NVIDIA Portable Game Console announced at CES

[naved.islam14]

I will buy that ASAP.

 

[Veho]

1. It looks bad, and I mean bad - it goes againts what a portable should look like

There's a defined standard design that all portables should look like?

 

[Foxi4]

competition for project fiona.

With a $1000 price tag, they might as well not release Fiona at all - it won't sell. People cried their eyes out when the PS3 was priced $599, and that was before the recession. I doubt that the tablet will even be released, which is a shame because it IS cool.

There's a defined standard design that all portables should look like?

The defined standard for portable devices to me is "I can put it in my pocket" - you can't put this in your pocket, even the PSVita is stretching it. When your portable requires you to get a carrying bag for it, you just know it's not very portable.

 

[KingVamp]

By the time Ouya is released, the average tablet or smartphone will "beat it", and I can already pair controllers with those - some I can even connect to a TV via HDMI - there's no "need" for an Ouya, as "cool" as it is Infrastructure-wise.


Exclusives on an Android-based device = gon git hacked tomorrow and ported for smartphones. Seriously. It's an open-source system.

Why do you have to have a point?

Things may get cheap enough for Ouya to go to the next chip before it comes out or either there is going to be a
Ouya 2.

True, but was thinking from a non-hacking POV tho.

Honestly, while I'm defending the Ouya a bit, it kind of hard to justify it's existence.
Maybe for the really cheap gamers.

The defined standard for portable devices to me is "I can put it in my pocket" - you can't put this in your pocket, even the PSVita is stretching it. When your portable requires you to get a carrying bag for it, you just know it's not very portable.

I think Guild would disagree.

 

[Foxi4]

Honestly, while I'm defending the Ouya a bit, it kind of hard to justify it's existence.
Maybe for the really cheap gamers.

I can see it as a low-cost Android gaming device, yes... but that market is already dominated by Chinese knock-off products. In my opinion, the Ouya should've been an infrastructure for games, not a console - it should've been made compatible with Android devices of all-sorts and should provide an alternative for the Google Play store and the PlayStation Store (For PSCertified) with exclusive titles and organised multiplayer - the first is always welcome, even if hackable, the second is a glaring issue of Android as an open-source system. Think of it as "Steam for Android"... But I digress.

I suppose it's a cool "gadget", but not really a competitor on the market compared to the "Big Boys" coming from Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo. It's optional, but definitely not an "alternative".

 

[Veho]

The defined standard for portable devices to me is "I can put it in my pocket"

I can't put the DS in my pocket.

 

[FAST6191]

Things I learned thus far today
People not only remember the ouya stuff existed but are potentially excited about it.

Should this be remote useful I might actually get one before I even hold a 3ds or vita (I have since seen them run, in a display case, without any proper games running, in passing).

Both things are shocking to me.

 

[Foxi4]

I can't put the DS in my pocket.

Bah! Feeble small-pockets clothing! You need to change from those Poortendo pants and get some big boy trousers.





See what I did there? Poortendo? Totally bait. Don't tell the others though, te-he-he, ke-ke-ke.

 

[LockeCole_101629]

this great, but for android....
I mean well it's great but android market already had too much platform

When I saw " You can stream from PC" I was thought it was capable to stream PC game into it.
And we don't need another handheld consoles

what we need is game for it.

 

[Filipe C Bello dos Santos]

I will sell my soul to get one of these! tihs should be awesome for emulation.
can't wait to see people asking if it will emulate N64...

 

[Veho]

Bah! Feeble small-pockets clothing! You need to change from those Poortendo pants and get some big boy trousers.

Consoles should be able to fit into little boy trouser pockets.




Because consoles are for kids

 

[Foxi4]

I will sell my soul to get one of these! tihs should be awesome for emulation.
can't wait to see people asking if it will emulate N64...

Too late, it's been asked already.

Why do people want to emulate the N64 anyways? The console has 387 games altogether and there are very little memorable games in the library.

 

[Foxi4]

Because consoles are for kids

Tru dat.

PC Master Race?

 

[Filipe C Bello dos Santos]

And the Castlevania games for N64 sucks.
Now that OOT was release on 3DS, there's nothing left on this console for me to play. (except from Majora's Mask)

 

[ferret7463]

to be blunt, I believe this to be "Vaporware"

 

[heartgold]

Tegra 4 will emulate N64 for breakfast. Think deep, like DC emulation. Lol

The CPU chipset is much more powerful than Vita's.

 

[Foxi4]

Tegra 4 will emulate N64 for breakfast. Think deep, like DC emulation. Lol

The CPU chipset is much more powerful than Vita's.

From what I'm reading, it's quad Cortex A15 running at 1,9Ghz, one low-power core for basic tasks and 72 GPU Cores - it is pretty damn impressive indeed and does blow the previous generation out of the water, but I'm concerned about the costs it entails. We may have to wait until it becomes mainstream.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

I like the idea, but why does it look like a smartphone with a chunky controller tacked onto it?

 

[Foxi4]

I like the idea, but why does it look like a smartphone with a chunky controller tacked onto it?

Because NVidia designs chips, not devices, and should focus on what they do best, really.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Because NVidia designs chips, not devices, and should focus on what they do best, really.

True that. But I might be really interested in this device if it wasn't designed so badly.