Gaming thread - thoughts on OUYA?

Mellotron

I've asked for soup

Jul 2, 2008

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Brighton

• Jul 22, 2013

• #1

For a long time me and a couple of mates have said how good it would be to have a console that brought together all the games from the consoles we had growing up (SNES, N64, Mega Drive, Playstation etc). I think there would be a genuine market for it.



Along comes the Ouya. Costs £99, and you are able to install emulators on it for all sorts of old consoles. Apparently it is quite easy to hook up modern Xbox and PS controllers to it as well.

Is there anything else that could compete with this as a sort of game depository? Heard rumours of a Steam console coming, anyone know anything about this?

 

beorhthelm

A. Virgo, Football Genius

Jul 21, 2003

35,303

• Jul 22, 2013

• #2

reviews i've read of the OUYA suggest the production quality is poor on the controller (not seen anything mentioned that you can plug in XBox/PS controllers). the games appear to be flawed if intended to be phone (so touch controled) but decent if controller. emulators... i think still have the same old problems of licences for the actual games. all told, im glad i didnt get one for now, if they work out the gremlins it has potential though.

i wonder how many of your mates have brought the various controller-with-built-in-games devices, theres ones for mega drive and Snes with wide range of the top titles.

A steam console will be very interesting as they are established in the game industry and shouldnt make alot of the mistakes.

 

shaolinpunk

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Nov 28, 2005

7,187

Brighton

• Jul 22, 2013

• #3

The response to the OUYA has been quite poor, hasn't it? I've heard that it doesn't really deliver the goods

 

brakespear

Doctor Worm

Feb 24, 2009

12,326

Sleeping on the roof

• Jul 22, 2013

• #4

Mellotron said:

For a long time me and a couple of mates have said how good it would be to have a console that brought together all the games from the consoles we had growing up (SNES, N64, Mega Drive, Playstation etc). I think there would be a genuine market for it.

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Along comes the Ouya. Costs £99, and you are able to install emulators on it for all sorts of old consoles. Apparently it is quite easy to hook up modern Xbox and PS controllers to it as well.

Is there anything else that could compete with this as a sort of game depository? Heard rumours of a Steam console coming, anyone know anything about this?

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Why would you not just run the emulators on a PC instead? Even easier to get a 360 controller working on one of those.

The Steam console does look interesting though from what I've heard of it so far, will have to read up some more.

 

Mellotron

I've asked for soup

Jul 2, 2008

31,841

Brighton

• Jul 22, 2013

• Thread starter
• #5

beorhthelm said:

(not seen anything mentioned that you can plug in XBox/PS controllers).

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Have seen vids on youtube of people using Xbox and PS controllers with the Ouya.

Re: controller-with-built-in-games, for me it's still about having ONE place to play ALL your retro games. That's why I'm well up for.

 

Mellotron

I've asked for soup

Jul 2, 2008

31,841

Brighton

• Jul 22, 2013

• Thread starter
• #6

brakespear said:

Why would you not just run the emulators on a PC instead? Even easier to get a 360 controller working on one of those.

The Steam console does look interesting though from what I've heard of it so far, will have to read up some more.

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PC's not as easy to get mates around in the living room. 4 player Mario Kart 64 on an Ouya sounds more appetising.

I think perhaps I'm slightly fighting the Ouya's corner because I WANT it to be the solution. Perhaps it isn't though.

 

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Gary Leeds

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May 5, 2008

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• Jul 22, 2013

• #7

Ive gone for one of these http://www.gamepop.tv/ Got the non Mini version for free (apart from the monthly sub). Felt it was a better option than the Ouya purely because of the people behind it, Bluestacks, who currently offer a solution to allow you to run android apps on your windows or OSX computer

 

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willyfantastic

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Mar 1, 2009

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• Jul 22, 2013

• #8

its been basically slated - tons of people are trying to send it back

 

misterspatch

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Oct 16, 2011

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Horsham

• Jul 22, 2013

• #9

Mellotron said:

PC's not as easy to get mates around in the living room. 4 player Mario Kart 64 on an Ouya sounds more appetising.

I think perhaps I'm slightly fighting the Ouya's corner because I WANT it to be the solution. Perhaps it isn't though.

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If you've got a nintendo wii the virtual console has all the good nintendo games on it, including sega games and a few others