The Awkward Glitch writes: "Sit down, grab a Coke, and get ready to witness the next yawn-inducing leap in technology.
Electricity. Water. Toilets These are all great inventions made by mankind and have changed our very existence for the better. Now, the Ouya, a groundbreaking new way of playing boring cellphone titles."
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.
The fact it has 1200 developers, ready to make games and the fact that this hardware is more robust than what was in the Nintendo Wii. Is not something you want to make light of in the Market. Remember what happened to Microsoft's CEO when he made fun of Apple's iPhone yea we know how that worked out!
Make no mistake about this, Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony are all watching the OUYA very closely.
Esp. When there is already 1200 Dev.kits already shipped!
I agree that prospects do not look very good for a console that seems focused on bringing cellphone type games to the big screen. But, I would not predict failure. There are a lot of people out there, who are not core gamers. This might just be what they are looking for. What I can predict, is that I wouldn't be getting one.
M$ is guaranteed a good chunk of the casual market, due to the uniqueness of Kinect. I know you guy hate hearing about Kinect, but there is nothing on the market, as of now, that can match it for Dance, and exercise. I you have young kids, they plow right in and start jumping around in front of it. Kinect is very Mom friendly as there is little to learn in order to use it. Sony is said to be working on a 3D camera. So we shall see how this all plays out.
an android machine, ok but if it's to play only available games from google play on tv no thank you.
i thought it was a cloud gaming console i could definitely give it a try to try out the service.
the future of video games? lol, no.
this thing is going to be hacked to s**t, making devs not want to develop anything for the system. this thing'll end up just being a glorified emulation device for antiquated NES games.