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selnor on 13 August 2012
Chark said:
selnor said:
Chark said:
selnor said:
Chark said:
I'm not sure about the next Xbox but since PS4 will have PS Mobile it will have all the apps that Ouya offers because PS Mobile is essentially the Android Market. Though Ouya is interesting and might find a nice place in the market, I find it hard up to compete with what the PS4 is going to offer as it will be its main home console competition(oh yeah Wii U could get an app store, remember those rumors?). So Ouya isn't going to be unique, just $99. I'm not sure if the Tegra 3 will hold a light up to next gen. This could have been far more epic if it came out last year.

Hmmm.

I would say the nextbox is more set than PS4. Xbox 360 already offers apps.

I have both PS3 and 360. 360 in UK currently offers 26 apps. With more by years end. PS3 offers 6.

If the nextbox uses Windows 8 closely, I would expect hundreds and hundreds if not thousands of apps. Especially with smartglass.

 

These apps are entirely different. There is a reason there are so few on 360 and PS3. It is not the same open development platform to make those or free to make for that matter. Your right about including Xbox 3 in all this, it will most likely have the windows phone app marketplace (that's what they call it right?) and therefore walking side by side with Sony's new tools. Side question, do you know anything about smartglass? Because it seems like developers won't want to waste their time making stuff for it since all it seems to do is what you can already do in a game's pause menu.
Either way Ouya is a bust in my eyes. That Tegra 3 actually isn't going to run things on par with PS3 or 360, better than Wii but Wii U launches this year. Ouya is going to look cheap and only play crappy games in comparison to everything in the market. It is not unique and it can't price itself to be appealing as current gen consoles will match or become close by the time it launches. It has lost all relevancy.

Smartglass functionality is confirmed for Halo 4, and will be demonstrated on the new Surface tablet soon.

Also Smartglass will allow for non game app functionality.

For example, watching a film on the Surface on your journey home, come into your house and with a simple press on your tablet you can finish watching it on your 360 on your big screen tv. Your 360 will automatically start the film from where it is on your Surface.

With this sort of ability, apps can take on a whole new meaning.

Netflix already keeps your place in the shows you watch. Just pause netflix on one device open it up on something else and play that show and it will play from where you left off. It doesn't need smartglass. Unless it turns your 360 on and starts everything automatically with a reasonable loading time it is nothing special.

I haven't seen anything worthwile from smartglass that can't be done through an in game menu. Like that Halo 4 app they showed off at E3, it was just bios on weapons and stuff. Aside from being able to look at that on the go why not just do it in the game? Unless you can manage your character or something and have the changes made in your game. All smartglass is is an app, its just an app and appears nothing more special than an app. Until I start seeing something substantial smartglass is just a gimmick rather than a tool.

Not just Netflix. But any bought downloaded film, well any type of movie service. anything. Youtube the lot. your obviously not seeing the bigger picture.



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Chark on 13 August 2012
selnor said:

Not just Netflix. But any bought downloaded film, well any type of movie service. anything. Youtube the lot. your obviously not seeing the bigger picture.


Still sounds pretty much like no one would ever use a feature like that in the average length of a human lifespan. It doesn't even save much time, probably would be faster to just keep watching it on whatever you started to watch it on.

Anyway, it defeats the purpose if it isn't instantaneous and I doubt the 360 start up alone is worth the trouble. Smartglass needs to do more than take game menus out of games and pause a video, I would like to see more on what they plan to do with it or if it is just going to become an app that you can use if you want or just to check out but not need or care to use, seems like a middle man feature.



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mysticwolf on 13 August 2012

you would consider OUYA a mobile console?



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man-bear-pig on 13 August 2012

Good! I will pick up one of these at some point, given that they are so cheap. I hope it doesn't bomb...it'll certainly struggle to get mainstream popularity though



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kitler53 on 13 August 2012
TadpoleJackson said:
PlaystaionGamer said:
here is a system that will bomb.
yes yes all Forum geeks are loving it.. which means the general public won't get it at all.


A $99 console that could stream Amazon Prime, Hulu, Netflix, Pandorra, and Onlive? This does everything those tv top streaming boxes do plus more. Put that together with the Android name and this thing can be huge. You seem to underestimate the general population 

there are devices already on the market that cost less and do more and are definetly not popular.  i think playstaionGamer got that part right, this whole thing will never make sense to the greater public.



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superchunk on 13 August 2012
mysticwolf said:
you would consider OUYA a mobile console?


No, its a console made from a mobile OS.



mysticwolf on 13 August 2012

i suppose that would make sense.



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mike_intellivision on 13 August 2012

I think the issue would be getting people to find and buy games.
Unless it has its own "store"-- it will not succeed. Try finding something on Google Play.

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superchunk on 13 August 2012
mike_intellivision said:
I think the issue would be getting people to find and buy games.
Unless it has its own "store"-- it will not succeed. Try finding something on Google Play.

Mike from Morgantown


Its very easy to find stuff on Google Play.

Just type the name or similar into the search box.

There's also a few other decent categorized generic searches based on ratings or simply 'all'.

The problem isn't a customer finding a title, its a developer finding a way to make their title stand out among the hundreds of thousands of others. But, that exists on any digital store where their is basically infinite shelf space.



Roma on 14 August 2012

well I'm open for this just need to check some videos of this game if there are any.



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