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Mr. Beefhead posted:No, it hasn't. http://www.ebay.com/itm/BRAND-NEW-S...=item3f252be4c4 IDK, they are normalizing around a 100 dollar mark, which means that some are likely going for less.
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I'm feeling kind of bad for that Dreamzle dude, since he spent $20,000 on a game on a platform where there is no way he will get enough downloads to make it back. That Harry Potter GBC game was actually pretty fun, and if he worked on some of the other titles by that company, so were the DS Spider-Man Web Of Shadows game and Shinobi 3DS (although both games had issues with the art sometimes not making it clear where you could go or what you could do  ).edit: at least, I think those are by the same company that did that Harry Potter game, could be wrong. Wouldn't be the first time.
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May 16, 2013 06:57
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boo_radley posted:meanwhile, Google Play Games Confirmed, Brings Cross-Platform Achievements and Multiplayer. I am still waiting the answer from XBoxPants or Aweful Dreams about how they think that Android is a viable platform for gaming from a gamer standpoint, since Google is doing just the bare minimum to compete with Apple and to facilitate people to use the Google+ platform.
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limaCAT posted:I am still waiting the answer from XBoxPants or Aweful Dreams about how they think that Android is a viable platform for gaming from a gamer standpoint, since Google is doing just the bare minimum to compete with Apple and to facilitate people to use the Google+ platform. A whole lot of people like gaming with Google Play, seems like a very viable platform to me. But two things: OUYA doesn't use the Google app platform, so whatever Google does doesn't really affect the OUYA - OUYA won't get Google Games, they plan to implement their own solution for that kind of stuff. And second, don't forget that I do NOT think OUYA will necessarily succeed or is a good system - I've gotten this reputation as an OUYA defender because I stated that I liked a couple of the games on the store (Stalagfight and Rage Runner) and said I could see where the OUYA could be more convenient for gaming on a TV than a PC.
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May 16, 2013 07:57
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Red_Mage posted:http://www.ebay.com/itm/BRAND-NEW-S...=item3f252be4c4 So far, none have gone for under $100. The current average is about $170.
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Aweful Dreams posted:A big shipment must have just happened, eBay is now filled with "in-hand" OUYAs for sale. And the price is dropping, they used to go for like $200 to $300, now many of them are selling for $160 or less. And one overly optimistic guy (not me) is trying to sell his dev system for $800! Not sure if it was a big shipment or people realising the mistake they've made. Or they could've just rerouted all OUYA deliveries to their HQ to have employees eBay them for even more cash. I wouldn't put it past them. I wonder if Rocco has downloaded a game yet.
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Aweful Dreams posted:A whole lot of people like gaming with Google Play, seems like a very viable platform to me. But two things: OUYA doesn't use the Google app platform, so whatever Google does doesn't really affect the OUYA - OUYA won't get Google Games, they plan to implement their own solution for that kind of stuff. And second, don't forget that I do NOT think OUYA will necessarily succeed or is a good system - I've gotten this reputation as an OUYA defender because I stated that I liked a couple of the games on the store (Stalagfight and Rage Runner) and said I could see where the OUYA could be more convenient for gaming on a TV than a PC. Aren't you developing a game for the GARBANZOBEANS?
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May 16, 2013 08:34
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Nope, I was asked to look into the OUYA to see if it would be a viable platform to develop for, and my company got a dev kit just in case (which I currently have). The company hasn't chosen to make an OUYA game yet, but I'm still following it closely (as time goes on it's seeming worse and worse, but if they can manage to fix all the problems in time for retail, have some secret high profile games they plan to announce at E3, and stock up a whole bunch for the retail, it's possible people will just forget all the Kickstarter problems).
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Hey I wonder what's happening with those Limited Edition units?  Oh. Sorry everyone, but the CEO of this company isn't allowed to take pictures of the product they're paying to have manufactured. They had metal detectors and everything.
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Aweful Dreams posted:A whole lot of people like gaming with Google Play, seems like a very viable platform to me. Ok, for which extents of time? Which controls? How does gaming with google play translates in money spent by people, with the exception of "people trowing money for digital cows making golden milk"? Aweful Dreams posted:But two things: OUYA doesn't use the Google app platform, so whatever Google does doesn't really affect the OUYA - OUYA won't get Google Games, they plan to implement their own solution for that kind of stuff. So, it means that the console that was based on Android is not really using the full extent of free engineering that Google is throwing at it.
