Ouya selling Past any optimistic Numbers

Many online gaming pages says it's almost sold out everywhere and on amazon too... Seems it will bode well for it?

 

Opinion here, don't flame...

Despite that is sold well, it sold on a hype wave with limited numbers- they're a small company and so couldn't feed the hype with enough consoles to not sell out.
I'm going to go with "it'll do OK" in the sense that it won't be a market failure, but neither will it be something that everyone is scrambling to get for the exclusives. It is just an android console, after all.

The Shield is more attractive to me, but then again it is more expensive. the OUYA is geared towards less-expensive gaming.

 

There can't be that many units out there, after all, it took them months to ship the relatively small amount of backer consoles. Anyway, the only Ouya review that matters is out:

 

What was that about HDCP? He liked it? :3

But seriously. I like his reviews.

 

far better unboxing and critique of the Ouya:

 

I'm glad it's doing well. I'll wait for Version 2 since I understand it's not without it's problems.

 

Ouya's simple yet elegant interface and storefront and download only aspect makes me think that this is what the xbox one team should be looking at for how to do this type of console correctly.

For emulators its a very cool system since tons of programs are available right from the start and you can download roms using its built in web browser (for backup purposes of course). I'm not sure how big this console will be or if it will catch on but for what it is its very nice.

 

ehm why is this the review that matters...

He didn-t poperly or extensively test the machine, he tried just 4 games and 2 he already knew. complained about an indie game quality and choose what from what i heard so far is the only unfinished emulator. He didn-t even bother giving xbmc a proper run and didn-t even bother recording it. I guess your standards for reviewing an hardware are very low. In such a fashion all and any console or hardware can be said to suck...

yet he-s right in saying it-s very early days so i guess he-ll give a proper review in a few weeks

 

Because it's Ashens, and he's the best. You might be taking a review made by a guy who ate old Jelly Babies in a video too seriously.

 

just saying i have no clue who he is... just didn-t seem special or extremely better than most reviewers. maybe he was just way too lazy in this case.

 

I don't really get the appear of the Ouya. Some people seem to think it would make a good emulation machine, but if that's what they want the Raspberry Pie computer is just as small, a lot cheaper, and probably more powerful(?).

 

Are you joking? The raspberry pi is a completely underwhelming 700MHz ARM CPU with a mere 512/256MB RAM and only supports OpenCL hardware acceleration (which is supported by a video player and whopping 2 games if I remember rightly)?

 

I got mine since april and is a nice console, is not the kind of console to compete with the big brands but its nice for a casual and to keep the girls occupied LOL. The emulators run very nice is cheap, small you can take it anywhere and set up easily. Yesterday I run onlive and I got to play some games without a problem.

 

Wasn't joking, just didn't know the specs (hence the "(?)").

 

USA today seems to think so

 

It's cheap enough that I can't bash it, that said, they will never get the big name publishers on there running Android, as those pubs are paranoid with piracy.

 

I don't get the appeal of them either, supposedly it's to allow kids and 3rd world countries the ability to program or something but other than that it seems useless, unable to be used as a file server because apparently the chipset makes LAN access slow.

 

In fairness USA today is hardly a reputable source on such a matter, plus that quotes perennial bullshitter Uhrman who says (with a straight face)

"The consoles are still incredibly expensive," Ouya CEO Julie Uhrman says. "The business model hasn't changed. We offer something very different. We really carved out our own space."

Carved out their own space? with an Android based console that is going to get most of the Google Play store ported to it? Gold star Julie Uhrman! That's some legendary PR bullshitting, right up there with regional sporting promotions proclaiming their athletes to be "world class" and Sony and Microsoft claiming they have what consumers want in mind.

 

But it's a Mainstream source

 

I love this guys videos. Been watching for years, I even sent him a pop station to review.