Re:PS4 hack: Fail0verflow demonstrate Linux and Steam runnin...
by striking on Sunday January 01, 2017 @12:25PM
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OUYA was mismanaged from the outset. Here's a great video that illustrates each mistake they made, point by point, as a supercut of other people's videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTqhyHuKVKA
Open consoles aren't doomed just because they're open. OUYA was just a super underpowered system bundled with a crappy homebrewed controller.
They could have made a tiny Android board bundled with a PS4 controller. They could've shipped it in a no-frills box. They could've used some of that Kickstarter money to start a development fund, to help kickstart games on their console.
Instead, you get a crappy controller in a fancy box, and there are basically no interesting games you can play with your new device.
It didn't work out well for them.
It's true that it might have been due to other issues, but right now, the console industry have a very public, well covered by the press console, that has tried to be open from the start and that failed in a spectacular manner and is now a joke.