I'll state just a few reasons I'd buy this.
- Direct XBMC support is planned for the device. People freaked out when they saw the Rasberry Pi thinking of how they could make it a media center. For just $65 more you get a device with a more powerful processor, GPU?, WIFI, Bluetooth, and a gaming controller. Also, with this running Android, I wouldn't be surprised to see it running custom ROMS with overclock kernels and whatnot. It's a perfect toy for someone who wants to tinker and hack around with it. I'd sell my Pi and get this to run XBMC if I had the cash.
- Emulation! The point goes that much farther with the recent port of Retroarch to Android. Right away, you have over 13 cores which can run MAME, SNES, Cave Story, NES, GBA, PSX etc. along with Mupen64 Plus AE and the rapidly progressing PPSSPP emulator. I see this as a perfect little box to take with me for an old school Goldeneye/Mario Kart 64 LAN party.
By the way, this is really going to help with the iOS snobs who say that their platform gets the better mobile games either first, or exclusively. Devices like Ouya and NVIDIA's Project Shield are really jump starting game development for Android, and with Ouya running the same hardware and OS as its Android brethren, I see no reason for developers to not later release their Ouya games on the Play Store. It's a win for Indie developers and a win for the gaming ecosystem on Android.
So there, love it or hate it, the Ouya is a pretty sweet 'lil box for those who can appreciate its strength and forgive its weaknesses. So you have all the major home consoles and beefed up PCs? Well guess what? Not everyone has the luxury to spend cash like that on expensive electronic. I can totally foresee some Grandma out there buying this on a whim for little Johnny at a Target, or it being featured on a home shopping channel like QVC. Female family members like to watch the channel and I've noticed a lot of 'plug in and play' devices that come preloaded with crappy games sell like hot cakes on there. I wouldn't doubt the parents would love Ouya too.
Ouya looks like it could be great for any one of these reasons. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
- Direct XBMC support is planned for the device. People freaked out when they saw the Rasberry Pi thinking of how they could make it a media center. For just $65 more you get a device with a more powerful processor, GPU?, WIFI, Bluetooth, and a gaming controller. Also, with this running Android, I wouldn't be surprised to see it running custom ROMS with overclock kernels and whatnot. It's a perfect toy for someone who wants to tinker and hack around with it. I'd sell my Pi and get this to run XBMC if I had the cash.
- Emulation! The point goes that much farther with the recent port of Retroarch to Android. Right away, you have over 13 cores which can run MAME, SNES, Cave Story, NES, GBA, PSX etc. along with Mupen64 Plus AE and the rapidly progressing PPSSPP emulator. I see this as a perfect little box to take with me for an old school Goldeneye/Mario Kart 64 LAN party.
By the way, this is really going to help with the iOS snobs who say that their platform gets the better mobile games either first, or exclusively. Devices like Ouya and NVIDIA's Project Shield are really jump starting game development for Android, and with Ouya running the same hardware and OS as its Android brethren, I see no reason for developers to not later release their Ouya games on the Play Store. It's a win for Indie developers and a win for the gaming ecosystem on Android.
So there, love it or hate it, the Ouya is a pretty sweet 'lil box for those who can appreciate its strength and forgive its weaknesses. So you have all the major home consoles and beefed up PCs? Well guess what? Not everyone has the luxury to spend cash like that on expensive electronic. I can totally foresee some Grandma out there buying this on a whim for little Johnny at a Target, or it being featured on a home shopping channel like QVC. Female family members like to watch the channel and I've noticed a lot of 'plug in and play' devices that come preloaded with crappy games sell like hot cakes on there. I wouldn't doubt the parents would love Ouya too.
Ouya looks like it could be great for any one of these reasons. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.