Amazon announces $99 streaming device; has 2GB RAM, quad-core processor, game controller is $40

still better than xbone :)

This is good. Competition is always good

*facepalm*

Do you have to pay extra for the haircuts?

Just stick with selling books, amazon

I'll stick with my Ouya, I just want Ouya to have a Netlfix app! Come On Ouya give me a Netflix app

I think I am going to create a gaming console next year. Then I'll sell it to Disney. Who cares if it's good as long as there are idiots who will buy it. MWAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!

Then I'll tell people that it's "not a console competitor" to make them feel like it's ok to buy it and still keep their current console.

WTF! This thing is more powerful then the Wii U.

A media device that plays games. Is there really a market for this?

Another s*it in a different box, yeah that is what we need, wel done Amazon....whats the damn problem with today technologies...15 years ago we had only PC and everyone could do the same what we are doing today. Where is the joy of buying a retail box game? Well that happens when every damn amateur gets into the computer game business with only 1 thing in mind, offer dust in the wind for a shi*load of money in return

Maybe we dont know, but they know exactly why they are pushing s*it products like this one, to make us only rent their content...so practically we pay money for owning nothing in RETURN?!?! F**k this, i`ll stick to the good ol'PC

Just what we need; another "smartphone-in-a-bigger-box-pretending-to-be-a-game-console"...

Another Android gaming device putting the frag in fragmentation. Another Android device that can't connect to Google Play.

is this better than the wii-u

I thought that was Michael Phelps in the picture

Spent the same($140) for my no-ads Kindle Paperwhite 2, I regret nothing.

More crap to take our minds off the endless wars going on yippee =D

This doesn't matter, what matters is that Adam Sessler is leaving Rev3 Games, and games critiquing in general, after 16 years of it... WAHHH (that's me crying).

While this will in no way play 8th gen games - I just checked the specs over at gamesindustry international and it should have no problem playing some of the most intensive android or ios games out there and even some of 7th gen console games, PSP, VITA ports. I think it would very nice playing Banner Saga, Legend of Heroes, or Bastion. Maybe even a weak Fable.

Oh one more thing, whether you a MS, Sony, PC, Nin, fanboy - this will only make things better for the gamer, competition is gonna be ruthless this gen.

Look here amazon, just stick to getting my packages on time please !..... Enough said !!!

Ohh look. Apple TV with a controller. Amazon was lazy, poor and ugly replica of the xbox controller, and a replica of the Apple TV remote, what a joke.

wow even this thing is getting Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour. I wish Gameloft would put their Modern Combat and Nova series on the PSVita. That thing needs a great FPS badly. COD, Resistance and Killzone are sub-par.

God the news sucks today. Can we have something about Watch Dogs please?

I get this, and it actually kind of makes sense. This competes with Roku and Chromecast and other streaming devices. But you get games, too. Ouya didn't work because nobody really wants to buy a game console for $99 (how good could it be?) and the hardware was outdated when it arrived. I think for a streaming box, $99 is the ceiling, so this still works, AND it offers decent hardware for gaming, plus the Amazon ecosystem. It's not a terribly large investment. Games won't sell this, but they can certainly add a little to the appeal. I just don't see anything in this price range that comes close to offering the same amount of content, so I could see it being a success. Amazon is right, it's not a competitor to consoles. That's a good sign, that they recognize what their product really is.