Amazon Working on New Video Game Technology

[JMcEntegart]

A job posting for a position at Amazon has revealed that the company is working on some top secret, "completely new" gaming technology.

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[sliem]

"Applicants should be smart, analytical, and enthusiastic and have extensive experience working with software developers"

So... hackers? (no, not hack users, but hack makers)

 

[hellwig]

I was getting my resume ready until I read "MBA a plus". This must be a joke posting, how can an MBA ever be a plus? I thought they needed a project manager to develop new video game technology, not someone who spends there time not understanding what is going on and just updating their status on facebook instead.

 

[killerclick]

Amazon should limit themselves to selling books.

 

[MxM]

Games on kindle? Book Jeopardy?

 

[mancream]

Amect - similar to Kinect

 

[climber]

This probably is a cloud computing gaming technology similar to what ATI/AMD are trying to do using all the rendering of every frame is done on a supercomputing cluster based on GPGPU's and highly parallelized CPU/GPU clusters. Remember there was all that talk from AMD saying that in the future users won't really need to upgrade their hardware because it will all be handled by the server on the other end... They demo'd a FPS title running on an iPhone a year or more ago. I think since Amazon is so heavily invested in cloud computing and companies like ESRI are getting into the cloud GIS market, I think they're building an infrastructure, or tuning their current cloud infrastructure for this new game distribution and play mode.

 

[drwho1]

I buy a few things from amazon like DVD movies, NEVER software or hardware. I get most of my hardware from Newegg.

 

[zaznet]

[citation][nom]climber[/nom]This probably is a cloud computing gaming technology similar to what[/citation]

I think so too and they are late to the game because someone else (OnLive) is gearing up to launch one in a month.

 

[dogofwars]

Make me think about that. It would indeed revolutionize the gaming industry if it could be made right.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Polygons-Voxels-Graphics-Rendering-GPU,10250.html

 

[the associate]

The day cloud computing becomes a norm and/or obligation is the day I build a "classic" pc, install all my "old" games, and never put my money in the gaming market ever ever again, period.

 

[ordcestus]

[citation][nom]climber[/nom]This probably is a cloud computing gaming technology similar to what ATI/AMD are trying to do using all the rendering of every frame is done on a supercomputing cluster based on GPGPU's and highly parallelized CPU/GPU clusters. Remember there was all that talk from AMD saying that in the future users won't really need to upgrade their hardware because it will all be handled by the server on the other end... They demo'd a FPS title running on an iPhone a year or more ago. I think since Amazon is so heavily invested in cloud computing and companies like ESRI are getting into the cloud GIS market, I think they're building an infrastructure, or tuning their current cloud infrastructure for this new game distribution and play mode.[/citation]
I sincerely doubt its something that nice. i bet it is going to be something very much like steam

 

[yao]

The more competition the better; However, I don't think amazon's kindle users love playing games though.

 

[Griffolion]

If its a DDS they're making then they'll have stiff competition against the already very popular Steam. If its a cloud gaming product then im not interested, i haven't spent £2K on a PC just to have all the computation done on the other end...

Stick to selling books Amazon, stick to selling books...

 

[demonhorde665]

[citation][nom]Griffolion[/nom]If its a DDS they're making then they'll have stiff competition against the already very popular Steam. If its a cloud gaming product then im not interested, i haven't spent £2K on a PC just to have all the computation done on the other end...Stick to selling books Amazon, stick to selling books...[/citation]

stiff competition it may be,but amazon has a s--t load more overhead to offer deals, since thier revenue is not soley from computer games, steam offers great deals all the time , and if amazon undercuts them durrign holiday sales (which they heve the ability to do) they might give steam and Direct 2 drive a run for their money. my only questions are, if this is a DDS ? will amazon make it act as a DRM , and if so will they force dev's and publishers to remove securom from the digital versions ? so far steam has only been half sucessful at getting devs and pub's to remove securom. look at teh EA Ubi soft titles , in general most steam games from EA have securom compeltley removed for steam , however a lot of the EA games that were dev'ed by Ubisoft , did not get thier securom removed (because ubisoft controls the DDS not EA). i hope to see digital distributers start enforcing No 3rd party DRM, if i was runing Steam i'd already removed every game that required DRM past steam it's self.

 

[Parrdacc]

will they take away the games later like they did with certain books on the Kindle? Not sure I would trust a company who charges customers gives them the product then without warning just comes in and takes the product back.

 

[dark_lord69]

Two words for you: Cloud Gaming.

I truely believe that is what they are planning.

 

[bv90andy]

The project is not that stealth, now is it?

 

[husker]

[citation][nom]the associate[/nom]The day cloud computing becomes a norm and/or obligation is the day I build a "classic" pc, install all my "old" games, and never put my money in the gaming market ever ever again, period.[/citation]
+ 100
When everyone is special, then no one is.
How can anyone think turning a gaming PC into virtual console is a good idea?

 

[Shez]

Can you imagine the waves of nerd riots if those cloud servers ever went down and people had nothing to play? It chills the bones to think about...