Ouya
33,739
July 14, 2012 02:18 AM
It might be a fun box to hack on, but I doubt it'll amount to much mainstreamily. If I'm going to hack on anything, though, I'd probably pick up a Raspberry Pi, or install linux on an outdated PC.
I'm not interested in PS3, Xbox360, Xbox720, or PS4 - I'm more of a PC gamer myself, and enjoy Steam. I'm certainly not interested in Ouya, but if the rumored Steam boxes materialize, I might pick up one of those (if price <= $100), simply for the convenience of having games available of the big screen for others to play, even while the only desktop machine is being camped by me for programming purposes.
Isn't that a popstar?
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She (he?) is a older GameDev.net member back three or four years ago. I lol'd.
I'm not interested in PS3, Xbox360, Xbox720, or PS4 - I'm more of a PC gamer myself, and enjoy Steam. I'm certainly not interested in Ouya, but if the rumored Steam boxes materialize, I might pick up one of those (if price <= $100), simply for the convenience of having games available of the big screen for others to play, even while the only desktop machine is being camped by me for programming purposes.
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Is this, in any way, related to Pouya?
Isn't that a popstar?
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She (he?) is a older GameDev.net member back three or four years ago. I lol'd.
2,407
July 14, 2012 07:17 PM
Holy crap. So we've been talking about this a bit at work and I just checked the kickstarter to see how much money it has and I noticed one of their images had Madden on it. I work on the Madden games so that is funny. What bothers me then is that they are posting this about indies and put a bunch of games on the menu that are not indie games and will never come out on the Ouya (such as Madden). Whats also stranger then is their menu says what friends are playing Madden and other games in their dashboard and it says they have friends playing Madden on it. Sure its a dashboard with mockups, but I have to believe when they show those games such as Shadowgun, that its probably not even running on the console since their mockups are even completely bogus.
NBA2K, Madden, Maneater, Killing Floor, Sims
1,708
July 16, 2012 05:34 AM
Having done both hardware and software development, neither is that hard. That said, most people are stupid. So yeah, Phantom 2.
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August 09, 2012 11:02 AM
Bump for end of the kick-starter campaign.
Final backers - 63,416.
Final pledges - $8,596,475.
Pre-orders (backers with pledges of $99 and up) - 59,748.
Kickstarter must be loving the gaming community right now; their commission of 5% is $429,823.75!
So there you go. It turns out that offering to build an alternative "open" current-gen games console nets you 60k pre-orders, and $8M cash.
Final backers - 63,416.
Final pledges - $8,596,475.
Pre-orders (backers with pledges of $99 and up) - 59,748.
Kickstarter must be loving the gaming community right now; their commission of 5% is $429,823.75!
So there you go. It turns out that offering to build an alternative "open" current-gen games console nets you 60k pre-orders, and $8M cash.
. 22 Racing Series .
793
August 09, 2012 02:10 PM
So there you go. It turns out that offering to build an alternative "open" current-gen games console nets you 60k pre-orders, and $8M cash.
At least once. If they release a product that doesn't live up to it's expectations, or they don't release a product at all then nobody is getting close to that again.
13,181
August 09, 2012 08:41 PM
[quote name='Hodgman' timestamp='1344510172' post='4967713']
So there you go. It turns out that offering to build an alternative "open" current-gen games console nets you 60k pre-orders, and $8M cash.
At least once. If they release a product that doesn't live up to it's expectations, or they don't release a product at all then nobody is getting close to that again.
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Maybe not all of them, but I'm confident a healthy portion would pledge again if the "Ouya 2.0", along with its carefully engineered campaign, was sufficiently different from its forebear. A tribute to both human persistence and naive credulity.
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521
August 10, 2012 04:18 AM
I pledged $130.00 in order to obtain an Ouya with two controllers in March. 
I'm so glad they were able to raise well beyond their goals! Just goes to show that with the right advertising and marketing (and product, obviously), dreams can come true!
Even if this console doesn't become "mainstream" (which, honestly, I don't expect to happen), it's still a great way to learn about developing for consoles, and it'll be a fun device to hack and make into your own thing. I can't wait to make my own games for it, and play some of my favorite Android games on my 1080p HD TV upstairs in the living room.
I'm so glad they were able to raise well beyond their goals! Just goes to show that with the right advertising and marketing (and product, obviously), dreams can come true!
Even if this console doesn't become "mainstream" (which, honestly, I don't expect to happen), it's still a great way to learn about developing for consoles, and it'll be a fun device to hack and make into your own thing. I can't wait to make my own games for it, and play some of my favorite Android games on my 1080p HD TV upstairs in the living room.
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