Is this the future of gaming? Open source platforms...

[Chapster5]

... Encouraging hackers and developers to change everything?

It's got a long way to go as for concept I think it's rather cool using open source stuff

I bring you Ouya

http://thechive.com/2012/07/13/a-10...uya-is-smashing-records-on-kickstarter-video/

 

[oska]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-07-14-saturday-soapbox-the-trouble-with-ouya

 

[Addicted]

Looks bloody awesome, and their marketing for the availability of Minecraft and Twitch.tv streaming for SC2 means I'm sold!

It's awesome to see how big SC2 is becoming, it's just crazy.

I want one!

 

[Cookie]

They're going to run away with your money and never, ever deliver. Madness.

 

[Chapster5]

Nail in that coffin then lol

 

[Tom]

They're going to run away with your money and never, ever deliver. Madness.

This, utterly stupid.

No self respecting developer would touch this. Especially with systems like on live proving you can charge people for content.

Open source = Piracy to developers. If a major dev released a game for it it would be hacked and on the pirate bay quicker than you can say Atari Jaguar.

 

[Danny Lee]

Looks bloody awesome, and their marketing for the availability of Minecraft and Twitch.tv streaming for SC2 means I'm sold!

It's awesome to see how big SC2 is becoming, it's just crazy.

I want one!

What is sc2

 

[Addicted]

What is sc2

http://bit.ly/ru8kGG

 

[Silent_Scone]

Clever but nether the less crafty. There isn't a hope in hells chance of this kicking off, the video makes it seem as though they've actually gotten a working platform which is far from it.

Not only that but look at her. What coming of middle age woman would have any actual interest in an android based games console. Her and her husband are taking the internet for chumps

 

[Kyle92]

I loved the idea of this, being a college student studying software programming i'm pretty excited. I'll be learning languages in the coming year that'll allow me to create simple games. I might even consider looking more into games design so I can make some quirky little arcade games to release on the androids ouya market.

I'm so excited, and for the £65 price tag it's insane..

 

[Gouldy]

I like the concept and if it was released, I'd buy one and give it a go.

 

[Silent_Scone]

The Ouya $99 Android-based console will be as small as a Rubik's Cube, according to the renowned designer Yves Béhar.
“Our console is quite small, around the size of a Rubik's cube, and so it will easily fit anywhere in a room, or be easy to throw in a backpack,” Béhar said, adding that his team is deliberately avoiding making the console look like existing ones on the market. The gaming system will feature a Tegra 3 quad-core ARM processor, 1GB of RAM, and 8GB of flash storage. Games will be free-to-play, and the console will come with a controller similar in size and design to that of the Xbox and PlayStation consoles.

The Ouya console garnered huge support on Kickstarter, where the $950,000 goal was easily surpassed. At the time of writing, the project has 42,346 supporters and over $5.4 million pledged. With 16 days to go, this is a console that is well on its way to reality.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/359383/ouya-console-is-the-size-of-a-rubiks-cube/​

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[Tom]

http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/23/3177238/dead-trigger-free-android-piracy-rate

I rest my case.

 

[Silent_Scone]

LOL. That's just throwing toys out of the pram, if it's good enough, people WILL pay for it. That Polish indie dev CD-Red Project estimated through various sites that their game had been pirated over 4 million times, but they still sold over 1.5 million copies regardless.

Minecraft was made available for Android devices in 2011. So far its XBLA counterpart has sold over 3 million copies, while the game has sold over 1 million copies on mobile devices.

 

[Chapster5]

http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/23/3177238/dead-trigger-free-android-piracy-rate

I rest my case.

Have you read the comments lmfao... They go on to talk about eggs?

From game console to eggs... Wait wut

 

[Silent_Scone]

Welcome to the internet

 

[Brand86]

I doubt this thing will ever get going, from the simple fact that unless the market was big enough, no developers will bother with it, and therefore no games.

 

[Addicted]

I doubt this thing will ever get going, from the simple fact that unless the market was big enough, no developers will bother with it, and therefore no games.

What?

It's on android - everything will already work, it will just be a case of people specifically developing for this resolution (assuming its not standard) or if they really want to specifically for the device.

 

[Brand86]

But presumably you can only play android games - and how many AAA android games are there??! Very few, if any at the moment.

I can't see MS or Sony letting this device ever letting this console get any foothold on the market.

 

[oska]

Would make a decent emulator rig. Could you turn it into an HTPC too?

 

[@Spoonie]

First units released according to BBC. Look forward to playing lots of ported games riddled with advertising no doubt.