http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/2/31...e-android-game-console-designed-by-yves-behar a console that is going to be completely free, and whose games will all be free too... i wonder what extra can be done with it and what characteristics it has.
Yves Behar, eh? He seems to be doing quite a lot of industrial design lately. I can't see it being too much more than something that runs emulators, and simple ones at that.
had one a few weeks now, runs xbmc great, still waiting for my case to arrive but they have kept me updated about the progress which is good used a phone usb cable to power it from the tv's usb port so it automatically switches on with when the tv does and off when you turn the tv off only tried xbmc on it but very impressed, some shortcomings but they will resolved with software updates in time
What is the point of this? it will play smartphone games, why should I get one if I already have a smartphone? The whole "hackeable" part sounds good but what about developers? would you make games for a console that can be pirated by checking a box? And how the fuck you mod it if it's a SoC? you have to change everything, and how does that affect compatibility? some Android games only run on certain SoCs, and it sucks IMO if its for emulators just buy a $99 appletv and jailbreak it to run iOS emus
"You can watch Starcraft 2 matches" Seriously? are they using that as a feature? that you can watch other people play?
I personally am pretty excited at the potential for this. I mean they have all ready raised almost $4 Million Dollars in 3 days. It sounds like a lot of developers are really excited about this too. I'm personally hopeing for some good platformers my self. I figure that even if this doesn't take off it will be perfect for netflix and emulators.
The main point I see is that any game developer can try there new ideas on this system. I'm personally hoping for a lot of retro like games. This isn't meant to compete head to head with any of the larger consoles at the moment. The idea (at least the way I see it) is to make an open enviornment where everyone can tinker everyone can make games and get some fresh blood into the gaming industry. I do see a couple of ways this can turn out as well. Worst Case Scenario: The Ouya team has horribly underestimated how much work this will be. They don't even manage to produce consoles and "Ouya" will become synonymous with failure, and will scar future attempts to achieve this same goal. Bad: The Ouya team manage to get the system out the door but no developers sign on, or every one simply ports there phone games to it and calls it a day. This would suck but i imagine it would still become quite the Emulator/Media box supported by the community. Good: Console get's out the door and has a couple of good title to get us started. This catches the attention of skeptics of both users and devs and even more people join on. It never get's to the ridiculous level of the xbox 360 but manages to get half a million users with a thriving market place and homebrew community. Those are my predictions I'm a backer now so I personally think this is going to work or at least I'm willing to take a chance on it in the hope that it does work. I'm so sick of tired for paying for things like xbox live, being expected to buy tons of dlc packs, the same games getting hashed out over and over again. This feels like a breath of fresh air and I'm personally willing to risk $100 to try to make it happen.
Ok time to destroy the dream: mojang already said there wont be a version of Minecraft for this thing, at best a port of the pocket version which is faaaaaaaaaaaaar from the PC version An open platform? dude, seriously? you dont have to ask anyone for permission to develop for PC or Android, and it's not even hardware-locked like this thing is. What I find really funny is that while retro/indie fans praise this thing retro/indie devs are tearing it a new hole:
Yeah honestly you probably could have just linked to the penny arcade article. Which I've all ready read by the way. Where did Mojang say that minecraft WON'T be on this? As far as developing for android or the pc I'm not a handheld kind of guy. Yes I know you can plug it into a tv a sync a controller but who seriously wants to go through that kind of effort to play a game for a few minutes? Honestly the article doesn't exactly go into why people like it. It's also criticizing the lack of information out there but it's seriously just been announced. So dream not crushed lol. Although like I said there are a lot of things that can go wrong but still there are a lot of things that can go right.
Yeah right the entire article, it's just a section dumbass, did you even read the whole thing? If you did you would have seen something interesting: some people did a similar project a few months ago for a plug&play android system for TVs. They got half a million bucks.........to repackage a $50 chinese android dongle. All the ouya believers out there do nothing but repeat the same crap ouya itself gives to the press, but developers? they say ouya hasn't tell them shit, not even which android libraries will it support, a BIG detail specially if they want to add controller support And read again, there will be minecraft but the crappy limited pocket edition, notch's words not mine
