2 things need to happen before ill agree with them showing up at the expo:
1. They get Gamestop's blessing and get a booth inside.
and...
2. If they are in the parking lot make the apperence HUGE, meaning something like ubisoft did at comic con with a giant pirate ship. If Ouya had lets say one of those inflatable lasertag areas and all that was inside were games and flat screens, EVERYONE will want inside. IF MY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WAS ABLE TO AFFORD IT I KNOW OUYA CAN! plus everyone is saying stuff like "well their on a budget they really can't commercial it off right now" just shut up. Ouya spends a little money for commercial, Parents see price and say "hmmm.... Ouya=$100, Xbox One and PS4=$350-500 dollars... ouya it is!" No one will even know about the gamestick because they'll have the same problem as Ouya, no ads or commercials and BAM! more sales which means mo money less problems. (im sorry) you know what else would help them? A CONTEST! Give everyone a number and give them a time to come back for a chance to win a FREE OUYA! pull number from jar they arent there draw again until you get a winner. And the last and most important would be a TOURNAMENT! Have a bunch of people in tournament INCLUDING Devs, and play until you have a winner, who would win a $25 dollar OUYA card, OUYA Tee shirt, and OUYA poster signed by the Ouya team and any game devs at the event! THIS all right here is what needs to happen!
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without a presence in the building, they are going to do themselves M U C H more harm than good. And having people demo OUYA demo's isn't a presence. Letting people know what OUYA is and why they want it IS a presence. Not camping outside and riding on the coat tails of someone else selling your product (gamestop)
No, $100,000 isn't so bad but that would barely get them in E3 if at all and then they would have spent their $100,000 budget for the year. I agree that awareness is part of the problem but that doesn't mean they can't do it on a low budget. I rather them spend it to have a presence at more places or ,even better, fix the problems with the console first.Originally Posted by Killswitch
They already tried to have a presence at GameStop and gain customers awareness at launch but GameStop handled it poorly. The console being in the store would have gained more awareness than a booth in the conference. This thread is the first time I have heard that GameStop even has conferences. Only people who care about that sort of thing knows about it and the people going probably know even more. So, they would know that OUYA has a presence even if they aren't in the building. In my opinion, being outside is more of a presence. Instead of blending in with hundreds of booths, they would be the first one everyone sees as they walk in. Also, people not going in would see them too.
Yes, they definitely need to fix problems before the holiday season. They also need to fix the problems before they solve their awareness problem. It may have actually been a good thing that GameStop, Target, and Best Buy did a horrible job making people aware at launch. With the problems the console has if it had a successful launch then the general public would know the issues that the OUYA has. For me the biggest issue is the limited storage space. I think that is a huge issue for a console that doesn't have discs. Other people have WIFI issues and so forth. This is a situation where a successful launch could have killed the system. Atari did a wonderful job at rushing E.T. and PAC-MAN out the door. They were actually two of their best selling games. They had no awareness problem but if they did maybe they would be showing off a console at GameStop's conference. OUYA needs to fix the problems with the console first then make the general public aware and hopefully that happens in time for the holidays. When we are all happy then that would be the time to make everyone else happy.
It is a play on this song but saying the opposite:
My interpretation has been that it will be televised because the OUYA plays on a TV and nothing to do with commercials and so forth. That's why it says,"AND SO BEGINS THE REVOLUTION." when you open the box. Also, the Free the Games slogan and the raised fist logo you see while viewing some games is referring to the revolution. I have interpreted the revolution to be taking the power from the "big boys" and giving it back to the gamers and indie developers. That's why these guerilla tactics make sense to me. It is giving the finger to The Man. I interpret the spirit of the console to be something like this:
Last edited by Schizophretard; 07-31-2013 at 08:37 AM.
From GameStop Press Release:
"Learn more about the Android-based gaming console OUYA at the OUYA Experience trailer"
At Expo along with top level companies, new major consoles and games, one can only hope that's it's an incredible experience in the OUYA trailer!
Odd wording."Learn more about..." Gives me a feeling of "coming soon". Probably just me.
Well it didn't have to be E3. E3 they needed a bigger lot presence but there are many more places like PAX, Gamestop, Philly has one now, Indie ones, there are others where they can be in the door.
This.
A Towerfall Tourny (inside or in the lot, whatever) for a free Ouya and gamecard would be LEGIT.
For a sweeter experience, have a table of controllers and tell people to choose your pref: PS3/360/Ouya/3rd party Bluetooth to just show people how open and customizable this thing is.
Can you provide a link, please?
Ah, it seems that it is being sanctioned by GameStop then. They just threw Ouya Inc into a trailer outside, haha!
Then Ouya Inc. Is going to need one hell of an attention grabber. Fliers, Music, and maybe a new killer app ready to show off (Killing floor?, Soul Fjord?)
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