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Re:OUYA Founding Team Member And VP Of Product Development D... by sp332 on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @11:49PM (#7068134)
People do play games on their phones. The selling point of the OUYA was that you can play games on hardware from (at the time) $400+ phones on a $100 console that came with a real controller. And developers could target a single hardware platform and run it all-out without worrying about battery life.

Openness was a major point in favor, which the Wii doesn't have. It doesn't look like anyone is taking advantage of it though.

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Re:OUYA Founding Team Member And VP Of Product Development D... by pjmlp on Thursday January 16, 2014 @01:56AM (#7068411)
In some European countries you can get €400+ mobiles at €1 if you go for a two year contract.

Many of such mobiles do have HDMI connections and bluetooth gamepads available.

Then there are lots of cheap USB pens running Android that you can just plug into your TV.

So there isn't much a Ouya can offer against these options.

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Re:OUYA Founding Team Member And VP Of Product Development D... by sp332 on Thursday January 16, 2014 @08:03AM (#7069113)
Ouya doesn't lock you into a contract, so the prices aren't really comparable. HDMI connections on phones are a lot slower than dedicted screens due to buffer copying - MHL 3.0 is supposed to fix that. Do the cheap USB pens have comparable graphics, USB expandability, and look as good as the Ouya? :)
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Re:OUYA Founding Team Member And VP Of Product Development D... by pjmlp on Thursday January 16, 2014 @09:02AM (#7069382)
> Ouya doesn't lock you into a contract, so the prices aren't really comparable.

Average Joe/Jane don't care about it as they already have the phone anyway.

> Do the cheap USB pens have comparable graphics, USB expandability, and look as good as the Ouya? :)

Quite a few to choose from, both cheaper and more expensive than the Ouya:

http://www.conrad.de/ce/de/overview/0413084/Android-Mini-PCs

Maybe their GPUs aren't at Ouya's level, but they are good enough for most Play Store titles.

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