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So it seems there are going to be 2 consoles powered by android coming soon,
Ouya and another one called game stick.
Is this the way gaming is heading with lots of different ways to game or will these just fail I wonder....
All we need is a apple console now ?? :p
 
spinna said:
Maybe because of the controller ? :p
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Yes, I'd love to play some Android games on a controller, even if they have been designed to be played on a touchscreen... :p

Sorry, I just don't see the point of these consoles at all. If I'm at home then I already have two other vastly superior consoles. If I'm waiting for a bus or something then I've got Plants v Zombies on my phone, I don't want or need to play it in my living room, and I don't want to pay for an extra piece of hardware to do something my phone can already do.
 
Yeah, I just dont see a place for android specific consoles. As tablets\phones do android, in exactly the same manner. Yeah theres a controller, but honestly, my phone works with a 360 pad, and it can be hooked up to the TV.

I think the Ouya is a good concept, but I would have thought it would have made more sense to try and launch android platform on existing consoles.

Android support on PS3? It wouldnt exactly be a difficult thing to implement.
 
Yes I see your point,I haven't even heard of game stick until I clicked on GAME website before and seen it.
There seems to be lots of devices out at the moment , I remember years ago it was Nintendo and sega and what you seen was what you got pick one of the 2 and enjoy your gaming :)
 
Personally, I don't see that much of a future for them. Short term at least.


Yes they're cheap to buy, but I question much else about them.

The current android game base is not suited to the big screen + controller. They will essentially be starting as a brand new console.

Much has been touted about how 'easy' they are to develop for. They use Java which everyone knows, but the underlying hardware is completely different from what pretty much all developers are used to, so its going to take a while to start getting some nice optimisations.
Have to design around a new, different controller.
Yearly hardware refreshes make development of big games risky, pretty much removing one of the key advantages consoles have over PC (from a developer point of view).

Also, there is some stiff competition in gaming sector ATM. New consoles from the big 3, PC gaming in the rise, steam box on the way, and cloud gaming looming around the edges.


Finally, I already own a powerful android device, so all the other features the consoles tout are redundant.
 
I've ordered an Ouya, for a couple of reasons. It's a nice shiny box and not a tatty stick. It has a standard controller which games are made or adapted to use (there is no Play store on Ouya by default). It has bluetooth, so can connect to BT keyboards. There are emus in the works for all the consoles pre-Dreamcast (and maybe one day NullDC) which is a massive draw for me. Some of the early games show some real promise, and it's only been available as a dev unit for a few months. It has native XBMC support, with hardware decode, unlike some random smart phone and finally it's cheap enough not to care too much about.

Yes, I could fork out for a cable to connect my SII to my TV, then buy a bluetooth pad to play some games which weren't designed with a pad as a main feature but how much would that cost? Not much less and then there's phone calls/missed calls mid movie/game :p

If I had a console then maybe it would be different but I really CBA plugging/moving stuff to stick my laptop/PC onto the TV
 
Ouya got some rather bad first impressions but I'm sort of why bother with an Android games console? We've got this already - its called a tablet or a mobile phone. You can easily plug a mobile phone into your telly and hook up a gamepad, but honestly. Who'd want to play Temple Run 2 on a telly, its got tilt controls for a start, they are designed to run on smaller screens whilst on the train, bus or at work bored etc..

The big boys, nintendo, Sony and Microsoft have the living room console market, PC gaming is making a big comeback, can't see the point myself but early days. Could be proved wrong, think Ouya is a bit of a white elephant IMO.

Was excited for it at first, but then quickly realised I've got an Ouya already. Its my HTC one X mobile phone. Its rooted and does all sorts of funky stuff, and thats all I need.

Leave living room gaming to Nintendo, sony or MS and wait and see what Steambox has to offer.
 
Entirely depends on the games they can get out for it. If it's bog standard phone games then no I agree, it would be pretty pointless. However if developers started creating some real great games for it, it could do quite well. I think I saw Starbound demo'd on it a while ago?
 
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