Amazon announces Fire TV, Mojang showing off Minecraft PE on it

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You may recall the indie-created Ouya console, the first mainstream attempt to create a $99 media center that also functioned as a basic gaming console. Ouya is more or less received as a let-down, as the console has very few exclusive titles and aging hardware. But today Amazon announced their very own gaming console/media center, named Amazon Fire TV.

The Fire TV is a $99 box that you can connect to your television, available starting today from Amazon. In addition to having support for video streaming services like Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, and Hulu, the Fire TV is a basic video games console. Amazon announced that Fire TV would have full support for video games such as Asphalt 8, Sev Zero - and our favorite - Minecraft.

Minecraft on the Fire TV isn't actually a new port, instead it appears to be Minecraft Pocket Edition. This would make sense, considering that the Fire TV runs Amazon's custom version of Android known as Fire OS. Mojang was at the press event (Lydia Winters, the Director of Fun at Mojang, is on the right), showing off Minecraft PE on the Fire TV.

It's hard to tell if the version of Minecraft PE in the picture is actually 0.9.0 or not, but there does appear to be icons for the Fire TV's controllers in the bottom-right corner (similar to how Minecraft on consoles works). Honestly, I'm really curious to see if this means that Minecraft PE will get controller support on Android (at least), because if so it's time for me to break out my MOGA controller.

UPDATE: Jens, the main MCPE developer, posted on Reddit regarding controller support on Android/iOS: "This is a step towards it but we are not there yet. We should have a more general solution around 1.0.0/1.1.0 when we have had time to work a bit more on it." Guess I have to put back my MOGA...

Source: Instagram, Amazon Fire TV

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  1. Armyranger215April 2, 2014 at 4:18 PM

    Don't feel sad korbin. Your MOGA will only collect 3 inches of dust instead of 4 this time.

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  2. RavenMApril 3, 2014 at 5:32 AM

    I presume you mean: Corbin

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  3. sindorApril 3, 2014 at 6:19 AM

    bottom left corner of tv has the little x control dose this y dose that like xbox im prity sure. if not someone please correct me =P

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  4. EmberEnderforxcApril 3, 2014 at 7:06 AM

    I think I see it too

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  5. Armyranger215April 3, 2014 at 1:15 PM

    Ya. I have a friend named korbon so I got it mixed up kind of.

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  6. Rexo5April 3, 2014 at 2:32 PM

    Yeah it's there

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  7. Rexo5April 3, 2014 at 4:00 PM

    And for Minecraft PE I'm not too concerned about that what I am wondering is does my Ipod 5 have Apple A7 due to the fact that x64 Smartphones are getting better support

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  8. Corbin DavenportApril 3, 2014 at 5:55 PM

    The iPod Touch 5 doesn't have the A7. And one of the MCPE devs (I think it was Tommaso) said that they tested optimizing MCPE for x64-bit CPUs and the performance was about the same.

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  9. Rexo5April 4, 2014 at 2:34 AM

    Oh okay so I'm not missing out on anything but it would still be nice to have a dual-core and x64 to give me some speed buffer on other games Also sorry about your MOGA.

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  10. Corbin DavenportApril 4, 2014 at 5:05 AM

    Heh, I can just use it with GTA San Andreas :P

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  11. #1 Mcpe News Source!April 4, 2014 at 6:31 AM

    Hey Corbin! Shouldn't the 0.9 beta be coming sometime this month?

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  12. RedstoneReactorApril 15, 2014 at 7:19 AM

    You got to love amazon. :)

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