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What may be Amazon’s game controller pops up in FCC filings before its big hardware event
Sep 24, 2020
What seems to be an Amazon-made game controller has appeared in FCC filings (credit to Dave Zatz for spotting this first ). While an Amazon-made gaming controller would be interesting on its own, these filings have been published shortly before the company’s next annual hardware event , which kicks off at 1PM ET today, suggesting Amazon could finally be revealing more about its long-rumored Project Tempo cloud gaming service very soon.
It’s difficult to glean much about the controller from the filings — I can see that the controller will support Bluetooth and both 2.4GHz and 5GHz Wi-Fi protocols, but I can’t find any pictures of what the device might look like. And the only real tip-off we have that this is an Amazon device is the company’s logo on the filing for the FCC label .
In fact, it seems Amazon went out of its way to hide the controller’s existence, as these filings aren’t under Amazon’s name at all. They were done through a company named, and I am not making this up, “ Zippy Hippie Twister Limited Liability Company .” Amazon’s been known to use these sorts of weird company names before.
This wouldn’t be Amazon’s first game controller — it released one alongside the first Fire TV in 2014 that you could use to play games on the then-new set-top box. But the controller stopped working with some newer Fire TV devices starting in 2018 . (The controller’s Amazon page is still up as of this writing, though you can’t buy it.)
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