Guys if your in game dev, and your not working with Android, do some homework. Ouya, Shield, Archos, and now: http://t.co/vTsnpWIFh6
— Deniz Opal (@selzero) August 12, 2013
This article is about Amazon preparing to release a games console.
This article is also about further fragmentation in hardware specifications and platforms. At some point the people involved in managing the platforms will outnumber the people developing for the platforms.
So design your game to fit all sizes. That’s a recipe for success.
This is starting to remind me of the old J2ME days of mobile development. So many device types to support that it became difficult to come up with a good product. Each device will have it’s own little characteristics and testing will become a pain to do properly.
As ever it’ll be interesting to see how these things will pan out. It’s splitting a small slice of a well sliced game/device pie in to smaller slices.