Ouya Inc for sale, deadline reportedly April 30 -

[LegoTugboat]

http://au.ign.com/articles/2015/04/...ortedly-for-sale-needs-investor-by-months-end

http://fortune.com/2015/04/28/exclusive-gaming-startup-ouya-needs-to-find-a-buyer-quickly/

"We believe we’ve built something real and valuable. I continue to read the tweets and emails of our fans who play OUYA every day, and our catalog is now over 1,000 apps and 40,000 developers. We have the largest library of Android content for the TV (still more than Amazon) — hells ya!"

So, the wonder console of Android and the world of tomorrow is in dire straits and needs a buyer relatively quickly.

Can they manage it, or will they succumb?

 

[KingofManga420]

Can they manage it

No.

 

[Arkangel]

What can people do with an Ouya that they can't do with a tablet, smartphone, or actual computer?

 

[DeagleBoipussy420]

What can people do with an Ouya that they can't do with a tablet, smartphone, or actual computer?

Play dank exclusives like this

 

[KingofManga420]

Play dank exclusives like this

Witness the power of +40000 devs.

 

[Quijibo69]

I think it's sad I own an Ouya and a LaserActive.

 

[_blank_]

Man, I remember back when the Ouya was on Kickstarter and how it seemed like everyone was really stoked about this new amazing machine, the little upstart that was going to go up against Nintendo and Microsoft and be the little indie darling.

Fast-forward three years, people are becoming increasingly sick of anything even remotely connected to "indie." It's a fun and good idea in theory, but once again like any other good and thought-provoking artistic and entrepreneurial endeavor I can think of, it has become over-saturated with self-pretentious dickweeds that ruin it for everyone else, only to be bought out wholesale by the blind, deaf, and brainless conglomerate whales to make it into a shallow facsimile of what could have been. The Ouya is a prime-example of this notion, and I'm for one not surprised to see it sink. Not happy about it, mind you- but not surprised.

 

[John Titor]

The dream is dead.

 

[Hodor]

I've got a few pennies and some lint in my pocket. Is that enough to buy the company?

 

[exball]

I've got a few pennies and some lint in my pocket. Is that enough to buy the company?

That'd be a generous offer.

 

[OBAMATRON]

People thought the cellphone console was a good idea?

 

[Watcher]

People thought the cellphone console was a good idea?

To my knowledge most of the titles people would actually want to play on the Ouya (core game titles) like Max Payne or GTA3 aren't on the Ouya store. You need to first download them and install them manually to the Ouya. And reportedly compatibility is all over the place with it.

So not only is it a gamble if the games you want to play on it will actually work, but it lacks any and all support for them.

 

[Conrix]

To my knowledge most of the titles people would actually want to play on the Ouya (core game titles) like Max Payne or GTA3 aren't on the Ouya store. You need to first download them and install them manually to the Ouya. And reportedly compatibility is all over the place with it.

So not only is it a gamble if the games you want to play on it will actually work, but it lacks any and all support for them.

Shame it had to end like this. I would have bought one, stuffed it with emulators and Doom WADs and it could handle a good bulk of my entertainment crap on a big TV, coming from a compact system.
There's always second hand stores and shit but who knows how the device will be when I do use it. It's not really worth the risk for an Android kit rigged to be a games system, when I could possibly rig a gaming PC/laptop that way with an HDMI cable and an Xbox controller.

 

[Watcher]

/v/ is talking about how people thought the Ouya was going to have much stronger AAA support. There was apparently a poll that the developer did asking what games people wanted on the Ouya and it was stuff like Skyrim. Stuff that would have zero chance of running on the thing.

So naturally when it has next to no AAA support (apart from importing your games from another android device through third party methods) of course the money well runs dry. You need killer apps people can't get anywhere else to keep a console afloat.

It's very much a machine designed for hipsters. It pandered heavily to the indie crowd and tried it's hardest to push that it was being this innovative revolution that would essentially be this open source game console. When in reality it was an underpowered android cellphone that you hooked up to your television. It was always going to be a niche market.

Shame it had to end like this. I would have bought one, stuffed it with emulators and Doom WADs and it could handle a good bulk of my entertainment crap on a big TV, coming from a compact system.
There's always second hand stores and shit but who knows how the device will be when I do use it. It's not really worth the risk for an Android kit rigged to be a games system, when I could possibly rig a gaming PC/laptop that way with an HDMI cable and an Xbox controller.

The problem is, as you suggested you don't need an Ouya to do that. You can create a thin client PC and just use Steam's broadcasting to stream from a rig.

There were also other problems. Like how the Ouya's controller was apparently not the most emulator friendly (it lacked a start and select button and the touchpad was basically unused for the majority of it's games).

 

[Watcher]

 

[Trombonista]

Play dank exclusives like this

That has to be crappy on purpose.

 

[Hodor]

That'd be a generous offer.

You're right.

I'll just give them some pocket lint, it's worth more than an Ouya would be.

 

[c-no]

You're right.

I'll just give them some pocket lint, it's worth more than an Ouya would be.

Just to give the idea of the Ouya's worth to at least one person (who regretted buying it):

Spoiler: toilet

*I don't own one but I do remember seeing this on /v/ of 8chan.

 

[Derbydollar]

This news made me unearth my ouya to play TowerFall again. Shame the console and company had to end up like this.
Maybe someone will make a solid ubuntu release for the ouya so I can use it as guest computer or something.

 

[DrunkTails]

Man, I remember back when the Ouya was on Kickstarter and how it seemed like everyone was really stoked about this new amazing machine, the little upstart that was going to go up against Nintendo and Microsoft and be the little indie darling.

Fast-forward three years, people are becoming increasingly sick of anything even remotely connected to "indie." It's a fun and good idea in theory, but once again like any other good and thought-provoking artistic and entrepreneurial endeavor I can think of, it has become over-saturated with self-pretentious dickweeds that ruin it for everyone else, only to be bought out wholesale by the blind, deaf, and brainless conglomerate whales to make it into a shallow facsimile of what could have been. The Ouya is a prime-example of this notion, and I'm for one not surprised to see it sink. Not happy about it, mind you- but not surprised.

I remember reading entire articles on game sites in which they described the ouya as amazing. I think the only person who was aware of its true capability were the tech oriented folk and a few critics like TB. Amazing how a product so hyped suddenly falls silent in a few days. Sort of like Watch Dogs, months of hype and after release just silence.

I said it before, the indie scene is the hipster version of the triple A publishers.