Amazon announces $99 Fire TV set-top box, available now

[mdwright1032]

I got an ouya for xmas and really wanted to like it but it had many flaws.

1. Horrible wifi issues
2. Bluetooth controller issues
3. Many hours tinkering to get advanced apps to work
4. Very few good games on the marketplace.
5. A horrible indie community. 8bit love affair on the ouya

This should be everything we wanted the ouya to be http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/2/557...ounces-fire-tv

[timmytot666]

That makes me laugh cause I don't have any of those issues. Leave it up to user error/ignorance to fuel anger ; D

[Kaimega]

I got an ouya for xmas and really wanted to like it but it had many flaws.

1. Horrible wifi issues
2. Bluetooth controller issues
3. Many hours tinkering to get advanced apps to work
4. Very few good games on the marketplace.
5. A horrible indie community. 8bit love affair on the ouya

This should be everything we wanted the ouya to be http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/2/557...ounces-fire-tv

1. & 2. Never had those issues, and fixed in later versions
3. User Experience, has nothign to do with the console - you think Amazon's device is going to be supporting sideloading and such?
4. Subjective
5. Subjective

I have enjoyed my OUYA, and enjoyed the games for it. I have also listed many threads about games that are actually quite good/amazing that are not "8-bit looking" graphics. This Amazon device, quite frankly, does nothing for me.

[SlingShot]

I definitely have had issue #2. With multiple controllers. Amazon will unfortunately blow the OUYA out of the water. I will be buying one ... for streaming if nothing else.

[Jon_TWR]

That makes me laugh cause I don't have any of those issues. Leave it up to user error/ignorance to fuel anger ; D

Timmy, 1 and 2 are well documented issues that effect many users, even if there are also many users unaffected. I know you know this, but your post implies that mdwright1032 must've been doing something wrong and you damn sure know better.

Add to that OUYA, Inc's poor track record with...well, almost every decision/announcement they've made vs Amazon's track record with their ecosystem and hardware, and I can see how people would think that about the release of the FireTV.

It's going to so outsell the OUYA that it won't even be funny. No, gaming isn't its primary purpose...but it'll still have more people playing games on it with a physical controller than there are on all the OUYAs that have been sold, and very quickly.

That said, I hope OUYA is able to survive as an ecosystem that publishes a reference device every year.

[arcticdog]

Amazon will be a force to be reckoned with, but I think it's premature to say it's the demise of OUYA just yet. Their marketing effort is clearly aimed at Roku and Apple TV. That doesn't mean it's less of a threat, but they're battling for the official box to stream video to more than games.

What will be more devastating is Apple's reaction (if they have one). Especially if they finally enable developers to publish games to Apple TV.

[mdwright1032]

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1. The ouya is notorious for wifi and bluetooth issues. I got a brand new ouya on xmas 2013 and they were still having this issues
2. I don't care who you are, if you want the ouya to run xbmc or any other advanced app it takes alot of research

[timmytot666]

Prolly won't be picking this up. Unless the netflix app streams better then Android's. I'll prolly buy it to try and extract it.

[derty]

That makes me laugh cause I don't have any of those issues. Leave it up to user error/ignorance to fuel anger ; D

Word.
The minuscule problems I had are easily over come and no longer an issue

OUYA FOREVER!!

[Kaimega]

1. The ouya is notorious for wifi and bluetooth issues. I got a brand new ouya on xmas 2013 and they were still having this issues
2. I don't care who you are, if you want the ouya to run xbmc or any other advanced app it takes alot of research

It is known, but it doesn't happen to everyone. Regardless of it being documented or not. Also stated, newer revisions (ie: white and black ones) don't have these issues either.

there is OUYA for XBMC, but research is a common thing. This is no different than trying to get an apk to work on a tablet or phone. Anything that is generally out of a devices' initial scope will take research.