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Started 9 months ago by Dragon246
Latest reply from freedoms_stain

Dragon246
Member

For all those thinking ouya is more powerful than ps3 or xbox 360, you could not be farther from truth.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/df-hardware-how-powerful-is-tegra-3

Despite all the noise about open system, as a games console, it has NO NEW TITLES at launch and none in the foreseeable future.
Also if open system means in DRM or a piss poor one, why would people launch games for it? PC is already there for indie.
So doesn't that leave ouya Dead On Arrival?

Edit- Also see this,
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-07-14-saturday-soapbox-the-trouble-with-ouya
False marketing is always bad and they are doing a lot of it.

Posted 9 months ago #
Sadismek
Member

Who thought OUYA is more powerful than the curent consoles? Tegra IS powerful... for a smartphone. I'm afraid this will bomb so hard.

Posted 9 months ago #
Gadzooks!
Member

You miss the point of Ouya so badly. The last thing I want on it are showy shallow AAA games. It's an Indie/emulator box primarily.

Posted 9 months ago #
Phoenixblight
Member

We have little less than a year to go until this is released. There is nothing stopping Google from making their own device that does the exact same thing as Ouya, plus it being more secure instead of a hackable hardware. I do believe this "console" will be DOA especially with how easy is for someone to beat them to the punch because all it is, is a glorified tablet.

Posted 9 months ago #
Dragon246
Member

@3
So you want to spend 99$ for indie games that can be played on pc? You are really dumb. Also read the articles . Their shitty marketing mentioned AAA games as one of the sales pitch for it too.
We are just over half a year away from its launch and which indie games are announced for it actually? None yet, nor AAA games. The only thing it will ever get is android ports which looks like shit on television as they are made for smartphones .

Posted 9 months ago #
M. K.
Member

God, Dragon you're totally clueless :D Are you really complaining about something, that you don't know?

All we know is, that Ouya is a console, with android, tegra and probably onlive support for 99$. Nothing more, nothing less.

The only thing you can complain about is the lack of information, but still people are throwing money out, hoping it's going to be great without knowing s*** about it :D

Posted 9 months ago #
Anders
Member

My issue with the madness surrounding Ouya is not the consoles lack of power or titles, but the fact that it probably won't be released at all. You don't research, produce, manufacture and market a gaming console for 8.5 million USD. This will end badly.

Posted 9 months ago #
Dragon246
Member

@Anders
Somehow people dont understand that simple fact. you mentioned . Manufacturing hardware costs HUNDEREDS OF MILLIONS of dollars.

Posted 9 months ago #
M. K.
Member

Pure comedy here :D

Posted 9 months ago #
Gadzooks!
Member

Designing and launching new hardware, operating systems and infrastructure costs hundreds of millions for the big 3. Launching an already well established tablet build and existing OS will cost comparative peanuts, and it won't be a full capacity worldwide launch.

Come on guys this is completely basic, obvious stuff. How can you be so stupid to think it's anything like a big 3 launch.

Try using your brains and you might not make yourselves look like such dullards. :D

Posted 9 months ago #
Gheritt White
Member

Its certainly got a lot of press, entirely thanks to the Kickstarter gold-rush. Be interesting to see if that translates into sales.

Posted 9 months ago #
OlderGamer
Moderator

I wouldn't expect a Big 3 style launch Gad. But just because it doesn't match them, doesn't mean it can't find its niche out there and survive just fine.

I really wish them the best. If the price is right and has subscribtion free online services like Netflix, I might pick me up one too.

Posted 9 months ago #
Phoenixblight
Member

"subscribtion free online like Netflix"

Netflix isn't subscription free. Did you mean subscription fee and really Netflix is on all three systems plus tablet and smart phones so I don't see that as a driving force either.

Posted 9 months ago #
silkvg247
Member

I'm just pissed that they listened to the majority of other brainelss contributors shrieking "OMG OMG USE O U Y A on the controller buttons".

Does anyone actually *stop* and *think* about basic design principles? Apparently not. Third standard for console buttons incoming, hoo-fucking-
ray.

My suggestion was that the four buttons be triangles facing up, down, left and right.. each a different colour (not that it matters because all of a sudden the symbols *make sense* and colour doesn't even really matter).

But no. Lets use OUYA. Now where was Y again? Was it the top or the lef.. oh shit, quick time even fail. Bravo, bravo.

Yes I am getting quite bitter at sheer idiocies I see out in the industry. And especially when something new comes along and makes all the same fuckups all over again.

Posted 9 months ago #
flashfv
Member

People who have had a console for awhile might get an ouya just for a little bit of change. Then people who can't afford 200 dollar consoles will get an ouya. There is plenty of money to be made if it ever makes it into stores. But on the performance level it will be below the competition and when you take mobile graphics at there best which are starting to look pretty good and stretch them to a a big hdtv you will notice that they aren't that great they mostly suck. Maybe ps2 graphics at best. It won't be comparable to ps3 or 360 and probably not the wii except for the hd of the menu. Emulators will be possible on it but the roms that people use will be illegal so I wonder if sony or nintendo might sue over copyright issues. PC emulators are pretty hard to sue over but a console competing with them might make it easier. Multiplayer might be fun on it but there will be so much cheating that it might suck.

Posted 9 months ago #
ManuOtaku
Member

Dragon said "So you want to spend 99$ for indie games that can be played on pc? You are really dumb"
I dont do PC gaming, and if good games comes for this console i will get it, although i will wait and see, and also keep in mind that a considerable amount of gamers that game on the consoles dont do PC at all, this will sound intriguing, and if the game are coming why not?

Posted 9 months ago #
Anders
Member

@Gadzooks: I didn't write that it will cost billions of dollars, like Microsofts warchest for the original Xbox, but it will cost a heck of a lot more than 8.5 million dollars. Unless they build it by manufacturing and assembling parts in their garage. In that case, more power to them.

Posted 9 months ago #
freedoms_stain
Moderator

The Ouya is done. They have a prototype, the point of the kickstarter campaign was purely to get it manufactured.

Aside from that a fuckload of the work traditionally associated with building a console was simply not an issue for the Ouya team because of the way they're doing this.

The Tegra 3 is a system on a chip, Nvidia did all that development for them by building that chip, it really needs very little in additional components to become a fully fledged computer.

They've stated the console will run on an Android back end, again the majority of the work has been done for them, all that really remains for them is to tailor it to their hardware and come up with a controller friendly UI - Which was already done, or at least well on its way.

If you look at the way the kickstarter campaign was run they were clearly working out how many units they could afford to manufacture and increasing the numbers of units available at each tier, that suggests that they have their numbers worked out to me.

Posted 9 months ago #

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