VB - Ouya enjoys a place as the underdog champion of independent gaming, but time spent with the console's retail model suggests its users don't get as much love as its developers.
From systems that could keep your beer cool, to oddities trying to get in on the popularity of VHS and laserdisc, you’ve got some very, very weird video game consoles out there.
I had the LaserActive... it was a nice collectors piece but not very practical. Especially when it came to needing recapping. I think i paid all of about $50 for the floor model from an incredible Universe back in the day. I ended up selling it many years later for $300 at the time due to it needing a new laser and the aforementioned recapping.
An honorable mention not on the list would be the VM Labs Nuon. It basically looked like any regular DVD player but it had ports on it for controllers to play specific games. one of which is still exclusive to it with Tempest 3000. It also offered nuon enhanced DVD movies with extra content not accessible by regular players.
Virtual Boy, Sega Nomad, Ouya and the other troubled game systems that nobody bought.
How has this article missed out Sega's Dreamcast and Nintendo's Wii U, two consoles that were actually superb devices in their own right, but were seen as failed due to lacklustre sales at the time of release?
Wonder how long before Stadia appears on the list surprised the Ngage is not on that list
Talk about a blast to the past.......I remember trying the virtual boy at Toy R Us and it was cool but I did feel slightly disoriented afterwards......good article.
The Ouya, a failed Android gaming console from early in this generation, is getting a second lease on life thanks to Internet archivists and some new software.
That's pretty cool they were able to bring it back. It sucks when something online only gets killed.
I got mine when it first launched, however it wasn't good for anything other than retro emulation. I couldn't sell the thing fast enough. Managed to get almost all my money back selling it on eBay.
I guess the Stadia launch is bringing back memories of other failed consoles/services.
One thing this article mentions that I was concerned with from the very beginning, that the games were too short or could be found on another device without making the Ouya purchase. But that's on indie department and if those guys continue to support the system.
I can deal with that to a certain degree.
But that thing about the credit card is really scary-that takes the cake for me. Still, I would like to see Ouya grow. The author said it best, we love rooting for the little guy standing up against the big guy.
CONTROLLER LAG!?!?!?! that is a bigger deal to me than the credit card requirement. controller lag is a fundamental flaw in the usability of the unit and a deal breaker.
It should not even ship with a problem like that until it is hashed out.
They went with the cheapest hardware parts as they could find. In the end you are left with lag that software programming can not simply fix (This is just speculation.)
Making the Ouya and then making a controller for the it are two different things.
in the end its about saving and making money.