there was a period of time where every tech giant wanted their own AppleTV that they could also put zero effort into while also forgetting that the only thing that makes the AppleTV halfway work is that it's piggybacked on iOS
@@Killofftrey Correct. The Asphalt series didn't start until the DS. The Asphalt game you are thinking of that was on PS1 and was by a different company and has nothing to do with this Asphalt.
@@Boogie_the_cat just got an email I had to respond to when it was about a year or two old, gave them my address and a couple weeks later it showed up at my door. 🤷♂️
@@Boogie_the_cat just checked my email and it was from December 2020, you just had to sign up for the service and they would send you the device and chromecast free.
@@DryPaperHammerBro one complaint about cable TV was that you couldn’t get every channel all in one place. for a brief period of time, streaming services all tried to replace cable by collecting “everything” in one place. this was short lived - nowadays, every production company has their own streaming service, and they are all very specialized. as a result, the Fire stick needs to put a dozen different logos on the front of the box to show all the different services it supports. my prediction is that this messy bubble will not last long. people are already frustrated with having to subscribe to multiple different streaming services. before long, many of the smaller services will collapse, and the Fire TV box won’t have all those logos plastered on the front.
Literally just unlocked a core memory for me. I remember being 8 years old, clueless mother buying the controller so I could play “console” games, and just going ham with whatever slop was on the App Store. I remember they had a very generic fps alien shooter, red ball 4, and terraria, and that was about it. But anyways thanks for bringing this little thing back into my life ❤️
The thing is Amazon discontinued the specific game stuff, But they didn't discontinue that you can play games on fire products. Minecraft is still listed as a fully supported Amazon fire distributed game. It probably just has to be a modern version of fire OS
Trouble is... You've got to have space for it. They keep messing with the OS and how it will/won't accept external storage, and while they SHOW more storage they start acting up if you used anywhere between 250-500mb of the available space -I've got four generations of them, and it's the same on all of them. So it could probably RUN minecraft fine, but good luck storing it lol. For what it's worth though, if you've got a good desktop PC, they're great clients for moonlight streaming from it. It's nice having a stick that I KNOW I can plug in and stream my games to basically anywhere.
The kfconsole was just a PC with a custom case that had a heated drawer for food. The idea was that a high end PC would generate enough heat to cook something.
Unpopular opinion: sites should make 2FA a requirement. Losing your phone number isn’t an issue bc backup codes exist. Never keep those on your phone, preferably write them down by hand
At least the Ouya had humble origins, a Kickstarter that massively overestimated the interest in what was basically an android game box. Looks like Amazon seemed to fall down all the same pitfalls that Ouya did, like the mediocre hardware and especially the lack of any of the major android play store games with out-of-the box compatibility. At least the Ouya eventually developed a cult following with people's retro emulators.
This is actually the Amazon version of the stadia, which I'll be generous and give it 4 month before pulls a "we killed it" because it already as all the bad console smells, frequent crashes, only wifi options are with Amazon router, only 3rd party games with absolutely no exclusives. It's like a complete rip off of the Stadia
The Ouya was meant to be a cheap entry point for indie developers since Nintendo didn't do indies, Sony rarely did indies, Microsoft made you jump through hoops and kept you locked away on XBLA instead of the main store, and Steam Greenlight was brand new at the time. Too bad for them Sony and Microsoft stopped their BS over indie games and Nintendo eventually followed.
@@2Scribble *_Stadia worked really well._* But this is why it died. Because YOU were convinced by the tech media that stadia wasn't good. But _it was._ It worked _extremely_ well. Anyone that says stadia didn't work either never used it or theyre full of shtit.
It worked fine if you had the Internet for yourself @@herranton but once little brother started playing fortnite on PS4 and little sister stared playing Roblox on her tablet while Dad stream football games then lag and resolution went to shi💩
To me it's funny that with each time these "gaming consoles" release, most people rave that "this is the future of gaming" and it's a "gamechanger" and yet it changes nothing, not to mention their overall lifespan until they realize it was a mistake in the first place. I remember both the Ouya and Stadia campaign ads at the time and the reviews from a lot of "gaming journalists" that swore that it would take the world by storm and that ended up being a bunch of nothing. If anything cloud gaming wasn't going to work no matter how hard they hyped it up.
@@pablodelgado7919”if anything cloud gaming was never going to work” Whilst xbox gamepass grew so big its not even terrestrial anymore, yeah sure: “never going to work”
@@pablodelgado7919The Ouya was positioned at a console for indie games at the time since publishing indie games on consoles at the time was difficult outside of XBLA, Wii/DSi ware, and the occasional Sony deal. Unfortunately for them Sony and Microsoft stopped behaving that way. Cloud gaming has a place. Just not in places where consoles and gaming pc hardware are available at resonable prices. Go to places like Mexico or Brazil and youll see lots of cloud gaming usage. Brazil has the 2nd highest amount of xCloud users worldwide and xCloud sucks.