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limaCAT posted:So, it means that the console that was based on Android is not really using the full extent of free engineering that Google is throwing at it. But they sure are happy to use their settings menus!
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May 16, 2013 09:09
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"Want to show final versions not prototypes" should be engraved on the limited edition HATERAID.
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O Hanraha-hanrahan posted:Sorry everyone, but the CEO of this company isn't allowed to take pictures of the product they're paying to have manufactured. They had metal detectors and everything. Every time I think that I've heard it all... ...I should know better.
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May 16, 2013 09:18
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I find it difficult to believe she was even in China. Every other Kickstarter project I've seen where they sent people to the factory (BOOTS ON THE GROUND) they were Tweeting about it and updating their Kickstarter pages. But Julie goes to China and you don't hear a peep.
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Aweful Dreams posted:Nope, I was asked to look into the OUYA to see if it would be a viable platform to develop for, and my company got a dev kit just in case (which I currently have). The company hasn't chosen to make an OUYA game yet, but I'm still following it closely (as time goes on it's seeming worse and worse, but if they can manage to fix all the problems in time for retail, have some secret high profile games they plan to announce at E3, and stock up a whole bunch for the retail, it's possible people will just forget all the Kickstarter problems). O Hanraha-hanrahan posted:Hey I wonder what's happening with those Limited Edition units? 
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O Hanraha-hanrahan posted:Hey I wonder what's happening with those Limited Edition units? Well if that's not proof of their outright lies I don't know what is. I could understand her not being allowed to take photos of the production line making something that wasn't one of her Ouya's, but then outright refusing to let her take photos of the product she's paying them to produce? That's a load of horseshit. If that actually did happen, the why that didn't set off a thousand alarm bells in her head? If I was in that position I'd cancel the rest of the order on the spot and refuse to accept any units ready to ship out of fear of what dodgy poo poo was going on. Rudager fucked around with this message at 10:01 on May 16, 2013 |
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O Hanraha-hanrahan posted:Hey I wonder what's happening with those Limited Edition units? Holy poo poo. The hole of lies keeps getting deeper. What the gently caress would the point of going there even be if she wasn't allowed to take pictures? Oh, that's right. There's no point except wasting KS money. I bet she didn't even get to 80% in Street Fighter. "Want to show final versions not prototypes" is the best though. "Um no this is a beta launch these are beta uni.. NO THESE ARE FINAL no wait um poo poo um.. Lots. A lot."
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O Hanraha-hanrahan posted:Hey I wonder what's happening with those Limited Edition units? Reminder that some very rich (and clearly very dense) people thought this was a good thing to pump $15 million into last week.
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O Hanraha-hanrahan posted:I find it difficult to believe she was even in China. Every other Kickstarter project I've seen where they sent people to the factory (BOOTS ON THE GROUND) they were Tweeting about it and updating their Kickstarter pages. But Julie goes to China and you don't hear a peep. She totally was in China! Saw the sights and walked down the streets and everything! Using Google Earth street view
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May 16, 2013 10:03
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OUYA: Can't spell "Julie" without "lie".
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Color Printer posted:While I agree with this post, I just want to point there's a major difference between retro and simplistic graphics and the poo poo that's in that video.
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May 16, 2013 10:18
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O Hanraha-hanrahan posted:Hey I wonder what's happening with those Limited Edition units?  Aren't close-up pictures of details a basis of quick quality control? I mean you send the pics to the project manager/engineer to check if the product looks good before you bring an actual sample of course. Are they also afraid of checking the units before they send them out directly from China? What the gently caress?
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Palpek posted:
Hey man, as long as Street Fighter works, it's ok.
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Palpek posted:
To quote a Bitcoiner: "The first version is always the best"
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 gently caress you for not believing! I might send this to OUYANews and get me a job.
