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The shock of playing the Ouya, one year later

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Re: The shock of playing the Ouya, one year later

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Post by vdaniuk »

cwyers wrote: post #9
everyone wrote: post #4

I wish people would stop using the term 'AAA' . Its meaningless imo as any other members from the implied scale (AAA, AAB, AAC, whatever) are never referred to. I find it one of the more annoying americanisms. edit: What people actually mean when they say " an AAA game" is "a game with a very large development budget"

Oh, so it's apparently not meaningless, and not even confusing, as you were able to figure out its meaning right away.

Yeah, it is confusing, because "very large development budget" is extremely ambiguous.

Re: The shock of playing the Ouya, one year later

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Post by Davertron »

lhnz wrote: post #7

The problem with calling it the perfect "party gaming" console is that it completely doesn't work for that when "it took me almost an hour to update the firmware and configure the 4 controllers." I'm not saying that to hurt OUYA, I'm just saying that if they want to find this niche they should focus some effort on fixing that. Edit: I'm not implying that other consoles are better fitted to this. I'm implying that eng…

It's not like you have to update it/configure controllers every time you turn it on. My Xbox often has to update prior to me being able to use it if I haven't played it for awhile too.

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Post by Xylakant »

lhnz wrote: post #7

The problem with calling it the perfect "party gaming" console is that it completely doesn't work for that when "it took me almost an hour to update the firmware and configure the 4 controllers." I'm not saying that to hurt OUYA, I'm just saying that if they want to find this niche they should focus some effort on fixing that. Edit: I'm not implying that other consoles are better fitted to this. I'm implying that eng…

Well, if I let my PS3 in the box for about a year and then try to play a quick round of some casual game downloaded from the store, I'll have to go through the same ordeal. If it's used daily, then not. It's a function of how often you use your console.

Re: The shock of playing the Ouya, one year later

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Post by dpeck »

everyone wrote: post #4

I wish people would stop using the term 'AAA' . Its meaningless imo as any other members from the implied scale (AAA, AAB, AAC, whatever) are never referred to. I find it one of the more annoying americanisms. edit: What people actually mean when they say " an AAA game" is "a game with a very large development budget"

Nitpicky, but generally the scale with something like that is AAA -> AA -> A

Re: The shock of playing the Ouya, one year later

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Post by everyone »

dpeck wrote: post #15
everyone wrote: post #4

I wish people would stop using the term 'AAA' . Its meaningless imo as any other members from the implied scale (AAA, AAB, AAC, whatever) are never referred to. I find it one of the more annoying americanisms. edit: What people actually mean when they say " an AAA game" is "a game with a very large development budget"

Nitpicky, but generally the scale with something like that is AAA -> AA -> A

ok, but even that is never used. For instance no publisher ever announces the release of their new "AA" or "A" game.

Re: The shock of playing the Ouya, one year later

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Post by ghshephard »

everyone wrote: post #4

I wish people would stop using the term 'AAA' . Its meaningless imo as any other members from the implied scale (AAA, AAB, AAC, whatever) are never referred to. I find it one of the more annoying americanisms. edit: What people actually mean when they say " an AAA game" is "a game with a very large development budget"

Fair enough, how would you like us to identify the tentpole games like Madden or Call of Duty, vs the smaller games that have less artwork, fewer levels, and limited professional voicing/bodywork?

Re: The shock of playing the Ouya, one year later

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Post by everyone »

cwyers wrote: post #9
everyone wrote: post #4

I wish people would stop using the term 'AAA' . Its meaningless imo as any other members from the implied scale (AAA, AAB, AAC, whatever) are never referred to. I find it one of the more annoying americanisms. edit: What people actually mean when they say " an AAA game" is "a game with a very large development budget"

Oh, so it's apparently not meaningless, and not even confusing, as you were able to figure out its meaning right away.

No. Read this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAA_Gaming_industry

The terms supposed meaning is about various aspects of game quality and also implying some kind of scale. But it is commonly used in a very vague way to denote "game with very large budget" or "game from huge publishing house" Things which have nothing to do with quality and are vague to the point of meaninglessness.

Re: The shock of playing the Ouya, one year later

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Post by nkozyra »

Xylakant wrote: post #14
lhnz wrote: post #7

The problem with calling it the perfect "party gaming" console is that it completely doesn't work for that when "it took me almost an hour to update the firmware and configure the 4 controllers." I'm not saying that to hurt OUYA, I'm just saying that if they want to find this niche they should focus some effort on fixing that. Edit: I'm not implying that other consoles are better fitted to this. I'm implying that eng…

Well, if I let my PS3 in the box for about a year and then try to play a quick round of some casual game downloaded from the store, I'll have to go through the same ordeal. If it's used daily, then not. It's a function of how often you use your console.

I don't think anyone would argue the PS3 is the perfect party console, either.

I bought the PS3 and Wii around the same time and obviously the "party console" prize went to the latter - particularly early on it seemed like every third time I put a game in there was 15 minutes of firmware and software updates.

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