OUYA CEO sings the praises of NVIDIA, says OUYA will be 'best Tegra 3 device on the market'

[froggyboy604]

The $99 Android-powered game console designed by Yves Béhar's fuseproject is powered by NVIDIA's Tegra 3 -- this much we already know. What we didn't know is that the folks at OUYA are working directly with a team of folks at NVIDIA on the project, and that NVIDIA is helping the company to max out its Tegra 3 processor for use on a console rather than a mobile (no battery dependency means the little chip can go much further than usual).

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I read an article that the Ouya Tegra 3 Quad-core CPU will run at 1.6GHz. I never knew that by using a wall power source that you can increase the speed of the CPU.

I wonder when some Ouya owners replace the air cooling, and use liquid/water cooling like high end PCs, and a better power supply would they be able to overclock the CPU to 1.7-2.0GHz from the existing 1.6GHz ratting of the Ouya.

For $99, the Ouya looks like a fun Opensource Android powered machine and console for modders and hobbyists to modify, overclock, and optimize for different tasks like XMBC media player, Game Emulators, making it a Mini computer with a desktop OS like Puppy Linux, Linux Mint, and Ubuntu Android, etc, and using it as a media streamer for Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube.

I bet the Ouya could be as popular as the Raspberry Pi which is an affordable $25-35 computer for students, modders, and hobbyists to use to run Linux, learn to code, and hardware modding.

 

[Mascot Tom]

I think the OUYA should be marketed like a budget computer. That is a huge untapped market right now: The $100 or less desktop computer market. It wouldn't seem so strange that they would release a new one every year if it were just marketed as a PC, since every other PC manufacturer releases new models every 6 months.

 

[froggyboy604]

The Ouya might not get as much free promotions via blog post, television, YouTube, magazines, and forums, and pledges from Kickstarter Backers and private investors if it was marketed as a Mini computer.

Plus, Amazon, Best Buy, Target, and Gamespot might not agree to promote and sell the Ouya if it is marketed as a computer because there are already many cheap computer options for sale like the Raspberry Pi, Google Chromebook, Netbooks, and Cheaper android tablets and mini computers which can be bought for $25-200 , and a $99 computer may hurt the sales of Bestbuys, and Targets more expensive computers which cost $400-1000 PC and laptops.

I think the yearly releases won't be as ba problem for Android games on Ouya since I read a lot of mobile apps, and games for Android are made to use 1-core because programming to use all cores can be hard, or un-needed if the game is in 2D, low quality 3D or not very intensive. Plus, 1.6 GHz for a CPU is pretty fast for running mobile games on a TV since the Nexus 7 and many other tablets only uses a 1.3GHz or slower CPU, and can play 3D quality games like Asphalt 7, Dead Trigger, Shadow Gun, etc.

People who buy the Ouya 1 will most likely be able to play most games made after the Ouya 2 comes out, but at a lower, or the same quality settings because the game maker program the game to work on all Ouya versions, or make a different version of the game with lower quality settings like how there are HD and non-HD versions of some Android games. The different Ouya versions will have access ro the same online game stores like how there are thousands of Google Android phones and tablet brands which use Google Play to download and install games and apps for Android devices.