The $99 Ouya game console: Exciting, innovative — and probably doomed

Re:The $99 Ouya game console: Exciting, innovative — and pro... by slantyyz on Thursday July 12, 2012 @07:04PM (#4237322)

For some reason, I think the Ouya's more analogous to the Boxee Box than it is to something like the XBox 360.

At ~$100, the Ouya's throwaway technology. If the platform fails, you can always root it and make it a media player. It's a low risk purchase compared to something like the Dreamcast or 3DO (remember that one?).

If they keep the games cheap, casual and social, they might actually develop enough of a base to reach sustainability. In any case, I hope they succeed, because I've bought way too many $60+ games that I only ended up playing for 5 hours.

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Re:The $99 Ouya game console: Exciting, innovative — and pro... by JVIDEL on Thursday July 12, 2012 @07:15PM (#4237357)

The Dreamcast went as low as $50 and even that didn't save it, price isn't everything when it comes to consoles.

And casual gamers are already migrating away from consoles because they can play those social games on the smartphones and tablets they already own, why would they buy another console that plays the same games?

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Re:The $99 Ouya game console: Exciting, innovative — and pro... by slantyyz on Thursday July 12, 2012 @07:27PM (#4237409)

For any game that I want to play for more than 15 minutes, I'd rather relax on my sofa with a proper controller and play it on a screen that is not on my lap requiring an uncomfortable neck position.

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Re:The $99 Ouya game console: Exciting, innovative — and pro... by JVIDEL on Thursday July 12, 2012 @08:05PM (#4237509)

You were talking about casual gamers.

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Re:The $99 Ouya game console: Exciting, innovative — and pro... by slantyyz on Thursday July 12, 2012 @09:15PM (#4237726)

Playing Tetris for an hour is pretty casual compared to something like an RPG that requires 30 hours to complete.

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