OUYA android console

Broken Hope said:
What's funny is a lot of Sony/Microsoft fans trash Nintendo, yet they were the ones who pretty much saved the video game industry.
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Thats because a lot of xbox and ps3 players are young kids these days who only know their xbox's and see the older classic consoles as rubbish, it is a shame really...
 
KNiVES said:
I really, really don't like where console gaming is going. Sony and Microsoft have only themselves to blame for ridiculous development costs that has led to what is a perfect carbon copy of the events leading up to the great video game crash of 1983. Look that up. It's actually quite scary how similar it is today.

30 years on, we could see the same thing happen.
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No we won't. It's nothing like it is today, there's not a chance in hell anyone will allow another crash to happen.

OUYA could be great as a dedicated *Not allowed to talk about this here* system. Would save a lot of room and $99 is reasonable for even just that.
 
kcon1 said:
So many morons funding this expecting there to be games like Call of Duty, Skyrim and Day Z on it. It doesn't seem to be able to do anything that a PC or mobiles device can't.
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Well, it costs a lot less and is an awful lot more easy to play games on your TV to start with...
 
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kcon1 said:
So many morons funding this expecting there to be games like Call of Duty, Skyrim and Day Z on it. It doesn't seem to be able to do anything that a PC or mobiles device can't.
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You obviously don't understand what the Ouya is about, it's a cheap Android solution with media and gaming capabilities looking to capitalise on the mobile gaming opportunities. I've bought one as I quite often just want a quick blast on a fun game like Fieldrunners etc and would like to be able to play on my telly. I paid $119 (£76 on today's exchange rate), for that I get a console which can run small fun games and offers wide media capabilities.

They haven't been trying to bamboozle people, all their PR has been quite clear that this is an Android based console with capabilities to play mobile type games and people backing it want to be able to play things like Minecraft Pocket Edition, Fieldrunners etc etc on their TV as well as taking advantage of the media capabilities.

Roll on March 2013 say I.
 
Good feature on this on the new Games Tm mag I got today. It certainly looks very interesting and I cant wait for the indie guys to get to work optimising all the brilliant android emulators that are already running so well, it seems like a perfect emu box if nothing else.
 
Sorry to bump an old thread, but I've only just read about this thanks to Hexus putting an article up!

How many others here have backed this?
 
I saw this a while back and it does look interesting.

My concern is that as far as I'm aware all android apps are design for touch screen, so I'm not sure if they are going to convert games control, ask manufactures to port games, ask them to make games specially for this console, or have a built in convertor.

Off topic: Sorry to be negative.. but IMHO the mobile phone/pad game market is rubbish, I have a few games on my iphone which I use as boredom busters. even the mainstream console gaming is very poor at the moment and I end up getting retro games as they are fun and not a fps on DLC.

I hope OUYA does well, kudos to them.. the gaming market really needs a shake up. :)
 
Its using the Android OS, buts its a whole different system. It will have its own market its own games specifically designed for its fixed spec and controller. You could have games from phones, but they would have to be specifically ported to the OUYA.

They really shouldnt publicise the fact its on Android. People will think its crap even when it might not be.
 
Windle said:
Yesterday a video game project called Ouya became the eighth project in Kickstarter history to raise more than a million dollars, and the fastest ever to do so. Ouya hit the total in just over eight hours, shattering the previous record. Here’s how long it took each million-dollar project to cross the threshold:

OUYA — 8 hours and 22 minutes
Double Fine Adventure — 17 hours and 30 minutes
Pebble — 27 hours
Wasteland 2 — 41 hours
Shadowrun Returns — 7 days
The Order of the Stick — 27 days, 5 hours
Amanda Palmer — 27 days, 12 hours
Elevation Dock — 57 days

As you might expect, Ouya also has the biggest single-day total in Kickstarter history. It received more than $2.5 million in pledges from its launch on Tuesday at 8:44am to Wednesday at 8:44am. Here are the ten biggest 24-hour tallies on Kickstarter so far:

OUYA — $2,589,687.77
Double Fine Adventure — $1,064,652.05
Pebble — $863,132.92
Wasteland 2 — $555,407.84
Shadowrun Returns — $378,008.28
Amanda Palmer — $223,348.50
The Icarus Deception — $178,194.00
Elevation Dock — $161,507.00
Penny Arcade Sells Out — $151,221.17
gTar — $138,891.00

Ouya’s big day lead to another Kickstarter record: dollars pledged in a single day. On February 9th Kickstarter saw more than $1 million in pledges in a day for the first time. Until yesterday, Kickstarter's biggest day was on April 12th, when nearly $1.9 million was pledged. The amount pledged yesterday, July 10th? $3,174,820.

So what is Ouya, you ask? Ouya is a game console built on the Android operating system. Its creators pitched it as a platform for independent developers, and it clearly has big potential. In just 24 hours, 20,000 people bought an Ouya console — a product they had never heard of before yesterday. By way of comparison, Microsoft sold 326,000 Xbox 360 consoles in its first week after many millions of marketing dollars.

Congratulations to the Ouya team and their backers on the incredible debut!
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No doubt Google themselves played a part in that.
 
Calabi said:
Its using the Android OS, buts its a whole different system. It will have its own market its own games specifically designed for its fixed spec and controller. You could have games from phones, but they would have to be specifically ported to the OUYA.

They really shouldnt publicise the fact its on Android. People will think its crap even when it might not be.
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I think they publicise the fact its on Android to say its easy to develop for.. but your right it screams to me crap games.

IF they can get the major software houses on-board then its a winner, but a lot of them sells there gaming IPs to small third party developers; so they have little to no experience developing for the Android market which imho is flooded with rubbish.

EDIT: just watching this.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu2-B2Tkk9E namco and square have signup to make games.
 
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I don't think there should be too much issue, a lot of the games have digital trackpad and controls. Theoretically should be easy enough to adapt that to the Ouya controller.
 
Metalface Mark said:
Good feature on this on the new Games Tm mag I got today. It certainly looks very interesting and I cant wait for the indie guys to get to work optimising all the brilliant android emulators that are already running so well, it seems like a perfect emu box if nothing else.
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Thing is...

If you have any half decent notebook, or even netbook with AMD X2 cpu or a IOn type graphics affair, im pretty sure that those EMU's can be run at higher res/better quality and hooked up to your TV via HDMI etc...

or just play the EMU on your PC or notebook etc..

Also, the main apps/games for this are probably illegal and uhmm.. oh yea a £200 quid tegra 3 tablet with USB and HDMI can probably remove the need to ever own this and be much more useful via versitility in many situatuions.
 
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