[QUOTE=Loriborn;41165926]people seem to have this notion that consoles are expensive because big bad meanie companies overprice them, when in reality, thats just how much they need to cost to break a profit[/QUOTE]
You see this is something that I found absolutely bewildering.
It's well known, as in you probably haven't ever played a video game in your life if you haven't heard this, that consoles are sold at a loss for a while after they launch. Sometimes several years. Maybe back in the SNES era this wasn't the case, but pretty much everything since has been sold at a loss to start off with. The profits on console sales come later, and are never more than marginal to maintain competitive pricing marketing nonsense (read: loss leaders). The real money is in selling overpriced peripherals (60 dollars for a controller), and the royalties they get off of games.
So lets try and follow this train of logic and do the math shall we. The OUYA was supposed to
-not have royalties associated with the games
--meaning it had to sell hardware at a profit
-cost less than or around the price of a wii (the cheapest of the big 3
and if the hype was to believed:
-this was somehow supposed to add up and rival an xbox in terms of performance.
-have adamantium grade components (no red ring of death stuff)
-support user modifications
There's not thinking about things, or just not being aware of details, and then there's just being delusional. The hype surrounding the OUYA falls firmly into the fucking delusional realm.
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