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It is amusing that when confronted by someone asking a perfectly reasonable question her first instinct is to panic and come up with a completely implausible lie. Even if the factory didn't want them taking pictures (metal detector level: maximum) they must surely have had a test run of the hardware to ensure manufacturing is correct. You wouldn't just go ahead and start up a production line without making sure it was up to spec, right? Or perhaps she really did go to China and really did visit the factory, but the factory knew they were dealing with a moron and just handed her a cardboard box when she asked to see the LE units.
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So they got $15 million funding and Julie goes off to China. Can't it be they originally didn't have money to manufacture the limited edition OUYAs, and her being there was just signing off on a fresh manufacturing job? It'd explain the lack of photos and general sidestepping.
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But guys it was China right? Scary stuff, drat you need to understand it's like a warzone.
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O Hanraha-hanrahan posted:It is amusing that when confronted by someone asking a perfectly reasonable question her first instinct is to panic and come up with a completely implausible lie. Even if the factory didn't want them taking pictures (metal detector level: maximum) they must surely have had a test run of the hardware to ensure manufacturing is correct. You wouldn't just go ahead and start up a production line without making sure it was up to spec, right? Don't be irrational, they surely had to smuggle steel into the factory going around that metal detector for making the steel cases, and then they will have to smuggle the ouyas with the steel casing out of the factory again. Red_Mage posted:But they sure are happy to use their settings menus! I can't wait to see the first local multiplayer game with a cheat code for turning on the in-flight mode.
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I'm now imagining an Oceans Eleven style heist for the Ouya Limited Edition Prototypes. But then I realized that OUYA probably doesn't employ eleven competent people.
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Palpek posted:But guys it was China right? Scary stuff, drat you need to understand it's like a warzone. Mike Daisey taught me everything I ever needed to know about the evil Chinese overlords and their factory slaves. Each OUYA unit contains the soul of one slave. Since only robots get promoted in Chinese factory society the metal detector is there to stop them escaping. If you introduce a camera into the mix workers will drop tools and mourn for the man who died to make that camera. Then the robots get pissed. I know it's not funny and I lost my train of thought but all of that still makes more sense than anything Uhrman says.
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Aweful Dreams posted:But two things: OUYA doesn't use the Google app platform, so whatever Google does doesn't really affect the OUYA - OUYA won't get Google Games, they plan to implement their own solution for that kind of stuff.
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I bet you she was in China and everything. She even had some time for sightseeing, but as it was late when she came back from the plant, she didn't see very much. She was told that "Not advisable for a tourist to visit the canals at night."
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zylche posted:So they got $15 million funding and Julie goes off to China. Can't it be they originally didn't have money to manufacture the limited edition OUYAs, and her being there was just signing off on a fresh manufacturing job? It'd explain the lack of photos and general sidestepping. The chances she was actually in China are vanishingly small.
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OatmealRaisin posted:The chances she was actually in China are vanishingly small. Maybe she was in one of these places: Little China - Austin, Texas Little China - Torrance, Gardena, California Little China - Richmond, California
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JosephWongKS posted:Maybe she was in one of these places: I think that she just had Chinese food and had to pick it up from the restaurant.
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I kinda left this thread in the dust for the past week or so, and It seems that nothing has changed. It seems that we have ~200 confirmed received?
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trunkwontopen posted:I kinda left this thread in the dust for the past week or so, and It seems that nothing has changed. It seems that we have ~200 confirmed received? I'll give you the tl;dr; ouya apologists now are three or four and we have the developer of The Secret of Universe Alpha too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KniKH9Yfl5Y
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It's entirely possible that they are at a factory paranoid about losing a real customer due to letting some fly by night company take random pictures. I've been in circumstances like that in fact! We had to go find someone to stage the photos so nothing sensitive was in the pictures.
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hobbesmaster posted:It's entirely possible that they are at a factory paranoid about losing a real customer due to letting some fly by night company take random pictures. But even in that situation wouldn't they still have had samples? bumblingbee posted:I think that she just had Chinese food and had to pick it up from the restaurant. Ouya's revolutionary concept allows you to easily modify it by removing the cardboard lid, and its cutting edge foil lining ensures your NVIDIA ChowMein 3 GTX stays fresher for longer. Iacen posted:She was told that "Not advisable for a tourist to visit the canals at night." 
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