Ouya: The $99, Android-Powered TV Game Console

you don't sound like a happy beta tester.

killer app: make a badly animated frog jump around Swindon.

http://www.fayju.com/blog/projects/amazing-frog/

(btw I've only used this so far for emulation, N64 and snes stuff is working really well, haven't yet managed to find time to do the extra bit of fiddling that MAME will require, but yeah, this box is basically doing what I wanted it to do so that's fine).

which n64 emulator are you using? whichever one i used had catastrophic problems with more than half of the roms i tried.

Just the one in their store. I've only tried 5 or 6 roms to be fair, and there are a few which didn't work when I tried to run them at full resolution but worked fine when I dropped them to something closer to the original screen size (which is I guess 640x480? Maybe even lower actually). So that might help.

http://i.imgur.com/WBVmBuk.jpg

;_;

have to admit i'm tempted by that $39.99 sega, though. never had a genesis growing up!

The Ouyas on that shelf are still priced at $99.99, which is what they sell for on the Ouya website.

What's really ;_; is Stuart Ashen finding a Kickstarter developer version in a second hand shop before the official release.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf_jmGaanuY

that $40 genesis is made by some non-sega company in china, i guess? amazon reviews are hit and miss. one says the emulation is funky (distorted audio, slower performance). and 40 of the built in games are weird homegrown shit, which sounds like a draw, imo.

I bought one of these for $80 just for playing emulators. Just got it up last night and both GoldenEye and Mario Kart 64 worked great. The Ouya games seem pretty lame though.

the bitcoin of game consoles

i used it for 2 days. it's been sitting behind my tv ever since.

yes, i'm an idiot

ditto, on all points

Thritto.

And their latest move is really laughable. I'm sure their original pitch was something like "android games are great but so much better on a big screen", so it takes some brass neck to then try to sell the "imagine how great it'd be to take these big screen ouya games and put them back on mobile devices!" argument.

whats their latest move

im actually just amazed that any of you guys even got one

like, received one

Ouya Everywhere

http://kotaku.com/theres-pretty-much-no-reason-to-buy-a-ouya-anymore-1537697326

^yup

http://www.joystiq.com/2014/03/06/ouya-everywhere-starts-with-mad-catzs-mojo-microconsole-in-spri/

http://www.joystiq.com/2014/03/03/report-ouya-everywhere-puts-games-on-tv-pc-without-the-ouya/
This is so stupid, it's basically admitting that the whole idea of the Ouya was a waste of time, because all anybody had to do was hang around for slightly less than two years for Android tablets and TV dongles to get powerful enough.

Or, you know, play games on your PC, because it's not like you can do that at the moment oh wait you can! Which kills off the one remaining advantage that the Ouya had, that it was powered from the mains and could run it's processor at full speed without having to balance that against battery life.

I wonder who feels that they got burnt more: people who bought a Wii U or people who bought an Ouya?

Gotta be Ouya, Wii U's performance was fairly predictable

Got both, feel ok.

at least the bath people took on the ouya was a cheaper bath.

And the Wii U does have some good stuff; it's just looking like GameCube Redux.

i just got an email from ouya with the subject line "Fart where no frog has farted before"

this company's gonna go out of business or something

i'm sure the mass market will pick this over a fire tv or android tv

they're just gonna sell apps

if only someone would have warned me that buying an Ouya might be a bad idea

speak for yourself, i bought mine with bitcoin

i was a little shocked at the enthusiasm for ouya given the graveyard of linux-based game systems already out there plus the well-established and polished hacks for existing systems if your main interest was emulation.

maybe ouya was just a way to vote against the big 3? like it's main feature was being a political lever -- in which case I'd say it was a success.

pyrrhic, but yeah

feel like the steambox is gonna be what ends up getting that Fuck Everyone dollar

hahaha

i would get that over this

um
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BmqJnR5IUAEC4z7.jpg

lol

http://i.imgur.com/iEPBagF.png

Amico Intellivision - this holiday season's Ouya (if it actually gets released on time).

who's in?!

afaict the guys behind it are all hardcore conservative christian boomers who wanted to make a console for conservative christian parents without all that sex and violence and microtransactions that would fill little johnnies head with sin. no surprise that creepos like Doug TenNapel are working on games for it.