WHY!! All the hate?

[takedownmak]

Ok so ive tried to ignore all the hate and Ignorance surrounding the OUYA, but when all i see is people in the comment sections of youtube vids, ign fourms, and just the media as a hole...... its starts to really get under my skin.
Now ive been an ouya owner since the beginning and overall ive been really happy with what ouya has done so far yes they have made a few mistakes but that hasent stoped them from pushing forward and i applaud them for that.
but heres the thing people seem to be under a trance and they think that the ouya sucks because its not a xbox one or a ps4..."the ouya sucks it has shitty hardware" um ok since when did gameing turn into such a cluster of fanboys and hype for visuals.... i look at it this way i game because i like to have fun and the way i see it is that gameplay comes before visuals and so far the ouya has that.. i play my ouya just as much as i do my new ps4 and pc.... so overall its been 100$ well spent. The problem is that lots of people forget what gameing is all about, remember the NES, or the N64, or Even the sega genesis. back then nobody cared how the game looked it was all about just sitting down on your couch and haveing fun but it seems to be forgotten for some people.... Now i dont want to sit here and complain all day about other peoples views on OUYA but one more thing needs to be said and i see this said all over the internet
"the OUYA has no games its only a Towerfall Machine" lets just name a few games the ouya has. Neon shadow, The amazing frog, bombsquad, skiing fred, draw runner, FF3, Reaper, Minigore 2, Shdowgun, Clark, Fist of awesome, SONIC games!!,
AVP Evolution, Ittle dew, Sine mora, Heros of loot,. And that just to name a few i could go on all day but i think you get the point. I would like to here from some people on there thoughts on all of this. I love my ouya i just think more people need to give it a chance before saying it sucks. I do think ouya is on the rise.

[Saracen26]

6-21 year old Fanboys... So many fanboys. Mindless consumers of the next best thing.. Graphics whores, they crave power... But they won't just get PCs for that even though the so-called "Next-Gen" is already graphically inferior to many Graphics cards in the PC's repertoire. Consoles and the games on them are cheap polygon porn made by huge corporations that just can pump out crap! People will buy it for ridiculous prices and not say a word. Even if it's a sequel no different from last year... I hate AAA development cash cows, and it saddens me that people create more demand for them!

I'm an old fart in gaming circles. I prefer pixels, indies, art, pushing the envelope... Something that no matter how crappy looking it might appear to others, is made by one or a just few people. It's a labour of love and done for the same reason most indies make their games for... for the games themselves and the people who play them. I find Retro fascinating too and the people prepared to honour that. That's my idea of fun, and OUYA accommodates that.

Fact is OUYA doesn't suck. As I've said time and time again, it's a little guy and it's a bandwagon to slate over. But as more and more videos come out of people enjoying it, it silences another small group of those trolls and critics at a time. It takes their ammo away, and people begin to enjoy seeing the content being released. Suddenly, people are wanting more, they gain interest. Things start turning around. This is what's happening right this very moment in time. There's a transition and acceptance for OUYA in the market, and I'm hearing people saying they want one, but will be happy to wait for the next iteration. Others are going out to buy one, even against the advice of trolls or the jilted kickstarter backer. It actually happened on Reddit last night.

It's a beautiful thing right this moment. Because when people's curiosity gets the better of them. It doesn't how much hate or a s**t storm that goes on in other communities or elsewhere in our own. People are coming no matter what, they are buying games, they're seeing and wanting some of that fun factor they have when they play other platforms. Just like you or I do.

There will always be hate. Just like the console wars for the big 3... But so long as the following of OUYA continues to increase, I couldn't give a monkeys what anyone else thinks. OUYA is here to stay, and it's only gonna get better.

[Hydrus]

People have no respect over the OUYA because of the fact that it has a Tegra 3, which was built for mobile devices. I remember I used to post a lot of OUYA related threads in other forums not so long ago and that was most of the people's arguments. "This piece o' crap? I can play phone games on my phone, I don't need a console for it". As soon as someone say phone games, they think of Pacman and Dig Dug (which are fun games by the way). Though it doesn't make sense, because my OUYA can play N64, PS1, DS and PSP games and even though half of what I just mentioned are portable devices, they're not phones. They're still used to this day too. So I don't really see their argument. My phone is stronger than the little toys they use.

I guess people are also just used to seeing the same three companies throwing the same things over and over again. Three consoles every 6 or 7 years, same franchises. Now that a change is starting to place, they're starting to feel discomfort. People hate change. Humans are afraid of it, they despise it. OUYA's also starting to get in their comfort zone with all these big game studios supporting it. Tripwire Interactive, SEGA, Sqaure Enix, Telltale games, Double Fine, Mojang (indirectly supporting it) and a bunch of well-known people from the Android community, like Madfinger Games/Gameloft and companies like Nvidia. OUYA's gun' get gewd, and they hate that fact.

