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Post by Death Eye on May 12, 2013 8:07:48 GMT
That's weird.
So in case one of you sonehow didn't know, the Ouya is a legally-hackable-without-voiding-the-warranty $99 Android-powered home console where every game has to have a free-to-play component. Also apparently every console can be used as a development thing, so in theory literally anybody can make a game.
I shouldn't have to tell you how I feel about the idea of this thing.
Specs:
1.7 GHz quad-core processor of some sort
1 GB of RAM
Some GPU I think they use in phones that can somehow putput in HD even though why would it ever need to on a phone
A controller that as far as I can tell has a circular D-pad, which almost makes me not care about this thing at all because literally every single one of them is utter s***
It's currently set to come out toward the end of June, I forget the actual date.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2013 8:55:59 GMT
Being able to make games on it sounds interesting.
I'm not much of a tech head though so hacking it and such doesn't really appeal to it...
dumb controller sounds dumb.
I'll wait to hear some professional opinions before I consider a purchase.
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Post by herpanda on May 13, 2013 3:03:47 GMT
I almost backed it lol, it was the first time I heard of kickstarter so I got all excited. Then I read that games need a free component...and my upcoming dev side was like, "uhh... i dunno lol, the idea small enough already."
Anyway, I really like the idea (well, the "backstory" and everything; I'm not too fond of what it actually is though to be honest, but I love the fact that a team out there is trying to compete in the console space. Not that they're even going for the same crowd, but I just admire the amount of work and risk they're getting into to put this out there, if any of that rings with you guys). I also love the little cube shape and the $99 price tag (reminds me of the good ol cube when I got mine haha).
What bothers me immensely is the one button that's like... off the face, like it's falling off the controller or something. I don't know why that bothers me so much, but it does. That, and the fear of it crashing and burning, or getting a bunch of really shovelware-y games that cover up the gems (like the Wii. LOL after doing some hard excavating I've found a ton of overlooked games for the Wii; it's a shame really).
I dunno. I probably won't get one unless I get really bored, which probably won't happen since I have a huge backlog of games, like snes games. Great games are over abundant, so I doubt I'll need to get an OUYA, but if I can find one for ~$30 at a sale or yard sale I'd bite, just for kicks. Because I'm like that.
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Post by Death Eye on May 13, 2013 4:32:15 GMT
I almost backed it lol, it was the first time I heard of kickstarter so I got all excited. Then I read that games need a free component...and my upcoming dev side was like, "uhh... i dunno lol, the idea small enough already." Anyway, I really like the idea (well, the "backstory" and everything; I'm not too fond of what it actually is though to be honest, but I love the fact that a team out there is trying to compete in the console space. Not that they're even going for the same crowd, but I just admire the amount of work and risk they're getting into to put this out there, if any of that rings with you guys). I also love the little cube shape and the $99 price tag (reminds me of the good ol cube when I got mine haha). What bothers me immensely is the one button that's like... off the face, like it's falling off the controller or something. I don't know why that bothers me so much, but it does. That, and the fear of it crashing and burning, or getting a bunch of really shovelware-y games that cover up the gems (like the Wii. LOL after doing some hard excavating I've found a ton of overlooked games for the Wii; it's a shame really). I dunno. I probably won't get one unless I get really bored, which probably won't happen since I have a huge backlog of games, like snes games. Great games are over abundant, so I doubt I'll need to get an OUYA, but if I can find one for ~$30 at a sale or yard sale I'd bite, just for kicks. Because I'm like that. From what I've read a bunch of major developers are getting in on it. (And not all of them casual-market mobile game developers, some of them actually make good games. Like Square Enix's FFIII port they're going to make, or whatever Namco's planning to do with it. They'll probably be pretty good.) Which could potentially completely defeat the purpose of the whole development thing, unless Ouya (which is apparently also the company that makes the thing) takes some measures to make sure a random dude with $100 and a lot of free time has just as much chance of success as a multi-billion-dollar corporation's inexplicably popular shovelware, then, well, that won't happen. But whatever happens, the thing's hackable and I've read numerous comparisons between it and a PC, so it'll always have its uses no matter what games it gets. You know somebody's going to put some emulators on it eventually, if nothing else. |
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Post by Death Eye on Jun 25, 2013 18:13:54 GMT
Oh by the way the "toward the end of June" release date is June 25th.
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Post by VerdantShade on Jul 24, 2013 14:15:05 GMT
I had been planning on making some bullet hell games on it, but I don't even have an Ouya yet and it's long after the release date. I got caught up in a lot of things, honestly.
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