Or they could create their own Tegra based Android console for a couple of bucks? It took what, 7 million to kickstart Ouya? Why would it make sense to buy them for more than that?
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Dean Takahashi: Nintendo should've bought Ouya; Wii U Dead in Water
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Or they could create their own Tegra based Android console for a couple of bucks? It took what, 7 million to kickstart Ouya? Why would it make sense to buy them for more than that?
Fine Ham Abounds
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Buying Ouya would be one of the worst things Nintendo hasn't thought of yet.
FrostuTheNinja
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A boob.
DashReindeer
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Yeah, that's what I was getting at earlier. Venturebeat being the type of publication that it is, would obviously have an interest in the Ouya. Dean Takahashi cares about the latest new investments above all else, so yeah Ouya is gonna look like a hot commodity to him. That doesn't mean that he knows what is best for traditional gaming companies. He never shows what Nintendo would do with such a property. Rather, he is personally interested in Ouya as an investment, so he thinks that gaming companies like Nintendo should be too.
Oh, you were talking about Nintendo? You post doens't make sense, then.
plagiarize
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this is such an utterly stupid suggestion. Nintendo's console is struggling (and might well fail) so Nintendo should have bought out another console that is unlikely to outsell their currently struggling console... because... WEBSITE CLICKS!
even if Nintendo wanted a piece of hardware like the Ouya they would just make one. acquiring a company that has bought off the shelf chips that anyone can buy, doesn't strike me as a smart idea. and that Ouya controller may be good, but so is the Wii U Pro controller. best controller I've held that one. Nintendo don't need any help creating hardware. they just might need some help in deciding what hardware they should be creating in the first place.
even if Nintendo wanted a piece of hardware like the Ouya they would just make one. acquiring a company that has bought off the shelf chips that anyone can buy, doesn't strike me as a smart idea. and that Ouya controller may be good, but so is the Wii U Pro controller. best controller I've held that one. Nintendo don't need any help creating hardware. they just might need some help in deciding what hardware they should be creating in the first place.
Cerebral Assassin
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They sold/tried to sell the 3DS on the fact it was utilising "glassless 3D", & given that they have always had a focus on local multi-player, the rift wouldn't be a particularly easy sell for them(& that is ignoring the obvious fact that the tech wouldn't really have been ready at the time they wished to release the Wii U, & is likely still a few years away from being viable at a mass-market level).
Graphics Horse
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Yup.
I think it's a valid argument to say they should have built something like Ouya, but why buy up something they could easily make themselves? There's nothing unique about it.
Ouya has no selling point. It has no exclusive content. It runs the content people use to piss away their waiting time on the go at home, on your TV, with control schemes it was never designed for. All the low pricing in the world won't balance out the complete lack of necessity.
It's even worse than the Wii U in that respect. It is an absolute conundrum how the Ouya would help Nintendo's fortunes.
This reeks of mental acrobatics trying to lampshade the "Nintendo should make games for smartphones lol" chestnut under the not-really-a-smartphone-but-almost Ouya. Except it still doesn't make any more sense than before.
If Nintendo needed to have an Android platform to publish games on -- and let me be very clear here, they absolutely don't --, they could just build one themselves. It's fairly easy to do so, as far as these things go. Acquisitions in that direction would just be a waste of money.
It's even worse than the Wii U in that respect. It is an absolute conundrum how the Ouya would help Nintendo's fortunes.
This reeks of mental acrobatics trying to lampshade the "Nintendo should make games for smartphones lol" chestnut under the not-really-a-smartphone-but-almost Ouya. Except it still doesn't make any more sense than before.
If Nintendo needed to have an Android platform to publish games on -- and let me be very clear here, they absolutely don't --, they could just build one themselves. It's fairly easy to do so, as far as these things go. Acquisitions in that direction would just be a waste of money.
Remove touchpad functionality and you're basically left with an Ouya, only with more developer support, Nintendo's well known brands that can attract consumers to the machine, and a lot more power.
Jawmuncher
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The Abominable Snowman
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If the Ouya at least had cutting edge 2013 ARM-based hardware, like the Tegra 4 STB config, where it would run games at least twice as well as comparable mobile phones, it would be worth it.
Maybe we should wait for Ouya 2.
Karsticles
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Nintendo should have bought out TI calculators, too. There's some serious competition going on there in the handheld market.
I am genuinely not even sure what the point would be of such an aquisition. So you'd go with that, get cheaper hardware, just for a platform so you can play recycled phone games that don't even look right on big tvs or feel right control-wise?
Nintendo would be instantly relegated so far behind the pack of Sony and Microsoft hardware. There is a reason people do buy consoles when they do, it is because they offer experiences that fundamentally cannot yet be offered at the same level as they can on phones. When you kill that benefit, you effectively have no reason to exist at all.
Think about arcades for a moment. For years, arcades were the place to go to see the next-generation of visuals, to experience gimmicks impossible on consoles. And then consoles started catching up - visually, gimmicks, features... you name it. And eventually it surpassed it, and the age of Arcades died.
Centering an entire major Nintendo console around the Ouya philosophy is simply retarded. You'd get a cheaper price, but also the cheaper image to go with it, the idea that your consoles offer something you can't get anywhere else. And what would the trade-off be? Shitty android phone games that look like crap and play off their home turf, which is the benefit of portability? Basically worst game market place of the moment for the sheer amount of crap-to-decent ratio.
