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Forums - Gaming - Ouya review on The Verge: 3.5/10 "it's a million miles away from something worth spending your money on."

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MoHasanie on 05 April 2013

Nobody wants this console and the concept sounds bad.



    

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Barozi on 05 April 2013
Scoobes said:
Slimebeast said:
Barozi said:

mobile gaming isn't really that big revenue-wise, though they sell tons of games.

Revenue In Germany (2012):

console games - 819m €
PC games - 464m €
handheld games - 180m €
mobile games - 38m €

Mobile gaming has 4.6% of the console revenue and 2.5% of the total market revenue.
To make as much revenue as the consoles they'd need to sell 418m games in Germany every year (curently 19m). Average price for a mobile game is only 2€.

http://www.biu-online.de/fileadmin/user_upload/bilder/marktzahlen/2012/2012_absatz_plattformen_vergleich.png
http://www.biu-online.de/fileadmin/user_upload/bilder/marktzahlen/2012/2012_absatz_mobile_endgeraete.png

Wow, that's peanuts. But how can mobile games like Angry Birds be so huge and profitable then?

Not sure if the numbers include microtransactions and/or ad clicks, but I'd guess that's how most mobile games stay profitable.

Neither is included.

DLC revenue for all platforms is 226m €.
4.7m (out of 25m) German gamers bought DLC in 2012 for an average price of 48.3€

http://www.biu-online.de/fileadmin/user_upload/bilder/marktzahlen/2012/2012_zusatzinhalte_ausgaben.png



chapset on 05 April 2013

wasn't that suppose to kill console gaming with the steam box



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JoeTheBro on 05 April 2013

How long will it take for people to realize this and the PS4 are the only next gen systems with touch pads?

If the PS4 finds really good success then Ouya will be the only system capable of replicating its experience. I don't expect the touch pad to be as huge as the wii mote or kinect, but it could still do good enough to guarantee Ouya a niche market with cheap ass gamers.



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Playstationfan12 on 05 April 2013

Wow I knew this would be horrible from the start. Ill be surprised if this doesn't flop on its face and isn't near last place next gen



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NintendoPie on 05 April 2013

They should've summed up the review with, "Why does this even exist?"



bananaking21 on 05 April 2013

i been saying this all along



Kasz216 on 05 April 2013
kitler53 said:
Gamerace said:
kitler53 said:
for all the hate smartphone gaming gets...

...i never understood why anyone cared about this.


Smartphone gaming only gets hate on gaming sites like this. 

But let's face facts - hit smartphone games are played by hundreds of millions of people instead of consoles games which are considered mega-successes if they can get into tens of millions.    Successful mobile developers are raking in 100s of millions in profit, as opposed to console developers who struggle to make profit.

Ten Cent buying into Epic is just the start of a new reign in gaming.  The power is shifting and gaming as an industry is shifting away from the old model favouring big publishers and to a new model favouring independant studios (Steam is also part of that shift).   

Ouya is fascinating as an initial attempt to bridge the two worlds of gaming (old and new).   But the gap may be too large to bridge or more likely will be bridged by Samsung / Apple not some little independant like Ouya.    But Ouya is the vanguard and will be an interesting footnote in gaming history if nothing else because of it.

allow me to rephrase.

 

for all the hate smartphone gaming gets on sites like this...

...i never understood why anyone on sites like this cared about this.

Some people on game enthusiast webs sites are actual game enthusasits?



saicho on 05 April 2013
Scoobes said:
This is way too early for a review. The product is basically only available to the people who helped fund their Kickstarter campaign and should really be considered to be in beta. At least wait until the final retail product is out before slating it!

Maybe I'm missing something but does those early backer get new hardware/controller when it's final? If not, the same hardware problems would still be there.



MikeB predicts that the PS3 will sell about 140 million units by the end of 2016 and triple the amount of 360s in the long run.

Playstationfan12 on 05 April 2013

well this isnt a surprise. the ouya sounded like a stupid,crappy idea from the start. why would you want to be limited to playing cheap crappy android games when you can play them almost anywhere on your phone.