Didn’t Roku recently force all of their newly updated TV’s to run in “smooth” mode? Not to mention they outright locked users from their TV’s for not accepting controversial features in their update terms.
@@MysteryMii This wasn't a high production video, and the shenanigans with Roku leaking people's info and then trying to force them to accept a new tos that absolved then of blame happened MONTHS ago. I can't imagine this has been sitting in the pipe for that long.
@@dantehchad2227 You do realize that Scott recorded a year’s worth of Scott’s Stash videos in advance just for the trading cards, right? Dude probably has videos he recorded last year or even in 2022 that have yet to come out publicly. I don’t know how long he may have been sitting on this video, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this was recorded before all of that happened.
honestly I implore companies to explore the budget gaming scene, even if it isn't a great product. It encourages innovation and helps people play if they can't afford anything better!
The fact that I got a free Stadia console by signing up for internet says everything you need to know. Nice to know that controller is now just a really good bluetooth controller. I will have to test that out. If i remember, it was a pretty good controller.
They're pretty popular for piracy in a lot of Asia, and some of Europe. They're not super popular for piracy in a lot of the western world -largely because there are already SO MANY other cheap devices you can use for that here already.
@@FrogJuiceJustice lol, the PStv was basically manufactured for a year, and they could barely move the thing at $30 or a pack in with other purchases. As a ten year old device, I can't imagine what they're even relevant for these days, unless you're really into PS3-looking games.
Sometime, you should go over the leapster tv console. It was made by leapfrog in I think 2005 and had completely unique controllers and I have never seen anything close to them anywhere else. It also had a built in camera used like the Microsoft Kinect, overall, it was an extremely obscure and weird console, perfect for this channel!
You NEED to do an episode on Amazon Kindle “Active Content” which were e-ink video games. I have a bunch still in my keyboard Kindle. EA did a bunch of them which were actually perfect on that platform.
I think the reason why companies like Amazon, Google and even Ouya failed miserably in the console market is that they viewed games as merely tech products, that they could develop and release for consumption, instead of putting any thought or effort into what might be fun, surprising and attractive to their audience. The Silicon Valley approach isn't really conducive to artistic creations, or even entertainment really.
This is why if i ever made a company and planned on making a gaming console or a phone, I'll need to hire the right people to bring my ideas to life. I can't do everything by myself afterall.
My dad bought one of these back then and I do remember having fun with that FPS tower defense game, but then a few days later I learned there were other games just like it that did the concept much better, promptly forgetting about the fire console almost immediately
I'll always laugh at the fact that most people thought that Stadia had a chance as a gaming console and that cloud gaming was the next big thing or the future of gaming, only to fail so horribly in the process.
i got the original version of this -- the one before yours where the controller was weirder. the thing you're kinda missing is that you could sideload android apps, which was unique to the firetv among streaming things back then, and thus you could emulate
I actually had one back in the day and played a lot of Hungry Shark and Sonic 2. If you can find some games worth it, it could be pretty cool to play certain mobile games on a full size tv screen. But I can confirm that it was one of the video games systems of all time.
We use to have one of these for a while. only games we had was Minecraft, packman, flappy bird, and crosy road. I don't think they updated the game library since it launched in 2015
These tech giants like Amazon and Google have no business in video game hardware, because they aren’t focused on AAA game development, which is the biggest barrier to entry in game systems! You have to have the ecosystem of home consoles with just turning your console on and loading a game instantly without always online service! Also do a video on the Ouya!
They also target a market segment that basically doesn't exist: People who aren't content with playing games on the phone they already have, but also aren't willing to buy a Switch/PS/etc for some reason.
@@crazynaut223 the Ouya can only work offline for the games already downloaded, people barely bought any game from their online store. It was mostly used as an emulator box, that was the main reason those kickstarters funded it! But by the time it came out, there were android powered computers that were more powerful than the Ouya!
6:00 The TV portion of it is so real. I used to use an Xbox One X for Blu-Rays and TH-cam. But it would fail to launch anything until I restarted it. I’ve factory reset it twice to fix it; Now I use a Roku Streaming Stick+ from my childhood days at college and none of my roommates complain anymore. Roku just works.
