Quote Originally Posted by fireballs View Post
Problem with that is people by TVs every 10 years. Could you imagine using a ouya 1 or 2.0 for the next 9 years?
Quote Originally Posted by Killswitch View Post
TVs is the one thing I think is not a good move because people don't change them often and most people don't use them for the "smart" features.
My plasma was one of the Vizio smart TVs, never touched the apps.
What I don't like about OUYA Everywhere is that I'm concerned that it would turn Discover into a secondary feature instead of a primary one, since people would already have other things as primary features there would be less demand to make them secondary features within Discover itself, OUYA iterating slower and stuck with outdated hardware to more easily go everywhere, a lower demand for the console itself and it becoming just a dev kit, and more misconceptions about what the OUYA is.

But to play devil's advocate for smart TVs, wouldn't it essentially be spam/a TV commercial for the console that you could try out? For an example, lets say only 1% of the people that have OUYA on their smart TVs become fans out of 1 million people. That would be 10,000 new fans. About 1 to 2 1/2 years after they have been playing it on their smart TVs it starts to feel dated. They are fans so they discover the OUYA itself during that time. They hear about the new OUYA 3.0 that is about to come out. They think,"I'm not about to buy a new TV but I have been interested in the OUYA 2.0 games and I'll also get to play the new OUYA 3.0 games. I think on launch day I will buy an OUYA 3.0 to plug into my outdated OUYA 1.0 smart TV. That would add new life to this TV because I'm not about to buy another."

Something like that may happen because it is one of the OUYA Everywheres that upgrading to the console would be smarter than upgrading the device you found OUYA on. There still may be a chance that they would just upgrade their phone/tablet instead but maybe there would be things about doing that which may be another spammy commercial that isn't as smart of an upgrade as buying an OUYA? Since they are fans maybe they want OUYA 3.0 on launch instead of waiting for it to be ported to a phone/tablet? Maybe they have a brand loyalty to a phone/tablet company that isn't an OUYA Everywhere partner? Maybe they aren't ready to upgrade their phone/tablet yet to get OUYA 3.0 because it would be at a price that they might as well upgrade their TV? Because of backwards compatibility there may be a lot of OUYA 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 games they are interested in, the phone/tablet may not have adequate storage space for all of them and it would be better to buy an OUYA 3.0 to use with their external hard drive, maybe they don't want to hook up their phone/tablet to their TV every time they want to play a game and rather have a dedicated game console permanently hooked up, etc.?

In other words, maybe there would be scenarios where upgrading from OUYA Everywhere to an actual OUYA would be the better choice especially when getting the next iteration of OUYA games is the primary reason for looking for a new OUYA capable device? If I had an OUYA 1.0 TV and OUYA 2.0 phone/tablet but no reason to upgrade either of those devices to OUYA 3.0 but still wanted OUYA 3.0 then would I pay $150 or less for an actual OUYA 3.0? Yes. One of the points of OUYA is to make gaming cheaper and to have the same conveniences that console gaming provides like not trying to figure out what is the best hardware option. There is no way I would upgrade my TV, phone/tablet, PC or whatever just to play OUYA 3.0 games. That would be an expensive pain in the ass. If I were to upgrade my TV then not just any OUYA 3.0 TV would do. I would have to find an OUYA 3.0 capable TV that also has all the features that I want out of the TV. Finding both in one TV and still thinking,"What do I do when OUYA 4.0 comes out?" would be an expensive pain in the ass. I don't have a smart phone/tablet but I assume it would be the same thing. If It goes to PC? Another expensive pain in the ass. I've had this laptop since I think 2008. When I eventually go shopping for a new one I'm not going to try to figure out the best laptop to keep for years with features I'm interested in then try to figure out how to fit OUYA into that and which one to get that would be future proof to run future OUYA iterations. That is just an expensive pain in the ass. Just sell me a cheap dedicated new kind of open gaming console. Please!

Anyway, Nuvola NP-1. I had to look it up. It seems to have a lot of gaming options including PC games and definitely ,at least at first glance, looks like more of an "OUYA killer" than anything else I've seen but now obviously won't be one with this partnership. But $299 and 4k UltraHD? What demographic of videophiles who want to be earlier adopters of 4k UltraHD with the money to do so are also people who are not picky with graphics? The kind of person that would already want a 4k UltraHD TV would seem like the kind of person that would buy a Steam Box because XBOX ONE looks too Atari like. I want to meet these people who want to play OUYA on a 4k UltraHD TV. Not just because I'm curious about the existence of these people but because it would be neat to find someone who REALLY likes things to look good while simultaneously can see past that and acknowledges that gameplay is more important than graphics. A person like that would be an excellent OUYA commercial,"I bought a 4k UltraHD TV because I want my movies to look as realistic as possible but I play OUYA on it because I want my games to be fun. I'm a videophile but Amazing Frog is just too amazing for me to pass up over something like graphics."