Yeah, it's just a dumb idea. Nintendo should be investing in things, Ouya is not one of them. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Mayfield Fund were stupid to invest.
Ouya with Oculus Rift support is gonna dominate Next-gen and you Will Like It!.
Catchpenny
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Midnight Phoenix
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I will sell to Nintendo my LE OUYA. Unopened.
I know I'm not the biggest Nintendo fan these days, but what the fuck did I just read?! It's been a long time since I've read an article that was so off the mark. I mean, what is it? The fact that the Ouya is a new console and this generation has gone rather long in the tooth, so any and all excitement to be had about new consoles is transferring to Ouya?
What would buying Ouya add to Nintendo in any way, shape, or form? I just don't see the benefits, honestly. I know the Wii U isn't lighting the world on fire, but damn, it's only been what, 6 months since it launched? Not even its first birthday yet? Like I do with all new consoles, I give it a good one or two years, or 12-18 months to start producing content I enjoy. I haven't been following Nintendo much lately, but I know they have some stuff on the horizon that will, at the least, excite their fanbase and bring in some sales.
I don't own a Wii U, but a new Animal Cross, Smash Bros, Zelda, and Metroid will eventually force my hand, and I'll pick one up.
It's like everyone thinks they're market analysts these days, though, it's kind of puzzling to me.
I also don't get why he's comparing the sales of iPhone 5's to Wii U's. The iPhone is a fucking phone. The Wii U is a fucking video game console that gets connected to your TV. Maybe it's because I'm an old time gamer, but when it comes to video games, I prefer to play them on dedicated gaming devices, be it PS3/Vita/PS4, Xbox 360/720, WiiU/3DS, or PC. When it comes to making phone calls, yeah, I'd probably go with Apple or Android (I own an Android, actually). I have a lot of apps on my phone and tablet, but I don't game on it. I just think it's way, way too early to write off Nintendo and Wii U just yet, and I'm still puzzling over how acquiring Ouya would improve Nintendo's station (or any of the big three, really).
What would buying Ouya add to Nintendo in any way, shape, or form? I just don't see the benefits, honestly. I know the Wii U isn't lighting the world on fire, but damn, it's only been what, 6 months since it launched? Not even its first birthday yet? Like I do with all new consoles, I give it a good one or two years, or 12-18 months to start producing content I enjoy. I haven't been following Nintendo much lately, but I know they have some stuff on the horizon that will, at the least, excite their fanbase and bring in some sales.
I don't own a Wii U, but a new Animal Cross, Smash Bros, Zelda, and Metroid will eventually force my hand, and I'll pick one up.
It's like everyone thinks they're market analysts these days, though, it's kind of puzzling to me.
I also don't get why he's comparing the sales of iPhone 5's to Wii U's. The iPhone is a fucking phone. The Wii U is a fucking video game console that gets connected to your TV. Maybe it's because I'm an old time gamer, but when it comes to video games, I prefer to play them on dedicated gaming devices, be it PS3/Vita/PS4, Xbox 360/720, WiiU/3DS, or PC. When it comes to making phone calls, yeah, I'd probably go with Apple or Android (I own an Android, actually). I have a lot of apps on my phone and tablet, but I don't game on it. I just think it's way, way too early to write off Nintendo and Wii U just yet, and I'm still puzzling over how acquiring Ouya would improve Nintendo's station (or any of the big three, really).
Of all the "advice" I've heard for Nintendo over the past few weeks this is the most inane.
The other is a PC accessory that provides a gameplay experience that has been unattainable outside of specialized 5 figure+ equipment before its release.
Even mentioning these two products in the same sentence should not be allowed. One is a technologically outdated device you plug into your TV to do things dozens of other products can do, but worse.
The other is a PC accessory that provides a gameplay experience that has been unattainable outside of specialized 5 figure+ equipment before its release.
The CPU part? No, not really.Its still faster than Tegra 3.
No it doesn't. I wouldn't call a 3-core 1.2 GHz OoO CPU horrible or slow. The issue with the Wii is marketing! marketing! marketing! Everyone assumed it was some Wii add-on and not a new console. If they named it Wii 2 that would have been much better.
lol ok
TheRedSnifit
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Why does this guy even have a job?
JonathanPower
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The CPU isn't that bad. The biggest problem of WiiU is the very low memory bandwidth.
Exactly, I don't see the point in buying the Ouya when they could have just made a Tegra based console running Android.
Its a common believe that Wii U is ancient technology, but that streaming tech to that price would have been impossible back then, probably impossible at any price. So would the performance / form factor / power consumption ratio. You remember how huge and noisy the original 360 was ?
For many already mentioned reasons, this is a fairly preposterous idea.
If Nintendo wants to get involved in any kickstarter gaming hardware, there's a simple three-step plan for them to follow:
1. Get console-exclusive compatibility with Oculus Rift for Wii U
2. Create F-Zero game for Wii U
3. Profit
If Nintendo wants to get involved in any kickstarter gaming hardware, there's a simple three-step plan for them to follow:
1. Get console-exclusive compatibility with Oculus Rift for Wii U
2. Create F-Zero game for Wii U
3. Profit