6:13 not to defend amazon but they also have their own lines of fire TVs, or at least they did, idk if they still do. they sucked ass. the amount of times my tv would crash while i was doing something simple like browsing youtube is insane
What you said at the end makes me think of Netflix’s endeavours into having. They were hiring a new gaming head managerial role this year. Can’t wait to hear your deconstruction of it when it inevitably fails.
I was using my roommates 1080p fire stick and noticed it was just a laggy mess. Took my 8-year-old 2nd gen fire TV box out of storage, reformatted it, and installed all my apps. This thing still rips! Happy I held on to it.
I remember having an amazon fire tv stick as a kid and i got the fire tv controller and played on it a lot, was pretty slow and annoying but one genuine game you missed is Titan Souls
Stadia was amazing. Being able to just play it on pretty much any screen with any Bluetooth controller was awesome. It's also the reason I got back into gaming after a long break from it since I didn't have to buy anything other than the games to play it. I think it got a ton of unfair criticism which is definitely at least due in some part to Google's failure to actually communicate what it was. I think the idea of nearly every Chromecast being able to also play AAA games was kinda magical. I do think that in the US our internet is still too shitty to make this work and the prospect of losing games forever in a world where games are only available on a service like game pass is a huge problem. But as long as I can still buy games and get software I'd still absolutely use another game streaming service in the future as long as it was as good as Stadia.
when i was younger i didnt have any game consoles but i did have a fire tv box and then conviced my mum to get the controller for it. i played minecraft, crossy road, hungry shark evolution, and some more games on it contrantly and still had fun i dont think it used to be as bad as u make it out to be
I remember when this came out not longer after the Ouya. Amazon somehow got Minecraft on it while the Ouya didn't. Also Amazon had a game studio making a bunch of casual games, including some obscure third person shooter. The hardware was decently powerful for the time. I was an active member of the Ouya community and most of us remained loyal to the Ouya platform since Amazon treated indie devs poorly (how surprising lol).
I wonder if this video was recorded before that Roku TV software update that forced motion smoothing on for everyone happened given Scott just gushing over Roku TVs.
I'm not sure when you guys are hung up on that. Roku TVs have always had it on or off by default with no way to disable or enable it. If its advertised for a specific Roku TV then it's on and can't be turned off. Always been this way.
The closest thing to a real game console you're going to get out of any of these streaming boxes is the Nvidia Shield. Still probably not worth picking up though.
What's funny is my parents have a Samsung TV and they prefer the interface on their fire sticks so much so that they bought a fire stick and plugged it into the Samsung TV.
Executives who think they're good at everything because they're good at one thing are hilarious. And terrifying, cause what they're ACTUALLY good at is: gutting a company or project for money.
What no love for the Nvidia shield? The only one of the bunch that came the closest to actually being a game console? And is still a solid stream box today. In fact a shield is what I'm using instead of that god-awful interface on my LG OLED.
11:09 So, actually, they don't put it on _everything._ I bought an Amazon Basics Nintendo 3DS case, and the word "Amazon" is nowhere to be found on that joint. It's a nice case too, it holds 6 3DS/DS games, and you don't have to worry about dropping it.
Yeah but that Aldi's OYUA controller and mid range phone hardware from probably 2012 given that's its almost a decade old, will feel like playing cyberpunk with an Amico. That's even if your lucky to get the app to work or it has enough ram to stream. Most devices nowadays get gimped firmware or orphaned a few years in so I doubt it's pleasant below 4k max firestick.
You are saying it as if it gives the fire tv any relevance at all. One failure collaborated with another, "OMG what a game changer! This changes the gaming industry forever" 😂
Stadia was a lifesaver when I didnt have money for a next gen console when Cyberpunk came out. I loved the service so much, even playing up until the moment they shut down the servers. GeForce Now has been a pretty good replacement though.
I love watching a company want to enter the video game space, not understand how hard it is to make a video game system, and then quit immediately
It just reeks of 1970s and 80s gaming, when freaking Quaker Oats had video games.
there was a period of time where every tech giant wanted their own AppleTV that they could also put zero effort into while also forgetting that the only thing that makes the AppleTV halfway work is that it's piggybacked on iOS
*cough cough* *stadia*
CDI moment
It's not hard to make a video game system, but it is hard to make a good one.
I love that Asphalt asked for 380Mb of extra space, Scott installed the SD card, and it dropped to 379Mb instead.
asphalt was originally on the original playstation
@@Killofftrey You're thinking of Red Asphalt, I think. Different company. The first Asphalt game from Gameloft was on the DS.
@ the ps1 was made in 1994 the D's was made in 2004
@@Killofftrey Correct. The Asphalt series didn't start until the DS. The Asphalt game you are thinking of that was on PS1 and was by a different company and has nothing to do with this Asphalt.
