It looks like there is a new console called Ouya to join the console race.
Details have emerged regarding a brand new home console titled Ouya. The system will retail for $99 and will run Google’s popular Android operating system. The console’s games will be entirely free to play, but supposedly they will feature in-game purchases. The console is being designed, worked on, and marketed, by an impressive array of people.
Well it's really cheap for a console.
Pfft… I wish them best of luck going against already pre-established console titans, especially with, more than likely, next gen consoles right around the corner--with the very recent announcement of Microsoft getting the domain "Xbox 8" (aka Xbox Infinite).
If it just is able to play its own free to play games it's not going to compete with anything. It'll probably just be a console version of an Android phone.
If it just is able to play its own free to play games it's not going to compete with anything. It'll probably just be a console version of an Android phone.
Sakonosolo speaks of the truth.
I'm guessing that this is going to targeted mostly towards casuals, right?
Oh boy! Now I'll be able to play Angry Birds Space on my TV!
Oh wait, I can already do that.
All I can think of when hearing that console title is…
and who is going to bankroll this piece of crap
It certainly looks like it has potential as an "indie console" with supposed dev friendliness. It'll probably be easily found at $50-$75, so buying it likely won't be much of a strain on many wallets/purses. It certainly is not going to directly compete with the other big name consoles since it seems like its pitching for a different sort of gaming customer.
I found a mission statement that should clear things up some
The idea behind the console is that there will be large free developer ecosystem, meaning that any developer will be able to publish games, claim the listing, and all games will be free to play. Also every customer who buys a unit will get a dev kit thrown in as well.
A big issue will be one of poor shovelware vs quality indie games. Though Android games will probably be leaned on heavily, hopefully it is able to get enough unique games to make the system more tempting.
It looks like it is still in a very early stage in development, so the overall goal and intended audience of the system could easily change by the time this actually hits shelves
I want to pledge money to it before Aug. 9
I'm a dweeb
What kind of shittyass name is Ouya?
and who is going to bankroll this piece of crap
us apparently!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console?ref=live
If this is successful maybe we can see the crowdfunding model bring back the Panasonic JUNGLE.
This thing is apparently less powerful than an iPad 2. I just don't see the appeal in this. It's pretty much buying a $99 box to play the same games you can play on your phone. People without smart phones might buy it but other than that who are they trying to market it to? Who would want to play Angry Birds on a 50 inch TV and why would they buy this instead of just hooking their phone (I don't know if you can do this but I would imagine you can) or computer up to their TV?
This thing is apparently less powerful than an iPad 2.
Where did you get this from? Also, an iPad 2 is 400$.
I don't have the graph with me. It was comparing the processor of this new console to smart phones and the iPad.
So I read up on that a bit, and it seems the iPad 2 processor A5X is better than the Tegra3 in terms of graphical power, but not in processing power. But this is not really what this console is about. I doubt that you will see many smartphone-like games on this console, since it has it's own controller, without any touchscreen. To be honest, this console isn't really for me either, but it seems to fill a niche that many people wanted, or it wouldn't be that successful (3.6mil$ right now).
It's pretty much a smart phone you hook up to the TV and play with a controller. I see that it's getting success so I guess people want it but between XBLA/PSN, smartphones, and just using the computer you have at your house it just seems like this might fill a VERY small niche. The open souce-ness of it is kind of nice but it seems to me that just means there'll be 100x as much shovelware on the console.
But again, people are paying for it. I just wonder if they understand what they're paying for.
Almost at $4 million and has 27 days left. If this keeps up they are probably gonna up the specs on it.
http://kotaku.com/5925478/these-are-the-20-games-people-want-on-ouya-first
The folks behind the March 2013 Ouya console—that's the $99 hackable Android console that has generated more than $4 million (!) in pledges—have been asking people which games they'd like to see on the machine.They put up a survey and got more than 45,000 replies, according to an update on the Ouya Kickstarter page. Here are the 20 games that people asked for the most:
- Assassin's Creed
- Bastion
- Battlefield
- Battletoads
- Call of Duty
- Dungeon Defenders
- Fez
- FIFA
- Final Fantasy
- Grand Theft Auto
- League of Legends
- Limbo
- Mass Effect
- Minecraft
- Need for Speed
- Skyrim
- Super Meat Boy
- Terraria
- Timesplitters
- Torchlight
…how in the blue hell did Battletoads make it on that already odd list?
It's pretty much a smart phone you hook up to the TV and play with a controller. I see that it's getting success so I guess people want it but between XBLA/PSN, smartphones, and just using the computer you have at your house it just seems like this might fill a VERY small niche. The open souce-ness of it is kind of nice but it seems to me that just means there'll be 100x as much shovelware on the console.
But again, people are paying for it. I just wonder if they understand what they're paying for.
The open sourcedness is entirely 100% the point and angle
It could easily be considered a failure if all it got were some Droid ports like Angry Birds and lots of shovelware, but the entire purpose is that it is an open console free for development
It's basically at the moment entirely for people who want to make console games and the ports are just going to hold it over, I assume. The question of whether it fails or not, based entirely on its purpose, is if it gets a community of developers willing to use it and support it.
As long as people understand that, it could work out. It's not "just" a smartphone console and that's ignoring its strength by saying that.
Hang in there, Kierkegaard.