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[PA Comic] Wednesday, June 26, 2013 - Brouyaha
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crosspost from industry thread
this is my favourite ouya related video
Yes, but they used a screen from Mario in their Twitter feed for an advertisement. I doubt they had authorization for that one.
Also, I have to wonder how good their emulators are. I've played roms in the past, and they almost never deliver a perfect experience. There are almost always graphical glitches or crazy anomalies that don't happen when you play a legit copy of the game on its native console.
In fact the only real gripe I have with the thing is the controller. It's kinda cheap, but there's also a slight delay on button presses. At least you can plug in your own USB controller into the back and BOO-YA! Works like a charm.
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To be fair, it was a retweet of someone else's tweet, and the text of the tweet didn't mention Super Mario Bros. or piracy at all. However, the twitpic linked to in it shows a screenshot of Super Mario Bros.
Here's the tweet:
It's possible whomever runs the Ouya twitter feed retweeted it without looking at the attached pic.
Article about the tweet controversy:
http://kotaku.com/ouya-provokes-piracy-argument-with-retweet-touting-emul-573006869
http://www.retrocollect.com/News/using-the-ouya-a-retrode-as-a-retro-gaming-console.html
Haha, that's great.
"Here's the controller, let's see how comfortable that is...... whelp, that feels awful"
jxd 7300 ($129)
jxd s602 ($60)
And you can find a great community here http://boards.dingoonity.org/jxd-devices/
I have the s602, it's pretty rad.
My android phone is terrible at playing games and I have a few android games I cannot play from a humble bundle before, so I actually considered buying one, but eh. I'll play them when I upgrade my phone some day. I don't need to use an HDMI input on that.
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I'm ok with that, really. I have no intention of buying an Ouya or supporting the forbidden_topic.
It's pretty simple. It means that you stop typing when you're about to say something about using
The title of today's comic is awesome.
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Battle.net: Snowcrash#1873
Exactly!
Might as well close and delete the thread.
There's no way to discuss the comic without discussing ... the content. Unless we want to talk about, say, the fact that only one frame of it is original art and the rest is just text and screengrabs.
Like if I was about to post something about Candleja
Well, there's aways the possibility of speculating whether having an Android device out that comes with a controller will cause more developers to make games taking advantage of that and large screens available.
it's like... a real life Harry Plinkett
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
Here is why not to buy the ouya: You won't have access to google play store. At least not without modding the device and most everything on the ouya store will be there as well.
I get why this is the case, but there are a load of options that allow you to have access to all of android. I can go and buy a android tvstick (about $40-100 for specs that range slightly sub ouya to specs that make the ouya feel bad) that look like this
Grab a controller and a nifty keyboard remote and I have myself a ouya that uses the playstore.
Now since I can do that, And since you can do it too. So can anyone else and throw it into a box and market it as a console. See the gamestick. Which means they will. And to get games to such a fragmented android audience it will make sense to sell them on the play store, which the ouya has locked you out of for it's own store. And if I'm a developer making a game for ouya I'm going to release it on the play store anyway.
And besides, why get a ouya when you can get a handheld "ouya" jxd device for roughly the same price. I guess the shield is also a competitor but $299 is a silly amount for that thing.
It's a... valid (?) idea, it just doesn't fill any niches that I don't already have a solution for.
My real beef is with the company itself. Between shamelessly promoting a less than novel idea like it was the second coming, and having the nerve to suggest trying to sell people a new open-source Jesus-box every year, I got the sense that this was nothing more than a callous crowd-funding cash grab from day one.
$100 is a bad price point and apparently the unit is underpowered as a result
This device is basically in the same league as those things you used to see in mall kiosks that had "260 Sega Genesis Games in One"
the only different is it has an ethernet jack
The choice of Android as a basis seems questionable. I have nothing against Android as an OS
but if you're going to go out of your way to make a console that is basically just a glorified SNES emulator, then why not just make it Linux based and take advantage of that software environment?
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
Every company with something to promote is going to push it in that fashion. The Ouya folks aren't unique in that sense. But you're right about it not filling a niche.
Amazon on the left is totally Korra.
You have apparently not seen the Dark Elf team.
Or Amazon team for that matter.