Ouya Android games console to ship April 2013 Ouya, the 'play Android tablet games on a telly' gadget, will be shipping in April 2013, the company behind it having been pledged a whopping $8.6m in crowdsourced funding - more than nine times the amount it was seeking. And it's taking orders. Slap down your local currency equivalent of $119 (£76), which includes $20 P&P, …
as I wrote in the past, these games are targeted at different gamers. Games for your smartphone and tablets aren't the same as the ones for your handheld console nor the home console.
the phone games are meant to be a momentary distraction while you wait for bus or need to kill few minutes. Console games on the other hand are meant to keep you going for hours. This even reflect on the size of the game, phone games can be less then 100mb while most of the console games are more then few gigs in size.
don't make the mistake of thinking that if developers start making AAA games for phone, then the size and -more importantly- the price of those games will remain at just 99 cents. Bigger games cost a lot more to make, and therefore will need to be priced higher so that the developer can regain their development cost. And considering the sizes of those games, I honestly doubt that the user will buy many of them (storage restriction) and their price will push away casual buyer. And before you use Angry Bird as an example, let me say this, not every game that was released on the phone have become an Angry Bird success story.
Note, I left the difference between the different phones configurations and OS versions out of the above reply.
note 2, one of OUYA selling points is that it will make games available for free or cheap from the Android market or onLive. This doesn't encourage developers that much does it?
Ouya pitched its $99 box to punters in July, touting the Android gadget as the world's first hackable games console.
In a stunning display of "ignoring everyone else who tried it before us."
Personally not enthused. I don't mind the concept so much, but pretty much every single game I've played on native Android or iOS has been shit, with the replay value of a colonoscopy. They might amuse for 5 minutes on the train home, but that's it. Sitting down and playing that crap over my PS3, PC, X-box, etc? Not a chance in hell.
The fact they've got enough cash from backers on Kickstarter tells me it's a good enough idea, with perhaps better execution than previous attempts? Sales channels and word-of-mouth will do the job, if they get their media strategy right and get some names on board. You can't get off the ground without some positive thinking, otherwise... well, what's the point of starting anything?
63,416 Backers. $8,596,475 pledged of $950,000 goal - I'd say there are plenty of people who have an open mind, unlike yourself. How do you replay a colonoscopy interactively? Nifty.
You should stick to not writing poetry. http://www.poetryshared.co.uk/about.php
... it would presumably encourage more Android games to work with a traditional gamepad rather than a touchscreen, where appropriate (think R-Type, not Worms). Would these games be suitable for Android phones / tablets used with a blutooth /USB gamepad, and thus giving Sony and Ninetndo a bit more to worry about on the portable gaming front?
Tech projects don't have a great track record Kickstarter - something like the Pulse Watch managed to get over $10 million, but they've now said they're going to miss the estimated shipping date in September and won't say when people will get the goods they've stumped up for.
There have been some impressive deals linked to OUYA, but there are rather a lot of questions unanswered - and Penny Arcade ran an excellent report.
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