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Amazon Fire TV adds support for tablet games

11/03/2014 at 4:07 PM by Brad Linder 4 Comments

The biggest problem with Google’s new TV box is that the Nexus Player and Android TV don’t officially support very many apps and games yet. That could change as more developers add support for Android TV, but on day one there are only a few dozen Android TV apps available from the Play Store.

Rival Amazon, on the other hand, has been selling the Fire TV for a few months and there’s a fairly large selection of apps and games for the platform.

Now Amazon is adding support for even more games: the latest Fire TV software update brings support for games that were designed for tablets… whether their developers have optimized them to run on the Fire TV or not.

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Here’s how it works: Once your device is running software version 51.1.4.0_user_514006420 you’ll be able to download and install tablet apps from the Amazon Appstore.

Then you can use the optional Fire TV Gamepad to play those games as if you were using a tablet thanks to the following button mappings:

  • Left joystick: move the mouse pointer
  • A button: counts as a tap or click
  • B button: works like a back button
  • Left shoulder button: decrease the cursor speed
  • Right shoulder button: increase the cursor speed

Note that apps which require multitouch input might not work, but this software update should let you play many more games on a Fire TV.

Other changes in the software update include support for guest display mirroring, allowing anyone with an Android or Amazon Fire phone or tablet to mirror their screen to your Fire TV without logging into your Amazon account, and better support for using a Fire TV when traveling: you can take it with you and use it in any country that’s supported (currently that just means US users can take a Fire TV to the UK and vice versa though).

via Android Police

 

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Why didn’t they just include a mapper like blutrol or the Android equivalents

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I have found that Chromecast and FireTV are impossible to use at hotels that have a WiFi login or terms of use screen since they don’t have a browser

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Good to know… thx for posting. I was wondering why I see portable wifi routers for sale these days. I plan to put raspberry pi software on my new Amazon Fire Stick when it arrives… that should make it completely travel-friendly. I hate cripple-ware.

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Amazon steadfastly refuses to release sales figures for its hardware, but said in a Q2 earnings statement, “Fire TV sales have significantly exceeded our sales forecast and we are working hard to increase our manufacturing output.”

Amazon did well by beating Nexus Player to market and by having a better gaming system than Roku… but low-cost devices that stream just fine are probably going to be the largest selling streaming device. I don’t see Fire TV or Nexus player holding a large market share in the future… they are just the latest Logitech Revue.

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