I remember when Google sent me a chromecast and stadia for free because I was a TH-cam premium member.
Really, I've been a premium member for years and never got one.
Did you have to touch Bill Gates's Wang microprocessor to get one?
@@Boogie_the_cat just got an email I had to respond to when it was about a year or two old, gave them my address and a couple weeks later it showed up at my door. 🤷♂️
@@Boogie_the_cat just checked my email and it was from December 2020, you just had to sign up for the service and they would send you the device and chromecast free.
bill gates is from microsoft what are you on about @Boogie_the_cat
@@phillipanselmo8540he means the vaccine
If I was Scott’s cat, I too would worry about this stuff. No man should care about Amazon gaming devices for more than 30 minutes
That's what they said about 50 eggs too 🙄
Two-factor authentication is the best name for a cat.
@@xp7575 were those eggs pickled or shelved?
It's actually pretty damn good. Faster than my ps5
How long until Scott addresses Luna?
Love how “game console” is in quotes. Just like how Amazon is a “good corporation”.
banger
@QiyokuuAmazon has its positives but I think they have more negatives.
There's no such thing as a good corporation
breaking new ground with this one
@@troopper1026lego
that graphic on the firetv boxes listing all the streaming services it supports is a relic of an already dying era.
How?
@@DryPaperHammerBro one complaint about cable TV was that you couldn’t get every channel all in one place.
for a brief period of time, streaming services all tried to replace cable by collecting “everything” in one place.
this was short lived - nowadays, every production company has their own streaming service, and they are all very specialized.
as a result, the Fire stick needs to put a dozen different logos on the front of the box to show all the different services it supports.
my prediction is that this messy bubble will not last long. people are already frustrated with having to subscribe to multiple different streaming services. before long, many of the smaller services will collapse, and the Fire TV box won’t have all those logos plastered on the front.
@@yourhighschoolenglishteach8405 There’s also piracy
@@DryPaperHammerBrothis is the better option!
They still support them
Literally just unlocked a core memory for me. I remember being 8 years old, clueless mother buying the controller so I could play “console” games, and just going ham with whatever slop was on the App Store. I remember they had a very generic fps alien shooter, red ball 4, and terraria, and that was about it. But anyways thanks for bringing this little thing back into my life ❤️
I have Red Ball 4 on my 2014 ipad mini, and i still play it there
RED BALL 4
The thing is Amazon discontinued the specific game stuff, But they didn't discontinue that you can play games on fire products. Minecraft is still listed as a fully supported Amazon fire distributed game. It probably just has to be a modern version of fire OS
Also not to mention the Amazon Luna cloud gaming service
Trouble is... You've got to have space for it. They keep messing with the OS and how it will/won't accept external storage, and while they SHOW more storage they start acting up if you used anywhere between 250-500mb of the available space -I've got four generations of them, and it's the same on all of them. So it could probably RUN minecraft fine, but good luck storing it lol.
For what it's worth though, if you've got a good desktop PC, they're great clients for moonlight streaming from it. It's nice having a stick that I KNOW I can plug in and stream my games to basically anywhere.
@@MysteryMiihow is Luna
@@madrigale6396 good lots of assassin's creed Arkham knight. It's ace tbf
oh no! this looks horrendous, glad to be playing on my KFC game console.
did that thing ever actually release
@@jootersblaccat no, it was just a myth
-This message posted from my KFC Phone v2.1
@@jootersblaccatNo. It never made it to market. It just stayed as a concept.
That was a thing
The kfconsole was just a PC with a custom case that had a heated drawer for food.
The idea was that a high end PC would generate enough heat to cook something.
"I don't need two factor authentification"
Keep in mind those were his famous last words before his twitter got hacked.
yeah this is one of these few huh expressions that will bite scott in the future
Again?!
Unpopular opinion: sites should make 2FA a requirement.
Losing your phone number isn’t an issue bc backup codes exist. Never keep those on your phone, preferably write them down by hand
@@Budderman18 They do before you can become a partner
@@DryPaperHammerBro No
This is Amazon's version of the Ouya.
At least the Ouya had humble origins, a Kickstarter that massively overestimated the interest in what was basically an android game box. Looks like Amazon seemed to fall down all the same pitfalls that Ouya did, like the mediocre hardware and especially the lack of any of the major android play store games with out-of-the box compatibility. At least the Ouya eventually developed a cult following with people's retro emulators.
