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richardhutnik on 26 July 2013
crissindahouse said:

you would think that even the guys who use it for emulations would buy at least one small game with their ouya purchase...

seems like most people really supported a gaming console kickstarter project without the purpose to buy games on that supported console lol.

People kickstarted it to stick it to the man, in hopes a little guy could make noise with it.   It was making a statement more than anything else.



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crissindahouse on 26 July 2013
Augen said:
So an attach rate of .3? I never would have guessed a system would achieve sub 1.0 numbers. Achievement of sorts I suppose.

well, there are probably people who bought more than one game so it shouldn't be that horrible but yeah, maybe a ratio of 1 if they are lucky.



famousringo on 26 July 2013

They're gaming, all right. They just aren't paying for it. It's the Android way.



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Playstationfan12 on 26 July 2013

Wow this is terrible lol. Yup I knew nothing ouya related would sell well whether it be games or the system itself. Have they released sales figures for the actual ouya console?



forest-spirit on 26 July 2013
Barozi said:
On the Kickstarter page, pre-orders were roughly 60k. When we look at the revealed software sales figures a few days ago, there actually can't be much more sold.
The best selling of these games had a bit over 2000 sales.
Minimum total software sales are therefore 16k.


Did someone leak NPD numbers for Ouya btw. ?


I think it did around 13k.



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gigantor21 on 26 July 2013
forest-spirit said:
Barozi said:
On the Kickstarter page, pre-orders were roughly 60k. When we look at the revealed software sales figures a few days ago, there actually can't be much more sold.
The best selling of these games had a bit over 2000 sales.
Minimum total software sales are therefore 16k.


Did someone leak NPD numbers for Ouya btw. ?


I think it did around 13k.

The CEO immediately said their numbers were crap because they didn't account for every source (particularly sales from their own website). But if it was by a really huge amount, I'm sure they'd be trumpeting the full numbers instead of just saying "it sold well".

Come to think of it, did they ever say what their sales expectations were to begin with?



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Xen on 26 July 2013
richardhutnik said:
Xen said:
BasilZero said:
I find it hilarious people bought the system for emulation when PC is clearly superior in doing that lol.

So do I...

But one of the points they made when it was coming out was "look, you can play SMB on it!" they knew.

@v-rock: Yeah, for a small budget, it's great - granted, however, you can assemble a basic PC that can do the same much better quite cheaply. Everyone needs a PC, anyway.

You can. but then you get the overhead of a PC, and the Ouya is a LOT more portable.  Some people want equipment dedicated towards doing a specific function.  On that note, if one is going to argue for a general device that also does gaming, then why bother with consoles?  Can end up getting superior gaming on a PC from specs, right?

Not for the price of either the WiiU, PS4, or X1 just yet...

It's both cheaper and more portable, but the people who wanted it for that dedicated purpose seem to have gotten it. There isn't that much demand, it seems.



yo_john117 on 26 July 2013

27% of Ouya owners buying games is a pretty sad figure honestly. Then again, I don't know what type of attach rate new consoles have (I would think an attach rate of 1 or 2 but I don't really know).



richardhutnik on 27 July 2013
Xen said:
richardhutnik said:
Xen said:
BasilZero said:
I find it hilarious people bought the system for emulation when PC is clearly superior in doing that lol.

So do I...

But one of the points they made when it was coming out was "look, you can play SMB on it!" they knew.

@v-rock: Yeah, for a small budget, it's great - granted, however, you can assemble a basic PC that can do the same much better quite cheaply. Everyone needs a PC, anyway.

You can. but then you get the overhead of a PC, and the Ouya is a LOT more portable.  Some people want equipment dedicated towards doing a specific function.  On that note, if one is going to argue for a general device that also does gaming, then why bother with consoles?  Can end up getting superior gaming on a PC from specs, right?

Not for the price of either the WiiU, PS4, or X1 just yet...

It's both cheaper and more portable, but the people who wanted it for that dedicated purpose seem to have gotten it. There isn't that much demand, it seems.

The PC is always going to eventually jump over what consoles do.  And now, with the who X86 base, it will be even more so, with more games going to the PC.  So, I would suggest people busting on the Ouya, who also have other consoles to stop and think what they are saying.  

The Ouya is in a similar boat as consoles, just its focus is homebrew stuff, and apparently emulators.  At this point you have the Ouya being the most well known of the Android-based micro-consoles.  Will see what follows.



nuckles87 on 27 July 2013

This figure isn't really surprising for anyone who actually owns an Ouya. Every game on the system can be downloaded for free as a demo, and several games can be owned completely for free. It is also incredibly easy to pirate Android software on the system (you literally just need to go to an APK website and download software). Then there's the emulation, of course.

But another thing about the Ouya (something I think a lot of people here are missing) is that the system is also a development kit, and a lot of the units out there right now are being used as dev kits, not as home consoles.