Amazon Fire TV Day One Review
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I have owned a firestick since it was first released. I ordered it the first day it was available only to prime members. I absolutely love it.
One thing I really like about the firestick and firetv is that you can easlily remotely install android apk files (apps). I have installed several emulators (SNES, NES, and N64.) and copied over games. They have all worked great minus N64. The only reason I don't like N64 is because there isn't enough buttons on the gamepad to properly play most games.
I have also installed NFL apps, browsers, and some other various apps. Basically you can install anything as long as there is an android apk available for download (free apps of course).
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@IRJ That's awesome. I'm totally going to hit you up for SNES emulation info. That would be perfect.
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Love the FireStick. I bought first day it came out too. Really no complaints on my end although I've never tried Roku and ChromeCast is in a bit different category to me.
I have the FireStick in the master and then just play everything else off the PS4 in the living room (although it died last week so now I'm working on sending in under warranty - Pretty devastating for a long weekend where I had nothing but PS4 plans and football.)
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@scottalanmiller said:
@IRJ That's awesome. I'm totally going to hit you up for SNES emulation info. That would be perfect.
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We have had the Amazon Fire TV for more than a month now and so far we are still pretty much liking it. We don't use it for gaming all that much but that is slowly improving as we get it set up more and more and get used to what it does well. The two main games that we now have on it are Goat Simulator and Minecraft PE. Both of which we have other places as well.
Goat Simulator runs great on it as far as being easy to control. It is very obviously only able to show a small fraction of the graphical intensity that our Goat Simulator on Steam with the ASUS Rog can do, but it is totally playable and enjoyable (as far as GS goes.)
We also have Minecraft PE there which is no different than the version on the tablets except with a much bigger screen, smoother everything and much nicer controls as it is not touch screen. Now that we have a PocketMine server set up it is going to take this from "interesting" to very heavily used.
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One thing that is very apparent is that the Fire TV has a very limited set of available games and apps. Extremely limited. Amazon does so much to filter down the list (but does not ensure compatibility) that it causes some real issues if you want to use the system as a video game platform beyond just playing a game or two on your otherwise streaming device. The Amazon Fire ecosystem is great and works really well, but is lacking a bit in the gaming department.
We are considering switching to an NVidia Shield TV device this summer while we are in the US. It has access to many times the games, is not much larger and uses the Tegra X1 instead of the Tegra K1.
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@scottalanmiller said:
One thing that is very apparent is that the Fire TV has a very limited set of available games and apps. Extremely limited. Amazon does so much to filter down the list (but does not ensure compatibility) that it causes some real issues if you want to use the system as a video game platform beyond just playing a game or two on your otherwise streaming device. The Amazon Fire ecosystem is great and works really well, but is lacking a bit in the gaming department.
We are considering switching to an NVidia Shield TV device this summer while we are in the US. It has access to many times the games, is not much larger and uses the Tegra X1 instead of the Tegra K1.
If the shield works as a gaming system, will it replace the FireTV, or will you keep the FireTV for streaming?
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I love my fire sticks. I don't use the gaming apps because the emulators work great. You can also sideload many android apk files.
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@dafyre said:
@scottalanmiller said:
One thing that is very apparent is that the Fire TV has a very limited set of available games and apps. Extremely limited. Amazon does so much to filter down the list (but does not ensure compatibility) that it causes some real issues if you want to use the system as a video game platform beyond just playing a game or two on your otherwise streaming device. The Amazon Fire ecosystem is great and works really well, but is lacking a bit in the gaming department.
We are considering switching to an NVidia Shield TV device this summer while we are in the US. It has access to many times the games, is not much larger and uses the Tegra X1 instead of the Tegra K1.
If the shield works as a gaming system, will it replace the FireTV, or will you keep the FireTV for streaming?
We'd only carry one, I'm sure. We only have so many places to plug them in.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@dafyre said:
@scottalanmiller said:
One thing that is very apparent is that the Fire TV has a very limited set of available games and apps. Extremely limited. Amazon does so much to filter down the list (but does not ensure compatibility) that it causes some real issues if you want to use the system as a video game platform beyond just playing a game or two on your otherwise streaming device. The Amazon Fire ecosystem is great and works really well, but is lacking a bit in the gaming department.
We are considering switching to an NVidia Shield TV device this summer while we are in the US. It has access to many times the games, is not much larger and uses the Tegra X1 instead of the Tegra K1.
If the shield works as a gaming system, will it replace the FireTV, or will you keep the FireTV for streaming?
We'd only carry one, I'm sure. We only have so many places to plug them in.
Bring more power strips, lol.
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I mean televisions into which to plug them
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@scottalanmiller said:
I mean televisions into which to plug them
Buy more televisi--oh... wait. Yeah, that can be problematic, lol.
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We are already traveling with one as it is!
