OUYA - $99 USD Game Console

[gct]

Stormwatch I think you missed the point. Are these the kind of responses you would expect from any remotely competent company?

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I'm so glad I didn't buy one. My entertainment:money spent ratio is infinite!

Also, one person who purchased an unit from a local Gamestop confirmed that what he got is a Kickstarter unit. More reports of Kickstarter backers receiving notice that their rewards would be fulfilled by Amazon.

It really sounds like units produced during the Kickstarter run were hoarded for the retail release, and purchased back by Ouya Inc. to send to the KS backers they shafted. And then they can claim they are so successful that even Amazon are sold out.

Support staff were tripled, giving us those lovely Twitter responses. I can't believe this is real. At any other company, any support staff giving this kind of response would be fired or immediately disciplined at the very least. I don't even know what happened to the guy after that 'redtube' Twitter update. Probably nothing.

[Super Laydock]

Stormwatch I think you missed the point. Are these the kind of responses you would expect from any remotely competent company?

Like Microsoft and Sony never fuck up their customer support or pr.... and those are both longstanding experienced companies.
Let's not forget that Ouya is just about a year old company and yes it makes mistakes and probably will in the future as well. But let's just see how they deal with their faults before criticizing them too harsh.

Also it seems to me there are many people just wanting to see this fail, just because they don't see the promise and potential this could have. Haters gonna hate, right!?

[BryanM]

Also it seems to me there are many people just wanting to see this fail, just because they don't see the promise and potential this could have. Haters gonna hate, right!?

I don't want them to fail. If they fail, the show's over.

The potential for lulz might be in a lull - a stasis of sorts. But I have faith something will top what they've accomplished so far.

I can't imagine what that might be (besides an Ouya catching on fire and burning down someone's house), but something will happen. Something epic.

That I have no idea what that might be, is what keeps me paying attention to Yet Another Android Device.

[gct]

I admit I am a hater, but I hope I am being reasonable when I say MS and Sony should (and do) get grilled when they F up their support and PR and there is no reason why people should continually keep cutting Ouya Inc. slack whenever they drop the ball. They released a retail product - why is it OK to be broken, why is it OK to receive inadequate support for their broken product?

"That should not be happening". No shit? But it HAS happened, what can you do about it? From the support response it sounds like there is no intention to do anything about it.
It's pretty telling the support system is broken/nonexistent when customers need to call Ouya Inc. out on Twitter to get them to look at the tickets.

Looking back through this thread since page 1, yes there was a time when I too was hopeful this thing would be good, but perhaps in the back of my mind I knew that Ouya Inc. promised way more than it was possible to deliver, and all the wacky you-can't-make-this-stuff-up incompetence killed any faith I had pretty quickly.

I don't want them to fail. If they fail, the show's over.

The potential for lulz might be in a lull - a statis of sorts. But I have faith something will top what they've accomplished so far.

I can't imagine what that might be (besides an Ouya catching on fire and burning down someone's house), but something will happen. Something epic.

That I have no idea what that might be, is what keeps me paying attention to Yet Another Android Device.

My guess is it might be a lawsuit of some kind. An official (removed) Twitter update advertised the system playing an emulated Super Mario Bros, certain Kickstarter backers probably have grounds to file a class-action suit, and it is not known whether Ouya Inc. have paid the necessary fees to use HDCP on their video output.

[Specineff]

There are rumors that Google is going to launch their own Android-based game console. If they do, Ouya will become the next Gizmondo.

[trap15]

STOP MAKING ANDROID CONSOLES YOU STUPID FUCKS

Obviously we have learned nothing from the Intellivision/Colecovision/2600 days.

[BryanM]

STOP MAKING ANDROID CONSOLES YOU STUPID FUCKS

Obviously we have learned nothing from the Intellivision/Colecovision/2600 days.

If google makes one, and actually, you know, makes some fuckin' games that are almost as good as the stuff Nintendo is doing, it could be a... a... successful product.

Hell, I dunno if its even Android based.

More Neo Geo than 5200 or OUYA.

[Oniros]

It would be awesome if the Cave iOS ports came to this thing. I would snag it in a second.

[Udderdude]

It would be awesome if the Cave iOS ports came to this thing.

It runs Android, so uh .. no. Maybe the few Android shmups they made will show up on it at some point. :p

[Ghegs]

Been tinkering with the system a lot today after I learned the magic of sideloading. It means installing any Android program (*.apk) to the Ouya so you're not limited to what's available in the Ouya store alone. It's a bit of a hit and miss of course - I tried Dotemu's R-Type port and while I could move the ship around without any problems, the shoot and Force buttons wouldn't map to anything. Bummer. But there's a list of programs confirmed to work nicely here and more are discovered in quite a rapid fashion.

People are also reporting the emulators are pretty good, but personally I don't have any interest in those, so I haven't given them a shot.

[shmuppyLove]

People are also reporting the emulators are pretty good

QFT - I was blown away by how well RetroArch runs PS1 games. Go play some Ridge Racer

[Ghegs]

People are also reporting the emulators are pretty good

QFT - I was blown away by how well RetroArch runs PS1 games. Go play some Ridge Racer

I hope others will, I can play my original disc on my real PS1 with a neGcon controller.

[Obiwanshinobi]

If google makes one, and actually, you know, makes some fuckin' games that are almost as good as the stuff Nintendo is doing, it could be a... a... successful product.

