Would be neat to have and also use it as a minipc for your tv. To watch movies and whatnot on.
this'll be good for playing minecraft android
and it will be amazing for emulators, you'll have all your retro consoles in one box, seeing as their are so many emulators out for android so far, such as snesoid, gameboid ect.
I personally think this will be good if games are made specifically for it
I can't even get a single one of my friends to give me 5 bucks to pay for braces that I [B][I]NEED[/I][/B] and this overhyped screenless android phone gets 1mil+ in 9 hours?
Maybe they don't know that you can just hook up your phone to your television with an HDMI cable and use a bluetooth controller to play it.
Well, I pledged 25 Dollars as the 90$ ones were already sold out.
But besides pre-buying the system I wanted to help it, as as an aspiring Game Developed this will be useful.
Oh god I hope there are some $99 pledges left by the time I get paid on Thursday
I wonder how hard it will be to port android apps..
If it's not too hard, I have a few ideas for games I could use my engine on.
[QUOTE=TonyP;36711930]Maybe they don't know that you can just hook up your phone to your television with an HDMI cable and use a bluetooth controller to play it.[/QUOTE]
A powerful android phone isn't $99.
I like the promise of opening doors for indie development, but I'll wait until I see it.
If big developers are going to start making titles, I don't see how this will change anything. The indie's still get confined to the indie section of the marketplace, while being overshadowed as usual.
So far the UI for Ouya seems to be a carbon copy of the Xbox's interface, and I'm not seeing anything spectacular here.
Looks very interesting, though I hope considering the massive amount of initial support, that they decide to add more RAM to the console. It is already at $1,600,000 within a day. Also, I feel that OUYA is trying to get a head start or trying to damage the next gen console market by making the console highly affordable, open source, and focusing on digital download (which is more or less the emphasis of next gen).
If this takes off and some good emulators come out for it, I'd definitely consider it due to the price.
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;36711850]Any android game can be played on these, Sonic CD, Sonic 4 Episodes, ShadowGun, Dead Space, Etc are AAA[/QUOTE]
With the exception of MvC2, GTA3, and Max Payne. The rest aren't impressive or fun (see: Resident Evil 4 and Monster Hunter ports) in comparison to the games of modern handhelds.
[QUOTE=CoolKingKaso;36713141]With the exception of MvC2, GTA3, and Max Payne. The rest aren't impressive or fun (see: Resident Evil 4 and Monster Hunter ports) in comparison to the games of modern handhelds.[/QUOTE]
I disagree, most of the "games of modern handhelds" I've seen have been pretty awful, so I don't see how this would be any worse - besides it's not like this is supposed to be a console for playing existing Android games, it has it's own marketplace and other games are planned. If it doesn't have many great games on launch, so what? Very few consoles if any have launched with more than a single great game so I hardly see how it's fair to judge this based on it's inherited Android library (which is pretty decent to begin with) :v:
Holy fuck it's at $1,640,740.
this is going to flop so hard
I wouldn't be surprised if this thing got a major hardware update/higher end variant of it since we've almost doubled the original needed amount.
It's a shiny box.
So.. At the very least I could put a web browser on this and give one to my grandfather to get him used to the internet?
Oh and to everyone who was worried about the controller with only O's, look at the screenshot in the OP, you can clearly see the blue button is an O, the yellow is a U, and the green will be an A, it's just a placeholder on the controller.
[QUOTE=salty peanut v2;36714176]this is going to flop so hard[/QUOTE]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/f9kLy.png[/img]
It's the first day
[QUOTE=Dwarfy77;36714432]Oh and to everyone who was worried about the controller with only O's, look at the screenshot in the OP, you can clearly see the blue button is an O, the yellow is a U, and the green will be an A, it's just a placeholder on the controller.[/QUOTE]
Nice eagle eye, I didn't even notice it... although I don't even know how much more this could borrow from Xbox before a lawsuit is incoming :v:
Whining about 1080p support? I'll be griping if there's terrible 480i support.
[QUOTE=RichyZ;36715056][img]http://www.custom-product.com/upload/1887/1935uij1/gamecube-controller-958.jpg[/img]
green a button[/QUOTE]
Posting a controller with some but less similarities is not really a convincing argument that they're not borrowing from the xbox :v:
Aren't those specs still better than those on the current gen consoles?
[QUOTE=JamesRaynor;36715464]Aren't those specs still better than those on the current gen consoles?[/QUOTE]
It has 4 times more ram than modern consoles
Other than that not really
This sounds like a wonderful idea that is destined to be executed in a way that will displease more rather than do what it was supposed to
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Wow
Almost at 2 million
Sent a message with suggestions in it as far as Specs and the OS they are using for it, I doubt they will read it but i am still hoping they end up reading it.
This thing is really ambitious, PC will always be number one for me, but i still hope this does not fail.
I'm buying this for sure, and I know it wont flop, because what dev wouldn't want to have an entire console's userbase interested in their game? Before saying all FTP games are bad, look at what LoL and HoN did to the MoBA genre, now we have games like Super Monday Night Combat, Dota II, and Smite. I could see Trackmania or Shootmania coming to the platform, a large emulator community for sure, and lots of coders trying lots of new concepts.
[QUOTE=JamesRaynor;36715464]Aren't those specs still better than those on the current gen consoles?[/QUOTE]
According to [URL="http://www.anandtech.com/show/5072/nvidias-tegra-3-launched-architecture-revealed/2"]this[/URL], the Tegra 3 SoC has a performance of around 7.2 GFLOPS when running at 300Mhz, while the Xbox 360 is [URL="http://au.xbox360.ign.com/articles/617/617951p3.html"]around 240 GFLOPS[/URL].
Basically, don't get this if you're expecting Xbox/PS3 level of game quality, since even they have issues running at 1080p. Get it because you like what it offers (The idea of a game console that can emulate the SNES, NES, MegaDrive, etc. is super appealing to me) or like the idea behind it.
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