WSJ: Google developing its own Android-based gaming console

[Gamer]

Also, a smartwatch, as part of a planned "major" Android expansion.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Google is working on its own Android-powered gaming console and smartwatch — and a replacement for the much-maligned Nexus Q is also on the way. The report states that Mountain View hopes to ship at least one of the projects by this fall, and plans to design and market the products itself. In recent months, Android gaming consoles like Ouya and the GameStick have received a tremendous amount lot of attention — the Ouya went on sale at retailers just this week — but according to the Journal's sources Google's move to create a console is also based on expectations that Apple will add gaming to a future version of the Apple TV.

Google is currently working on the next iteration of the Android operating system, which will reportedly be better suited for the low-cost smartphones that are taking off in developing counties; companies like Mozilla are also targeting this market with operating systems like Firefox OS.

Sounds big(?) if real...

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[Wombo Combo]

Ouya is fucked if true.

 

[Flame]

its Ouno for the Ouya.

 

[The Catboy]

As if the world really needs more Android based video games systems .-.

 

[nukeboy95]

rip ouya and gamestick

 

[LightyKD]

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuu! Welp, only time will tell.

 

[Sefi]

Android-based systems are this generation's Pong Console.

 

[Foxi4]

So far the whole "Android console" craze has been the exact opposite of what gamers normally want - a whole lot of consoles and no gaems. ;O;

 

[The Catboy]

So far the whole "Android console" craze has been the exact opposite of what gamers normally want - a whole lot of consoles and no gaems. ;O;

Or just the same games because they are running the same software.
Makes me glad the GCW Zero is running OpenDingux and not android. Sure it's meant for emulation, but at least it's trying to be different.

 

[Xuphor]

So far the whole "Android console" craze has been the exact opposite of what gamers normally want - a whole lot of consoles and no gaems. ;O;

Eh, wait until things even out. When game consoles first started getting popular, there were TOOOOOONS of systems (TurboGrafix (typo?), Commodore 64, Jaguar, lots of Ataris, 3DO, lots of Nintendo and Sega systems, Intellivison, and more I can't remember). After a few years, I'm sure it'll wear down to just a few companies that will keep making them and have good reputations (Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo nowadays).

 

[Foxi4]

Eh, wait until things even out. When game consoles first started getting popular, there were TOOOOOONS of systems (TurboGrafix (typo?), Commodore 64, Jaguar, lots of Ataris, 3DO, lots of Nintendo and Sega systems, Intellivison, and more I can't remember). After a few years, I'm sure it'll wear down to just a few companies that will keep making them and have good reputations (Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo nowadays).

Don't be silly. You're mixing up epochs big time here and thinking of the great computer crash in terms of consoles. Commodore 64 was a computer, not a console so that's scratched off the list. Atari's were divided into generations, so scratch that too. 3DO was from a different generation altogether, but at least a console in its own right, so were Nintendo's and Sega's systems as well as the TurboGrafx16/PC-Engine.

We're not talking about different systems here, we're talking about varied hardware playing the same games on the same OS - the "Android Console" is more akin to the "PC" than it is to other consoles. I'm not quite sure what you're saying when it comes to matters evening out - Android had quite a bit of time to build up a library of games. There's also no reason why people would stop making those systems since they're essentially the exact same thing - it's not like they're in any way original. To be fair, some have dedicated stores but that's that - at the end of the day, they're all Android-based boxes with controllers connected to them, except glorified. They remind me of cheapo Linux-based systems you'd find at your average supermarket, except they're cross-compatible to an extent.

Or just the same games because they are running the same software.

Makes me glad the GCW Zero is running OpenDingux and not android. Sure it's meant for emulation, but at least it's trying to be different.

It's all stemming from Linux somewhere down the line and I'd actually lean towards Android rather than OpenDingux simply because it's more refined, but each to their own, really.

 

[KingVamp]

Eh, wait until things even out. When game consoles first started getting popular, there were TOOOOOONS of systems (TurboGrafix (typo?), Commodore 64, Jaguar, lots of Ataris, 3DO, lots of Nintendo and Sega systems, Intellivison, and more I can't remember). After a few years, I'm sure it'll wear down to just a few companies that will keep making them and have good reputations (Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo nowadays).

I guess we could have the small 3 running next to the big 3.

Smart watch,console and Nexus Q? Don't they have Google Glass to deal with.

If true, I wonder if the console is a replacement for Nexus Q?

 

[FireGrey]

I sense the second gaming crash incoming.

 

[IBNobody]

I sense the second gaming crash incoming.

Only for the big 3's console divisions

 

[notmeanymore]

I'm not so sure I'd be down for this. The closest thing to a "killer app" for Android consoles is that WiFi PC game streaming from Nvidia.

 

[Dork]

Video game crash when?

 

[Bladexdsl]

here we go again another lame android console in the works so you can play all your favorite pay to keep playing lame ass android games on!

 

[Ericthegreat]

This is interesting. I wonder if the smart watch will interact will google glass or have some other cool feature.

 

[Gahars]

Also, an smartwatch, as part of a planned "major" Android expansion

Watches? Like, for wrists? What is this, the Jurassic era?

 

[jakeyjake]

As if the world really needs more Android based video games systems .-.

Am I the only person who thinks that anyone who buys an android based gaming system should re-evaluate what they are doing? I mean, it's a game console for mobile phone games. Unless I'm completely wrong and it's not just playing phone games on your tv. I mean, you can get a cord for your phone to do that.

And I hope someone says "but then I can't play gta, Jake"