NanoTech and OUYA Partner to Bring Games to the Nuvola NP-1 Streaming Media Player

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arcticdog,

I think I understand your interpretation of this. I'm going to try to explain it back in my own words and please let me know if I'm getting it right to see if we are on the same page. Thanks.

What you seem to be describing is a gaming OS that is portable just like operating systems on PCs but it "consolizes" the hardware it is on around the OS to create a hardware "clone" standard. What I mean by "consolizes" is that it would be as if Steam was on every single PC but it and its games ran identical on every PC. It wouldn't matter if you bought a low end PC or a high end gaming PC because Steam and all if its games would run identical on all of them. You would actually be wasting your money if you buy a high end gaming PC because it wouldn't run it any better. To put it another way, even though OUYA wouldn't be locked to the console it would still be locked to the hardware specifications of the console. Or even another way, it would be like the hundreds of Atari 2600 clones and OUYA would be like a cartridge that can be put into any one of them. So, it would be a portable gaming OS that can run on other hardware but that hardware is "consolized" because it is "tethered" to the console because the console is the standard. Does that sound like an accurate description?

If yes then that kind of makes sense to me and I see positives with it like more gamers/developers which is an undebatable obvious plus but I'll share a concern and can you please explain how it would or at least could work differently than I expect? Lets say that all these OUYA Everywheres have things outside of OUYA on them that we may desire within Discover. Lets also say that the user base with the actual console still stays small and is an insignificant minority of OUYA users. To keep it simple I'll use Netflix as an example because that is on a lot of things and will most likely be on a lot of these OUYA Everywheres but it could be anything. The important thing is that it is some kind of game or app that is already everywhere and would be on the same devices that OUYA is but outside of Discover. So, by Netflix I don't mean just Netflix but anything that could be common on all of these devices already. Anyway, Netflix is on the OUYA Everywheres but not in Discover. There are millions of OUYA Everywhere users with Netflix and only thousands of OUYA users with the console without Netflix. So, if the user base of the actual console is still just as small as today or maybe even smaller when OUYA goes everywhere then what would bring Netflix from everywhere into Discover? To put the question another way, what would be the scenario that would cause the console itself to be every bit as much of an all-in-one console as the OUYA Everywheres because the "Netflixes" from everywhere make their way into Discover? Or how would everything outside of Discover make their way into Discover if Discover is already mostly on devices that have them already? That is something that concerns me because I don't see how that can happen in an obvious likely way. I could see it if all of this hardware only had OUYA on them like perfect Atari 2600 clones but if they aren't exact clones but better than the OUYA then I don't see how the console would become at least equal to them.

I'm probably rambling now because you probably already get the idea but pretend that OUYA has been everywhere for years and OUYA 5.0 is about to be released. Now convince me to buy one because it would be the best OUYA capable device and I won't have to plug in another box into my TV to get the same things as all the other OUYA users. Also, explain how OUYA 5.0 became the best OUYA capable device compared to the OUYA Everywheres.

If that can be answered to my satisfaction then most of my concerns will be answered because on the gamer side of things the ideal goal is for Discover to have as much software as possible. I think that would also be OUYA's ideal goal too because Discover is where they make their money. It would be a game console first but it would have so many apps as secondary features that you only need one box for anything that can be digitally distributed to your TV with all of it O-Ranked to find the best games or the best apps for the desired functions. That is what a successful Discover store looks like to me and I'm struggling to see how we get from OUYA Everywhere to there because it is the games/apps that are already everywhere that we desire to be ported from everywhere to Discover with a bunch of OUYA exclusive stuff too. So, what is the scenario where OUYA goes out everywhere and comes back to the console to bring all the games/apps back with it from everywhere? I can somewhat see it as I showed in my devil's advocate post for reasons to upgrade from OUYA Everywhere to the console when a new iteration comes out but I think that would mostly apply to early adopters and everyone else may just wait until the next iteration of OUYA Everywhere comes to them at the time they are ready to upgrade their OUYA capable devices for other reasons. But I don't see how it would bring the majority of the user base with it to give game/app developers a strong incentive to port.