OUYA Video Game Console - Fully Funded, More Units Still Available at $99

[dharh]

Chark said:

dharh said:

I can only say that the only parts of the big three that OUYA would be competing against would be their indie games. In no way do the big game studios matter here. Who cares if EA, SQEE, or any of the other well known developers don't make games for this thing. I do agree that when it comes to legit game sales they need to get some good games when it initialy comes out, but they don't need to be anything from big studios. Angry Birds is still abuzz, so saturation is not quite there yet.

You also can't negate how easy it will be for developers who've already made android games to get them on OUYA, it's kinda a no brainer.

Instant game library will be a boon for it if they pull it off. Seems like that relies heavily on the developers. As far as the indie realm, what is your view on PS Mobile. I see that as the biggest competitor to OUYA and that is one of the big 3.

PS mobile could be a competitor, but not really necessarily a good one. For one, it's apparently not going to work on the phone I own right now. Nor the phone I will be getting tomorrow. Likely it will be only on SONY phones and maybe a few random others. The biggest barrier to entry imo is that it attempts to take the place of someones phone, rather than work on anyones phone, which a person really only needs one of.

OUYA is a console, of which most actual gamers have more than one of. I myself have never only owned one console from a current gen.

Aside from that, I do like that PS Mobile is open to indie developers. Much more so than most other platforms. In this though, whether it has any real potential, will be how easy it would be to port over to PSN and get onto PSV/PS3/PS4, because really the success will come from crossover. OUYA has android, the crossover potential is already huge.

The biggest potential competitor for OUYA though I think is Microsoft. They actually have a real indie market in the XBLA, even if it is dominated by big studios doing 'indie' things. They also actually make phones (Nintendo would be the odd man out here, I see no way Nintendo will ever compete in this segment) and the OS. They could make a huge push to create a platform where a developer can make a game that will work on PCs, tablets, phones, and XBOX. I kinda doubt they will though.