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- ernexbcn0
My expectations:
A cheap Plex client.
- mantrakid0
@Scarabin, it's slow to ship, which is fine but they've been really about it - making promises all the time then missing their promises or just not giving any follow up. They made a big announcement in May that 100% of the orders have been shipped and were all self congratulatory about it but, for example, I still have not even received a tracking number for mine. Many people were able to confirm that their order was still waiting to be shipped. So some of their PR is just bold-faced lies.
The unit itself has not fared well upon review. Bad controller response, lag, OS bugs, clunky UI, everything feels half-assed. Was touted as a potential media player contender out of the gate, but the XMBC implementation is rushed & half-assed again.
Games themselves are just shitty half-assed ports of android stuff...
The worst thing is they have been quoted that they're hoping to release a new system quite frequently, so you kinda feel like 'why bother' with the first generation anyway because they've basically said they're already planning for the next one. :P
Just really bad PR all around.
- ESKEMA0
ahahah. wtf? that gif is hilarious. So what happened?
- scarabin0
so what's wrong with it?
- mantrakid0
they just paid me my refund request. Still hadn't even shipped. Their communication is atrocious.
- i_monk0
I was wondering about this the other day. I'm sure there are youtube video reviews by now.
- mantrakid0
Anyone get their Ouya. They really shit the bed IMO.... :\ sad that i need to retract all my excitement.
- animatedgif0
^ Sony are doing that at the moment actually, MS did a fair bit of it over the past few years but managed to piss off every single team they worked with.
- mantrakid0
i think Sony and MS have been smart to try and open things up for indie devs a bit on their shits - it's only gonna grow & they may very well have seen what potential the Ouya had.. Dudes like me dont play games for the graphics. If i did all my favorite shit wouldnt look pixellated to hell as a stylistic choice. :D
- mantrakid0
the indie game scene is blossoming amazingly. the chances of seeing some cool indie dev stuff on here eventually is pretty good.
- animatedgif0
Don't get me wrong, I'd love a cheap open console to succeed. I just feel this will be underwhelming to the hardcore audience who have bought into it
- Was it supposed to be hardcore? $99 is pretty cheap, imo.monospaced
- Hardcore initially because you'd have to be geeky enough to find the kickstarter in the first placeanimatedgif
- Now you're mixing your meanings of hardcore!monospaced
- animatedgif0
^ Yeah and a PS3 is £150 and has way better looking games than a $600 phone/tablet. So where does the Ouya fit in?
- good pointmonospaced
- but I think they subsidize the PS3 and make money from games and licensing?monospaced
- True but that doesn't matter to consumersanimatedgif
- I thought what matters to consumers is that it plays games well... guess I was wrong.monospaced
- I mean customers don't care where the money goes, they care about price and a certain quality of gamesanimatedgif
- monospaced0
As long as the games play well, does it matter how powerful it is? After all, it's only $99 vs the ~$600 for your ARM based mobile device. If it's successful they'll have room to improve for the next version.
- animatedgif0
" (every console ranks low compared to concurrent configurations of the same parts in PCs),"
Check the results, this isn't compared to PCs but other ARM devices... as in phones and tablets
- plash0
gotta agree with etm here that this isn't really a push for hardware. the specs were released over a year ago and then too there was controversy over the build. tho i believe the real contribution will be with the open marketplace.
- i_monk0
Judging from the comments there, this low ranking isn't surprising or atypical (every console ranks low compared to concurrent configurations of the same parts in PCs), but is misleading (among the Tegra 3 it's ranked highest, the OS is still in beta and will streamline out a lot of chaff that doesn't apply to something not running on batteries, etc).