Ouya Inc for Sale
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I really hope so too. And Uhrman has reasons to be optimistic about it.Demon_Skeith said:
I mean, if there's one point when you should realize you have something great going on, it's when you can pride yourself with having surpassed Amazon in Android content for the TV. That's quite an achievement.
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It will only show if they get backing.
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Hopefully, Ouya can find a good buyer. With so many more powerful Google Android consoles like Amazon Fire TV, Google Android TV, Nvidia Shield TV, Razer Forge TV, Madcatz Mojo, Chinese Android branded consoles, etc, the Ouya making a console is not as important. But, The Ouya Game store app should be available for other more powerful Google Android consoles, so people can still play the games from their games store on other Android consoles with a faster CPU, video chip, more RAM, more storage, and better specs.
It would be a shame that the 1000+ games are no longer available to download, buy, and play if Ouya closes down its online game store app.
It would be a shame that the 1000+ games are no longer available to download, buy, and play if Ouya closes down its online game store app.
The thousand games that are available on Ouya... How many of them are actually exclusive to the platform? I mean from the sounds of it, many are just ports of existing games (like the Final Fantasy game that Square-Enix put on, it was a port of the 2006 Nintendo DS version). And how many are just versions pulled almost exactly from the Play store?
Additionally just saying there are a thousand games doesn't necessarily mean anything if the games they have are shoddy and don't run very well or are largely uninteresting copies.
Honestly I kind of don't think anyone will bother buying Ouya. I mean the system hasn't really been a resounding success. Sure it sold a bunch of consoles due to premise and potential. But it hasn't really done much of anything since then. And it's not hard to see why either. I mean that it's using 2012 tech trying to run games now designed to work on 2014 or 2015 hardware. A Tegra 3 chip was fine then... but now? Not so much. To make matters worse, even then the Tegra had a few issues playing games that ran fine on smartphones.
And to make games work for it now they're starting to get into the situation where they need developers to make games specifically for them (and their hardware) if they want to keep going. But that hasn't really happened (and it's not likely going to... I mean, as a developer, why limit yourself to making an Ouya game when you can make it for the Play store or Steam instead?).
Additionally what they need is a killer app. A great game to show why people should buy an Ouya. But they don't really have one. They don't have their Mario, Masterchief or Nathan Drake. Do they even make games themselves? Or do they rely entirely on the community? (If memory serves they don't actually develop games themselves... which may be some of the problem. I mean look at Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft... They all make games for their platforms.)
Additionally just saying there are a thousand games doesn't necessarily mean anything if the games they have are shoddy and don't run very well or are largely uninteresting copies.
Honestly I kind of don't think anyone will bother buying Ouya. I mean the system hasn't really been a resounding success. Sure it sold a bunch of consoles due to premise and potential. But it hasn't really done much of anything since then. And it's not hard to see why either. I mean that it's using 2012 tech trying to run games now designed to work on 2014 or 2015 hardware. A Tegra 3 chip was fine then... but now? Not so much. To make matters worse, even then the Tegra had a few issues playing games that ran fine on smartphones.
And to make games work for it now they're starting to get into the situation where they need developers to make games specifically for them (and their hardware) if they want to keep going. But that hasn't really happened (and it's not likely going to... I mean, as a developer, why limit yourself to making an Ouya game when you can make it for the Play store or Steam instead?).
Additionally what they need is a killer app. A great game to show why people should buy an Ouya. But they don't really have one. They don't have their Mario, Masterchief or Nathan Drake. Do they even make games themselves? Or do they rely entirely on the community? (If memory serves they don't actually develop games themselves... which may be some of the problem. I mean look at Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft... They all make games for their platforms.)
Perhaps if they had a lot of developers... But it'd still be like Microsoft trying to rely on EA, Ubisoft et al to sell Xbox Ones. They're all 3rd party developers. They're going to put their games on any device they can. Which is why they need to have their own first party stuff, those games that you can't get elsewhere, because those third party developers aren't going to lock in and be exclusive without a VERY enticing (involving lots of money) deal.
And for gamers looking to buy a system, the third party titles are almost never a consideration. (Why? Because you can get Fifa, Madden, NHL, Call of Duty, Battlefield, Assassin's Creed and etc... whether you pick up a PC, Playstation or Xbox.)
So in this case, games developed for the Play store can be gotten and played on other devices. And in some cases those games might work far better on those devices to boot. (Especially if they have newer hardware and greater specifications. EX- A Galaxy Note 4 compared to an Ouya...)
And for gamers looking to buy a system, the third party titles are almost never a consideration. (Why? Because you can get Fifa, Madden, NHL, Call of Duty, Battlefield, Assassin's Creed and etc... whether you pick up a PC, Playstation or Xbox.)
So in this case, games developed for the Play store can be gotten and played on other devices. And in some cases those games might work far better on those devices to boot. (Especially if they have newer hardware and greater specifications. EX- A Galaxy Note 4 compared to an Ouya...)
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I agree, they do have a lot of developers, and relying on the community is good. I think developers who make games for their community are less likely to make games with lots of ads, pay to win features, very expensive to buy, and are not worth buying because their making games for their community instead of a large app store like Google Play which is not very community oriented, and mostly about getting to the Top Downloads charts to make more money by using in-game purchases, and raising prices once they become popular...alakazam said: