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Kotaku: Meet Ouya, A New $99 Console That's Not The X360, PS3, Wii
- Thread starter pramath
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Well, it's more expensive, sleeker and hopefully has a better controller.
thekonamicode
Member
HadesGigas
Member
Made by people you've heard of and has support from developers you've heard of. Also better internal hardware than most of those.
Could still be a massive flop, but it won't be a cheap piece of junk that breaks within a week, most likely.
RiccochetJ
Gold Member
Pledged. Seems too damned interesting to pass up.
outunderthestars
Banned
excuse me for being dumb, but how easy would it be for an indie developer to port a PC game to this system?
RiccochetJ
Gold Member
Heh, they just bumped it to 20k now.
Deliverance
Neo Member
They'll sell the console on regular stores. I think that buying it after reviews and people's opinions will be much better than blindly throwing your money away. Also, what I've seen of Tegra 3 it's pretty bad, imo... We will see.
Same difficulty as porting it to an Android phone, which depends on the engine and the tools used. Some can export to Android rather easily, others would need a major overhaul.
haha, too much money. gotta keep it coming.
congrats to them. this is insane how quickly they got funded already.
makes sense. Shit is selling bonkers. It will be worth the waves the kickstarter news makes by itself.
NeOak
Member
Well, they can order 10k more with the money they are getting anyway
This helps me.
outunderthestars
Banned
Awesome! This is either going to turn out to be the coolest innovation of 2013, or will be the first major Kickstarter fiasco. Either way it will make for an entertaining Spring.
I wonder if this attention and sales success will lead to a round of outside investment in the company?
PsychoSoldier
Banned
Im partly interested in this just for the twitch.tv streaming.
well even if no cool games come out for it, you will still get decent media/web player so nothing wrong with that...
that's my issue with android, but this and the upcoming google tablet can only help close the gap
RiccochetJ
Gold Member
Depending on how this does, that could change very quickly.
HadesGigas
Member
Twitch is also coming to Xbox though (for XBL Gold subscribers, naturally).
Metal Gear?!
Member
Flash Support is being discontinued on android, though I suppose you could always use older versions for as long as they work.
VGChampion
Member
I don't get why they keep upping the number. They obviously want the money and have no supply problems. Just make it an open number. I know I know it's marketing but seriously. I did back them because I figured it'd be limited but now it's just getting dumb.
out0v0rder
Member
OH YEAH!
NeOak
Member
Or maybe because they didn't expect to do this well on their first day
Warm Machine
Member
Even 1.5 million isn't a lot of money. That is 15 staffers for a year. I'd be surprised to see what it really buys them.
Snapshot King
Member
I can't believe how fast funding is going for this thing. Everytime I refresh the page they're 10 or 20k higher than last I looked. Still don't know if I wanna bite the bullet on it...there's not even a rough ETA on this thing.
Edit: I can't read apparently. March is the date. Hmmm
Edit: I can't read apparently. March is the date. Hmmm
NeOak
Member
Estimated Delivery: Mar 2013
outunderthestars
Banned
Watching this really makes me wonder why Apple has never opened the Apple TV platform to app developers...
RadicalVelocity
Member
It is limited. Limited to the first production order they're going to send to the companies responsible for fabbing and supplying parts.
EDIT: and they need to know what the demand is and to acquire funding to fulfill that demand. Hence....
transience
Member
If this thing is legit, $99 for a device that could do netflix/twitch/youtube/last.fm/pandora, plus any number of emulators -- this thing could be pretty awesome even if there are zero games on it. Hell, you could have someone make and sell a legit N64 or Gamecube controller since the platform is open. Theoretically it seems like the sky is the limit.
I just worry about what's being promised vs. what it will actually be. Seems too good to be true. I'll hold off on pledging until I have a better feel for what this thing actually is, even if that means it'll be too hard to find for a year afterwards.
I just worry about what's being promised vs. what it will actually be. Seems too good to be true. I'll hold off on pledging until I have a better feel for what this thing actually is, even if that means it'll be too hard to find for a year afterwards.
Apple is a walled garden
Snapshot King
Member
Yeah, they'll keep jumping the number until near the end of the kickstarter, when they have a better idea of how much they can afford to make.
Unwavering, with no dropped frames? Is it publicly available?
Maybe it is possible, and I'm sure the phone is a huge factor, but I have yet to see anything in-person that runs perfectly smooth. I've seen things maintain 60 for brief periods, but there's always little patches of dropped frames. I'd love to see something that proves me wrong.
Yup, 29 days to go
outunderthestars
Banned
I really don't like that my console will have ten random peoples' usernames engraved on it.
djplaeskool
Member
Definitely getting Raspberry Pi vibes from this.
I don't think any status quo will be changing because of it, but I'm extremely interested to see what people do with them.
I don't think any status quo will be changing because of it, but I'm extremely interested to see what people do with them.
Seems to me like it needs more USB ports, they list it as having 1. Can you use a USB splitter on Android 4.0? External HDD seems like a must along with ability for other types of controllers (arcade stick)
Android supports USB hubs, so the answer is yes in theory.
NeOak
Member
A Sharpie should fix that lol
If it ever has an online system and you could add people than add those 10 people lol.