OUYA

tSwitch · July 10, 2012, 10:30:35 PM

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console

holy shit, this looks cool.

A completely open, Android-powered console. Some pretty nice hardware too.
Oh, and they met their funding goal in like 8 hours.

TDS · July 10, 2012, 10:37:29 PM

Looks pretty good, and the backing seems to confirm that people want a console they can develop games for without having to pay thousands of dollars and be subjected to delays and headaches due to not using a preferred term for a button.

Either that or people really want 99$ emulator.

Holkeye · July 11, 2012, 01:09:18 AM

PC + HDMI + TV

Jules · July 11, 2012, 01:12:40 AM

Quote from: NAMKCOR on July 10, 2012, 10:30:35 PM
holy shit, this looks cool.

cozziekuns · July 11, 2012, 03:25:41 AM

I don't know about this, seems like a waste of money; as TDS said, it's just a $99 emulator for a mobile gaming device that isn't very powerful.

I guess it's reedeming factor is that it's hackable, so with the right community it could become something really cool, much like how the Dolphin Emulator sucked until it went open source.

Irock · July 11, 2012, 03:57:35 AM

Emulator?

cozziekuns · July 11, 2012, 04:51:04 AM

I'm dumb and was under the inclination that all it could do was play Android games. My favourite part about this is that it encourages hackers to have a platform they can tinker with.

Holkeye · July 11, 2012, 07:05:42 AM

You can't be under an inclination. You can have one, but can't be under it.

Dwarra? · July 11, 2012, 07:20:15 AM

Yeah, inclinations are bolted to the floor

Holkeye · July 11, 2012, 01:22:55 PM

Also it doesn't mean what the context of your sentence implies that it does. It means a bias; a tendency, not an impression.

chewey · July 11, 2012, 02:42:06 PM

It'll be shit unless it attracts enough developers. For now its library is limited to poo and more poopoo. The Android marketplace ain't so hot - especially when it comes to games you'd want to play on a TV with a controller. So yeah, my guess would be that it won't be very good. I could be wrong, though. It'd be nice/interesting if I was.

Acolyte · July 11, 2012, 05:48:15 PM

It reminds me of the noise that ganondorf makes when he throws a lightball at you.

Irock · July 11, 2012, 10:12:44 PM

Quote from: chewey on July 11, 2012, 02:42:06 PM
It'll be shit unless it attracts enough developers. For now its library is limited to poo and more poopoo. The Android marketplace ain't so hot - especially when it comes to games you'd want to play on a TV with a controller. So yeah, my guess would be that it won't be very good. I could be wrong, though. It'd be nice/interesting if I was.

I don't think it's for standard Android games, it's just using it so they don't have to roll out their own full blown OS. At least, that's what I'm assuming.

Grafikal · July 11, 2012, 11:04:05 PM

Well, I'd say a lot of people want this based on it being 2 days in and they have over 3 times what OUYA asked for... sooo...

chewey · July 12, 2012, 02:20:01 AM

Quote from: Irock on July 11, 2012, 10:12:44 PM
Quote from: chewey on July 11, 2012, 02:42:06 PM
It'll be shit unless it attracts enough developers. For now its library is limited to poo and more poopoo. The Android marketplace ain't so hot - especially when it comes to games you'd want to play on a TV with a controller. So yeah, my guess would be that it won't be very good. I could be wrong, though. It'd be nice/interesting if I was.
I don't think it's for standard Android games, it's just using it so they don't have to roll out their own full blown OS. At least, that's what I'm assuming.

Nothing you just said contradicts what I said, brother.

TDS · July 12, 2012, 02:40:12 AM

Quote from: Irock on July 11, 2012, 03:57:35 AM
Emulator?

What I meant was more along the lines of a emulator box rather than a phone emulator like this:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TRRh39onYM[/yt]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcy4I5IcnpU&feature=relmfu[/yt]

In theory with the specs of the OUYA you could also emulate PS2 games as well, which means that you could have a lot of emulators in one console for a very low price and far simpler than a computer. And also the possibility of making controllers of consoles work for it too.

Irock · July 12, 2012, 03:11:40 AM

Quote from: chewey on July 12, 2012, 02:20:01 AM
Quote from: Irock on July 11, 2012, 10:12:44 PM
Quote from: chewey on July 11, 2012, 02:42:06 PM
It'll be shit unless it attracts enough developers. For now its library is limited to poo and more poopoo. The Android marketplace ain't so hot - especially when it comes to games you'd want to play on a TV with a controller. So yeah, my guess would be that it won't be very good. I could be wrong, though. It'd be nice/interesting if I was.
I don't think it's for standard Android games, it's just using it so they don't have to roll out their own full blown OS. At least, that's what I'm assuming.
Nothing you just said contradicts what I said, brother.

I don't understand why you'd bring up the Android marketplace when it's nothing but mobile games that this console probably doesn't even support.

chewey · July 12, 2012, 03:20:30 AM

That's all it would have in its library unless enough developers started making good games for it. Did you not notice how all the games on the dashboard are existing Android games? I'm going to go ahead and guess the effort it takes to get a pre-existing Android game up and running on this hardware is about ummm zero. I mean, the dashboard is just a mockup, but the lady said the game's got Minecraft and whatever. The Canabalt dev was there to say his game is on the system too.

I don't see many developers jumping on board, really. That's my guess. People have already started abandoning Android as a platform. For developers to be attracted to this device, a bunch of people are going to have to jump on board and show they're willing to pay for these games (solely through microtransactions, by the looks of things). I can't see all that many people buying a $100 device that will probably be (or seem to be) limited to Newgrounds/Kongregate/XBLAI-tier games. Cos if these niggas were putting any reasonable amount of effort into their games, they'd probably want them on XBLA/PSN/Steam/WiiUWare???

Irock · July 12, 2012, 03:48:02 AM

Most Android games won't work considering they're touch controlled. They'd have to add in support for Ouya or at least for game controllers. If you can go into the Android marketplace and download whatever mobile game you want, that's a big design flaw. They can't be that stupid, can they?

You're right that sales are gonna dictate whether or not this thing gets supported by developers. I probably won't buy one unless one day I make a game that I want to put on it. I also don't expect this thing to get any exclusives.

chewey · July 12, 2012, 03:51:37 AM

Oh, I'm just assuming most devs are going to slap on controller support for their existing games before doing any real work on new games. I'll make a million dollar bet with ya right now that pretty much all games on the system at launch will be ports of existing games. I bet there'll be like one game specifically made for the system. It'll be like their Wii Sports.