iphone 5s 16 gb,and this is a piece of plastic for 99$ in my book its a cheap piece of plastic with a large price tag
But if it was a phone with these specs it would be $700.
Lol no it wouldn't, even a phone with those specs that includes the 1080p OLED screen, expensive FCC submission fees, radio and modem fees, storage, cameras, antennas, mics, speakers, handset taxes, etc - you know all the expensive parts - a phone of this caliber would cost about 500USD unlocked. 100 bucks sounds about right for just the bare-bone development board with RAM added, which is essentially all this box is.
Hey, I'll say it again, UNREAL ENGINE ISN'T GOING TO BE AWESOME ON FIRETV. IT WILL NOT BE THE NEXT GEN CONSOLE OR NEXT GEN TECHNOLOGY. GET OVER IT.