In the days of WoW outbreak, I thought of a MMORPG-dedicated console. 360 seemed like a step in this direction (in terms of how social by design it was).
One economical weakness of MMORPGs are all the people who don't play on computers. PSP overstepped this gap only in Japan, but I think some WoW-like console will conquer the Earth one of these days.

[Super Laydock]

Just a post to tell anyone having an Ouya and not being familiar with Super Crate Box to try it out.
Give it more than 5 minutes and you're hooked.

It's free (full game) atm and incredibly addictive.
As simple as it is, it's an archetype for classic game fun and a proof that -if well programmed- ouya controller has no lag at all. (I also tried it with PS3 controller and with both it works like a charm).

For those without an ouya, it is available on PC and some other systems (mobile) as well.

[Xonatron]

I'm still waiting on my OUYA to arrive, and I'm a KickStarter backer. We're going to explore porting our games to OUYA... but no promises. Just letting you know it's an interest of ours. If we properly manage to bring our source code over to a cross-platform solution, one that hopefully supports Android, I can't see that we won't release it to OUYA. We are more about the big TV living room experience than the hand-held experience, and OUYA is right up the same alley. So, pending a cross-platform solution we could be bringing Decimation X3, Score Rush, and some form of Duality ZF to OUYA. No promises.

[Udderdude]

So this thing is out, and surprise .. it's half-assed crap. Almost every issue that people noticed when it was in development wasn't fixed. At this point I highly doubt there will even be another Ouya console, maybe a revision that fixes some of the issues. They needed to score a 9/10 and got a 5/10 instead.

http://www.polygon.com/2013/7/23/4549332/ouya-review

[Obiwanshinobi]

Also, I've heard Towerfall is good, specifically for the local multi. Anyone played it?

Anybody?

[Friendly]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDANnkRte7M

[railslave]

Rozyrg's "flying V/fire arrow" reboot is a system seller for me, worth the money just for his stuff..of which im guessing there will be a metric **** ton!!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvEvBi9Wtvo

[dave4shmups]

I'd really love to get an Ouya, but I have concerns about the speed of the wireless connectivity. I've heard that you really need to plug in an Ethernet cable to it to get fast download speeds. But I recently got an iPad Air, and that has no problems connecting to my wireless network in the 2-story house that I live in. Why would the Ouya be any different? They're both wi-fi enabled devices that are fairly new. (FYI, my wireless router is an older Trendnet model that is an 108Mbps 11g wireless router.)

I want to play some DonkeyMe!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziNLXiMPEtU How cool is that! And the game's FREE!

[o.pwuaioc]

It's been out a while now, any good shmups on there?

[PC Engine Fan X!]

What's interesting about the Ouya console is, that it does have built-in support for the 3D LED/LCD HDTVs out there...upon hooking up a HDMI v1.4 spec cable to a proper 3D HDTV setup, an option comes up (from within the Ouya Display Settings submenu) to adjust the 3D Depth slider from value "0 to 100" (default is at "20" setting). So it's cool to reboot some doujin shmup titles like Genocide Circuit and revisit it as a 3D shmup + tate option in full HD glory (even though it was never intended to be played in 3D). Although the Ouya instruction manual doesn't mention anything about 3D support, it's there alrighty -- works like a charm regardless if you use an passive 3D glasses or LCD active-shutter type of 3D glasses setup.

Not to mention that Ouya recently released an all-black colored 16GB endowed Ouya console + all black-colored Ouya controller back in April of 2014. Still haven't been able to buy one of those black Ouya consoles lately due to initial low production rollout. Most American based retailers still have the current silver colored 8GB endowed Ouya consoles in stock. Target had a special deal of selling an 8GB Ouya console for a mere $69.99 USD for an entire week that ended on May 5th, 2014.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[PC Engine Fan X!]

Target is currently selling the all-black colored Ouya console with an all-black colored Ouya gamepad + 16gb of internal flash memory storage. It's selling at the same MSRP tag of $99.99 USD (of the 1st gen silver colored Ouya console with a mere 8gb of flash memory storage).

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[BryanM]

Man, still asking for a whole Benjamin. I remember when I was a kid one of those would buy you an entire NES. If they could even produce exclusively 1/10th the joy that thing brought me, I'd take back all the mockery I've given them before.

Maybe there is a niche out there for 2D games that would take $30k to $250k to produce each. But that's something a game company does, like Nintendo or SNK.

Have they done any of that "indie funding" stuff they mentioned once off-hand, yet?

[BryanM]

Oh man, someone invoked the name of this and I had to check up on how its doing. Company's for sell, but no one's buying. Logical, since it's like property in a condemned area of Detroit: it has negative value.

XBoxPants (you know, the "half as successful as playstation 1" based on pre-orders guy?) posted a photo of his controller. Brace yourself for the sad.

[Strider77]

Let us all take a long collective fart on the Ouya.

[the_last_shmupper]

At least it sold to developers to see how their game is to publish it on. Developers selling to developers.

My local Gamestop had them for about a month. Three were sold out of the shelf. I mentioned to the clerk how are the Ouya's doing? He said all 3 that sold were brought back within a week.

[BrianC]

at least Kool-Aid Man likes it.

[broken harbour]

A buddy of mine has one, he was a kick starter backer, all he ever uses it for is an emulator-box.

[the_last_shmupper]

I have to wonder what happened to that OUYA controller. I've got an original X-Box controller that's been sitting on a floor maybe 5 years and doesn't look that bad. Now I've dusted it off, wrapped it up and put it in a drawer. I need to start putting rags or something on my old systems.