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Re:The $99 Ouya game console: Exciting, innovative — and pro... by JVIDEL on Thursday July 12, 2012 @06:49PM (#4237265)
At 100k no one will bother to make a game just for the Ouya, probably not even support the platform which means adding controller support to an existing game. Keep in mind some games sold 100k units and were deemed a failure, even good games.

This is a console.

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Re:The $99 Ouya game console: Exciting, innovative — and pro... by chaostheory on Thursday July 12, 2012 @07:32PM (#4237416)
> At 100k no one will bother to make a game just for the Ouya

Ouya is yet another Android variant. The amount of work porting isn't like porting from 2 completely different platforms like 360 to PS3 or iOS to Android. This is just from one Android device to another. Plus it's not like Android devs don't already have experience with dealing with Android fragmentation. There are also plenty of Android devs who don't get enough attention on the major app stores. For just a little more work in porting from one Android variant to another they can have a whole new venue.

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Re:The $99 Ouya game console: Exciting, innovative — and pro... by JVIDEL on Thursday July 12, 2012 @07:48PM (#4237457)
I said a game just for the Ouya, you know an exclusive like say Uncharted for the PS3, not necessarily a big AAA game, but a game that's only available on the Ouya.
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Re:The $99 Ouya game console: Exciting, innovative — and pro... by redxaxder on Thursday July 12, 2012 @10:29PM (#4237935)
If there really is a smaller barrier to developing for Ouya than other consoles, there will be Ouya exclusives.
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Re:The $99 Ouya game console: Exciting, innovative — and pro... by chaostheory on Friday July 13, 2012 @12:43AM (#4238251)
It doesn't need that.
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