alright, now i can waste my time and money on a DIFFERENT COLOR WOOOOOO
did they even try to improve the controller, I'd like to at least feel comfortable when I watch it collect dust in the corner, or even when I feel bad out of sympathy because their development plan is to continue making more "advanced" versions of the machine which will increasingly splinter their playerbase of several hundred people when it becomes clear that any future games will have to adapt to every single one of them like the pc market, except we're talking about machines less powerful than a smartphone, and reliant on the already spread out Android market, which Google is slowly attempting to strangle by making their latest software locked into their version anyway
i could then pretend for five minutes that it matters and that i should be offended, even when they said this was their plan in advance, and it's the fault of everybody who didn't read their entire business plan, not that they minded taking the money anyway
on the other hand, any, uh, newly released ouya games (snrk) that don't really require the latest box will also serve to point out how useless it is to purchase the latest box when there's tons of used ouyas floating around the market
Schadrach said:
Anyone who thought it was going to revolutionize the console industry was a fool, and the right frame of comparison is to Roku or GameStick rather than anything offered by Sony or MS.
heh, maybe somebody should have told their marketing department that
or when they packed that same specific message on a large card at the very top of their launch day boxes (and the term is being used lightly here, it's more like a launch couple of months maybe), or when they camped outside e3 and pretended to be hardcore rebels who were railing against some sort of authority figure while playing cat and mouse with the security guards in some sort of sad bid for validation, while still handing out fliers with that same message printed on them
would it be wrong to say to call the people who purchased this thing out of hope, a fool? that they should have "read between the lines" or any number of other copout excuses why they were wrong and not the company who promised more than they could deliver? maybe you can live with it, but i find the entire thing somewhat distasteful, and it's not going to stop until everybody full well knows that they're not what they said they were going to be, and until then, there will be more wrongful purchases
it's not even that the machine itself is completely useless (it's irrelevant, which is an important distinction, if you aren't currently regretting one of these purchases anyway), it's that a company that pretends to be the messiah in order to create a demand/market for a product that they can't provide, but pretend to do so anyway in order to sell these things, is just the same crap we've dealt with before when the other consoles are mentioned
they can't even pass their own made up standards. they're like a revolution in real life. exciting and great when the mob mentality is pulling you along, but not so much when you realize that they just want the same thing as the people they're pretending to be superior to, just under their control
The holiday Ouya hopes style and specs will back up a higher price tag.
