No kidding. And how about Angry Birds? On mobile, free, or $.99. On Playstation, $40. On actual consoles you pay certain amounts because you expect certain levels of polish, quality, production, content. On mobile you pay much, much less, if at all, because you expect certain things from there. If you bring a mobile game to a mainline console, you do not price it as a real console game, because the platform hasn't changed the game in any meaningful way, it's just another place to sell it.
I hope that the Fire TV really pushes game support, I mean Amazon did buy some studios for just that. Hopefully it can propel those "mid-tier" games to the spotlight. AAA console games take millions of dollars to create and market, and years of development time. Mobile games typically cost very little to produce, and less time, but we're all familiar with mobile games and I don't think anyone wants a console to play them (sorry Ouya). What we need are games that harken back to the PS1/2 content era. By today's standards, the graphics may not be the best, but they're still a cut above mobile and give actual gameplay experiences that you don't see on Android or iOS. That's the kind of gaming I want to see return. If the Fire TV promotes that, I'm all for it. If that's not what it turns out to be doing, well, at least it did something different in the meantime.
