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I finally spotted OUYAs in the wild at the local Target the other day. I still didn't buy one but it was interesting to finally see them make an appearance. They were over in a neglected aisle end along with $90 game controller grips for your android phone, which is probably a better item despite being even more overpriced and lovely.
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What Fun posted:OuroborosPants, either come clean about the whole story with your failed website and console or stop making quips about it. There's no story. I had hopes that OUYA would do well originally. Then it came out. At first there were a couple fun games and some support from indie developers but both of those things got worse over time until the point where no good games were either being released or even planned for it. Someone hired me to write on their website for a few months but that wasn't a huge success either, which is partially our fault and partially because you can't run a website about a failing unpopular game system. I don't know what kind of massive conspiracy you're looking for but there are no crashed Ferraris here.
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Apr 29, 2014 00:04
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raditts posted:You don't go to those lengths for poo poo almost nobody will read if you don't have something a little broken upstairs.
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Apr 29, 2014 00:10
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XboxPants posted:There's no story. I had hopes that OUYA would do well originally. Then it came out. At first there were a couple fun games and some support from indie developers but both of those things got worse over time until the point where no good games were either being released or even planned for it. No massive conspiracy, but I think that's the most sentences you've typed to explain your complete 180 - after months and pages of pre-hype. I miss reading all your crazy garbage.
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Apr 29, 2014 00:58
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What Fun posted:No massive conspiracy, but I think that's the most sentences you've typed to explain your complete 180 - after months and pages of pre-hype. I miss reading all your crazy garbage. To my mind, I haven't done a 180. It's not like I thought the OUYA was great and now I've changed my mind. Instead, I thought it was possible the staff was competent enough that if the system got enough support from developers & consumers, it could turn into a fun platform. But the system didn't really get much consumer or develop support, and so it shriveled up. And it turned out that the staff wasn't very competent either, so even if they got more support it probably wouldn't have succeeded. I thought it was possible that some unknown people would be competent at their job. They weren't. I don't think that giving people a chance, even if they let you down, makes you "wrong" but if you disagree I can see where you're coming from. XboxPants fucked around with this message at 01:16 on Apr 29, 2014 |
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Apr 29, 2014 01:12
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XboxPants posted:I thought it was possible that some unknown people would be competent at their job. To me, you were being undeservedly optimistic about the people involved.
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Apr 29, 2014 01:54
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sleepwalkers posted:To me, you were being undeservedly optimistic about the people involved. That's probably fair. Most of the big people had some kind of industry experience but it wasn't really good enough. For instance, I'll admit that I underestimated how hard it is to make a good controller.
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Apr 29, 2014 02:08
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XboxPants posted:That's probably fair. Most of the big people had some kind of industry experience but it wasn't really good enough. For instance, I'll admit that I underestimated how hard it is to make a good controller. The people were known. The problem was there was only 'big people' and they sourced out all the dirty work to Chinese design houses which would only ever produce a turd on the couple of million they had to work with. The only surprise in the last bawb video was that they finally have seemed to hire someone who is semi-competent in embedded hardware and code, but its far far too late.
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Apr 29, 2014 02:13
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XboxPants posted:I thought it was possible that some unknown people would be competent at their job. They weren't. I don't think that giving people a chance, even if they let you down, makes you "wrong" but if you disagree I can see where you're coming from. It's not that I'm angry about you being "wrong", it's just frustrating that you battled so fervently for every bad OUYA decision up to a point. Then, with no real explanation, you just started pitching in with the rest of the thread every now and again. It's not that I'm expecting a meltdown post, I guess it was just really anticlimactic. Just like a certain game console launch. Anyway, I really don't have any anger towards you - I've gotten so much entertainment from reading your posts, how could I? It's just a letdown that we never got to see your breakthrough moment. I hope you find a writing job that you love and that pays you, someday.
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Apr 29, 2014 03:33
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Uncle Jam posted:The people were known. The problem was there was only 'big people' and they sourced out all the dirty work to Chinese design houses which would only ever produce a turd on the couple of million they had to work with. Weren't all of the big people marketing people?
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Apr 29, 2014 03:50
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Well, one of the big people was a design person. Who proceeded to make designs without considering the electronics and mechanics fitting in at all.
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Apr 29, 2014 03:53
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What Fun posted:It's not that I'm angry about you being "wrong", it's just frustrating that you battled so fervently for every bad OUYA decision up to a point. Then, with no real explanation, you just started pitching in with the rest of the thread every now and again. It's not that I'm expecting a meltdown post, I guess it was just really anticlimactic. Just like a certain game console launch. Basically, I just stopped paying attention to the thing at some point and moved on to other stuff. When I eventually looked back to see how things were going, it was like "yep well that pretty much flopped. then again that's no surprise since it wasn't doing very well last time I looked either". Sono posted:Weren't all of the big people marketing people? Well, that and executives/managers, but either way they didn't have the technical experience needed and didn't hire anyone who did. XboxPants fucked around with this message at 04:17 on Apr 29, 2014 |
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Apr 29, 2014 04:07
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You say that like this is all over. Do you think they've not got enough cash left to make the twouya? I thought for sure they'd been fattened up on venture capital.
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Apr 29, 2014 04:59
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Prop Wash posted:You say that like this is all over. Do you think they've not got enough cash left to make the twouya? The OUYA 2 coming out? Slightly less likely than Tom Cruise coming out as a homosexual, slightly more likely than George W Bush coming out as a lizard man.
