Amazon's Fire TV vs. Google's Android TV: The microconsole war no one asked for

Some of the biggest corporations in the world are starting a second video game console war, and it’s one that most people don’t seem to care about.

Today, Google introduced its Android TV platform at its Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco. This isn’t one specific device — it is instead a version of the Android operating system that Google built to work with televisions. Android TV devices will play movies and shows, but they’ll also act as gaming devices. That puts Google’s new platform in direct competition with Amazon’s Fire TV in a living-room gaming battle that probably won’t have most people looking away from their triple-A PlayStation 4 games.