This is actually the Amazon version of the stadia, which I'll be generous and give it 4 month before pulls a "we killed it" because it already as all the bad console smells, frequent crashes, only wifi options are with Amazon router, only 3rd party games with absolutely no exclusives. It's like a complete rip off of the Stadia
@@Josh_the_jesteryou WANT Amazon Luna exclusives? Why?
it even had jackbox games on it
The Ouya was meant to be a cheap entry point for indie developers since Nintendo didn't do indies, Sony rarely did indies, Microsoft made you jump through hoops and kept you locked away on XBLA instead of the main store, and Steam Greenlight was brand new at the time. Too bad for them Sony and Microsoft stopped their BS over indie games and Nintendo eventually followed.
When I was younger I always wanted to play Crossy Road on my grandparents Firestick despite the fact that I already had a Fire tablet a Wii and a DSI.
I used to Crossy Road on my grandma's Fire Stick - I can confirm that it is, indeed, Crossy Road.
i used to play it on my cable xfinity box 😎 at 3fps. while i also had a dsi and wii....
I was bored while waiting for my copy of Luigi's Mansion 2 HD thanks for helping me burn 32 minutes, Scott
Same. 👻👻
@@Ms.Subspace just abit longer stay strong and I'll see you in Scarescraper
i literally stayed up all night waiting for it, the pain :(
Google tried Stadia because they had an idea. Amazon tried whatever the hell this was because they could.
Note - Google had *an idea*
It just wasn't a good one 😅
😂 yep Google had an idea to have an idea of copying someone else's idea reminds me of that like i have a dream! What? To have a dream!!
@@2Scribble *_Stadia worked really well._*
But this is why it died. Because YOU were convinced by the tech media that stadia wasn't good. But _it was._ It worked _extremely_ well.
Anyone that says stadia didn't work either never used it or theyre full of shtit.
It worked fine if you had the Internet for yourself @@herranton but once little brother started playing fortnite on PS4 and little sister stared playing Roblox on her tablet while Dad stream football games then lag and resolution went to shi💩
@@herrantonstadia didn’t work.
You know it’s good when Scott rants about Google and TVs for 7 minutes before getting to the main focus of the video.
Lol true
Gamecub- I mean "Amazon cube"
BezoCube
firecube
@@gdgreen-s3f waterprism
@@memedoodair cylinder
@@memedoodrock3Dsquare
Someone created a 3 year timer for google stadia and they were SPOT ON it was like freaky how accurate it was.
To me it's funny that with each time these "gaming consoles" release, most people rave that "this is the future of gaming" and it's a "gamechanger" and yet it changes nothing, not to mention their overall lifespan until they realize it was a mistake in the first place.
I remember both the Ouya and Stadia campaign ads at the time and the reviews from a lot of "gaming journalists" that swore that it would take the world by storm and that ended up being a bunch of nothing. If anything cloud gaming wasn't going to work no matter how hard they hyped it up.
@@pablodelgado7919”if anything cloud gaming was never going to work”
Whilst xbox gamepass grew so big its not even terrestrial anymore, yeah sure: “never going to work”
@@pablodelgado7919The Ouya was positioned at a console for indie games at the time since publishing indie games on consoles at the time was difficult outside of XBLA, Wii/DSi ware, and the occasional Sony deal. Unfortunately for them Sony and Microsoft stopped behaving that way.
Cloud gaming has a place. Just not in places where consoles and gaming pc hardware are available at resonable prices. Go to places like Mexico or Brazil and youll see lots of cloud gaming usage. Brazil has the 2nd highest amount of xCloud users worldwide and xCloud sucks.
Didn’t Roku recently force all of their newly updated TV’s to run in “smooth” mode? Not to mention they outright locked users from their TV’s for not accepting controversial features in their update terms.
Yes and yes. I think this has to be the first time I've GENUINELY looked at Scott sideways for one of his weird and crazy takes, lol.
@@dantehchad2227This video was probably recorded before all of that happened though.
@@MysteryMii This wasn't a high production video, and the shenanigans with Roku leaking people's info and then trying to force them to accept a new tos that absolved then of blame happened MONTHS ago. I can't imagine this has been sitting in the pipe for that long.
You can turn it off, but they didn't make the option for it very clear.
@@dantehchad2227 You do realize that Scott recorded a year’s worth of Scott’s Stash videos in advance just for the trading cards, right? Dude probably has videos he recorded last year or even in 2022 that have yet to come out publicly. I don’t know how long he may have been sitting on this video, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this was recorded before all of that happened.
Only semi-related, but the "Fire TV Sticks" are awesome for retro emulation.
Amazon and Google: the horsemen of the "yeah we can make a game console" apocalypse.
Ouya, Amazon Luna, Google Stadia, and Intellivison Amico.
The 4 horsemen lol
You forget the original warning of them, The Apple Pippin
@@snoogabean Tommy's mother is not proud about that one...
