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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."
I orderd one and am looking forward to getting it, but let's not count our eggs before they hatch.
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?
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.
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!
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!
I wouldn't jump the gun on this yet. While it is a really promising sign that devkits are making their way out, the post on Ouya's site has something quite concerning. "The dev consoles aren’t cheap for us to make." No one claimed they couldn't make this console. Most of the issues brought up was that people doubted that they would able to make it cheap enough to meet a $100 price tag (dev kits were $699+ each).
Suck it down all of you that claimed the Ouya would be vaporware!
I don't believe anyone said that they are vaporware.
The arguments was -- they may either under-deliver on the specs or go above the $99 cost making it. It seemed pretty convincing to me (in the previous slashdot discussions)
Let's see where it goes
There is always a possibility they will run out of money before they ship all of them.
Quite. Here's another /. prediction that we all remember well:
Raise your hand if you have iTunes ...
Raise your hand if you have a FireWire port ...
Raise your hand if you have both ...
Raise your hand if you have $400 to spend on a cute Apple device ...
There is Apple's market. Pretty slim, eh? I don't see many sales in the future of iPod.
What the fuck is it with /. that attracts so many pessimistic know-it-alls who have to piss on everything on the day of its launch?
How the hell do you know how much money they've got? STFU.
Drill baby drill - on Mars
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?
Would you buy a newspaper that tells you everything is okay? Same apply here. People reacts much more to pessimistics news than optimispics ones and most people uses it to get more attention with their little unimportant pathetic post. For a good laugh, look for "2012" on above top secret...
Tomorrow is another day...
10 lucky deveopers will get one for free... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/01/ouya_console_giveaway/
I am waiting for my apology...
. . . 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!
Note that the iPod didn't really take off until Apple replaced the Firewire port and ported iTunes to Windows. Before that, it was pretty accurate.
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.
It's perfectly fine to count eggs before they hatch. I have a dozen in my fridge right now. They look delicious. In fact, I hope they don't hatch, because I'm really craving eggs, and not chickens. Now, counting *chickens* before they hatch on the other hand...
It's perfectly fine to count eggs before they hatch. I have a dozen in my fridge right now. They look delicious. In fact, I hope they don't hatch, because I'm really craving eggs, and not chickens. Now, counting *chickens* before they hatch on the other hand...
And I don't even want them one day closer to hatching when I buy them. Doesn't it just mess up your mood when you crack an egg and it has some blood formed?
You have the right to remain sentient. If you give up the right to remain sentient, you will be elected to public office
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.
There are many Android-based "mini PC" devices; they are just a tad bigger than a flash drive, take microSD cards, and plug straight to a TV's HDMI. They're usually in the $60-$80 range (keyboard and mouse not included).
Circumcision is child abuse.
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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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?
You're clearly not pro-life.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Actually if you'd get your head out of that pop dichotomy there, you'd realize reality is what it is. it is not 'positive' or 'negative.' Everyone has different expectations and some are harder to please than others. People who label hard to please people as 'negative', are really the insecure ones because they let others' judgements affect their own perceptions.
And I don't even want them one day closer to hatching when I buy them. Doesn't it just mess up your mood when you crack an egg and it has some blood formed?
If there's JUST blood you're eating it too soon... wait until it is balut... a real delicacy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut_(egg)
The first iPods were just FireWire hard drives. There was nothing special to them. As long as you had software that could update the library file to make the thing recognize music, you could run it from Windows. I remember that there was at least 2 or 3 third party programs you could buy at a computer store to let you use your iPod on a PC.
I don't remember anyone being sued over it.
Comment forecast: Bits of genius surrounded by a sea of mediocrity.
People forget what the first generation iPod was like. It wasn't the instant hit that Apple is now know for. It was clunky, expensive, and Mac only. It was only in later generations that Apple improved the design, cut the price, and sold a lot of units.
We've thought about something similar. It's cheap, obviously doesn't need any fans or other BS and could be the last system standing.
With any luck it could be a nice monitoring/xterm achinelet to stick into the server room.
Personally I'll try to get a development machine to dick around with. It's got nice hardware and they chose to stay away from those nasty background services that bog down most Android devices.
If they get those things into Walmart and other cheapsters then they could sell like hotcakes. The Tegra T33 is a very capable SoC which has only the problem of not having an UMTS/LTE module. Which isn't actually needed in a game console anyway. That's the famous 4 core + companion core that got built into the Transformer Prime Infinity.
And since all games for it are required to also have some sort of freemium model we could be in for a treat. Expect humble Ouya bundles galore. And there are a crapton of really premium Android games out there. Should be cheap to port. If porting is needed then that'd mostly be adding controller support that half of the older games don't have. I'm looking at you, Samurai II: Vengeance and Galaxy on Fire.
20 minutes into the future
Also I wouldn't be surprised if GoG would offer some of their DOS Games + DosBox for that thing. Wohoo! Master of Magic!
Also Amiga Emulators and MAME.
What a clever little thing.
20 minutes into the future
Basically yes, they are.
But these have the Tegra3 T33 SoC. Which are 4 core + "companion core" A9 Cortexes. Which is a top shelf SoC with a capable GPU. Judging by what I get on my tablet I would say you can get HD games with graphics comparable to a PS2. Propably even better if optimized.
