Ouya tops $8.5 million as Kickstarter campaign comes to a close

Post by acgourley » Thu, Aug 09, 2012, 4:19 PM UTC

eropple wrote: post #42

praptak wrote: post #41

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> Their platform [...] has a tiny user base A platform. That does not even exist yet. Has a tiny user base. We have a genius here.

That it hasn't yet released doesn't mean we don't know what we're looking at in terms of a market. 60,000 committed users is a spectacularly tiny user base. I'd bet money (and am in fact betting my own time, which isn't entirely dissimilar) that the userbase of modern Android devices--say, from as far back as the Nexus One phone to the current Nexus 7 tablet--is so much bigger that if even one in twenty users care ab…

Post by Keyframe » Thu, Aug 09, 2012, 4:26 PM UTC

freehunter wrote: post #38

Keyframe wrote: post #18

$8,580,682 (from 63,277 backers) - keep perspective guys. 60k - That's like one week of sales of one of the consoles in Japan only. And those aren't even pushed units numbers. Not to mention amount of money that rolls in the likes of EA titles. It's all nice and all, but nowhere near disruptive word.

You don't need to own the market to disrupt the market. Even if they don't sell a single unit beyond the preorders, selling 60k units of a gaming device is enough to make studios take notice that there is a demand. Compare it with minor political parties, where the goal often isn't to become president but rather to force the hands of larger, established parties.

Post by sp332 » Thu, Aug 09, 2012, 4:34 PM UTC

Wilduck wrote: post #52

illuminate wrote: post #48

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"I'm willing to throw some money at serious research into what's so hard about making tiny $99 consoles" Generally, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_scale

Could you clarify? Do you mean that it's harder to make these things smaller? Because that's not what "Economies of scale" refers to. Even if you are trying to make a point about the long run average cost of console production, I still don't see the direct connection and I'd like to know what you're getting at.

Post by megablast » Thu, Aug 09, 2012, 5:00 PM UTC

kayoone wrote: post #6

What we can take away from this, and i hope the major console makers do this as well is, that many people (especially developers of course) want a more open and friendly console market. This basically embodies what the rumours wanted Valve to do with their own pc-based console.

Post by illuminate » Thu, Aug 09, 2012, 6:34 PM UTC

Wilduck wrote: post #52

illuminate wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"I'm willing to throw some money at serious research into what's so hard about making tiny $99 consoles" Generally, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_scale

Could you clarify? Do you mean that it's harder to make these things smaller? Because that's not what "Economies of scale" refers to. Even if you are trying to make a point about the long run average cost of console production, I still don't see the direct connection and I'd like to know what you're getting at.