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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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Darth Tigris on 05 April 2013

Amazes me that this made it to production. I always figured it'd be like the Phantom.

Will this sell even 200,000???



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Scoobes on 06 April 2013
saicho said:
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.

As far as I'm aware the backers get exclusive access to preview hardware and have been asked for feedback in order to improve Ouya for final review/retail versions. I believe they then get final hardware although to be perfectly honest I'm not 100% sure; I'm basing this on statements from the Ouya devs.

The hardware may well still be flawed as they don't have much time to implement improvements, but I still think this is too early to start slating.




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dharh on 07 April 2013

It amazes me how most of you seem to have no vision and imagination for what this could become. Oh well. It won't be the first time I have been disappointed by vgchartz users.



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Scoobes on 08 April 2013
dharh said:
It amazes me how most of you seem to have no vision and imagination for what this could become. Oh well. It won't be the first time I have been disappointed by vgchartz users.

Tell me about it. The thing is, even if the final version of this hardware is poor, they have far more room to iterate due to the cheap price. Rather than 5+ years in a generation they can afford to have a new console every 2 years, by which time mobile tech will be up to spec with PS3 & 360 level graphics power.

This doesn't even have to be brilliant staright out of the gate. It's a disruptive, budget console for budget minded consumers which can be gradually updated.




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Dr.Grass on 08 April 2013
crissindahouse said:
Dr.Grass said:

HAHAHA!

My friends who won an Ouya game jam comp aren't even interested in actually releasing their game!

Hahah!

Not even PSOne level that thing.

EDIT: Just saw the specs for the first time. Don't look that bad - but the dev-dudes said it was struggling to run a top down shooter properly. Hmmmm.

is that the game you said "they will make millions with it" or something like that? the kill screen competition winner? forgot the name but it looked great and weird^^

No; They won the comp with their "Murder Island" entry, the awesome game I'm talking about is BroForce.

They're not releasing anything on the Ouya as of now.

 



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Luther21 on 08 April 2013

i have no intention to buy this, i don't want to play mobile games on my big screen television.



Mummelmann on 09 April 2013
dharh said:
It amazes me how most of you seem to have no vision and imagination for what this could become. Oh well. It won't be the first time I have been disappointed by vgchartz users.


If launched 6-7 years ago, it would have been a staggering invention with a massive potential for sales. Its just going to end up between different markets in a kind of twilight zone. What kind of people would buy this between tablets, smartphones, handheld consoles, home consoles and laptops and desktop computers? It appears to be aiming towards an area where no customers are at and won't be, their needs will be satisifed elsewhere on all fronts. Things like Piston and Apple TV won't exaclty make it easier for this thing either.

Trust me, it's way too late to the party and will fall hard on its ass.