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Ouya Consoles Will Start Shipping On December 28th
sfcrazy writes "Ouya has stuck to its deadlines. The team has posted an update on the official blog that the units will start shipping on the scheduled date of December 28th. These units are for those developers who backed the project on Kickstarter. There is some surprise for developers with this console. 'What we didn't tell you was that the advance dev consoles you ordered are pretty special – you'll know what I mean when you open yours. They're rare drops. :P,' says the official post."
Suck it down all of you that claimed the Ouya would be vaporware!
While it happens less that uncommonly, we did drop your console onto the floor. They won't work for average users, but we think that due to being developers, you could fix them. Thanks.
I'm interested in seeing how this will turn out. How is this console different than hooking up your smart phone(same processor right?) to your television and bluetoothing in PS3 controllers? When I first heard of this console, this is what everyone talked it was analogous to.
God spoke to me
Am I the only one who misread that as ouija consoles, and thought that the occult were finally getting involved in the video gaming industry directly?
Er, they're shipping to DEVELOPERS. The general release date for normal game players is later...
These are just for Developers. The backers are are supposed to get them in March.
Err, did you bother to read... anything?
They're not shipping units for sale, they're shipping dev units to people that backed them on Kickstarter. These units will almost all be going to the people who posted the money, not given away as gifts. The commercial product is still not yet for sale.
It's just for those who donated.
That was my first thought, as I hadn't heard of Ouya before this. I was wondering how they managed to make a console out of a Ouija board. A tormented spirit in every box!
The units are for people who have already bought it via Kickstarter.
Well, if it would have been that, they totally screwed up the release date.
Any true occult console would have set their release date one week earlier. ;)
Err, did you bother to read... anything?
Evidently not enough, lol. I stuck to the misleading title and went... wow!
Would make a nice standalone xbmc appliance if you could add more internal storage.
When you charge $800 per device, there won't be much of a Christmas rush anyways.
I beg to ask... Who schedules to ship a new product, especially one like this, immediately after Christmas?!? Either you plan to ship several weeks before Christmas for shoppers to buy it, or you ship several weeks later when people return from whatever type of vacation they took. Definitely not during that week of each year, between Christmas and New Years Eve, when potential customers already have made their Christmas purchases and occasionally maxed out their credit card, and potential reviewers are skying nowhere near their editors.
If word got out that Zynga got one, their stock price might (only saying might) slow its skid.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
I give Ouya a solid chance to disrupt console gaming and living-room computing on a totally new level.
The two simple facts that it is a) dirt cheap and b) anybody who has one can develop for it, carries some hefty oomph that is probably already making some Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo execs getting nervous as we speak. I say it is no coincidence that Nintendo has anounced their Wii U Devkit will be free of charge for anybody who wants one.
If this baby gains critical mass, which I hope and expect it will, it could very well become the best selling piece of electronics hardware in history. Bulk produce the Ouya beyond a few million pieces and you have a console with solid general purpose computing capabilities that most of earths population can afford. If that isn't killer potential, I don't know what is.
My 2 cents.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
I was wondering how they managed to make a console out of a Ouija board.
And I thought Nintendo would be the first console maker to ship a Luigi board.
This thing sounds great. Especially if it can run XBMC... that would make it incredibly useful. But their site is in terrible need of a FAQ.
Can it decode x264?
Can it play full 1080p video?
can you use multiple controllers?
Can you have peripherals? Specifically a remote?
Does it have a network connection? Wifi?
10 lucky deveopers will get one for free... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/01/ouya_console_giveaway/
. . . what a cute console name for an expression you could use when you lose a game.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
anybody who has one can develop for it
Which I'm told will lead to over 90 percent of releases being crap, just like on Android and iOS. The North American video game market went into a recession in 1983 because too many companies were making crappy video games. When introducing the NES in the fourth quarter of 1985, Nintendo needed some way to reassure toy retailers that 90 percent of shelf space wouldn't be occupied by exactly what Theodore Sturgeon predicted, and the lockout chip was Nintendo's way of doing this.
On the one hand, Ouya has no disc slot and is thus not limited by physical shelf space. On the other hand, it's still limited by screen space above the fold of the list of games in each genre.
I still don't understand why the scene puts [the name of a particular AVC encoder] in their file names.
For the same reason that MP3 scene releases may have had "LAME" in the file name: to ensure listeners that a group's encode wasn't done with some crappy encoder like Xing or BladeEnc, so as not to draw a nuke and proper later.
Call it trolling if you want, but seriously... where the hell are the damn consonants? All that's in there is that "Y" character that sometimes plays the part of a consonant on weekends.
Yeah, that just happened.
Big deal, let me know when they get to the Ouzo consoles.
The mind conceives, the body achieves, the spirit manifests.
Does the Raspberry Pi ship with a gamepad or even a standard case? Perhaps the advantage of the Ouya is that it comes "ready to run": already in a case, with a gamepad, and with a download store installed. It's like the difference between an R/C plane kit and a ready-to-fly plane.
"There is a surprise" or "there are some surprises" but never "there is some."
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Call it trolling if you want, but seriously... where the hell are the damn consonants?
You could say the same thing about "Wii". Both Y and W are semivowels. On the other hand, you could look at "PS2" and "PSP" and ask where the vowels are. Or you could look at the Xbox 360 and see where Microsoft allegedly stole the name.
they can afford an ad campaign in the tens of millions of dollars, then no, it won;t disrupt anything, because nobody will have heard of it.
Just like now, where nobody has heard of it. Do Wii and Xbox users know about this?
Know, they don't, and they probably never will.
Development does not make a product. Advertising does.
Having been in the toy and gaming industry, I know that generally the product is advertised first, and only AFTER a certain minimum order from retailers is it then finalized and rushed into production.
If nobody buys it, it never gets made in the first place beyong prototype.
Xbox, Playstation, Wii, we like to think of these as tech items or electronics.
They aren't. They are product, they are toys. They sell when kids see ads and pester their parents. They sell when people see their neighbor playing one and they want to compete.
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Whats really funny is that I get a 404 when trying to preorder, perhaps theyve stopped selling them.
Have they published final specs for the controller? Last I checked it lacked start/select buttons and featured an unnecessary awkward button labeling and it wasn't clear how the trigger would be setup. Has any of that changed?
Just checked. Works fine.
Most developers would love to spend christmas day hacking a new piece of hardware.. as a 6 digit UI slashdot user you should know this.
...but of what year?!
I can't wait to not-buy it!
as a 5 digit UI slashdot user I can't wait to get it in the mail!
The correct pronunciation is "whee-ya", turns out. I thought it rhymed with "boo-ya". http://www.ouya.tv/
It's liek somebody took the best parts of a DualShock and a 360 controller and merged them using the device from The Fly.
. Good question. I've had experience with people like that, it's easier for people to tear an idea (or person) down, it's harder, or not in line with their wanrs, to build an idea or person up. Human nature being what it is, you get those types in life.
...bitch about those that do.
You know that when the first world war started, everybody thought it would be over by Christmas?
Well in a way they were right. After all, the 11th of November is about 6 weeks before ...
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Me neither, but it's OK - the summary explains it really well.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Yet, Wii, PS2, PSP and XBOX are not stupid fucking names, like Ouya.
Ouya does not mean urine in the dominant language of Western popular culture. Wii does.