Ouya - 7 reasons it deserves your attention (and 3 reasons to remain skeptical)

I love it how GamesRadars "Three Things to be concerned about" aren't the thing that people should be concerned about. People should be concerned about far more things. Such as: - System Power, as in the hardwares horsepower. This things hardware sucks and would hold back gaming on a massive scale. - How are they going to fund the networks backbone and Proprietary AppStore, required to sell games on Ouya (durr it's not all that free and open.) - Most of the money earned via KickStarter will be going into Shipping these consoles to Backers, that leaves them very very little room to produce this on a massive scale. - No License or DevKit Fees, THEN HOW ARE THEY GOING TO FUND EVERYTHING. - @90$ they are basically going to be selling at a lose. So how is this company going to survive. It's obvious they have big dreams but they are going to bomb as hard as the Phantom Console. - What about Patents? Can they even afford to pay licensing fees to big companies? Hell if they are on Kickstarter that question is already answered. They aren't going to be able to. Android itself has many licensing fees that must be paid to Microsoft. If anything of these things are in Ouya. Stay Classy GamesRadar, advertise for the Ouya and so forth. Instead of actually looking at hard truths and important things that need to be talked about. Let's not do proper journalism, no it's better to write pieces that are very irrelevant and factually wrong or really bad opinions. Your Pros: - How is this giving a taste of Nextgen? It's underpowered compared to nextgen and can't offering anything even above the Wii in terms of fidelity and processing power. - If Windows 8 fails you think Ouya is going to take over the PC Space? You people at GamesRadar hitting the reefer hard or something? What the hell does Ouya have to do with PC Gaming or anything relevant to it? ANDROID IS NOT A PC OPERATING SYSTEM. It's a mobile operating system. NOW If iOS and Apple failed we could talk about it filling a gap. FFS Don't make ridiculous claims. Also, the failing of Windows 8 is hardly going to hurt PC Gaming as a whole or create a massive rift in PC Gaming. Please do not even attempt to pass this off as a bad thing. If it bombs the transition to Windows 8 will be slow just like Vista. That doesn't mean every other form of Windows now doesn't work and gaming is dead on the PC. - Offers "Free to Try Games." So in essence, it offers free demos. You know things that consoles almost always get and PC's used to always get? - 40,000 People is nothing compared to PS3, Steam and Xbox360. All of which have something like 40MILLION Active users on their respective services. - Easy to develop for? Really? No, the easiest thing to developer for is the PC Platform. It offers the highest flexibility over anything out there. There are so many ways to develop games that it's not even funny.

Well said!!! this whole ouya thing seems like a lot of pr bullshit!!

So...just out of curiosity, since you seem to know alot about how much it costs to make a game and how to develop games, and business marketing strategys....when is your game coming out?

oyua is so full of fale cuz andriod is the worst operate systam u can use the grafics suck and it always brakes trust me u are much more beter of just getting a ipad insted

I can think of better things to do with my time than play Canabalt (really? Good grief!) on my TV.

It's fun when our at school but not when your at home.

Oh the cynicism of the internet. I'm looking forward to seeing what this can do. It's not being made to compete with the big three, it's to fill an indie niche. I'll remain cautiously optimistic.

i think this console will be an hybrid of the phantom and gizmondo a real bad concepted vaporware console which the money invested in it will be used to buy a ferrari that will crash in a lamppost

Will I OUYA, doubtful. Every game will be Free-to-play.... if that's their big pitch? What appears to amount to shareware/demos of games ..... they need to pack in right now. Someone said there is no reason for all the hate for the OUYA and I agreed but I also see no reason for all the love. About the only thing that Interests me in the OUYA is the controller cause I still need one for my PC. PC controllers seem to come in only two flavors OMG cheap crap and WTF expensive. If their controller is cheap, compatible and ever materializes I just might pick one up.

I love how everyone in the comments seems know the future. Unlike them, I don't know what is going to happen to this new platform. I just hope it works out, because it may become something great. We'll see.

I put some money down, enough for a console and a few bits. It's got potential so I thought I'll donate and see where it goes, if it amounts to nothing so be it. Have to admit it feels cool to back something like this.

No self-respecting gamer will own this. I'm all about having an idea and trying to see it through, so for that I wish these guys luck, but this is for the casual crowd, and they are....special. They don't know how to hack anything, and their attention spans arte so short that I can't see any sort of long term stability of consumer report. This is going to be that gift your grandma buys you because she doesn't understand when you talk about your hobbies, that you will smile, give her a hug, then toss it in a closet never to be seen again. If you're into homebrewing then you are a PC gamer. If you want a good non-cellphone-not-a-real-game game then you probably own a real console. Oh and if you are into their idea OnLive is probably the better route. Again though, good luck to all involved.

Because being a gamer REALLY means something about you man. It's like I'm really on /v/. Serious gaming only allowed here. No fun. No enjoyable shit. Only hardcore tests of skill.

The system is way too vague and unclear about what it exactly is trying to bring to the table. Let alone that if you think about it, a PC can do just this as well. Of course PC's can be more expensive, but I really don't see why people would want to restrict themselves on a piece of hardware. Although I'm unclear what it means by their explanation on the "open" hardware as well, I would think PC's are even more "open". In all, I'm not saying this will flop on day one, but I'm really having a hard time wrapping my head around how this model will actually work.

Point by point: 1. So are Zynga games, and we saw how far that got them. 2. It's a 360 controller with some gimmicks. The reality is that "unique hardware gives developers the chance to design something that could only exist on [a single platform]" has never gone well for anyone, ever. 3. Purely a measurement of hype. Why does the judgment of people who are willing to drop $100+ on something they've essentially never seen before matter here? 4. How do we know this? Like, at all? This is purely speculating toward some glorious future where console and flash game sites start getting along for some reason 5. Again, why? Windows Vista was a piece of shit, but it didn't leave "an open-platform vacuum" when no one bought it. XP and 7 still exist. Mac and Linux still exist, and with Steam coming to linux, there'll be even less reason to go anywhere but PC for your open-platform of choice. 6. I suppose this could be good. I've never heard of the guy. The flaws list is much more telling, if only because it actually talks about the console, instead of the surrounding context that is driving all the hype. It's a good idea, I guess, but that's it: an idea. No opening lineup, and all signs seem to indicate that it simply won't be done by March. The most dissapointing thing for me is that they just aren't doing anything new. Bringing together old ideas in clever ways, maybe. I personally was MUCH more excited about the onLive console.

You lost me at "Free to Play" and "Streaming". Free to play means microtransactions of some kind and streaming means that I don't own the games that I want to play. The minute this service stops, and it will, I lose all the games that I would have put time and money into.

I'm optimistic, but also insanely skeptical.

"It's good enough for Robert Bowling" Yeah, but so was MW2. This thing is just stupid. No way they let it stay open platform. Once people start doing homebrew shit and nobody buys the games, they will release some firmware update that kills all that stuff off (just like Sony did with the PS3) and then people will be pissed.

I'm with you there