Ouya: A game-changer or a bad investment?

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Jeku

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Posted: 2nd Aug 2012 07:51 Edited at: 2nd Aug 2012 07:54

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Quote: "Popular mainstream? You're talking about a console that you need to Kickstart to get. There's no popular mainstream going to happen - even if they triple sales before the end of this, that's still just 150K units."

Please point out an indie console that has succeeded and not failed. All those little homebrew handhelds from China stuck with the bedroom coder scene and nothing else. OUYA needs companies like EA to draw people in and succeed, love it or hate it. If it's relegated only to indie developers (of which there's no proper definition) then it's going to stay a geeky toy that the majority of people don't have and don't care about.

How would you ever delegate something like restricting to indie developers, anyway? By most people's definitions even Valve, a multi-billion dollar company, is an indie. It's impossible and fruitless.

@the_winch - The Raspberry Pi costs a quarter that of the OUYA, and doesn't have a controller. Hardly a comparable.

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Benjamin

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Posted: 4th Aug 2012 08:56

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This looks far cooler and feels like it has a much better chance of success:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game