Ouya

[Arkhan]

It's not "dead". It's more of a situation where they're shifting their focus to selling Ouya as a platform rather than continuing the hardware line. The original unit is still in manufacture, it's just unlikely that the plans for an annual new Ouya with gradual hardware improvements will come to fruition.

Good.   That plan for annual upgrades was retarded. 

Also, the thing is a pretty big joke.  Overhyped to the max.

[lukester]

It's not "dead". It's more of a situation where they're shifting their focus to selling Ouya as a platform rather than continuing the hardware line. The original unit is still in manufacture, it's just unlikely that the plans for an annual new Ouya with gradual hardware improvements will come to fruition.

Good.   That plan for annual upgrades was retarded. 

Also, the thing is a pretty big joke.  Overhyped to the max.

People are quite silly for thinking that only $8.5 million can fund a good console, albeit one with a severe lack of quality control. All the new consoles these days cost hundreds of millions, even for marketing.

[TR0N]

Where you buy one for $60.00 ? Even though it's dead i thought about buying one for emulation.

It's not "dead". It's more of a situation where they're shifting their focus to selling Ouya as a platform rather than continuing the hardware line. The original unit is still in manufacture, it's just unlikely that the plans for an annual new Ouya with gradual hardware improvements will come to fruition.

Ok,so there cutting back on the hardware side.All this talk about hearing about oyua being dead now made me think that.There's been times i thought about buying one for emulation sake.

[HercTNT]

You can buy a dual core android tv stick and Ipega blue tooth controller for roughly $60 brand new and do the same thing as the ouya. I have this very setup going at my house and get any game i want from the google play store. Mikes right, the Ouya is a cheap piece junk.

The Ouya is quad core and a bit more powerful than the 50-60 TV sticks. You can also connect USB devices to it, I'd rather have the Ouya at the same price point.

Yes, I have one of those crazy little tv sticks and guess what? you can put usb devices into it as well. Its called an otg port. Alot of devices have them, nothing special.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Quad-Core-Dual-Core-Android-4-2-Smart-TV-Box-Player-HDMI-WiFi-1080P-Mini-PC-NEW-/380861222490?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&var=&hash=item58ad190e5a

The device linked there has the same features if not more than the ouya. Once again, you pick up an ipega bluetooth gamepad and for $90 you can do anything the ouya can do.

This is my opinion. I'm glad you like your ouya, and I hope you enjoy it well. However, to me its nothing special.

[Gogan]

Thank you. I will 


I knew it was overhyped, so I was not disappointed at all with it. I never buy into 'hype'. Honestly, some of the exclusives are not bad at all. 

[DragonmasterDan]

You can buy a dual core android tv stick and Ipega blue tooth controller for roughly $60 brand new and do the same thing as the ouya. I have this very setup going at my house and get any game i want from the google play store. Mikes right, the Ouya is a cheap piece junk.

The Ouya is quad core and a bit more powerful than the 50-60 TV sticks. You can also connect USB devices to it, I'd rather have the Ouya at the same price point.

Yes, I have one of those crazy little tv sticks and guess what? you can put usb devices into it as well. Its called an otg port. Alot of devices have them, nothing special.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Quad-Core-Dual-Core-Android-4-2-Smart-TV-Box-Player-HDMI-WiFi-1080P-Mini-PC-NEW-/380861222490?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&var=&hash=item58ad190e5a

The device linked there has the same features if not more than the ouya. Once again, you pick up an ipega bluetooth gamepad and for $90 you can do anything the ouya can do.

This is my opinion. I'm glad you like your ouya, and I hope you enjoy it well. However, to me its nothing special.

The boxes you link to have a bit more RAM and are larger with ports and what not. I was reffering to the smaller stick models that show up on amazon and what not that were under 60.00.

Anyway, those boxes do look nice too for multimedia purposes.

[HercTNT]

I know what you were referring to. The device i linked was an example of a quad core since you were looking for apples to apples. My tv stick has usb as I stated.  Android games relay way more heavily on gpu than cpu. I have a quad core mobile device called the Iben L1. Its cpu ony runs at 1.1ghz. However, it has an 8 core powervr Gpu. I can run anything the ouya can. That quad core box i linked can run anything the ouya can. Especially with 2gb of ram. Which, is double the amount of ram btw. Thats more than abit

[nodtveidt]

The Ouya was hyped all to hell because of its premise and its popularity on Kickstarter.  It seemed like it would be the ultimate indie console. They just did a whole ton of shit wrong, from its design to making nice with devs. I wisely kept my distance to see how it would all turn out and now I can honestly say that I am glad I did.

[_joshuaTurbo]

The Ouya was hyped all to hell because of its premise and its popularity on Kickstarter.  It seemed like it would be the ultimate indie console. They just did a whole ton of shit wrong, from its design to making nice with devs. I wisely kept my distance to see how it would all turn out and now I can honestly say that I am glad I did.

Well jokes on you (AND ARK) as I ripped my copies of MSR and Insanity for play on PCE.EMU on the Ouya!!


YOU GUYS ARE OUYA DEVELOPERS!!!

[munchiaz]

its on sale on amazon for $70 right now

http://www.amazon.com/OUYA-Console/dp/B0050SZD18/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395768600&sr=8-1&keywords=ouya

[Dicer]

Attempting to flash CM on mine now, we will see how this goes...

[Dicer]

CM went without a hitch box is so much more useable now, woohoo

[_joshuaTurbo]

Just for yucks n' grins I played around with the Ouya tonight (after playing through Sonic CD (today's free ap of the day on Amazon app store) ) and discovered a couple little game demos that I found pretty interesting.  One that was absolutely stellar (seriously!) is this game called 'Read Only Memories' which at the moment is exclusive to the Ouya for a limited time.  I believe it'll be on PC/Mac/Linux and Ouya once it's available cross platform. 


Anyway, the game really packs a TON of character.  It's a mix of a few really classy point n' click SKUMM games and has a more comical side feeling of games like Snatcher and Rise of the Dragon.  I'm really digging it, and wanted to share. 


 I made it my next actual purchase.

[TheClash603]

Is this thing $50 w/ a second controller yet?  I think that will be my entry point.

[DragonmasterDan]

Is this thing $50 w/ a second controller yet?  I think that will be my entry point.

Just due to cost unless it's used or on clearance it's not likely to hit that price point any time soon. I totally believe as an overall multimedia device the Ouya is well worth the money.