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Apr 29, 2014 05:05
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Install Windows posted:Well, one of the big people was a design person. Who proceeded to make designs without considering the electronics and mechanics fitting in at all. To my understanding, Yves Behar only did concept renderings for the Kickstarter.
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Apr 29, 2014 08:16
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Are there still people who haven't gotten their Ouya? I know it took over a year for some people to get theirs from backing on Kickstarter and I'm willing to bet theres plenty of people no Nouya.
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Apr 29, 2014 10:28
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Colosmicon posted:To my understanding, Yves Behar only did concept renderings for the Kickstarter. Well yeah can't commit much time to any one project when you need to be out there designing laptops for children and sex toys. Hopefully not for children.
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Apr 29, 2014 10:42
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Tracula posted:Are there still people who haven't gotten their Ouya? I know it took over a year for some people to get theirs from backing on Kickstarter and I'm willing to bet theres plenty of people no Nouya. From the Kickstarter comments: quote:James Shing on Apr 13
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Apr 29, 2014 15:05
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XboxPants posted:The OUYA 2 coming out? Slightly less likely than Tom Cruise coming out as a homosexual, slightly more likely than George W Bush coming out as a lizard man. This is not a funny joke, maybe like 11 years ago it would've killed though
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Apr 29, 2014 15:11
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Breetai posted:From the Kickstarter comments: No. Way. I expected there to be people who hadn't gotten theirs yet, but not people who ACTIVELY WANTED IT and yet still hadn't gotten the thing. Amazing.
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Apr 29, 2014 15:32
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So there are Oyuas gathering dust in Targets and at Amazon, where they they've knocked the price down to $70 just to move the drat things, and yet there are Kickstarter backers who still haven't gotten their consoles yet. Amazing.
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Apr 29, 2014 16:17
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So Towerfall has sold half a million copies so far! Doing great, right? 7,000 were on Ouya. The Rabbi T. White posted:Don't listen to these lies. Note: once Fire TV voice search is added for Netflix, it will be the best $100 streaming box, hands down.
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Apr 29, 2014 16:53
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$500,000 gross not copies:Basil Hayden posted:It's $500k gross, not 500k copies. If I'm remembering his OUYA price point correctly, this would imply that a significant fraction of his gross profits actually came from there.
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Apr 29, 2014 21:26
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What was the Dev vs OUYA split? 70/30 I'm thinking?
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Apr 29, 2014 21:27
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Hat Thoughts posted:This is not a funny joke, maybe like 11 years ago it would've killed though Much like the ouya itself. Heyooo.
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Apr 30, 2014 02:21
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boo_radley posted:Much like the ouya itself. I'm pretty sure 11 years ago people didn't want to play lovely games.
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Apr 30, 2014 02:31
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Atlas Hugged posted:I'm pretty sure 11 years ago people didn't want to play lovely games. Master of Orion III is a 4X turn-based strategy game and the third in the Master of Orion series. MoO3 was developed by Quicksilver Software and published by Infogrames on February 25, 2003. e: whoa, Double Dash came out the same year? We'll call it a push.
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Apr 30, 2014 02:37
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sleepwalkers posted:To me, you were being undeservedly optimistic about the people involved. "Half as successful as the original playstation"
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Apr 30, 2014 02:41
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pentyne posted:"Half as successful as the original playstation" What is that quote from, anyway?
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Apr 30, 2014 05:33
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XboxPants posted:What is that quote from, anyway? I don't know if you're joking or what but I'm pretty sure you are the one who said that, man.
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Apr 30, 2014 05:42
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theflyingorc posted:No. Way. The OUYA gives one last gently caress You on its deathbed. Beautiful.
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Apr 30, 2014 05:47
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codenameFANGIO posted:I don't know if you're joking or what but I'm pretty sure you are the one who said that, man. Yeah I knew that I just couldn't remember where I had said it and didn't feel like figuring it out myself, so I hoped someone else did remember.
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Apr 30, 2014 06:07
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Breetai posted:From the Kickstarter comments: There are drug dealers who are more professional than Ouya, jesus christ. At least you generally get what you pay for with them. I would be astounded that people STILL don't have what they pre-paid for but :ouya:
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Apr 30, 2014 06:10
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Yeah I'm sure you totally meant that, ha ha. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3515898&pagenumber=39&perpage=40#post411008066
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XboxPants posted:What is that quote from, anyway? http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3515898&pagenumber=39&perpage=40#post411008066 XboxPants posted:Hot drat, I finally found some pre-order info to discuss.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:Yeah I'm sure you totally meant that, ha ha. pentyne posted:http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3515898&pagenumber=39&perpage=40#post411008066 Thanks. I see what I was saying but yeah, that "half as successful" quote was just silly.
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Apr 30, 2014 06:22
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nah it was loving stupid
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Apr 30, 2014 07:37
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Christian Knudsen posted:$500,000 gross not copies: Then only $7,000 of that gross was from the Ouya. So.... XboxPants posted:What was the Dev vs OUYA split? 70/30 I'm thinking?
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Cardboard Box A posted:Ah thanks. 7000 copies sold on Ouya. $500,000 total gross across all platforms.
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TowerFall sold better on PS4 than PC, Ouya version trails behind Seems the PC is just as poo poo a platform as OUYA, guys.  http://tinyurl.com/koovbb9
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