On Tuesday, American video game rental company GameFly launched a cloud-based game streaming service exclusively on the Amazon Fire TV set-top box. The new subscription service, simply named GameFly Streaming, piggybacks off the technology and servers used by Playcast, an Israeli cloud-gaming service that GameFly has officially acquired as of today.
"Our goal with GameFly Streaming is moving forward to position cloud gaming, in the short and medium-term, as a compliment to console gaming, and in the long term, as the new technology," GameFly CEO David Hodess said in a phone interview with Ars Technica. "Nobody I speak to these days believes that there’ll be another set of consoles as successors to the current ones."
The service, which should already be live in the Amazon Fire TV App Store, is made up entirely of PC ports of console games, meaning players will need a compatible Xbox-styled controller (such as the official Amazon Fire TV controller) to play them. To access the service's launch library of 35 games, users will have to try out an unorthodox subscription model: a series of game "packs" that users must subscribe to individually.
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