OUYA Why so much hate ?

[Misfit410]

You have to understand that people actually think the Xbox 360 is $99 because they can't do math (as in factoring in how much 24 months of XBL at $14.99 a month comes to $359.76 + $99 Xbox 360 means that cheap low end Xbox 360 costs almost as much as the Xbox One that everyone freaked out at the price over).

People fear what they don't understand, they still think it's about "phone games".. while phone games are only one a phone because they are the only platform besides PC where the cost to get in and start making something is next to nothing, now that we have a couch device in which that is the case, we will see plenty of great games.. but it's their loss..

The ones that really get under my skin say "I don't know why anyone would pay $99 for a useless device that just watches movies , surfs the web, plays games, and does tablet tasks.. why would I want that when I have an AppleTV? (how much what that again? and how many of the listed things can it do? bwahahahah)

[Diablohead]

The people around me who compare the ouya to other things seem to relate it to the rasberry pi which is another small, super cheap board with hdmi out (but no android OS) especially for running media over your network, but outside of that it's far from being an ouya match as the pi is very weak and does not come with any housing or controller for the asking price.

The other things I see the ouya compared too are the top end game consoles, yes you can buy a 360 for twice the asking price if not less in the UK but that is 8 years old now and has a locked down OS, the ouya much more open then that, for a start I am running my own code on the thing without paying for a membership or license to do so like apple and microsoft ask for.

For £99 I am really happy with my ouya, the controller could be better but it's doing everything I am asking from it.

[DrunkPunk]

It's easy to hate on the new kid. Popular too!

Another thing about all this is that those of us who enjoy the Ouya seem to see the negative stuff more and those who dislike the Ouya only see the positives. Ironic.

[Magnesus]

With all this negativity I was expecting the controllers and OUYA to be much worse to be honest. Right now everything seems to work as supposed too. I haven't checked the dpad yet, it seems a little mushy, but overall the controllers are much, much better than my noname controller I used for testing before.

[Mogalious]

Because it's easy and doesn't require imagination.

This!

Unfortunately the gaming industry and most gamers are just extremely closed minded. The ouya is flawed, but it's a great little console. And the open nature means we'll see alot of indie support

Agreed!

For me it's been more than worth my money already. And it surpassed my (admittedly not too high) expectations by far.
I kinda feel like a kid again, venturing in this big new exciting world called Ouya.

[miketrike]

The shortest answer I could come up with:
People hate (or are afraid of) things they don't understand.

[Dan Fu]

The shortest answer I could come up with:
People hate (or are afraid of) things they don't understand.

Very true; virtually every negative comment I see about the Ouya reeks of ignorance as to what the system is or even what a "gamer" is. Most of the negative comments are from younger gamers who missed out on the 80's and 90's when games couldn't be great games based on graphics alone; they had to get by on gameplay. They think that only "true gamers" matter and that "true gamers" only FPS games online on top systems.

Another common thread I see in the Ouya criticism comes from what I would best describe as a "teen-age boy" mentatlity (I work with teenage boys so I see it all the time). What do I mean by this?

Teenage boys have a strong tribal sense; things they like are "awesome" or "the best of all time" while things they don't like simply "suck". Teenage boys tend to view the world from their perspective and their perspective only; if it doesn't fit into their pre-concieved vision of the world than it must suck and anyone who goes along with it must suck also. Teenage boys also tend to compensate for their own shortcomings by affiliating themselves with images of top performance (think of all the posters of cars they'll never be able to afford, women they'll never be able to date, etc. etc.); by owning a PS4 or Xbox one they feel that they themselves are powerful while the owning an Ouya makes them weak. Quite frankly everytime I read a negative Ouya article or comment the writing and thought process is so immature and so devoid of critical thinking I can't help but hear the cracking voice of a child going through puberty when I read it.

[miketrike]

Sort of like this prime example of ignorance. Just because he's incapable of solving a problem, it's not their fault apparently. This is why Apple is successful, they make "stupid-proof" products and sell them at twice the price.



Attitudes like this over a tiny Android video game system make me sad for the future of humanity sometimes.

He never thought to think that they promised to have it out this summer. They pushed ahead with that promise, fumbled a few things along the way and need to pick up the pieces. They're human on the other side of this business transaction, a new team that hasn't had a long history of working together. A team that has never launched a console before. A team that is trying, and that's all you can ask them to do.

People act so cold and forget that human part involved here. Sure they're a business, but that business is ran by people.

[Foxeo]

Well keep in mind that Kotaku is probably the most hated popular gaming news site on the web. I passionate hate their transparently pathetic attempts to be overly politically-correct.

At any rate, I reviewed the Ouya myself on my YouTube channel, and a lot of people posted angry stuff in the comments section. I gave an honest review, pointing out issues I had with it. I understand that getting officially-supported Netflix/YouTube apps is not 100% up to the Ouya staff, but was very disappointed to find they hadn't secured those basic apps yet.

There's a lot of things to be frustrated about it. I *LOVE* the idea of the Ouya, and I desperately want this thing to be successful. I went out and bought it day one, which I haven't done with a console since the Nintendo 64. I ignored the bad reviews and dove in... and it's not what I was hoping for yet. Game-killing input lag is sometimes present, but quite inconsistent. The store is hard to navigate with no prices unless you download a game and try to purchase it, which is unacceptable to me. It's hard to tell what your'e downloading and how long it has to finish. My Ouya's WiFi runs slow no matter what, even next to other WiFi devices that are moving much faster (I'm not the only one reporting this). My Ouya randomly needs me to pair the controller on start-up. If I attempt to shutdown the Ouya with the controller using the in-game menu, when I check the device hours later, it'll somehow be turned back on. If I use the button on the top of the device, it doesn't do that.

I had two games suddenly stop accepting input from the controller face buttons -- the analog stick/D-pad worked, but not the face buttons. These were Bard's Tale and Shadowgun. Bard's Tale froze up and had to be force closed. Final Fantasy III has randomly missing sound effects and music, which can be seen in my review video. The controller is missing the two center buttons that most other modern controllers have, meaning that for some purposes it can be awkward (such as with emulators and trying to use start/select). The touchpad is really hard to use, and is terribly unreliable. Sometimes the cursor moves slowly, other times it jumps. Sometimes it registers my taps as "clicks," other times it's like it just ignores me. I'm not the only one who feels that way. The way it organizes games you've downloaded will get VERY clumsy and cumbersome as time goes on. It's missing many key apps that everyone would expect, such as Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, and Pandora.

A HUGE problem is that the Ouya experience started out from the gate with a FORCED credit card entry (or a prepaid card). Some people don't have credit cards/debit cards w/ credit card functionality. I couldn't get mine to work, because the ZIPCODE box wouldn't accept numerical input from either a controller or a keyboard plugged in. I entered in "hkjfk" and it took it.

The Ouya doesn't just have expected growing pains, it's currently a deeply flawed, beta-level experience. The system feels incomplete, and needs additional work to be ready for release. Unfortunately, it was released in this state.

I wish the Ouya the best, I hope it all gets fixed, and I hope that my review becomes outdated and useless. I want to do a new review of the updated Ouya software/firmware, and report back to my subscribers that it's now the great little $100 console we've been dreaming of. Until then, it's got a lot of bugs and kinks to work out.

[Starfighter]

most gamers are just extremely closed minded

That seems to be correct, yes.

Add to that impatience and the fact that eveyone is a economic expert when it comes to gaming. It's a negfest.

Don't get me wrong, I do love me some occational economic predictions about Sonys future from a twelve year old kid.