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Does anyone else think Amazon will acquire video game producers next? When I look at digital content, this seems the one area they're not already in, as they have TV, movies, books, but no games.



They have a game studio, game technology (including an engine) under the AWS brand, and have a Stadia-style cloud gaming service called Amazon Luna.

* Amazon Lumberyard (the game engine) is a difficult to work with mess that their own devs apparently hate

* Amazon Luna has a tiny library of games, and actually requires two subscriptions to play them all (Luna+ and Ubisoft+)

* The most successful piece of entertainment Amazon Game Studios has produced is this fascinating article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-01-29/amazon-ga...


They aren't doing this to acquire movie producers so much as to acquire intellectual property. If there some game IP that fits well with twitch?


They already sorta do that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Games


There was a huge backlash recently when they announced microtransactions and pay-to-win features on their upcoming MMO called New World




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