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
@@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.
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 ❤️
@@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.
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
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.
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.
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!
@@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💩
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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
6:00 The TV portion of it is so real. I used to use an Xbox One X for Blu-Rays and UA-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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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
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.
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 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).
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.
My favorite part of my game collection is the ouya gets the biggest reaction over the things I actually love so thanks Scott this might be my next shelf show stopper in my game room.
Fire TV is still the best way of turning a normal tv into a "smart" tv, i.e. streaming compatible. I have one in my garage I only use for youtube when I'm working, and it handles that pretty decently (and actually better than some _actual_ smart tvs). And I vastly prefer it to Roku, solely because I can easily sideload apps into 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" 😂
I had a friend who had me come to Best Buy with him so he can tell me about these "gaming consoles" and for him to get one of these for Jack in the Box. Pretty sure he just used it a couple of times and that was it. I personally use the Amazon Luna controller (the controller only not the cloud service) for PC gaming for when I connect my Steam Deck or Lenovo Legion Go to the TV since I like how I can just push two buttons together and it easily switches between the two consoles (plus my Xbox Series and Xbox One controller keeps randomly disconnecting from my Steam Deck), so I quite enjoy the Luna controller as an option
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.
I remember when Google sent me a chromecast and stadia for free because I was a UA-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?
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
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
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
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
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
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 :(
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.
Only semi-related, but the "Fire TV Sticks" are awesome for retro emulation.
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?
Someone created a 3 year timer for google stadia and they were SPOT ON it was like freaky how accurate it was.
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.
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
Love how this came out and xbox announces the next day you can play their games on it.
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.
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.
"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 😂
Gamecub- I mean "Amazon cube"
BezoCube
firecube
@@fusion49002 waterprism
@@memedoodair cylinder
@@memedoodrock3Dsquare
Forget console wars, now we have streaming box wars
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?
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
lol Xbox on fire stick just announced today. Good timing 😂
scotts stash videos have become so high quality that the basically normal scott the woz videos
My $75 Amazon tablet and UA-cam has all the entertainment I need. Thanks for the video!!!
the sound at 0:06 absolutely sent me rolling
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
Good thing it never catched on, I wouldn't want Google and Amazon to ruin gaming even more with their greedy practices
He owns both an LG WebOS TV and a Roku!
Louis is rolling in his workshop as we speak
by the time you got into the gaming, i was already done eating
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
No serious gamer wants a soulless streaming box
I gotta really give you credit, the damn amount of effort you put in the delivery of your videos.
"It makes everything look a lot cheaper" bro that's a Switch Pro Controller knockoff
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.
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.
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!
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
6:00 The TV portion of it is so real. I used to use an Xbox One X for Blu-Rays and UA-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.
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 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 didn’t even know this existed. If it can run retro arch well that would be pretty cool
15:00 Scott you *definitely* need 2FA, especially now
He has one - didn't you see how fluffy it is??? ❤
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
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.
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.
One day a VERY bad Geometry Dash clone appeared on my LG TV and I have no idea how
been binging all of the scotts stash videos and this conveniently dropped mid binge
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 agree. Roku UI has always been nice. I first started in 2016. The cutest thing is the holiday background changes.
CAN’T WAIT FOR THE AWARDS SHOW IN CHICAGO!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
There’s some kid out there that this was all they had and have fond memories of this
This “console” was not fire, TV
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 expected this to be some random tech guy and then I hear Scotts voice.
Sent me into a state of paralyses.
"Heck, i dont even trust videogame companies when it comes to videogames these days!" absolutely true
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
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.
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
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.
"Oh, wow. Look who got left behind on Facebook."
Okay Scott wait. Amazon does make games. The western version of Lost Ark, and New World.
I love seeing weird, "of it's time" video game stuff like this.
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 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).
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.
15:01 this explains why Scott got hacked on Twitter or whatever it was a while ago now
Well, i have news for you, scott. They make OLED roku TVs now.
Thanks!!! Skipped out on the non-console companies trying to enter the consoler market. And glad I did!
Google TV is where the perfect smart tv are...
Hisense U7 series.
Extremely cheap, very good picture quality (FOR THE PRICE), and ANDROID!
9:00 this will be humanity's last hour unless the rigg expires
This is giving me real Ouya vibes
My favorite part of my game collection is the ouya gets the biggest reaction over the things I actually love so thanks Scott this might be my next shelf show stopper in my game room.
15:01 hey scott i don’t think it’s a good idea to admit that you don’t have 2FA activated on your account
I'm watching this video on that exact device. I didn't realize that I've had it for almost 10 years.
15:04 Scotts cat!!
I think you mean Scott's 2 Factor Authentication 😆
Fire TV is still the best way of turning a normal tv into a "smart" tv, i.e. streaming compatible. I have one in my garage I only use for youtube when I'm working, and it handles that pretty decently (and actually better than some _actual_ smart tvs).
And I vastly prefer it to Roku, solely because I can easily sideload apps into it
So Amazon actually has an Android APP Store...
I can't wait for Scott to cover the KFC Chicken Computer
Cause It worked so well for Google 😂
A full video about scotts cat would be the best thing ever
I’m so glad I found this channel
Insert "first time?" Meme
Pac-man 265 was so good I remember playing it before going to school a bunch of years ago!!
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" 😂
slowly counting down the days until we see a game console made by youtube
At least it has Terraria on the box
I had a friend who had me come to Best Buy with him so he can tell me about these "gaming consoles" and for him to get one of these for Jack in the Box. Pretty sure he just used it a couple of times and that was it. I personally use the Amazon Luna controller (the controller only not the cloud service) for PC gaming for when I connect my Steam Deck or Lenovo Legion Go to the TV since I like how I can just push two buttons together and it easily switches between the two consoles (plus my Xbox Series and Xbox One controller keeps randomly disconnecting from my Steam Deck), so I quite enjoy the Luna controller as an option