@@snoogabeanOnly 7 Guinness World Records between them
@@d9zirable Werent three of the seven records newer versions of his other records?
"No one cares about Asphalt now!"
Woah.. Woah..Woah...hold on Crunchyroll cares about Asphalt. They just released a collab trailer lol.
I mean, the thing is still making a lot of money, so SOMEBODY is playing it. I'm not sure who, but they're hiding out somewhere. 😆
The fact i have asphalt 8 is funny lol 😂
Scott wanted Shovel Knight and ended up with Shovel Ware
This should be the top comment
Final Fantasy 3 is somewhat notorious for being under-released in the west. So naturally there's a port of it on this bizarre monstrosity lol.
Can’t wait for Scott to talk about Apple Arcade
ok yes but also there's SOME bangers on apple arcade ngl. I have it free with another sub and it's better than I thought
I really hope he does. I recently got it just for one game, now am addicted to like 5 new cozy games and the Sega games too.
Love how this came out and xbox announces the next day you can play their games on it.
0:07 Guuuuuuuuhhhhhhhh
ah yes 2 less h and it becomes english
@@kooldudeno-lastname 1 less for me lol
honestly I implore companies to explore the budget gaming scene, even if it isn't a great product. It encourages innovation and helps people play if they can't afford anything better!
And yet coporations will never make prices “budget”
Scott himself says in this video how this wasn't much cheaper than an actual videogame console
@@AidanDaGreat it’s a step in the right direction is all.
@@ryko1478 I am aware of that, again its just good for more competition to exist, pushing companies to dive into the budget gaming scene.
Why did you have to yell?
Forget console wars, now we have streaming box wars
The fact that I got a free Stadia console by signing up for internet says everything you need to know. Nice to know that controller is now just a really good bluetooth controller. I will have to test that out. If i remember, it was a pretty good controller.
Fire sticks/chromecasts are good for one thing, piracy.
Never seen someone use one legitimately
Meanwhile I've only seen the opposite.
They're pretty popular for piracy in a lot of Asia, and some of Europe. They're not super popular for piracy in a lot of the western world -largely because there are already SO MANY other cheap devices you can use for that here already.
@@dantehchad2227 You can also just hook up a old computer for that
Ps Tv too
@@FrogJuiceJustice lol, the PStv was basically manufactured for a year, and they could barely move the thing at $30 or a pack in with other purchases. As a ten year old device, I can't imagine what they're even relevant for these days, unless you're really into PS3-looking games.
This video feels like an old man going on and on about how amazing his Roku TV is.
Amusing timing. Xbox Game Pass was announced to be on Amazon devices today.
scotts stash videos have become so high quality that the basically normal scott the woz videos
Sometime, you should go over the leapster tv console. It was made by leapfrog in I think 2005 and had completely unique controllers and I have never seen anything close to them anywhere else. It also had a built in camera used like the Microsoft Kinect, overall, it was an extremely obscure and weird console, perfect for this channel!
Good thing it never catched on, I wouldn't want Google and Amazon to ruin gaming even more with their greedy practices
My $75 Amazon tablet and TH-cam has all the entertainment I need. Thanks for the video!!!
You NEED to do an episode on Amazon Kindle “Active Content” which were e-ink video games. I have a bunch still in my keyboard Kindle. EA did a bunch of them which were actually perfect on that platform.
I think the reason why companies like Amazon, Google and even Ouya failed miserably in the console market is that they viewed games as merely tech products, that they could develop and release for consumption, instead of putting any thought or effort into what might be fun, surprising and attractive to their audience. The Silicon Valley approach isn't really conducive to artistic creations, or even entertainment really.
The video game crash in 83 is a perfect example of this
This is why if i ever made a company and planned on making a gaming console or a phone, I'll need to hire the right people to bring my ideas to life. I can't do everything by myself afterall.
lol Xbox on fire stick just announced today. Good timing 😂
by the time you got into the gaming, i was already done eating
One day a VERY bad Geometry Dash clone appeared on my LG TV and I have no idea how
My dad bought one of these back then and I do remember having fun with that FPS tower defense game, but then a few days later I learned there were other games just like it that did the concept much better, promptly forgetting about the fire console almost immediately
I gotta really give you credit, the damn amount of effort you put in the delivery of your videos.
I'll always laugh at the fact that most people thought that Stadia had a chance as a gaming console and that cloud gaming was the next big thing or the future of gaming, only to fail so horribly in the process.
No serious gamer wants a soulless streaming box
He owns both an LG WebOS TV and a Roku!
