Sir_Crocodile
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What talent are we talking here?
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Dean Takahashi: Nintendo should've bought Ouya; Wii U Dead in Water
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What talent are we talking here?
Hahahaha, so true.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
Yeah an underpowered android console is Nintendo salvation this gen.
Any decent Smartphone/Tablet released the last year is a better "console" than Ouya.
Any decent Smartphone/Tablet released the last year is a better "console" than Ouya.
the talent who thought that bringing the Ouya to market right now was a smart idea? i doubt they even know anything about the hardware they're putting in the Ouya. they seen that mobile chips were getting lots of good flops and cores and thought it was time to pull the trigger.
PaulExcellent
Member
I love the Ouya, and I love Nintendo.
But what the fuck.
But what the fuck.
mentalfloss
Banned
The mods gave me that because I was actually defending the CPU pretty fervently against douchey statements from the Metro dev.
blizzardjesus
Banned
"Cartoon Games".. what? I call those games.
Wow that was somehow a worse Idea that what they have been doing with the wii u.
read this as shits, much funnier.
read this as shits, much funnier.
Crazypanda_85
Member
I second this notion.
Oddly enough, I play a lot of old games on my Wii U. To be honest, I'm okay with the wait on some high quality Wii U games because of my backlog (right now Xenoblade Chronicles and The Metroid Prime Trilogy). Hopefully, we should hear about some great ones very, very soon.
Ouya at least had people smart enough to create a product concept strong enough to get the internet to fund it. Far stronger than the schizophrenic disaster that is the Wii U, which nobody can figure out what exactly it is.
semiconscious
Gold Member
'i just spent some time talking with a venture capitalist who has an investment in ouya. & this's what reality looks like to him...'
shakin_haitian
Banned
In a year or two, throwaway phones will be more powerful than ouya. This is just... stupid.
You should probably do some research. I actually pulled my Kickstarter pledge and think the thing will flop at launch, but there are a lot of smart people working on the project.
mentalfloss
Banned
I'm realizing this now.
Sorry gaffers - this looks more like a PR piece now.
:lol
MikeE21286
Member
Wasn't Bing Gordon saying this same thing just last week...?
I don't get any type of overlap between the two companies.
I don't get any type of overlap between the two companies.
Sir_Crocodile
Member
Yes, I'm sure nintendo would be awed by 63k backers for an emulation box.
frankie_baby
Member
i'm wondering how long til ouya get their demand for money microsoft's lawyers
Nintendo has a world-class hardware team and Android is a free OS. Is there any reason why Ouya is worth anything when they could easily create the same thing in house that was not only designed better but had better software? In fact, what on Earth makes Ouya any better than Wii other than the openess? I guess in the end it doesn't matter because all those gaming kickstarters have a Wii U version, Nintendo already has support from that garage developer community.
MisterHero
Super Member
Yeah Nintendo should've cancelled all new games and released an NES-N64 emulator. That'll work.
And the Wii U probably already has sold more units than Ouya ever will. I'm not sure how that's a good comparison.
There's nothing special about Ouya per se. The concept is interesting and it might be an interesting endeavour for Nintendo in the future, but there's no need for Nintendo to buy Ouya. The hardware apparently is crap and the software side of things not ideal either. If Nintendo would decide to try the low-budget Android-device route, I'm sure they would be able to make better hardware in-house.
A Nintendo box would have certain disadvantages, as a software company Nintendo would never be able to allow the box to be completely open to emulators and such, but on the other hand Nintendo would have the compellig game software Ouya most likely will never get.
Buy Ouya. Lol.
Even if Nintendo took leave of their senses and decided they wanted Ouya's model, why wouldn't they replicate it with the benefit of their existing patents and manufacturer relationships which would take them... ooh, I dunno, maybe a week? Rather than spend any money buying another brand.
Even if Nintendo took leave of their senses and decided they wanted Ouya's model, why wouldn't they replicate it with the benefit of their existing patents and manufacturer relationships which would take them... ooh, I dunno, maybe a week? Rather than spend any money buying another brand.
Could have sworn we did this thread last week?
EDIT: Ah yes
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=556236&highlight=
EDIT: Ah yes
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=556236&highlight=
Uncle Rupee
Banned
Why are people saying Nintendo should have bought the Ouya?
What about Microsoft and Sony? Shouldn't they have bought it, too?
What about Microsoft and Sony? Shouldn't they have bought it, too?
A world-class hardware team that couldn't even come up with a coherent product concept. Good one.
3rdDimension
Member
There is a reason why Dean Takahashi is a writer and not running or owning a business.
Well then Nintendo would have had at least one new console out there with the back catalgue games people actually want to play available on it.
They'll never stop. Nintendo was doomed when the Wii was kicking the PS3 and 360's butt month after month. It was still doomed when Mario Kart Wii went past 20 million. This will never stop. The parade of stupid will just continue.
I'm pretty sure that if Nintendo kickstarted that it would have gotten funded even more quickly I mean you have no idea what you're talking about.
Might be waiting a while for that one, haha.
Yea, I agree that Nintendo should have had more of their signatures games ready or close to ready when they released the Wii U, they launched too early. But with the PS4 and 'Durango' coming out they had to do something.
But in my opinion they should have delayed the launch, yes their hardware is ass compared to Sony and Microsoft but good hardware doesn't make your games good.
Microsoft and Sony are going the high-end route (at least that's the perception people have; I don't know what the current rumors say about the Xbox 3), while Nintendo already is taking the low-end route in terms of hardware power. As such, it's easy to try the comparison with Ouya, which is also a low-end product (well, low-low end in this case).
The Bookerman
Member
actually I wasn't finger pointing you. The other one with the douchy comment.
Yes, but not because they have an interesting product, but because they are Nintendo.
Black Door
Banned
The article is basically saying "Nintendo should dump consoles and go mobile." The same thing every Apple-worshipping analyst has been saying since 2007.
PetriP-TNT
Member
Fuckin' lol'd. Well, at least that would give Nintendo at least one exclusive. And by exclusive I mean to be only person in the world that would be a Ouya after the Kickstarter thing ended.
mentalfloss
Banned
oh crap, my bad
Well here's hoping I get a better tag to avoid this confusion moving forward.
Aren't they technically building the same thing in house already? I mean, isn't that the point of the Nintendo web framework? An easy way for developers to get games built using html/css/js and out on the eshop?