Amazon Digital Software & Video Games

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Amazon Digital Software & Video Games

Developer(s)	Amazon.com
Initial release	3 February 2009
Platform	Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch
Type	Content delivery
Website	Video Games

Amazon Digital Software & Video Games is a digital video game distribution service owned by the international electronic commerce company Amazon.com.

Timeline

The service was launched on 3 February 2009, as Amazon Digital Game Store, having 600+ game titles available for download at that time.^[1]

On 7 August 2013, it was launched in the United Kingdom.^[2]

On 12 November 2013, Amazon launched a digital PlayStation store.^[3] Those who own a PS3, PS Vita or PS4 game from Amazon and receive a code for use over the PlayStation Network.^[4]

References

^ Amazon enters downloadable PC game industry Archived 22 December 2015 at the Wayback Machine, 3 February 2009, Nino Marchetti, TG Daily, retrieved at 2013-12-22
^ Amazon Launches Digital Download Service for PC and Mac, 7 August 2013, Daniel Krupa, IGN, retrieved at 2013-12-22
^ Sony now lets you buy digital PlayStation games from Amazon and other retailers, 12 November 2013, Matt Brian, Engadget, retrieved at 2013-12-22
^ Amazon UK launches digital PlayStation store, 11 December 2013, Christopher Dring, MCV, retrieved at 2013-12-22

External links

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People

Current	Jeff Bezos (Founder and Executive Chairman) Andy Jassy (President and CEO) Werner Vogels (CTO)
Former	Rick Dalzell Paul Davis Tony Hsieh Christopher North Ram Shriram Tom Szkutak Brian Valentine

Facilities

Products and
services

Subsidiaries	A9.com AbeBooks Amazon Clinic Amazon Games Double Helix Games Amazon Lab126 Amazon Pharmacy Amazon Robotics Amazon University Esports Annapurna Labs Audible Blink Home Body Labs Book Depository BookFinder ComiXology Freevee Fresh Goodreads Goodreads Choice Awards Graphiq IMDb Box Office Mojo IMDbPro Kuiper Systems One Medical PillPack Ring Neighbors Shopbop Souq.com Twitch IGDB Woot.com Zappos Zoox
Cloud computing	Web Services AMI Amazon Aurora Beanstalk CloudFront DynamoDB EBS EC2 EFS ElastiCache EMR Glacier Glue Lambda Lightsail MTurk Neptune Product Advertising API RDS Redshift Rekognition Route 53 S3 SageMaker SES SNS SimpleDB SQS VPC
Services	Amazon.com China Alexa Appstore Digital Game Store Fire OS Kindle Store Luna Payments Prime Amazon miniTV MX Player Key Prime Music Prime Now Prime Pantry Prime Video Sports Marketplace Music (Wondery) Silk Wireless
Devices	Astro Echo Show Echo Buds Fire Fire HD Fire HDX Fire TV Stick Kindle
Technology	1-Click Dynamo Obidos Lumberyard
Media	Amazon Games Amazon Publishing Breakthrough Novel Award Best Books of the Year Amazon MGM Studios Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer United Artists Orion Pictures American International Pictures MGM+ Kindle Direct Publishing YES Network (15%)
Retail	Amazon Fresh Amazon Go Whole Foods Market
Logistics	Amazon Air Amazon Prime Air
Former	43 Things Askville Alexa Internet Amapedia Amazon Books Amie Street (Songza) CDNow Dash buttons Dash wand Diapers.com Digital Photography Review Drive Endless.com Fire Phone Lexcycle Liquavista LivingSocial LoveFilm MGM Holdings Mobipocket PlanetAll Reflexive Entertainment Sellaband Shelfari TenMarks Treasure Truck Withoutabox

Litigation

Other

Unions

Category

Software digital distribution platforms

Active

Personal computers	Amazon Digital Game Store Battle.net Big Fish Games Chrome Web Store Direct2Drive Discord DLsite Discover DMM Games EA Epic Games Store Flathub GameHouse GamersGate Gamesplanet Game Jolt GOG.com Humble Store IndieGala itch.io MacGameStore MacUpdate Mac App Store Meta Horizon Store Microsoft Store MSN Games Nutaku Pogo.com Pokki PureOS Software Center Robot Cache Rockstar Games Social Club Snap Store Steam Ubisoft Connect Viveport WeGame WildTangent
Consoles	Microsoft Store Nintendo eShop PlayStation Store
Mobile devices §	Amazon Appstore Apple App Store Appland Aptoide Cafe Bazaar Cydia DLsite Epic Games Store F-Droid Galaxy Store GetJar Google Play Huawei AppGallery Meta Horizon Store MiKandi Nutaku OpenStore PureOS Software Center Tencent Appstore SlideME TapTap Viveport
Arcade	NESiCAxLive

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§ Also includes Smart TVs and standalone VR headsets
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