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Ouya launch delayed to June 25, controller defect being fixed
- Thread starter Sapphire Dreams
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thomasmahler
Moon Studios
Iacobellis
Junior Member
This thing is going to go the way of the Gizmondo.
Lol, gizmondo. I wanted one of those. The boss of the company was some massive drug lord wasn't he and died in a Ferrari crash?
Beermeister
Banned
DOA-h.
Monty Mole
Member
If Kinect and Wii is anything to go by, this should be a huge success.
Trolling aside, what's the business model? MS, Sony and Nintendo make the bulk of their money from the required licenses to publish games on their platform. Apple makes their money from controlling their own App Store. What does OUYA have?
Trolling aside, what's the business model? MS, Sony and Nintendo make the bulk of their money from the required licenses to publish games on their platform. Apple makes their money from controlling their own App Store. What does OUYA have?
specialguy
Banned
err, no. e3 is june 11-13.
baphomet
Member
Not quite.
Dynamite Shikoku
Congratulations, you really deserve it!
I thought this had already come and gone
DiscoJer
Member
Ouya has their own app store, they get the usual cut of sales.
And the Ouya illustrates something curious about this place. Indie games are deemed to be really great when they are on some platforms (Vita, PS3/PS4/360/PC), yet not on others (Ouya, Playstation Mobile, Minis).
If you look at the list of games
http://www.totalouya.com/apps-and-games/
Is there anything great? A killer app? Probably not. But I can see a couple dozen I would like to play. Are they on other platforms? Probably, but are those other platforms $99?
Sho_Nuff82
Member
It's an android device with worse hardware than any modern Samsung phone and it's not portable.
There is no business model, it's going to crater.
Huw_Dawson
Member
It is also less than $100 when a "modern Samsung phone" is several hundred.
What this will encourage is more decent quality Android games, which I am all for.
That's not how it works.
That's especially not how that works. Who gives a shit if they are available on yet another additional platform, while the original platforms where these games released are what people on this forum own or have owned when those games were current.
Canabalt for example was discussed on this forum 4 years ago and was described as a Robot Unicorn knock-off by some, even then. Why would anyone get excited for that game in June 2013?
If that game came to Vita, PS3/PS4/360/PC it would also not be met with standing ovations.
Also: Make a list of the "couple dozen" you want to play, to evangelize them.
Ronan_Berthelot
Member
BlackLagoon
Member
Actually, Canabalt already came out on all the PlayStation platforms as a Mini last year. And, no, it wasn't some kind of momentous occasion.
CambriaRising
Member
I remember getting reamed by Chinner a while ago when I said this thing was going to be dead in the water.
BruiserBear
Banned
I think their ideal launch window was this spring.
Sapphire Dreams
Member
I think it's not marketed towards the audience of those consoles. Oys designed as cheap gaming machines for people who don't have enough money for PS4 and The 720.
shinobi602
Member
I am salivating for all those killer apps.
phosphor112
Banned
I have yet to get mine.
dat list of TV exclusives!
Actually that's not true. I remember reading an article about the Enzo being shipped back to the factory and repaired.
Grampa Simpson
Banned
Good for them on the buttons.
Hopefully they'll have a trade-in program for the affected face-plates, or at least ship backers new plates. They're like $0.25 in plastic (plus shipping) to replace.
As for the analog sticks, are they actually bad, or are they un-abstracted and harder to deal with because of that? There is an article (that's been reposed many times) on how to massage the data to give dead zones of all sorts.
Are you speaking as a guy who has an Ouya on the analog sticks, or are you just reading articles and complaints in the development forum?
Hopefully they'll have a trade-in program for the affected face-plates, or at least ship backers new plates. They're like $0.25 in plastic (plus shipping) to replace.
As for the analog sticks, are they actually bad, or are they un-abstracted and harder to deal with because of that? There is an article (that's been reposed many times) on how to massage the data to give dead zones of all sorts.
Are you speaking as a guy who has an Ouya on the analog sticks, or are you just reading articles and complaints in the development forum?
MikeE21286
Member
After E3 now...?
Oh boy, that's no good.
Oh boy, that's no good.
I hate to break it to you, but no one pays that much for their Android phone.
They pay between 0 and $200 at the outside, and sign up for a 2 year contract.
Devilgunman
Member
^
I think he was talking about non-subsidized product.
I think he was talking about non-subsidized product.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Nice trolling attempt.
elmariachi
Banned
That is a poor comparison. I would compare the Ouya to an android stick. Lets look at the QC802, runs for about $80 bucks and has the following specs:
Google Android 4.1 OS(Android 4.2 OS upgradable)
2GB DDR3 RAM,8GB NAND FLASH ROM
Quad Core RK3188 ARM Cortex-A9 process.UP to 1.6GHZ,Mali-400MP4 Quad-core GPU
Networking:WiFi 802.11b/g/n 10/100Mbps With internal Antenna
Built-in 3D Accelerator. Support 3D gaming
Support Adobe Flash 11
With bluetooth, you can use a PS3 controller.
Again, why buy an Ouya?
Grampa Simpson
Banned
I paid $200 for my phone, and am spending $3000 to ride out my contract.
With the Ouya, I don't have to pay Verizon every month for it to still be playable.
I was basing that off of speculation so I could see how it's irrelevant to the conversation as none of that has been confirmed. yeah
Grampa Simpson
Banned
I agree. If I wanted an android device and a controller, I could pick up a TV stick and a Snakebite controller for only a little bit more than the cost of the Ouya.
There's a 3rd part here. A store that specializes in games that are tested with the hardware and are known to work with the controller. The games may have even been tuned for the hardware and controller.
See that? Huge difference.
We've got an Ouya here. Others are programming for it (I've played the game we've got and can verify it from that side), and they tell me the data from the sticks is terrible - even when spending the time to massage the dead zones and whatnot. The 360 controllers on the Ouya work great. The Ouya controllers on the Ouya are problematic. I've never heard of stuck buttons til now, but we've talked plenty about bad stick data and controller lag in general. If it's a software issue, great! But it seems hardware related, and "being fixed" would have been the ideal outcome obviously.
I paid $800 for my Xperia S, import, unlocked...... ;_; I paid too much and I was already on a contract.