Fire TV Software Update Offers Support For Tablet-Centric Games

It seems the new TV box from Google, known as the Nexus Player, alongside Android TV, do carry one particular major drawback – neither of them happen to provide official support for many of the games that are out there in the market, not to mention selected apps. Of course, in the course of time, all of that might change as additional developers introduce more support for Android TV, but right now the situation is not that rosy. Amazon, which is Google’s rival in this aspect, has been selling the Fire TV for some months now, and have made available a reasonable number of apps and games for the platform. This time round, the latest Fire TV software update will offer support for gaming titles that were specially developed for tablets, now how about that?

This happens even if the developers of the games themselves have not optimized them to run on the Amazon Fire TV. This is pretty neat, don’t you think so? Basically, it works this way – the moment your device that runs on software version 51.1.4.0_user_514006420, you can then perform a download and install the tablet apps from the Amazon Appstore.

From there, you are able to make use of the optional Fire TV gamepad in order to enjoy all those games, as though you were playing directly on the tablet itself. Of course, there will be some adjustments that you would have to make compared to using an actual tablet, but the learning curve should not be too steep for a tech savvy person.

Edwin Kee
Categories: Gaming, Tablets
Tags: Amazon, fire tv