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Re:Gaming Console Ouya Raises $1 Million on Kickstarter in 8... by patrickaljord on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @08:00PM (#4226959)
It's supposed to be an open hackable plateform so you can root it easily and even hack the hardware. So that mean you can add RAM, a more powerful video card, use your own controller. Even if you're not a hacker, it comes with a USB port so you can plug-in your usb stick or your 1Tb external hard drive if you need a secondary storage. Also, regular people don't need all that extra stuff or know they exist.
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Re:Gaming Console Ouya Raises $1 Million on Kickstarter in 8... by msie on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @08:14PM (#4227011)
It sort of defeats the point of the console if it has to be hacked to add more RAM to make it usable. Might as well buy a PC. I want the console base system to be powerful enough to make developers happy to develop on it and enable a variety of apps that can be developed.
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Re:Gaming Console Ouya Raises $1 Million on Kickstarter in 8... by patrickaljord on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @08:16PM (#4227019)
I never said you had to add more RAM to make it usable. This will run Android games so 1G of RAM is more than enough as you'll only run one game at a time. But if you want more RAM, it's possible. And as already mentioned, it comes with twice more RAM than the xbox and ps3.
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Re:Gaming Console Ouya Raises $1 Million on Kickstarter in 8... by trotsky on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @08:38PM (#4227098)
You're not going to be adding a new video card to a Tegra 3 SOC.
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Re:Gaming Console Ouya Raises $1 Million on Kickstarter in 8... by patrickaljord on Wednesday July 11, 2012 @12:19AM (#4227708)
You could replace the SOC too for another arm.
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Re:Gaming Console Ouya Raises $1 Million on Kickstarter in 8... by flatline3 on Wednesday July 11, 2012 @12:34AM (#4227739)
System-on-a-chip, so no, you can't. It's not a standardized thing were you just drop in another socket and mb-compatible x86 CPU.
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Re:Gaming Console Ouya Raises $1 Million on Kickstarter in 8... by patrickaljord on Wednesday July 11, 2012 @12:48AM (#4227772)
It's not very clear what part of the system will be open source but if the whole OS and their layer on top are, you could re-install it on anything and replace any part of the hardware.
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Re:Gaming Console Ouya Raises $1 Million on Kickstarter in 8... by flatline3 on Wednesday July 11, 2012 @07:22AM (#4228766)
That assumes standardization of the ARM platform that mostly doesn't exist.
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Re:Gaming Console Ouya Raises $1 Million on Kickstarter in 8... by msie on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @08:27PM (#4227058)
My concern is how future-proof will the device be. Will the base platform be powerful enough to support apps that developers will want to develop for it? You can't tell people to hack their console just to run your protein-folding program. I want this console to disrupt the market. People are itching to develop for a popular console. Developers, developers, developers!
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Re:Gaming Console Ouya Raises $1 Million on Kickstarter in 8... by cubicle on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @08:10PM (#4226993)
Adding more ram isn't going to help the 99.999% of games with target the launch hardware.
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Re:Gaming Console Ouya Raises $1 Million on Kickstarter in 8... by msie on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @08:17PM (#4227022)
There has to be enough RAM to future-proof it for the next 5 years. That's the lifetime of a console before a new version comes out. I don't want them to be releasing newer consoles each year with more RAM and capabilities, resulting in a fragmented software market.
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Re:Gaming Console Ouya Raises $1 Million on Kickstarter in 8... by patrickaljord on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @09:09PM (#4227181)
Why would the lifetime of a $99 console be 5 years? At that price, they could release new ones faster. Also, as it will run on Android, games from previous generations will run on the new one.
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