(couldn't see a thread about this, and this seemed a sensible place as any for it)
You've probably seen this blipping on the news sites - they wanted 950k, and ended up with 3.5mil in 2 days - an open source android console.
Looks sexy, but Android games on a TV seems weird. I'm sorely tempted to back it just for the gorgeous hardware and hackability.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...onsole/backers
fuckit. $99 is nothing.*Congratulations!
You are now an official backer of OUYA: A New Kind of Video Game Console.
*plus $20 postage.
Will it have .99$ games?
Who knows. Probably, if it hooks into Google Play.
Bare in mind it's an Android semi-homebrew console so it's not out to compete with PS3.
I'm backing it.
Not solely for the games, though.
This thing has a lot of potential, open sourced, Android based, so many possibilities of working together with a smartphone, even the hardware is open source.
if i had £50 spare id invest for the controller alone tbh. Thats pretty hawt.
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Interesting for possibilities for media centre and home server when backed up with a NAS or even just attached USB storage units (pity no USB3). Shame only the 1GB Tegra2 could would be nice with More and I am sure Tegra3 would as well.Originally Posted by Seamus
Sounds like a PC to me.Interesting for possibilities for media centre and home server when backed up with a NAS or even just attached USB storage units (pity no USB3). Shame only the 1GB Tegra2 could would be nice with More and I am sure Tegra3 would as well.
looks shit
Except a PC running 24x7 would be noticable on the electricity bill Tegra 3 i expect you will have a very hard time even noticing it, considering a pc running even an efficient one will be chewing through more power than ever single light in my house. And yes RasberryPi, arduino and several other lowpower linux systems are around, but a lowcost open consumer system including a remote control (that looks pretty next to the tv) starts to get close to just what is needed, plus the tegra3 is a stonkingly powerful chip.Sounds like a PC to me.Interesting for possibilities for media centre and home server when backed up with a NAS or even just attached USB storage units (pity no USB3). Shame only the 1GB Tegra2 could would be nice with More and I am sure Tegra3 would as well.
Color me skeptical.
So not only is there no finished hardware, no service at the moment, no controller, and no games—although we’re being asked to take their word that they can create each of those things in eight months—but focusing development costs on an incredibly risky platform with a small installed base and features that make piracy all but given makes no sense for most developers who release games you’d like to play. It’s an environment that not makes little sense for commercial development, in many ways it’s actively hostile to people hoping to create games for it.
The OUYA may find a home for people interested in hacking, piracy, and fun homebrew projects, but most details about the project point to an ecosystem that, if launched, will make very little sense to support commercially.
Penny Arcade swing... aaand miss the point entirely
Its far closer to Raspberry Pi than PS3. It's not going to be a nextgen console with AAA games and a thriving Modern Warfare 2 competitive league - it's for the guys who wanted a GP32 or a Pandora.
It'll let me use my PC downstairs as a NAS (or netflix via wifi) and stream stuff onto the TV in the bedroom, or play M.A.M.E roms from the comfort of my sofa - stuff like this is for people who like hopelessly optimistic trashy tech, not Consumers who take their games back to GAME if they're too difficult.
I could make one myself, but honestly? it'd probably cost me more than £69 all-in and i can't be fucked, and i always like to see companies taking a punt - particularly when what they're trying to launch is so beautifully flawed, it should never actually succeed.
Besides, if they ship it and it sucks i'll sell it on ebay to some other nerd.
Last edited by ry ry; July 12 2012 at 07:35:06 PM.
It seems vague.
Potential is there, lots of people missing the point. What I think they really want to do is make people who don't want to shelve out for a smartv (apple, android, what have you). The device is not powerful or anywhere comparable to the PS3 or Xbox360 because it is not in that league let alone competing with it. To me it seems to be a way of providing indies with another platform to build on. That said, the details are vague and for the hardware that you get the price seems really low.
Sweet jesus...
$99 open source media PC that can also play Angry Birds.
What's not to like?
better off just integrating proper HDMI output into Android OS
You can root them, so nothing stopping you just installing CM-whatever over the top if a new version supports the hardware.
The Kickstarter is very vapoury tbh, but its only $99. Non trivial but if they spend my money on hookers and blow i won't starve.
re the cost - those Tegra boards cost around $50 as far as i was aware. Buy 100 thousand of them and the price probably drops significantly.
the price is probably closer to the final build cost than they'd like but it's comparable with a $200 Nexus 7, knock the cost of the screen off, buy cheaper internals because form factor is not a concern, and $99 is pretty achievable.
Yes but didnt that 99$ also include quality, well made controller with touch bad + multiple other controls? Dont see how that low price is possible for both controller and device itself.You can root them, so nothing stopping you just installing CM-whatever over the top if a new version supports the hardware.
The Kickstarter is very vapoury tbh, but its only $99. Non trivial but if they spend my money on hookers and blow i won't starve.
re the cost - those Tegra boards cost around $50 as far as i was aware. Buy 100 thousand of them and the price probably drops significantly.
the price is probably closer to the final build cost than they'd like but it's comparable with a $200 Nexus 7, knock the cost of the screen off, buy cheaper internals because form factor is not a concern, and $99 is pretty achievable.
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