What went wrong?
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What went wrong?
>>333921957
android, kickstarter, it was DOA
The usual. No games.
Ouya, failure, regret, death
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTqhyHuKVKA
Still a better value than a vita
Everything
>>333926713
>Still a better value
implying ouya had any value
>>333921957
Smartphone hardware was still in a state of super rapid evolution, and economies of scale are critical. The Ouya was obsolete before it was even released, had no developer relations going for it, didn't have the scale for any real R&D, etc.
Furthermore, the entire core concept was fundamentally flawed. If someone wanted a $100 console, they could just get a previous gen one used and it'd be a thousand times better. Or they could just play on their phones/tablets. There just wasn't any room or point for it, people expect consoles to last a good number of years, at which point $100 vs $300 simply isn't a significant different to most of the population, the amortized value is still really high. But $300 of hardware will last immensely better. Furthermore the kind of people who really would care about it are also the kind with no money (or are too cheap) to actually spend anything real on software, which then feeds right back into the library problem.
tl;dr:
>What went wrong?
More like "what DIDN'T go wrong" because nothing about it was right. At all.
Almost everything is wrong with ouya, except it being best joke of the year.
>>333927087
At least it isn't a negative value like the vita.
could be worse, could be Vita lmao
At least its not vita lel
>>333924098
This
People buy consoles to play games
Ouya had no games
>>333929179
>People buy consoles to play games
And yet people bought ps4's and WiiU's.
>>333929251
Brits bought PS1/2/3/4 to play FIFA.
Anyway, most of the good games nowadays is cross-plat because it's more beneficial for devs that way. The no game argument is pointless.
Who the hell greenlit this thing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0ha6Mb5_YQ
