You were right to rethink your comment. With mobile parts it isn't powerful enough to acquire multiplatform games from the bigger consoles.
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Video of Ouya dev console unboxing, complete with early controller
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You were right to rethink your comment. With mobile parts it isn't powerful enough to acquire multiplatform games from the bigger consoles.
How many games are going to use it, though?
Tegra 3 gives a performance comparable to that of the original XBOX, how many mobile games feature better graphics than XBOX games?
and just as pertinent, how many developers can create assets and art greater than this level anyway.
personally I'm looking to this to take off so if I want xbla/psn style gaming I don't need to buy an expensive device aimed at a completely different market to accomplish it.
Pachterballs
Banned
It reminds me of generi made in china shit you buy in chinatown.
if you have a decentish pc/laptop, there's no room in ur life for this
if you have a decentish pc/laptop, there's no room in ur life for this
vagabondarts
Member
If they don't get the controller to be amazing then what is the point?
Such an exciting concept, but they absolutely HAVE TO get the controller perfect if they want this to have any success whatsoever.
Such an exciting concept, but they absolutely HAVE TO get the controller perfect if they want this to have any success whatsoever.
Diablohead
Member
If the ouya get's a yearly update and you can buy just the device without any wires and pads for a reasonable price I can't see much of a problem with that, could always go tegra 3 next spring or something.
I'd like to see the ouya have more power from the get go but there is already a fair bit in that system, it might limit 3D stuff but it's ample for a lot of 2D games imo, long as the ouya sells there will be developers for it.
I'd like to see the ouya have more power from the get go but there is already a fair bit in that system, it might limit 3D stuff but it's ample for a lot of 2D games imo, long as the ouya sells there will be developers for it.
No shit Sherlock its purpose is to play Android games on a TV with a controller, nothing more. That's what the intelligent people backed it for anyway.
Pachterballs
Banned
blah blah "microUSB" port... hook it up to your pc. PC invalidates the ouya. The video at the end "ouya".. and cut.
LMAO.
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LMAO.
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It's for developers to debug, anyone familiar with Android development would know USB debugging is standard. You're really living up to the Pachter part of your screen name right now.
KennyLinder
Member
Seriously? Do people not listen?
Doug Heffernan
Member
Does anybody actually want this besides the people who kicked in money to it?
No they don't, they really don't.
OgTheClever
Member
As long as my hands are symmetrical, there's no way I can find asymmetrical analogues comfortable.
no, cheap casual gaming has never been popular
WAR recon zero
Banned
will only get this when i'm sure this can run 1080p videos
Sure, I can put a NeoGeo sticker on it then sell it for twice that price.
It can, I've got a Nexus 7 with Tegra 3 that can do it just fine.
The email to backers also contained a new screen of the UI if that's any consolation. I could post it here if anyone gives a crap.
IrishNinja
Member
this would've been a boom before the DS3 drivers were released, sure
i reject these standards! i like things about all 3 controllers
Ingueferroque
Banned
Sounds like some sort of damage control, regarding the controller comments. It looks cheap and dingy, which I'm sure is something they don't want out there as negative buzz.
dark_inferno
Member
Perfect. Now we have a extern HDD with 1 GB for 100$.
That's pretty normal for pre-final hardware, I remember the nitro dev kit which was quite literally the innards of two GBA's strapped together. The problem here is that most indy developers won't be familiar with pre-release hardware and so may be taken aback by how shoddy the SDK, crashy the hardware and cheap the joypad feel.
I have NFI what you're on about.
Diablohead
Member
I want one but missed the kickstarter.
The Abominable Snowman
Member
Why? Its finally a decent looking Android gaming development platform. If nothing else, it'll make an awesome media center that plays emulated and original games, and will be pretty decent for web surfing/word processing/being a second computer in a pinch.
I see more merit to this than the Apple TV or the Google Nexus Q.
Post it please
It looks bad yes but as I pointed out earlier there's nothing wrong with a disc shaped dpad, it's just Microsoft designed a terrible mechanism. Sega Saturn had a similar dpad that didn't suck.
Not much but there it is.
Azure Dream
Member
You can still order one, unless you specifically meant a developer console. Which are in effect identical to the release consoles, to my understanding, devs just get them a few months earlier.
I believe the retail consoles will have to be "unlocked" in some fashion to make them devkits though I'm probably completely wrong there.
BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO
Junior Member
Does it?
SnakeSlashRO
Banned
Would you have preferred they use the PS3's shit D-Pad?
Im convinced the only good D-Pads out there are the Saturn Pad and the Vita D-Pad. And thats only for fighters... The Xbox's is fine.
Man, I get really angry at posts like this. What is the point of this hostility? Have they robbed you of any money? Did they run over your dog? I just don't get it. Just let them do their thing.
I for one wish them luck and I hope they will be at least successful enough to stay in the business for a while. I haven't backed the kickstart but I'll buy one of those consoles when they're available. I might even tinker with the SDK in the future.
Diablohead
Member
For the asking price of $99 / £65 you get something strong enough to be a good media hub, has it's own fully supported controller, can be used as a browsing computer and has hdmi out to tv, it's very much a smartphone in a small box but you can do a lot of things with it, it's not just an app playing system.
As someone said this thing has more going for it then a £99 apple tv once you install some streaming apps.
Pointless to you maybe but not to everyone.
Some people are just eternal pessimists trying to ruin everyone's fun. I don't understand it either, it's the type of attitude that dissuades me from posting on forums such as this.
Well at least it has a controller. So it's already more respectable than ios/other smartphones and tablets.
But yeah as far as games go it'll never be as impressive as a real handheld or console. This is just a slight step up from ios crap.
Neoriceisgood
Member
I'm completely oblivious to Ouya, is this thing cool or what?
I wasn't aware that having an opinion stopped these guys from packing smartphones into little cubes and selling it as a console. My bad (Not meant to be an insult towards the thing. I know what it is).
I never said it was pointless to everyone.
For someone like me however, it doesn't seem worth it. I've got my Xbox, I've got my PC and I've got my iPhone... They do pretty much everything I want them to. This Ouya offers me nothing new at all.
Yes, that's exactly it.
Well, there is that. By the looks of it though, it still needs a bit of work (which they admitted).
Deus Ex Machina
Member
I wish they would have waited for Tegra 4. Me cellphone has better specs..
The Abominable Snowman
Member
Its similar to having one of those Smart TV/Smart TV adapters, except way more powerful and was built with bluetooth capability in mind. Oh and it comes with 2 controllers for gaming. Pair a bluetooth Media keyboard and mouse and its the best media console you'll ever have.
I hate the way Android handles network drives, so no expandable memory is a downer. I guess its USB HDD or bust.
PapaJustify
Member
Nah, they should wait for Tegra 5. Or why not building a GeForce graphics card together with an Intel i7 into this thing? The technology is there - today!
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
I hope they get enough pull to use better soc's in the future... tegra3 is as bottom of the barrel as it gets for ARM soc's.