Roku as a microconsole
I think Roku platform has great potential for casual gaming as a microconsole. The competition - Amazon FireTV (box and stick), Nexus Player (+ the new NVIDIA Shield, Razer, + Android TV at-large), Pl...
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And there you have it - the just announced today, new AppleTV with game controller and apps. I for one am itching to see what the API* is like.
Run, Roku - Run!
PS. (*) if you are a registered Apple developer, apply in their free hardware kit raffle before noon 9/11, here https://developer.apple.com/tvos/developer-kit
Run, Roku - Run!
"Komag" wrote:That's a question of hardware and my impression is RokuCo uses whatever is at hand but won't go out of their way to add fancy (and expensive) chips or do software emulations. Illustration - the very limited (limitations undocumented) audio format support. You can work around the limited channels with the smart idea by @BradC though.
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E. Allow multiple sounds to play at same time, not just one (or two, depending on model), but more like 5 or 6.
PS. (*) if you are a registered Apple developer, apply in their free hardware kit raffle before noon 9/11, here https://developer.apple.com/tvos/developer-kit
