{"id":5272,"date":"2009-02-03T19:24:39","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T03:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=5272"},"modified":"2013-04-30T20:05:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T03:05:26","slug":"amazon-game-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/amazon-game-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Game Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8356\" alt=\"Amazon-Mobile-icon-S\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/Amazon-Mobile-icon-S.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" \/>FEB. 3, 2009 \u2022 Amazon.com went live with downloadable game service with a catalog of 600 casual games, each available for $9.99 or less. The online retailers considers the service a beta test and expects the number of titles offered, and features available, to increase with time. A DRM key is required to play the titles after downloading. For now the service is PC only \u2013 requiring a Windows download client. Mac support may come later.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\" data-mce-mark=\"1\"><em>Impact:\u00a0Amazon.com is, of course, a huge online retail presence and its entry into the casual game space could have a profound market impact.\u00a0Casual games sales are all about maximum distribution and Amazon clearly brings that to the table.\u00a0The most interesting aspect is the focus on an under $10 price point.\u00a0 The casual game business has really tried to peg a price point of $19.99.\u00a0However, DFC has always felt this price point was too high to be sustainable for most games in the marketplace.\u00a0 Amazon.com&#8217;s pricing is more in line with what Microsoft&#8217;s Xbox Live Arcade charges.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FEB. 3, 2009 \u2022 Amazon.com went live with downloadable game service with a catalog of 600 casual games, each available for $9.99 or less. The online retailers considers the service a beta test and expects the number of titles offered, and features available, to increase with time. A DRM key is required to play the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5272"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8355,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272\/revisions\/8355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}