OUYA-New Console-Discussion Thread

[wildbil52]

It sounds like there is nothing to collect here but dust.

So it's like the Wii?

ZING!

[Tynstar]

Now that was funny! But you should of quoted him.

[bombatomba]

Bum-da-bump...  how to you do the cymbal sound?

[wildbil52]

Now that was funny! But you should of quoted him.

Yeah, I should have.  That page break couldn't have come at a worse time, too.

[blcklblskt]

I'm more interested in what hackers can do for this console than what the Android market currently offers. I don't see why people won't be able to port linux to it. From there, they could run steam and we'd have steam-on-a-tv.

It could also end up being a Netflix/Hulu/Amazon video player as well.  With their approach of being a hacker friendly console, I can see this being a pretty awesome device. I highly, highly doubt that this will provide any competition to the "Big 3".

[Shadow Kisuragi]

I can easily see it becoming a cheap set-top box, which would be awesome.

[OatBob]

Oh I know the 360 would be lower but it is also going to be 7 (I think) years old ion November.

Overheating since November 2005.

[Socialiste]

I received my OUYA a few days ago and I was able to test it. Here's my experience by categories:

Controllers: I read that they were awful but I think they improved them since mine is pretty good. You see it's cheap plastic but it still seems solid. Connection is good, works very well. The only thing I don't really like is the "pointing device" which is a touch pad in the middle of the controller... works but barely.

Sound: Nothing to say, it's all good, in games, watching your videos, listening to online radio with apps, it's all good.

Graphics: The possibilities are there. A few games like Shadowgun, Beast Boxing turbo or Ravensword: Shadowlands have great graphics for the machine. However, most games tend to look like cellphones games on a big screen tv. Nevertheless, the system CAN show great textures, it's just underused for now.

Machine ports: sd port, power and almost everything works great. The only problem is the internet connection. The wi-fi reception is quite bad and easily disconnects or is very slow. I've tried connecting it with fast ethernet but it's also common that it disconnects and fail to see ethernet as a network. I must admit, this is really frustrating.

Games: I was hoping to see more 100% free games on this console but except for very bad ones and very few good ones, you have to pay from 3 to 20$, normally around 5-7$. Anybody can publish what they want on this system so you have good games for every style: FPS, RPG, Fighting, Shoot 'em up, racing, etc. At this moment, there's 210 games on OUYA and most of them looks like games you could use on your cellphone or play on websites like newgrounds (for free I must say). Some games look like ports of Android cellphone games on OUYA without a lot of consideration for the OUYAian gamer. Nevertheless, even though many games are crap, I must say that there's enough games that are pretty good, just rarely last-generation looking games.

So that's about it. Is it worth 150$? (bought it with 2 controllers). I don't think so. 100$ would be better with 2 controllers. However, I do understand why they talk so much about potential, because there is a lot to it. I don't regret buying it and I enjoy it, but I'm a little disappointed of the lack of real free games and ethernet problems.

[The Metamorphosing Leon]

Not enough memories.

[GamingGuru]

In my opinion it is not worth 100$ i won't throw that cash around lightly especially at something with a mediocre game library (that's my opinion) Maybe when the game library gets bigger and it lowers in price will i consider purchasing it.