Let's be realistic here: how many people do you think have the ability, motivation and follow-through to actually create and release an app/game? This isn't a revolutionary idea, this is fantasy. Sure, there many be plenty of people who pick this up and tinker with it, but the vast majority that I am seeing who are fawning over this are because they want yet another platform that can do emulation.
I'm a backer and if someone make an arcade emulator that runs full for neo geo and capcom cps1 and cps2 arcade games I'm gonna be a very happy gamer.
Bumping cause of the recent update posted.... something I was really looking forward to. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console/posts/283033 In short...
Yeah good news indeed, having XBMC on the OUYA is just AWESOME . Hopefully the team will be able to make XBMC run full speed with support of all mayor codecs.... I'm sure they will!
We're polarized on this one aren't we. I for one will be buying this If it's open then maybe I can make some mutant version of it.
Lets see.. 1)Can run same software as currently existing Android hardware 2)Can use the same FREE SDK to develop software as existing Android hardware. Not seeing a downside as a developer. As a user I can see a few but holy crap is this thread littered with some very interesting "ideas". I personally don't bother playing "games" on my phone because the battery life goes down to nothing quickly, touch interfaces are terrible for anything but "Angry Birds" type games and I don't want my gameplay interrupted with text messages or phone calls. This is a cool idea but I have no idea if it will take off. However, if the profit margin is there at $100 I don't see why it couldn't take over the niche market that already exists for it. Anyone bashing it here is not part of that market.
I see one downside for the developer: you'd have to develop specifically for the Ouya or make a different version with a different control scheme. Most games on Android run on a touch screen interface for obvious reasons, and not that many developers are probably willing to develop specifically for the small Ouya market. Plus as the Ouya hardware gets outdated, they'd have to make an Ouya-specific version anyway. The funny part of the "niche market" thing is that survey where they asked what games people wanted, and they voted for games like fucking CoD and Skyrim of all things. What universe are the voters living in? :dejection:
Interesting idea, but I already have a mobile phone capable of running games and an Xbox 360 which acts as a media streamer/games machine, etc. No real point to releasing this unit.
Yeh, I'd love to use this for XBMC instead of an XBox. Don't get me wrong I absolutely love the XBox (Borman ain't got nothin on me) but it is showing its age.
The Nexus 7(?) with CM9 looks pretty sweet too. If it can use bluetooth with a PS3 controller I'm game though this seems like it'll be a bit more of an improvement. I can also see this thing being a valuable commodity for collectors later in time.
The current Anroid-boxes (for connecting to your TV) are total crap. One key element that most are forgetting, the OUYA will have a nice dashboard and network infrastructure. For playing games it's nice to have this, in order to keep track of your friends accomplishments and achievements as well as your own.
Is it just me? The best part about this whole thread is we will actually get to see the results of whether it tanks, succeeds or ends up somewhere in the middle. I'm expecting it to land squarely in the middle. Well that or them to run off with all the money.
It's gonna tank spectacularly, for various reasons: they have nobody on board with any experience in actually making a console, the manufacturing costs will be too high to sell it at $99, meaning they'll either have to sell at a loss (not gonna happen) or raise the price, they have nothing except a few renders a month in and they've been making delusional surveys asking if backers would like to play Skyrim on their mobile phone hardware box, even though in reality the only thing they have for software support is a few ports of Android apps. However, probably the biggest problem they have is that most people, even ones in this thread, have been planning to get the Ouya to play emulators and watch pirated movies, meaning not many people are excited to play the actual games on a platform known for widespread piracy in any case.
No it's going to completely revolutionize the game industry and take the world by storm. It will launch so spectacularly that 50,000 people owning it will just be the first wave. It will have really exciting games from all publishers where people will just be able to try out new gaming ideas and everything will be AMAZING! Oh so that's what it feels like to make broad absolute statements based on zero evidence lol.
What do you mean "zero evidence"? No experience making consoles: the only thing anyone in the Ouya team has ever made is some shitty Bluetooth speaker, the rest are "marketing" people. Manufacturing costs: the Nvidia Tegra alone costs $15-25, and they've also specced a custom case and controller (with touchpad). Nothing but a few renders exist: well, go to their incredibly awful website and see the equally awful renders. Delusional survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ouyatop20 Only thing for software support is Android ports: their own updates. Oh yeah, they also have that port of a shitty browser FPS. Many people in this thread have said they're going to get it for emulators and pirated movies.
on the last video they have uploaded they show the supposed motherboard. Also bandai/namco seems to be about to join the developers.
So you know the sum of there entire team, the exact manufacturing process they are going to use, and also the process/cost of the case? You also know that the shitty fps game is the only game they will have and the system will launched and only be used for pirated games? Wow this is indeed DOOMED to fail. You must have a lot of information to have all those variable completely figured out and to know exactly what is going to happen.
