I own a Nvidia Shield instead of a console, and most of the gaming I do on it is streamed from a PC. Android TV game discovery is pretty bad on the Play Store, and is passable with the Nvidia Games app for Shield owners. For the most part, the Shield is a media streamer first and a game machine second (and it fills this role very well).

For four-player games, I think you're going to face other headwinds. If the game requires a controller, I conjecture that the number of ATV owners with four controllers is going to be much, much less than a standard game console. If it's a Jackbox-type game which uses phones or other input devices it might be fine.

Honestly? I'd say unless it's trivially easy to port it, I'd skip ATV. As much as I'd love to see the space expand, I can't imagine that there's a business case for investing significant time into an ATV game.

1 player gaming on ATV is sparse (ATV play store doing you no favors), let alone 4 player gaming. a lot of ATV hardware is probably also on the lower end, punching above it's weight in video only with hardware codec acceleration. if it's a four player board game maybe that'll run well (depending on effects) across atv's, but a 4 player split-screen shooter? probably not.

if you've got a novel control scheme (say, a paired phone) in addition to gamepad support, maybe you can get over the number-of-controllers hurdle.

State of gaming on AndroidTV is piss poor and will be for the foreseeable future. Android (mobile) gaming will forever be casual and "consoles" like Ouya, dispite the corporate hype, will always fail.

If you are thinking Shield, nVidia was smart enough to focus on PC game streaming. It's not a console or a gaming PC.

A four player game on mobile/AndroidTV might find a niche market and sell some. The problem is Mobile/streaming box games really need to be a free to play with add-ons to buy... That is if you are looking to make money. Even then you need "whales" to spend a lot of money (most ppl won't pay). Whales are a very small portion of the pool of players and AndroidTV pool of users are tiny to began with. That means a smaller pool of people to play the game and then even smaller to buy all the extras.

My advice is to make a Steam game. But who knows, you could luck out on AndroidTV platform.

Been on the Android platform for a while now, both handheld and TV. There's a good number of games that have controller support that aren't available for TV. Not sure why...just something I've noticed. I play more on Android TV(MiBox) than I do on my PS3. The games aren't too involved but still fun and I can swap out apps quickly. All that being said with a little attention from Google there MIGHT be some room in the gaming world for Android exclusives, ports, and cross platform games on the big screen given hardware compatibility wasn't such an issue. So far today I've played Alto, samurai rampage, Air attack 2, Silver bullet, and horizon chase on my TV.

I have made a Tetris clone. It aims to be the one with the best touch controls for smartphones, so I didn't think of TVs when making it. But I also implemented game controller support, that's why it was super-easy to adapt it to Android TV and FireTV.

Now surprisingly half of the daily active players are from TVs, most used devices are (in this order) FireTV Stick 2nd Gen, Mi Box, Nvidia Shield and Sony Bravia. But: 80% of TV players play with a remote control, 20% with a controller. If you can't adapt your game to the TV remote, you will miss most players.

I just wish there were more sports games. Also I am holding out hope that Fortnite will be Android TV compatible.

Sometimes it is good to be a big fish in a small pond. ATV is a small pond, but that might be just the opportunity you're looking for.

My sales on Android TV are miniscule compared to on PC (Steam).