Louis is rolling in his workshop as we speak
"It makes everything look a lot cheaper" bro that's a Switch Pro Controller knockoff
Oh man. Shovel Knight included? That’s my favorite game of all time! I sure hope it still works!!
What the fuck it doesn’t work?
@@Specter_Nlmaooo
the sound at 0:06 absolutely sent me rolling
Bro, I was just trying to learn on how good this thing games and this guy just yaps the entire time
i got the original version of this -- the one before yours where the controller was weirder. the thing you're kinda missing is that you could sideload android apps, which was unique to the firetv among streaming things back then, and thus you could emulate
i also played the android version of San Andreas
What they said!!!
I actually had one back in the day and played a lot of Hungry Shark and Sonic 2. If you can find some games worth it, it could be pretty cool to play certain mobile games on a full size tv screen. But I can confirm that it was one of the video games systems of all time.
I had this when it came out and truly the only thing I remember is the controller had AWFUL joystick drift after about a month.
We use to have one of these for a while. only games we had was Minecraft, packman, flappy bird, and crosy road. I don't think they updated the game library since it launched in 2015
I know this is a Stash vid but was still kinda disappointed he didn't spit up when he said Stadia at least a little.
Scott was probably out of fluids by that point
These tech giants like Amazon and Google have no business in video game hardware, because they aren’t focused on AAA game development, which is the biggest barrier to entry in game systems! You have to have the ecosystem of home consoles with just turning your console on and loading a game instantly without always online service! Also do a video on the Ouya!
They also target a market segment that basically doesn't exist: People who aren't content with playing games on the phone they already have, but also aren't willing to buy a Switch/PS/etc for some reason.
What video can he possibly make about the Ouya when its online services are long gone
@@ToastyMozart more like a redundant product that has games can already be played on mobile devices.
@@crazynaut223 the Ouya can only work offline for the games already downloaded, people barely bought any game from their online store. It was mostly used as an emulator box, that was the main reason those kickstarters funded it! But by the time it came out, there were android powered computers that were more powerful than the Ouya!
@@froggystyle9068 you’re the one saying nonsense here! I’m talking about video games, don’t lecture here!
6:00 The TV portion of it is so real. I used to use an Xbox One X for Blu-Rays and TH-cam. But it would fail to launch anything until I restarted it. I’ve factory reset it twice to fix it; Now I use a Roku Streaming Stick+ from my childhood days at college and none of my roommates complain anymore. Roku just works.
To be fair, when I first played asphalt 8 on my phone with my cousins, I loved it. For about a week.
asphalt 8 was an awesome game the updates made it worde tho
6:13 not to defend amazon but they also have their own lines of fire TVs, or at least they did, idk if they still do. they sucked ass. the amount of times my tv would crash while i was doing something simple like browsing youtube is insane
What you said at the end makes me think of Netflix’s endeavours into having. They were hiring a new gaming head managerial role this year. Can’t wait to hear your deconstruction of it when it inevitably fails.
"I don't need 2 factor authentication" Says the guy whose twitter account got hacked for that reason
I was using my roommates 1080p fire stick and noticed it was just a laggy mess. Took my 8-year-old 2nd gen fire TV box out of storage, reformatted it, and installed all my apps. This thing still rips! Happy I held on to it.
it plays games, doesnt it? calculator’s a game console if you’re creative about it
*pulls out a pencil a paper*
Time to play a REAL game console !
@@WakoDoodleYep there’s a reason why ttrpgs will never die.
The GameBoy emulator on my TI-84 CE is the peak of handheld gaming
shit you were so cool if you had games on your calculator in school
"Cal Que Lah-Tor" is my favorite video game.
I treat this channel as a podcast library
This “console” was not fire, TV
I hope this gets more likes
@@partyanimal9382 yea it deserves more likes
There’s some kid out there that this was all they had and have fond memories of this
I remember having an amazon fire tv stick as a kid and i got the fire tv controller and played on it a lot, was pretty slow and annoying but one genuine game you missed is Titan Souls
Stadia was amazing. Being able to just play it on pretty much any screen with any Bluetooth controller was awesome. It's also the reason I got back into gaming after a long break from it since I didn't have to buy anything other than the games to play it. I think it got a ton of unfair criticism which is definitely at least due in some part to Google's failure to actually communicate what it was. I think the idea of nearly every Chromecast being able to also play AAA games was kinda magical. I do think that in the US our internet is still too shitty to make this work and the prospect of losing games forever in a world where games are only available on a service like game pass is a huge problem. But as long as I can still buy games and get software I'd still absolutely use another game streaming service in the future as long as it was as good as Stadia.
been binging all of the scotts stash videos and this conveniently dropped mid binge
"Heck, i dont even trust videogame companies when it comes to videogames these days!" absolutely true
15:00 Scott you *definitely* need 2FA, especially now
He has one - didn't you see how fluffy it is??? ❤
"Oh, wow. Look who got left behind on Facebook."
