Reply With QuoteI edited my post to clarify that I read the article in the physical magazine, not the website. They used 3 pages, with plenty of pictures, which was more than I expected. They gave the ouya a 6/10.
Didn't mean that it was bad. That was a general statement. Looks good but to me it's like using a phone with a controller on it.Originally Posted by rushmore
Would like to see this new article on Ouya but don't think it's online yet.
I edited my post to clarify that I read the article in the physical magazine, not the website. They used 3 pages, with plenty of pictures, which was more than I expected. They gave the ouya a 6/10.
they are going to tear the ouya apart. I know i love my little retro video game playing box but mostly just for the emulators and the hope that something really cool might come out soon. Game informer will most likely bash the emu's calling it pirate ware. Let's face it no one is going to home-make an ouya exclusive that is as expansive as the mega huge blockbusters today's hardcore games expect. You need a giant team and lots of money for that, it would take a small home team years to craft something large enough to impress people like a skyrim or a gta iv/v and even with all that work the graphics would just fall short of what they wanted to achieve. What with sales so minimal on the ouya no big company is going to spend millions making an exclusive for it, the most we will get is ports when it comes to highly complex expensive to make games. The ouya exclusives we are going to see are going to be simple yet fun and short and on a much lower scale without big budgets.
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also i think the nvidia sheild is going to fail really bad, just on the grounds that it costs $300. who is going to drop $300 on it with ps4 and xboxone so close to coming out, i think most gamers who want a new system will be putting their 300 into one of those. i think the only people who will be buying the sheild will be gadget obsessed people with allot of extra money to toss around which is a very small market of people in the bigger picture of things
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Price and specs aside, have you guys seen a demo of the Shield? I just watched a 3 min CNet video and it seems so heavy and awkward. Hard to imagine exactly where it fits in. Top screen for touch games may be a bit odd to those using tablets but streaming media like Netflix was very nice.
It's supposed to be 1.5 pounds and won't fit in your pockets. The controls look painful to use.
I've seen it described as the perfect plane time killer... But other than that I can't imagine a niche for an ugly heavy tablet console that will cost $300. What demographic is going to buy this?
And yet this product is getting 4/5 star reviews nearly everywhere while the Ouya struggles to get 2/3.
Isn't that what your tablet is for? Hell, isn't that what your 3DS/PS Vita is for?
Despite it's clunky design, it does have a solid UI and lack of bugs. If Ouya was a little neater internally (with expandable storage, maybe people wouldn't be as harsh).
It has already sold out and getting good to great reviews. Ditto for must user feedback. No need for a proprietary market and Nvidia created a mapping profile given freely to any dev that asks. It even has a call script for ICS or higher devices to auto recognize the Shield. The device was never intended for mass market, but is a niche gaming device.
That and to push interest in the Tegra 4, which IMO is already trumped by the Snap 800. Snap also runs cooler and a better fit for portable devices.
Ouya 2 might just skip the T4 and use that perhaps.
I am hoping for a fair review but I doubt we will get one. No game magazine is going to be very positive about something that it's best features is that it allows emulators.
Since NVidia backed OUYA I doubt they will use something other than Tegra. And NVIDIA seems to have a huge problem convincing manufacturers to use Tegra4 in their devices so they might push for Tegra4 enabled OUYA 2.
Okay, well, this isn't my thread, but I can't help notice that we've gone way off topic. This thread is about the Game Informer magazine ouya review; there are plenty of other threads about other consoles. Has anyone else actually read the review? I would love to read some impressions on topic other than my own.
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