[Starfighter]

It's also important to remember that the OUYA is meant to be a platform for us, not become us. (If someone dislikes OUYA, why should I care? It's not like I am my console.)

It's common to see that when a group of people likes a product, they naturally want it to succeed - and then they somehow along the way identify themselves with the product. If someone does not agree, then the group feel that someone is questioning the groups taste as a whole. This is something I have felt as well, but I always try to repress those feelings. If someone doesn't like the OUYA then that's fine. A person doesn't have to be a "graphics whore" or a "fanboy" to dislike OUYA.

Basically, ask yourself this; are you having less fun knowing some people doesn't like OUYA?

The answer you come up with will probably be "no", and then the conclusion follows - it's their loss. It's a pity they can't appreciate the OUYA but we are different - some don't like rock 'n roll, some don't like OUYA. If you want to do something to change the general notion of the console then I urge you to start small. Show your friends, have some fun rather than going online arguing with people, that is only going to get you frustrated.

[mikes_phone_and_tab]

Despite all of the hate that the Ouya has got, the Ouya does have some debilitating problems. Especially the controller lag and in some cases WiFi signal strength problems it's had. I'm more concerned with the Ouya ironing out problems that are going to make actual customers go tell there friends " Don't buy this. It's buggy and doesn't work. Guess you get what you pay for." I also believe in the Ouya, but I know the actual market will be very tough on it because of the market it's entering. Most customers don't understand what type of product it is, so they compare it to the next closest thing (namely the Xbox and PS3.) Even though their not the same thing. I do agree, the OS and the processor type is not important, the whole phone game comparison is bogus and hopefully trolls like this have found something better to do. Time, hard work, and good marketing will make the Ouya the best product we all hope it to be though.

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[Eldon.McGuinness]

I really have not experienced controller lag unless I am far from the console, again remember this is a bluetooth controller so range is not the big seller battery life is. As for the wifi issue I can not think of a console that did in-box wifi right, even the Wii's wifi was horrible, the easiest solution is to hardwire via ethernet and call it a day. Really the only way to do wifi right is to use an antenna, but I doubt anyone will see this since it disrupts the sleek look of today's consoles; Perhaps they should take a page from the old mobile days and add an extendable antenna for those that have weak signal issues?

I agree that the fan boys are the ones causing the most ruckus and coupled with the fact that the next gen systems are out this year, it is bound to be a bad stint for the OUYA in their eyes. I can actually understand the phone comparison, but it really is weak at best, when is the last time you seen a phone with a 32"+ screen and a nice controller? Android is what it is an OS designed to work on a number of platforms and it is not a phone only thing, but phones are where it started so...

I also agree that marketing is one thing that is sorely missing in the OUYA mix, I have yet to see any real push for it and other than myself I do not know a single person that knows about it in my neighborhood or community! OUYA can not hope to get a better image if the only people that know about it are a handful of loyal gamers that like it and all of the other fanboys for other systems.

[sahoskins12]

The online hate is not needed. It's caused by people with a closed mindset. They know what they're used to is what they like so anything else must suck as far as they're concerned.

The big problem is marketing. The Ouya is seen as an android console. To a lot of people that basically means "phone games on my telly" which as we know is not the case. Yes there naturally are phone ports on there but that's not where the story ends. We all know it's capable of so much more, it's all down to public perception, image and mindset.

[SlingShot]

My OUYA gets played more than my Xbox. And one thing I noticed was that my kids do not care about graphic quality at all. It isn't even something they consider when playing a game. People can hate on OUYA... But I think it is here to stay.

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[Gamesboro]

Yeah, its easy for people to hate something that they have little or no experience with. These are the same folks who think controller lag is still an issue, or that the interface is the old purple one from the kickstarter units. They have ZERO experience with the Ouya today, and that is important because the system is constantly evolving almost on a weekly basis. These people don't understand that because they have never experienced something like that before.

I have never had someone in my store that has tried the system say that they didn't like it.

[Nadious]

Don't forget that a lot of console and next gen fanboys probably don't even know what a SNES and Genesis is. I tend to see Ouya owners as more of an older audience, as a whole, where as most of the big 3 snobs are probably younger as a whole. It is easy to hate on under powered hardware when a lot of them don't realize it is the amount of fun you get out of a game that counts, not polygon counts and frame rates.