A lot of the the new, popular indie games available aren't exactly taxing on system requirements. Granted some of them could stand a bit of optimization, but having a common framework and a fixed hardware target (exacly what the Ouya provides) really will help there
Ouya could also be a way for good indie games to get noticed in the first place, due to having less competition. With Google Play having almost a million apps already, it's hard for the developers to get their games discovered among all those thousands of tower defense clones and such, unless they can afford some real marketing.
Maybe with Ouya many niche genres such as turn-based strategy games (a genre that has completely been overrun by real-time clickfest games) could flourish again. I've been toying with the idea of porting my hex strategy game Populus Romanus and its successor to Ouya, but haven't taken a look yet how much the different control method would need changes in the application, compared to the ordinary Android touch interface.
Some countries have more reasons to be equipped with land mines than others. Here in Finland we have more than 1000km of land border with a former superpower, which has a long history of dropping by for a visit to their neighbouring countries. The landmines here are kept in storage during peacetime, and deployed ONLY if an invasion seems imminent, and even then maps are made about the minefield locations, so that they can be cleared later when the hassle is over.
Compare this to the method of just dropping landmines from a plane to random locations.
In Finland there is also a levy on all blank media, but beginning from this year downloading from non-authorized sources became illegal nevertheless. Now we just continue to pay for the privilege which we can't even legally use. Big hooray for the EUCD (European Union Copyright Directive), or at least our implementation of it.
This law was mostly forced on the parliament by our beloved culture minister (former Miss Finland), who insisted that the copyright law should promote just the copyright holders' interests, consumer rights are out of scope and should be addressed in consumer rights legislation (which is likely not going to be modified in near future at all).
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A lot of the the new, popular indie games available aren't exactly taxing on system requirements. Granted some of them could stand a bit of optimization, but having a common framework and a fixed hardware target (exacly what the Ouya provides) really will help there
Ouya could also be a way for good indie games to get noticed in the first place, due to having less competition. With Google Play having almost a million apps already, it's hard for the developers to get their games discovered among all those thousands of tower defense clones and such, unless they can afford some real marketing.
Maybe with Ouya many niche genres such as turn-based strategy games (a genre that has completely been overrun by real-time clickfest games) could flourish again. I've been toying with the idea of porting my hex strategy game Populus Romanus and its successor to Ouya, but haven't taken a look yet how much the different control method would need changes in the application, compared to the ordinary Android touch interface.
Some countries have more reasons to be equipped with land mines than others. Here in Finland we have more than 1000km of land border with a former superpower, which has a long history of dropping by for a visit to their neighbouring countries. The landmines here are kept in storage during peacetime, and deployed ONLY if an invasion seems imminent, and even then maps are made about the minefield locations, so that they can be cleared later when the hassle is over.
Compare this to the method of just dropping landmines from a plane to random locations.
In Finland there is also a levy on all blank media, but beginning from this year downloading from non-authorized sources became illegal nevertheless. Now we just continue to pay for the privilege which we can't even legally use. Big hooray for the EUCD (European Union Copyright Directive), or at least our implementation of it.
This law was mostly forced on the parliament by our beloved culture minister (former Miss Finland), who insisted that the copyright law should promote just the copyright holders' interests, consumer rights are out of scope and should be addressed in consumer rights legislation (which is likely not going to be modified in near future at all).