Ouya Shipping Out Next Month, Journey Dev Joins Staff

Well huh... this is gonna bite me in the butt in the future but... I'm actually more excited about the Ouya then the PS4.

I just blew all my gamer credential with that statement right there, did i?

GET HIM, but NOT with SPAM!!!!!

Step out of the vehicle slowly! You're under arrest!

I KNOW MY DARN RIGHTS! YOU'LL GET MY GAMER CARD FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS!

The impending FAILURE of Ouya will come about 1 financial quarter later.

I've been excited about the Ouya since I heard about it... It's a cheap system that encourages new developers and creativity in a time which is, in many a way, very stagnant and boring as far as gaming goes.

I'm buying one, I hope this thing does very well.

Even for $100 I can't justify buying a console where I can play the same games on my phone or tablet. When a killer app hits, or the console takes off I might buy one. I am just seeing every Ouya game having to be Kickstarter funded and every developer struggling to get a game on it.

If you aren't into indie gaming or indie development, it's not worth your time. I'm excited to see what creative projects come from it, but if you're a mainstream console gamer, you can bet the best titles will make it to Steam, XBLA, and PSN within a relatively short amount of time.

I do like indie games. I own many of them, but I can't see this console taking off without large amounts of funding.

I think the point is that it's a machine for amateurs who don't need a lot of funding. But I think people are starting to use Kickstarter as a crutch, and too many people probably will resort to virtual begging to fund a great idea that they won't follow through on (unfortunately).

How can a controller with grips that bow out like that possible be ergonomic. I honestly feel like half these companies just design controllers for the sake of looking different....

All I've got to say is, FUCK THIS.

Between the Wii U and PS3/PS4 I have all the indie games I want, so no thanks Ouya. Oh yeah I have an android phone too, so who are they marketing too?

I wouldn't buy one because I buy consoles to play games on.

If I DEVELOPED games, I'd be all over this sh!t.

If iOS/Android didn't exist, then this console could have posed a challenge to Sony/MS/Nintendo, but as it stands, buying a 100$ home gaming system to play Jetpack Joyride (a game I love, so don't think I'm criticizing it) and Angry Birds when you can play them on any cheap mobile Android device is kind of redundant, so I think that will hurt their sales badly. Also there's the issue of piracy, thins thing being on a open platform is an open highway to rooting and eventually the pirating of it's games, much more easily than the newer consoles, like th Vita or Wii U.

Those games are also available on PSN. I don't think that's what this is about though.
Think about all those little indie games on Steam, that devs want to get on consoles. This, at least, gives them another revenue stream.

How powerful is this, exactly?

The Ouya will only do as well as the games that are produced for it.

We've seen with the WiiU that the lack of games have hurt the systems sales (and it launched with a Mario title! What is Ouya launching with?), so if developers aren't able to come out with games that are better than what can be played on a tablet, the system is in a lot of trouble.

I seriously dont know what to think of this, but heck, i cant wait for the ps4 ha