Game Insider: "Say what you will about OUYA, the console is making history. With just 8 hours to go, OUYA has exceeded its original goal of $950,000 with pledges exceeding 8 million dollars..."
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.
Gamers all remember the successful game consoles that have come and gone, but these massive failures slipped through the cracks.
I feel bad for SEGA they really did try to compete with Nintendo, but ended up losing to even the new kid on the block which was PlayStation. The sonic franchise has gone downhill since the early 2000's
Dreamcast was an amazing system which never saw it’s true potential. Why because most fell for the ps2 hype that Sony was selling us. Granted the ps2 was better, but not nearly as much as we were led to believe. Obviously developers were holding off waiting for ps2, by that point Dreamcast was in a limbo state which unfortunately became to late. There was definitely room for both to coexist it just wasn’t meant to be:(
And it still needs people to buy it, games that I can play on my phone? That my Ps vita can do better, that my ps3 can play but can also play the newest AAA titles? That I can probably play via my web browser; so many options so why, why would I spend money on this? To do something several other devices I already own can already do. I wouldn't; most casual gamers use their mobiles etc when they have nothing better to do i.e: they are on the train or bus with time to kill. Really can't seem them buying this when their mobiles can play android games to play at home...
The OUYA will require all games to allow some free version of their software to be free to the public, much like the games you currently see on the Android market, so I don't see your currently free-to-play games becoming pay only titles; the OUYA is maintaining spirit of the Android market.
As far what the public currently knows about the system...they'll know more soon enough. Right now, OUYA has the right people backing it: developers with a passion to create games. If quality prevails, the public will certainly become well aware.
I wish the console luck for the future, I just wish people didn't have to hype EVERYTHING up to a crazy level. This brings back memories of Onlive when it was announced, how it was going to be the next big thing and now I barely see any kind of news related to that.
I wish they would've added a trackball on the controller somewhere or just completely replace the right analog stick for one.
It'd at least make some of those touch games easier and improve shooting games.