I expected this to be some random tech guy and then I hear Scotts voice.
Sent me into a state of paralyses.
when i was younger i didnt have any game consoles but i did have a fire tv box and then conviced my mum to get the controller for it. i played minecraft, crossy road, hungry shark evolution, and some more games on it contrantly and still had fun i dont think it used to be as bad as u make it out to be
I didn’t even know this existed. If it can run retro arch well that would be pretty cool
I remember when this came out not longer after the Ouya. Amazon somehow got Minecraft on it while the Ouya didn't. Also Amazon had a game studio making a bunch of casual games, including some obscure third person shooter. The hardware was decently powerful for the time. I was an active member of the Ouya community and most of us remained loyal to the Ouya platform since Amazon treated indie devs poorly (how surprising lol).
I wonder if this video was recorded before that Roku TV software update that forced motion smoothing on for everyone happened given Scott just gushing over Roku TVs.
I'm not sure when you guys are hung up on that. Roku TVs have always had it on or off by default with no way to disable or enable it. If its advertised for a specific Roku TV then it's on and can't be turned off. Always been this way.
I can't wait for Scott to cover the KFC Chicken Computer
The closest thing to a real game console you're going to get out of any of these streaming boxes is the Nvidia Shield.
Still probably not worth picking up though.
I agree. Roku UI has always been nice. I first started in 2016. The cutest thing is the holiday background changes.
Oh man I had one of these in my teens. I beat shovel knight plus the plague knight campaign on it. It also had crossy road.
Thanks!!! Skipped out on the non-console companies trying to enter the consoler market. And glad I did!
CAN’T WAIT FOR THE AWARDS SHOW IN CHICAGO!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
9:00 this will be humanity's last hour unless the rigg expires
What's funny is my parents have a Samsung TV and they prefer the interface on their fire sticks so much so that they bought a fire stick and plugged it into the Samsung TV.
slowly counting down the days until we see a game console made by youtube
Okay Scott wait. Amazon does make games. The western version of Lost Ark, and New World.
I love how people dunk on Ouya, but every megacorp has tried to do effectively the same thing and failed just as hard.
It ain't an easy sell.
Can't spell Ouya without Television
Does Scott lay down face first on the floor to film these or what
I think it's just a piece of a carpet just on a table to make it look like a floor
@@NickJR528I second this. I saw the pic he posted of that a while back
@aoBubs I thought it was pretty obvious when you can see him in a reflection, and it looks like he's just sitting
@@NickJR528 I still like to imagine Scott is laying on the floor with his feet swinging in the air or something.
Executives who think they're good at everything because they're good at one thing are hilarious. And terrifying, cause what they're ACTUALLY good at is: gutting a company or project for money.
whats the difference between this and Luna
Luna is a streaming like stadia
Another banger video scott !!!! 😃
You ain’t even have enough time to finish the video yet bruh
@@jonahmiller9388 I'm a time traveler
What no love for the Nvidia shield? The only one of the bunch that came the closest to actually being a game console? And is still a solid stream box today. In fact a shield is what I'm using instead of that god-awful interface on my LG OLED.
11:09 So, actually, they don't put it on _everything._ I bought an Amazon Basics Nintendo 3DS case, and the word "Amazon" is nowhere to be found on that joint.
It's a nice case too, it holds 6 3DS/DS games, and you don't have to worry about dropping it.
This didn’t age well. Amazon just announced that Xbox Game Pass will now be on Amazon Fire Stick
Congratulations
@@banshiii4049your welcome
Yeah but that Aldi's OYUA controller and mid range phone hardware from probably 2012 given that's its almost a decade old, will feel like playing cyberpunk with an Amico.
That's even if your lucky to get the app to work or it has enough ram to stream. Most devices nowadays get gimped firmware or orphaned a few years in so I doubt it's pleasant below 4k max firestick.
You are saying it as if it gives the fire tv any relevance at all. One failure collaborated with another, "OMG what a game changer! This changes the gaming industry forever" 😂
6:04 Sounds like someone's TV didn't get the latest update yet, where motion smoothing is forced on even if you have that turned off
Google TV is where the perfect smart tv are...
Hisense U7 series.
Extremely cheap, very good picture quality (FOR THE PRICE), and ANDROID!
Stadia was a lifesaver when I didnt have money for a next gen console when Cyberpunk came out. I loved the service so much, even playing up until the moment they shut down the servers. GeForce Now has been a pretty good replacement though.