I am most interested in the Plex/XBMC support. I have been looking for a small footprint XBMC box with enough power and this seems to fit the bill.
Ouya Android console up for pre-order on Amazon
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Well N64 and SNES emulators have already been announced. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ouya_software
That's great, but emulators don't pay the bills. (Which, to be honest, I'm glad for; making their bones off pirating other people's work would be pretty gross.)
"Pirating" SNES games? Where can you legitimately buy a SNES game that would give money to the creator?
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Developing for consoles has generally been a ridiculously expensive endeavor. This breaks that mold. No, it doesn't. This shows that you can do some consumer facing and software development around an outdated commodity platform and release it. That is nontrivial and the Ouya team certainly deserves credit for it, but it is not on the same level as what Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo do to produce their consoles. And i…
Nintendo has always released low end commodity hardware.
Not in the sense that I mean, sorry. The Ouya is barely more than a Tegra 3 reference board with some furniture around it. The internals of the Wii are custom to the Wii, and that's orders of magnitude more daunting of a project.
Which does not mean that the Ouya cannot be good. (Basic microeconomics has a lot more to say on that topic.) But breathless cheering about this project "shattering the mold" doesn't really reflect reality.
Re: Ouya Android console up for pre-order on Amazon
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Nintendo has always released low end commodity hardware.
Not in the sense that I mean, sorry. The Ouya is barely more than a Tegra 3 reference board with some furniture around it. The internals of the Wii are custom to the Wii, and that's orders of magnitude more daunting of a project. Which does not mean that the Ouya cannot be good. (Basic microeconomics has a lot more to say on that topic.) But breathless cheering about this project "shattering the mold" doesn't really…
That's true, yeah, but comparisonwise power doesnt mean much. Get one quirky multiplayer 'angry birds' hit and this thing will smoke ps4 in sales.
Re: Ouya Android console up for pre-order on Amazon
#45Ouya is running a Game Jam for its first generation of games: http://www.killscreendaily.com/create/entries.php
My impression is that they want to become the center of Indie Game development.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Developing for consoles has generally been a ridiculously expensive endeavor. This breaks that mold. No, it doesn't. This shows that you can do some consumer facing and software development around an outdated commodity platform and release it. That is nontrivial and the Ouya team certainly deserves credit for it, but it is not on the same level as what Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo do to produce their consoles. And i…
Nintendo has always released low end commodity hardware.
Idk that I would agree with "low end commodity hardware", when almost every one of the consoles Nintendo has released has been completely revolutionary. This has been the case many times.
But this is besides the point, ask anyone what sells nintendo consoles, its not the consoles. Its the amazing 1st party games.
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That's great, but emulators don't pay the bills. (Which, to be honest, I'm glad for; making their bones off pirating other people's work would be pretty gross.)
"Pirating" SNES games? Where can you legitimately buy a SNES game that would give money to the creator?
Wii Virtual Console.
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That's great, but emulators don't pay the bills. (Which, to be honest, I'm glad for; making their bones off pirating other people's work would be pretty gross.)
"Pirating" SNES games? Where can you legitimately buy a SNES game that would give money to the creator?
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's great, but emulators don't pay the bills. (Which, to be honest, I'm glad for; making their bones off pirating other people's work would be pretty gross.)
"Pirating" SNES games? Where can you legitimately buy a SNES game that would give money to the creator?
XBox Live Arcade. Nintendo's Virtual Console service. Re-releases on the GBA/DS/3DS. Not all games can be purchased this way and there is certainly a moral argument towards emulation to playing games that don't have such re-releases or were never released in an accessible market at all, but it is an observation that the ones people want to play can generally be acquired in this manner--your Chrono Triggers, your Final Fantasies, your Marios.
There's little defense for emulating the majority of games people actually emulate older consoles to play, aside from "I want it for free and no one will stop me."
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's great, but emulators don't pay the bills. (Which, to be honest, I'm glad for; making their bones off pirating other people's work would be pretty gross.)
"Pirating" SNES games? Where can you legitimately buy a SNES game that would give money to the creator?
You can give money to the former publisher's holding company's acquired trademark owner on virtual console.