Has anyone bothered yet to compare it to a Wii U? It doesn't have the Wii U's party trick but I wouldn't be surprised if it were similar when it comes to performance.
Also Android is a plattform that doesn't require any Sonyesque programming tricks...
20 minutes into the future
Not for nothin', but months ago I posted that MS & other console makers should be worried, "cuz Ouya gonna getcha'". And that post got modded +5 Comedian.
I am waiting for my apology...
You are the first person I've ever seen complain about getting modded UP.
No, you've got it wrong. We use several, but we don't have to like them all. I've even got a Mac, turned off, sitting just to the right of the screen I can see this text on.
Not for nothin', but months ago I posted that MS & other console makers should be worried, "cuz Ouya gonna getcha'". And that post got modded +5 Comedian.
I am waiting for my apology...
You are the first person I've ever seen complain about getting modded UP.
I'm never happy. It got the mod for suggesting that the Ouya was to be taken seriously. This sounded like a good idea, still does. Give me a cheap, easy to play alternative, and I'll plunk down my $99. Ask me to invest more than that for any system that's going to be obsolete in a short span of time, I'll take a pass. This has a good chance of being a game changer, imo.
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/
Actually if you'd get your head out of that pop dichotomy there, you'd realize reality is what it is. it is not 'positive' or 'negative.' Everyone has different expectations and some are harder to please than others. People who label hard to please people as 'negative', are really the insecure ones because they let others' judgements affect their own perceptions.
Can't say I understand why you're being so mean with your response, but you're ignoring what he said and making an entirely separate point. What he said was perfectly correct. People, all people, are hard-wired to react more strongly to negative views than to positive ones. It's how insular cultures develop through self-selection bias because people don't like to hear that they're doing something wrong, and at the other end of the spectrum it's why nobody is sure how to react if you run into a room and tell them everything is fine, whereas running in shouting FIRE has a more pronounced effect.
. 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.
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."
I have an Asus Transformer Prime, which has the same CPU and RAM capacity as the Ouya. The Ouya may have a slightly higher clocked processor, but I doubt it at that price.
Graphics-quality-wise, even top-tier Android titles with Tegra3 optimization are nowhere near current-gen console games, especially when you're running them on a big TV. Grand Theft Auto III looks great but has short draw distance, Mass Effect Infiltrator looks good but takes place entirely in small, limited environments.
They're better than PS2-era games, but they're not on par with Xbox 360 / Playstation 3 / WiiU titles. (I have all three systems, and while I don't have the same games on any of them - I mean really, what would be the point? - in general, they all produce visuals in the same ballpark.)
I also have a Prime. They use the T33 in the Ouya which is what is used in the Infinity. Although I guess it shouldn't make that much of a difference.
The Ouya uses a hacked Android(they just switched to 4.2) without the status navigation bar thing on the bottom and severely limited multitasking since that isn't needed And they will hopefully use faster components since IO is the Achilles heel of the Tegra3 Transformers.
I expect more agressive Tegra3 optimization for Ouya games so perhaps better visual effects than what we see on our Primes. Have you tried "Puddle"? PhysX on a tablet. Tegra3 may not be quite on par with current gen consoles but when I take a look at the Tegra roadmap the Cortex A15s might very well be. Those will be released over the course of the next year and they WILL give current gen consoles a run for their money. Especially A15 based tablets will have more RAM than the piddling amounts the 360s and PS3s have. And that's what held those machines back for quite some time.
I know that "building a console from stock components with an already established architecture and a huge library of games" sounds a bit like the Phantom but the Ouya seems to have hit a sweet spot. Even if you just use it to smarten up your TV. At 100€ a pop I won't have to think twice wether to get one or not. It's rootable and seems to be nice for putzing around with it.
20 minutes into the future
Doesn't it just mess up your mood when you crack an egg and it has some blood formed?
Former chicken embryologist here. Just FYI: that's not a chicken embryo. A blood spot on eggs is from the mother hen's reproductive tract. The eggs you buy in the store aren't fertilized anyway. Hens lay eggs whether or not they've been fertilized by a rooster. It would take time and effort to put the roosters in the hen cages. I guess if you're buying local free range chicken eggs, they might not be so concerned with efficiency and you might get some fertilized, but even then, you'd only know if you opened up the egg, injected the yolk with ink (for contrast) and looked at it under a dissecting microscope. An egg would need to be incubated by the hen for about 4 days before you would see much in the egg, and they're generally collected at least once daily to prevent eggs from going bad or getting damaged.
Still gross of course when you do get a blood spot, but it's just a fluke. The rest of the eggs in the dozen are from different chickens, and red in one of them is no indication that the rest are bad.
This argument would be a slam dunk if this were posted AFTER it shipped. But until then this story is just as premature as the ones saying it'd fail
Not for nothin', but months ago I posted that MS & other console makers should be worried, "cuz Ouya gonna getcha'". And that post got modded +5 Comedian.
I am waiting for my apology...
Don't worry. t least according to what I saw on Seinfeld, a Comedian is a person of great sexual prowess.
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
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.