OUYA - $99 USD Game Console

[BIL]

Name still makes me want to look up some hawt German porno

[BrianC]

The name makes me want to look up more on classic wrestling and watch that one episode of Dexter's Lab with Macho Man Randy Savage as an alien wrestler.

[Obiwanshinobi]

"Ou Yaranaika!"

[the_last_shmupper]

I wonder how the Steam boxes will fare, seeing how everyone has a PC and no one bought a $100 box to play indie games.

[the_last_shmupper]

Razer bought Ouya: http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/06/15 ... ould-have/

I thought it would just be as easy for them to make their own Android box.

[BryanM]

Razer bought Ouya

: P >_< : D

What a reckless and unsavory spectacle to behold. On one hand it renders in me in awe, in the other, it makes me want to vomit.

[Ed Oscuro]

They probably spent $99 on it too.

For name brand recognition? There wasn't anything special about the Ouya that would lock apps in on it, was there?

[PC Engine Fan X!]

So that explains why I haven't seen the Ouya being sold at retailers like Best Buy and Target since the 1st/2nd quarter of 2015.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[BulletMagnet]

I think we may have stumbled upon a significant incentive for the buyout on Ouya's end.

[BryanM]

A mills bills is chump change compared to the bath they took on the rest of this enterprise.

This enterprise of shackling a phone to a TV instead of trying to undercut the 3DS's market.

[Ed Oscuro]

I don't think this was a setup, but it'd still be interesting to know if Ouya people had friends at Razer to bail them out.

If Razer doesn't cover the remaining funds I'll (continue to) be upset. Whatever they paid for the buyout, it can't be much more to help some of the small developers finish up. At best, this is a big blunder on Razer's part; I'd have been more impressed if they brought back the Phantom name. Ouya just reeks of failure.

[Strider77]

Begone foul system.

[the_last_shmupper]

I don't think this was a setup, but it'd still be interesting to know if Ouya people had friends at Razer to bail them out.

If Razer doesn't cover the remaining funds I'll (continue to) be upset. Whatever they paid for the buyout, it can't be much more to help some of the small developers finish up. At best, this is a big blunder on Razer's part; I'd have been more impressed if they brought back the Phantom name. Ouya just reeks of failure.

Desura is having that problem too. Can't pay developers.

I think the only reason anyone bought the Ouya is to review it or develop for it.

[BryanM]

I think the only reason anyone bought the Ouya is to review it or develop for it.

Heh, one of the earliest reviews, the guy got it from a pawn shop where a kickblaster backer had sold it after only having it for a day. There was an insert that said "THANK YOU FOR BELIEVING!" to which the reviewer remarked "well, no, I didn't believe.."

Let us reminisce on their crack advertising team.

[Stormwatch]

This enterprise of shackling a phone to a TV instead of trying to undercut the 3DS's market.

Which makes me wonder, why won't anyone make more phones like the Xperia Play?

[Obiwanshinobi]

Perhaps no gaming person really wants any more console brands around. Which - again - may have something to do with your average gamer being older now than we were when the industry didn't run on such huge funds. Everybody's tired now, I guess.

[BryanM]

Which makes me wonder, why won't anyone make more phones like the Xperia Play?

Whew, that thing looks painful.

Personally I'd rather have a standard portable console body that can use TCP/IP. VOIP is pretty neat these days, and when Musk enacts his evil plan of low earth satellites everywhere (which have sane ping times), it'd basically be a cell phone that you can't use in non-wifi enabled buildings, or cars.

Perhaps no gaming person really wants any more console brands around. Which - again - may have something to do with your average gamer being older now than we were when the industry didn't run on such huge funds. Everybody's tired now, I guess.

This seems like a little projecting; we're used up old bastages after all.

The simple truth is enthusiasts want games that cost $millions to make and have an actual marketing budget. And indie games want to be on platforms everyone already has. There is no middle ground. If you make a locked down console, you're in direct competition with Nintendo Sony Microsoft.

The Neo Geo was the absolute best an upstart outsider's ever managed to do that wasn't an enormous faceless multi $trillion conglomerate.

The OUYA? I don't know what people were thinking. Did they think it was going to be the next Neo Geo? Made by people who don't want to make games* nor in the possession of $billions?


* Not only uninterested in games, but actually view gamers as that guy in their ad?! Even I, who see us as the scum of the earth, don't think we're THAT bad.

[Specineff]

Which makes me wonder, why won't anyone make more phones like the Xperia Play?

Because the PSP Go was a failure?

[null1024]

Which makes me wonder, why won't anyone make more phones like the Xperia Play?

Because the PSP Go was a failure?

I think it's more so that the Xperia Play kind of sucked. Sony way underpowered the thing, I had one. Having the buttons was wonderful [the completely segmented d-pad, like on cheap clone USB controllers was dumb though], but as a phone, it was mediocre.
the analog pads were awful though, hot fuck

[Stormwatch]

Sony's fatal mistake, I think, was to make it very confusing to understand the nature of the product.

See, the Xperia Play was hyped as "the PlayStation phone". It was "PlayStation Certified".

Does it mean it can run PlayStation games? No.
Well then, can it run PlayStation 2 games? No.
But can it run PlayStation Portable games? No.

So, what the fuck was that "PlayStation Certified" thing all about? It means it could play "PlayStation Mobile" games. And what is this? A new platform of downloadable games for the Xperia Play and the Vita. And, mind you, the Vita wasn't even out yet.

So what was the point? There was nothing "PlayStation" about it, not in any relevant manner.

[the_last_shmupper]

I think official Steamboxes might fall into the same category. Who wants to buy a $600 PC to play games when they already have a $600 PC to play games? Maybe its a long run thing where they can make it up after 4 years. To top that off... Steam is known for dirt cheap games and sales, so why not buy expensive computers?

[Ed Oscuro]

Cheaper is always better, though, all things considered. If Steam boxes were actually providing for a market segment then it'd be one thing. I agree, though, that it doesn't look like it's actually that, but really a boutique thing. It might catch some people who would buy a Tiki but for the money, and certainly it'd be more hip than buying a HP or Lenovo box.

[BryanM]

I think official Steamboxes might fall into the same category.

At least the Ouya only had one spec!

I'm not entirely sure they're even marketing those things as a console, are they??

Who wants to buy a $600 PC to play games when they already have a $600 PC to play games?

A $600 PC inferior to a $200 to $300 one you can get that's been refurbished.

[broken harbour]

I get the Steam Box thing, and I think it can do well if it's handled and priced properly. It's designed for console-people, who want something they can just turn on, and launch a game, but is generally more powerful than something like an Xbone.

Being digital-distro only is actually forward thinking and honestly that's how the industry was going in another generation or two anyways, Steam boxes will likely popularize it, for better or worse.

The Controller for the Steam box is an abomination though.

If you're already a PC-guy that likes to fiddle and upgrade and do research... the product isn't for you. Myself, I'd rather build my own PC or buy something more open ended so I could boot into windows and use several different distribution platforms.

[Ed Oscuro]

Steam is already popular.

Regarding the Steam controller, I'm interested to try one out sometime. Bad analog sticks are a constant money drain.