Fire TV Edition

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This page describes an edition of the game that has been officially discontinued.
 
This edition is no longer updated nor available for download but can still be played if previously downloaded on a compatible device or through a physical copy, and has been replaced with Bedrock Edition.
Minecraft: Fire TV Edition
Firetvedition.png: Infobox image for Minecraft program Minecraft: Fire TV Edition

Minecraft: Fire TV Edition was the former title of Bedrock Edition designed specifically for the Amazon Fire TV. Originally, the Pocket Edition Alpha for Fire OS was available on Fire TV, but it was replaced by the more expensive Fire TV Edition on December 19, 2016, the day that the Ender Update and Apple TV Edition released. Pocket Edition for Fire TV was discontinued, and the new edition was a free download for its previous owners. Following the Better Together Update, it is no longer named Fire TV Edition.

As of June 2021, Minecraft is no longer supported on Fire TV Gen 1 and Fire TV Gen 2.[3] Minecraft for Fire TV has not received any feature updates since 1.16.221, such as Caves & Cliffs, The Wild Update, Trails & Tales, and so on. The most recent content update for Minecraft for Fire TV was the Nether Update.

Amazon naming and pricing

As of March 2019, this product was described as "Minecraft for Fire TV" on the Amazon App Store, potentially deviating from the practice of referring to all Bedrock Edition variants as simply "Minecraft". In Amazon usage, the plain "Minecraft" name referred only to the (Bedrock) edition for (non-TV) Android platforms.

The "for Fire TV" version retains a much higher price point than the vanilla Android versions (about 3× more as of March 2019).

Trivia

  • This version requires it to be installed from Amazon Appstore and doesn't use Google Play services.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Minecon 2015 - Day Two" – Mojang on Twitch, July 5, 2015 (timestamp needed)
  2. ↑ "Amazon.com: Minecraft for Fire TV: Appstore for Android" (Archive) – Amazon.com.
  3. ↑ "Important news regarding Minecraft on Android and FireTV" (Archive) by Staff – Minecraft.net.
  4. ↑ "Minecraft's Lost Version | The Only Version You CAN'T Play" – May 13, 2024 on YouTube

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