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[dreadedcandiru99]

And Lastly: What do you think is missing in the Gaming Industry?

Hey, I want to expand on my previous answer: something like the Ouya [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console] is what's missing. The whole point of the thing is that it's a cheap, open-source console that anyone with a new, original idea can develop a game for, without having to go through a publisher to do it. It's still kind of a long shot, but I've decided to be cautiously optimistic here; if this works out, it could be exactly the shot in the arm that console gaming needs.

 

[AngelBlackChaos]

And Lastly: What do you think is missing in the Gaming Industry?

Hey, I want to expand on my previous answer: something like the Ouya [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console] is what's missing. The whole point of the thing is that it's a cheap, open-source console that anyone with a new, original idea can develop a game for, without having to go through a publisher to do it. It's still kind of a long shot, but I've decided to be cautiously optimistic here; if this works out, it could be exactly the shot in the arm that console gaming needs.

I thought it was absolute genius that they finally started to develop one. My fiance was like Pleaseeeeee dear. At nearly the same time I was. Guess what we are getting.

 

[dreadedcandiru99]

And Lastly: What do you think is missing in the Gaming Industry?

Hey, I want to expand on my previous answer: something like the Ouya [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console] is what's missing. The whole point of the thing is that it's a cheap, open-source console that anyone with a new, original idea can develop a game for, without having to go through a publisher to do it. It's still kind of a long shot, but I've decided to be cautiously optimistic here; if this works out, it could be exactly the shot in the arm that console gaming needs.

I thought it was absolute genius that they finally started to develop one. My fiance was like Pleaseeeeee dear. At nearly the same time I was. Guess what we are getting.

No kidding. I just chipped in my $99 yesterday.

Though I couldn't help but facepalm a bit when I saw the list of launch title requests Ouya was getting. Call of Duty? Assassin's Creed? Wow. Way to completely miss the point, people.

 

[AngelBlackChaos]

And Lastly: What do you think is missing in the Gaming Industry?

Hey, I want to expand on my previous answer: something like the Ouya [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console] is what's missing. The whole point of the thing is that it's a cheap, open-source console that anyone with a new, original idea can develop a game for, without having to go through a publisher to do it. It's still kind of a long shot, but I've decided to be cautiously optimistic here; if this works out, it could be exactly the shot in the arm that console gaming needs.

I thought it was absolute genius that they finally started to develop one. My fiance was like Pleaseeeeee dear. At nearly the same time I was. Guess what we are getting.

No kidding. I just chipped in my $99 yesterday.

Though I couldn't help but facepalm a bit when I saw the list of launch title requests Ouya was getting. Call of Duty? Assassin's Creed? Wow. Way to completely miss the point, people.

I'm not quite sure they will be getting that, exactly. Mainly because the old guard may not like it, and the larger publishers may be unwilling to make even part of it free. The list was more like a list of what people want, so Ouya can either try to get it, or work on finding developers to work on that sort of gameplay. So here is hoping that someone will be inspired by Ouya to be, I don't know, inspired by the scale of Assassin's Creed, and make some crazy wonderful game because of it. I think with the Dev kits being free, that will make things even more amazing. Kind of curious if steam will support it as well, as a way to connect to some of the games.I think valve is extremely curious how this will turn out, as they have always sort of disagreed with the "cost for updating" crap.

 

[dreadedcandiru99]

The list was more like a list of what people want, so Ouya can either try to get it, or work on finding developers to work on that sort of gameplay. So here is hoping that someone will be inspired by Ouya to be, I don't know, inspired by the scale of Assassin's Creed, and make some crazy wonderful game because of it.

Maybe that's it. I was just utterly baffled by the notion that somebody would want CoD ported to the Ouya. Because, yeah, it's never going to happen, and then we'll have a bunch of dumbass teenagers screeching "whaddaya mean, I can't have a less graphically impressive version of the same brownish military shooter I've already played to death?!"

Personally, I'd prefer that any would-be Ouya developers ignore the AAA-titles on this list altogether and come up with something that hasn't been done before. It'd be kind of a disappointment to hook up my new Ouya just to wade through a vast, churning sea of CoD-alikes.

Kind of curious if steam will support it as well, as a way to connect to some of the games.I think valve is extremely curious how this will turn out, as they have always sort of disagreed with the "cost for updating" crap.

Hmm, I don't know. Could the Ouya even handle most of the stuff on Steam? Even if it could, Steam itself is basically DRM (a somewhat less objectionable type of DRM, yes, but still DRM); on top of that, there are games on Steam that apparently come with DRM of their own. I'm not sure how well that would jive with Ouya's whole open-source, hack-anything, do-whatever-you-want approach.