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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 damon_c »

dpcan wrote: post #44

My take-away from this article was that if every OUYA shipped with a $10-$25 gift card or starting account balance, people would get into it a lot easier, and not box it up after a week. Most consoles ship with full games. If the OUYA is only shipping with free trials, they aren't really competing. Side-note, the home page of their website, what are they thinking? It looks like a stop sign. Or a "come back later". I…

"the home page of their website, what are they thinking?"

You're right... this should be put in the 'bad ideas' portfolio for web design instructors to use in future lessons.

Even after you know that it is not a "come back later", it still feels wrong and awkward having to ignore your natural instincts to leave, as you look past the big red circles and explore the site!

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

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Post by genericuser »

billyhoffman wrote: post #40
hahainternet wrote: post #2

This is exactly how I feel about my Ouya. It sits on the side of my TV stand completely unobtrusively, and if friends come over within 30 seconds we can be playing frantic, immersive games. Not desperately struggling to figure out how we get a second player online without a second xbox live account. It's a shame enough people didn't realise this from the start, but $150 is not a lot of outlay for what I got in return…

Yes. This. Ouya + XMBC is amazing. While modern $99 "video pucks" like AppleTV, Roku, or Amazon are good streaming clients for NetFlix, etc, they utterly suck at playing files from a local network. Ouya + XMBC is an incredibly option for this use case, now that Boxee is gone.

I've heard really good things about the Amazon Fire TV + XMBC (Gotham) from multiple sources at this point. Haven't tried it myself admittedly.

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

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Post by Pxtl »

Xylakant wrote: post #28
nkozyra wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's not like the Wii never needed any firmware updates either.

Doesn't the Wii let you postpone firmware updates unless you're trying to play a game/app that demands firmware version X?

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

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Post by Pxtl »

dpcan wrote: post #44

My take-away from this article was that if every OUYA shipped with a $10-$25 gift card or starting account balance, people would get into it a lot easier, and not box it up after a week. Most consoles ship with full games. If the OUYA is only shipping with free trials, they aren't really competing. Side-note, the home page of their website, what are they thinking? It looks like a stop sign. Or a "come back later". I…

Point. At launch, the Nexus 7 included $25 of Play money.

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

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Post by sp332 »

dpcan wrote: post #44

My take-away from this article was that if every OUYA shipped with a $10-$25 gift card or starting account balance, people would get into it a lot easier, and not box it up after a week. Most consoles ship with full games. If the OUYA is only shipping with free trials, they aren't really competing. Side-note, the home page of their website, what are they thinking? It looks like a stop sign. Or a "come back later". I…

Just a note, every game in the Ouya store has a free trial or some kind of free mode. You can download every game & start playing it right away, then choose to pay to unlock the rest of it later. Of course some games are completely free, but they're generally not very polished.

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

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Post by sp332 »

lingoberry wrote: post #12

Very interesting, I'm surprised to see that Ouya is still alive. This is sort of what I want in a console today. I don't have time to play lengthy AAA games and prefer social games, but there are few alternatives for that type of gaming.

Ouya just had their retail launch last June. Less than a year would be fairly soon to pack it in.

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

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Post by sp332 »

reidmain wrote: post #25

Towerfall is also on the PS4.

And the version on PS4, "Ascension", is better than the version available for Ouya right now. They say the Ouya version will eventually get the extra features. http://www.polygon.com/2013/11/16/5108514/is-towerfalls-move...

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

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Post by donw »

dpcan wrote: post #44

My take-away from this article was that if every OUYA shipped with a $10-$25 gift card or starting account balance, people would get into it a lot easier, and not box it up after a week. Most consoles ship with full games. If the OUYA is only shipping with free trials, they aren't really competing. Side-note, the home page of their website, what are they thinking? It looks like a stop sign. Or a "come back later". I…

It's pretty much an example of everything to not do on a landing page.

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

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Post by baby »

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…

This is a huge problem with new consoles I find. I don't remember having to update my N64 every time I wanted to play it. But my PS3? Every time I want to play I have to spend like 30 minutes in downloading and installing an update. Every single time. I don't play that often but still do play from times to times and I haven't had a clean launch for years.
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