Originally posted by camil82

thats awesome, but the question is how can they afford to build it and publish it and everything else just for 100$

sweat-shops.

I think getting into consoles is a mistake. I think slowly we are going to see console making companies merging until you only have 1 console and everyone just developes games and apps for said console.

I personally see it as a great innovation, allows for indie developers to get their games, etc. out easily and with a decent profit. Plus most people believe it'll be great for emulation on the TV.

Overall I'll be buying one and seeing how it turns out!

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28k supporters, 3.5 million in funds so far if they keep this up it wont have to sell boxes at launch theyve probably made back there investment 3 times over already and the backers keep dropping more cash. i mean a goal of 900k and were well on the way to 4 million THATS 4,000,000 dollars at almost the end of day 2. I dont care if you hate the idea of this console or not there getting quite a bit of backing from it seems that alot of people that either have way to much money and nothing to spend it on or just some DIE hard open source people that really wana get something like this on the market either way its already a success if it never sells a single box once launched.

Originally posted by Xzen

I think getting into consoles is a mistake. I think slowly we are going to see console making companies merging until you only have 1 console and everyone just developes games and apps for said console.

monopolies are illegal.  competition drives the economy. 

i think it's an awesome idea.  hopefully they succeed and shake up the over-priced console gaming market.

This looks really interesting, but there's always that looming cloud of whether or not major developers will throw their hat in the pile.  That's not to say indie titles can't provide a lot of enjoyment, but many console gamers are also invested in their favorite titles and series games and that would make them hard-pressed to want to change platforms just to support "a cool idea".

cool... $100 new console.... but when it all comes down to it, is what are the games?? I dont care if its 50$ console if all im playing is some Tetris game.

Originally posted by Epic1oots

cool... $100 new console.... but when it all comes down to it, is what are the games?? I dont care if its 50$ console if all im playing is some Tetris game.

I wouldn't mind that at all ;D

Originally posted by Drekker17
I'm just wondering who is going to buy the thing. PC gamers already have the king of indie platforms, console gamers don't care as much about indie and already get better indie games than ios/android, if they want to play those games they'll just play on their phones. Ios people will unlikely buy it. It leaves only android gamers...and I don't think they care so much to play on TV. I'm positive the Ouya won't sell well in the beginning because gamers, casual and hardcore, won't see its value...but if it can get good games on it over time (ultimately the biggest factor)...it might do ok. Hopefully the devs are thinking with that mentality.

3 million pledged isnt that bad SO there goes youur theory out the window

Seems more then unrealistic, and like the developers would be far and few with just ports/next to no popular titles..

Reading through their kickstarter page, it's more like they just want people to play pc/mobile games on their tv's....

This just shows that android was the best creation any company could have thought of.

yah this is gonna work

signed Neo-Geo, Atari-Jaguar, Turbo-Grafx, Dreamcast

Well the hardware specs look like a top end mobile :) infact thinking about it my HT one X is probally more powerfull than my PC was 4 years ago LOL.. so could it be a good dedicated games console?

I dont see why not the android OS is very capable and takes very little resources to run, there are tons of gamse already available on it and not all are casual boring mobile games.. With big game engines like Unreal and Unity easily available for game development on the android platform im pretty sure we could see some really nice games..

Dont get me wrong i mean sure its not designed to be a competitor to the current generation of consoles or the next but it will be cheap and im pretty sure the games wil be cheap as well..

I could see this selling quite well if they manage to pull it off.

Its not somthing i would buy as im really only a pc gamer but i can see a lot of people who would want it :)

Originally posted by Xzen

I think getting into consoles is a mistake. I think slowly we are going to see console making companies merging until you only have 1 console and everyone just developes games and apps for said console.

keep dreaming.

Originally posted by warmaster670

Originally posted by Xzen

I think getting into consoles is a mistake. I think slowly we are going to see console making companies merging until you only have 1 console and everyone just developes games and apps for said console.

keep dreaming.

Dunno, smart tv's are on the brink. Digital delivery turns things more into services than products.

There's a good critique/crystal ball work via gamasutra article on this Ouya:

OUYA, the Android console - naivete at work?

Worth a read!!

I hope it's successful - open console platform - thank you.

Suspect KS will be 2nd funding cycle before VC's/AI's etc are rolled in to make this get off the ground. Still with Mr. Garriot's predictions re social games, who knows?

Bahahahaha All your moneys are belong to us!

Only a gig of ram? Prepare for lots of loading, and poor performance. I can't imagine trying to load and play games, while streaming twitch.tv, and playing at 1080p.  Yes, it might have a quad core, but a gig isn't going to let the quad work completely. And only 8 gigs of space? Hopefully it will have some kind of sd card slot? Going to have like 2 games MAYBE on there, unless they are just going to be short games like on the phone. Why would I want that?

I'm highly skeptical, I think it's probably going to be a flop.

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Originally posted by Iced0ver
Only a gig of ram? Prepare for lots of loading, and poor performance. I can't imagine trying to load and play games, while streaming twitch.tv, and playing at 1080p.  Yes, it might have a quad core, but a gig isn't going to let the quad work completely. And only 8 gigs of space? Hopefully it will have some kind of sd card slot? Going to have like 2 games MAYBE on there, unless they are just going to be short games like on the phone. Why would I want that?

I'm highly skeptical, I think it's probably going to be a flop.

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Well we just broek the 4 mil mark which is only a little over 4 times what they were looking for to begin with and still 27 days to go!