Ouya CEO "Pissed" As Delays Continue
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Am I the only one that still feels like the little thing has some potential?
Yes, it isn't powerful, and is in fact about as powerful as a smart phone. So why not play all the games on it on a smart phone? Well, it's all about preference. I'm certain most of us that maybe enjoy older games, like SNES or PS1 or the like have probably done some emulation or buying of older games on online stores. Now, most of us probably prefer playing it on something like a console or even on our computers. Hell, I bet the idea of trying to do some old school gaming on a smart phone honestly sounds appalling; it certainly does for me. It just feels wrong playing games meant for consoles on something like that. In terms of emulation, there probably isn't much of a better place to go than to this little guy, and it's relatively cheap, cheaper than some smart phones and it's OS is dedicated to the gaming rather than to all the other apps on the phone also. So if you want to play those smart phone or tablet games cheaper, this is pretty cool place to do so.
Now, if the machine can run older games and tablet games and such, what's to stop a game designer from making a game on it that is more designed for longer periods of play? Maybe one with story at its center, or maybe it has some interesting gameplay. The only thing this console needs is people developing games for it that are not marketed to smart phone users or tablet users, but to gamers. It needs games designed to be played for hours on end. It needs games that are not just there to kill time, but to engross the player, make them want to keep playing and not put it down, not just the little addictive games you play on a public transit. They could back in the old days when this technology was the most recent for consoles, why can't people do it now with the same technology? What the console needs is games meant for people who want to play games, not just kill time. That's what this console needs, and then it will survive, even if only for a niche audience.
Yes, it isn't powerful, and is in fact about as powerful as a smart phone. So why not play all the games on it on a smart phone? Well, it's all about preference. I'm certain most of us that maybe enjoy older games, like SNES or PS1 or the like have probably done some emulation or buying of older games on online stores. Now, most of us probably prefer playing it on something like a console or even on our computers. Hell, I bet the idea of trying to do some old school gaming on a smart phone honestly sounds appalling; it certainly does for me. It just feels wrong playing games meant for consoles on something like that. In terms of emulation, there probably isn't much of a better place to go than to this little guy, and it's relatively cheap, cheaper than some smart phones and it's OS is dedicated to the gaming rather than to all the other apps on the phone also. So if you want to play those smart phone or tablet games cheaper, this is pretty cool place to do so.
Now, if the machine can run older games and tablet games and such, what's to stop a game designer from making a game on it that is more designed for longer periods of play? Maybe one with story at its center, or maybe it has some interesting gameplay. The only thing this console needs is people developing games for it that are not marketed to smart phone users or tablet users, but to gamers. It needs games designed to be played for hours on end. It needs games that are not just there to kill time, but to engross the player, make them want to keep playing and not put it down, not just the little addictive games you play on a public transit. They could back in the old days when this technology was the most recent for consoles, why can't people do it now with the same technology? What the console needs is games meant for people who want to play games, not just kill time. That's what this console needs, and then it will survive, even if only for a niche audience.
The good: Nice, inexpensive console you could just leave plugged into a TV with a very decent controller. I have an ASUS Transformer Prime that I upgraded to Jelly Bean and now, doesn't work with my Logitech controller. Honestly, it used to work (I'll root it ASAP).major_chaos said:
The Bad: What was fun was, for my phone and tablet, I incidentally had some games thru googleplay that I would love to play on the TV through this thing. Sadly, so far, my existing games cannot be added to the thing.
Damn them.
I still hope to pick one up eventually. Sounds like it's a retread of the Wii U so far, which means that only time will tell if it gets any good games.
Oh, and yeah, I know I can play Android games on my phone. That's not what the Ouya is for.
Oh, and yeah, I know I can play Android games on my phone. That's not what the Ouya is for.
Aw, you ninja'd methe antithesis said:
I like how he keeps reminding viewers that it's an early prerelease model, trying to drive that into their skulls...But you know a huge chunk of viewers will continue to think that all of it's issues will still be present on the official release.
I like to think of the people who buys consoles durring the first year of release as Gamma Testers; the people who help report all the worst kinks so that the console works perfectly when people like me buy it a year or 3 latter. I hope that by then they replace those hard plastic buttons with nice soft rubber ones.
I'll be buying one today, I like the idea of the Ouya and at $100 it's nothing anyway. It's rather ridiculous how much people are bitching over what is essentially the perfect console for indies and other smaller non corporate titles, which many people claim to want to see succeed.Legion said:
So they promised that backers would have them before they were available through retail, and then left just a couple of weeks between starting to ship them out and releasing them through retail? Yeah, there's no way anyone could possibly have predicted that could go wrong.
and remember people where loosing the minds and yelling that Ouya is THE NEXT BIG THING, ah innocent days.
I backed the Ouya. I got mine about a week ago, and I like it. Between Towerfall, Hidden in Plain Sight, and BombSquad, I have a portable console I can play light and fun games with my friends. That's what I was looking for, that's all I wanted. I never thought it was going to be a true "big console" where everyone gets hyped for Call of Duty. Playing an 8 person round of BombSquad was/is the most fun I've had on a console.