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Ouya store shutting down in June
- Thread starter Toad King
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I remember when this was announced. I was working in gamedev at the time. People were seriously hyped and calling it a game changer. I almost backed it. Glad I saved myself $100 in the long run.
I don't remember if you could VIA bluetooth or it was wired through USB. But it is a thing. Hell no to that controller lol
Julie Uhrmann is running Playboy's media strategy now iirc which is kinda nuts.
i've had to make do with the controller cause i didnt know you could do that....
I got it for super cheap during launch week from a friend who felt super burned for obvious reasons. I played Mario Kart 64 on it that night using PS3 controllers and thought it was absurd. Pretty much never touched it again outside of using it to watch MKV files at a time where the other consoles usually had issues with them. I still keep it set next to my other consoles as a joke though, next to the Game.com.
I had no high expectations for it. The controller was usable. I don't remember buying or playing 1 single full game on it, and I sold it to some poor bastard that was super excited about it for months after launch.
It was frustrating to witness how poorly OUYA was managed.
Between Towerfall, Bomb Squad, Hidden in Plain Sight, Duck Game, and Amazing Frog, good times were had. Until the Switch came along, it was my party console of choice.
Maldita Castilla, American Dream, Rose and Time - there were some single-player gems too (some exclusive or at least console exclusive too).
Between Towerfall, Bomb Squad, Hidden in Plain Sight, Duck Game, and Amazing Frog, good times were had. Until the Switch came along, it was my party console of choice.
Maldita Castilla, American Dream, Rose and Time - there were some single-player gems too (some exclusive or at least console exclusive too).
What is most upsetting is we trust them to maintain the law, but they need a third wheel on their segwaysI remember when they took over E3
Yeah, I was gonna say embarrassing but the end result was just really funny. Ouya's "E3" in the parking lot of even funnier.
Say what you will about the immediate failure of the system, but it did have some fun games. It was the birthplace of Towerfall and Duck Game, it had Bomb Squad, Hidden in Plain Sight, Gentlemen. It was a fun multiplayer box once you got non-shitty controllers. I really can't believe Bomb Squad hasn't been ported to a console yet, it was sooo much fun.
Even if you mean Wii VC, that's not quite right either. Per Seafoam Gaming upthread, the payment servers were shut down long ago, so you already can't add new funds to buy anything. (For the record, this happened in January for Wii VC. No clue how the timeframes compare.)
This shutdown presumably means you won't be able to redownload anything...which Wii VC can still do, until further notice.
I still never got paid for the sales of LOVE on the Ouya store because while it sold around a hundred copies, that didn't meet the minimum payment threshold.
Good riddance.
Good riddance.
I actually think it's kind of cool that the Ouya was partially funded by the lightless void of space.
The tiny wall of shame, the top 11 backers of the Ouya, starting with the biggest supporter.
So fitting for a piece of shit to be at the top of the pile of turds that is the ouya.
Was anyone actually thinking that.
It must have been sarcasm....Once the big 3 started supported Indie games there was no real reason to look at Ouya as anything beyond a bad idea.
Worse still that the console launched after the Tegra 4 came out....just sad times.
I worked at a place that had one of these rotting in a corner, so I just liberated it one day. I hooked it up and the online service was still running so I downloaded a few demos. I think Void Pyramid was my favorite (you can get it other places too, it's a bizzare RPG)
I also talked to someone who tried making a game for the Ouya, they never shipped because the console was a piece of shit they couldn't get anything to run on.
I also talked to someone who tried making a game for the Ouya, they never shipped because the console was a piece of shit they couldn't get anything to run on.
Entertainment Tonight sent me one for free the Christmas it came out. I acutally used it for a few months upstairs to watch Netflix and some other stuff. I just so happen to find it yesterday while moving.
I never realized how much Ouya hyped themselves up. I cant stop laughing at the CEO, though I also feel bad for her lmao
Truly a legend, and the greatest thing to ever come out of the Ouya's existence.
Aight I didn't think about it since the Ouya was still somewhat worth talking about but Notch (and this isn't about his recent twitter antics) spending all that money backing the console and then releasing an inferior version of Minecraft on it felt really weird then and still feels really weird today.
The only thing I remember about Ouya was buying one on launch day and returning it the next day.
I remember thinking the idea was cool but the execution to be uniformly terrible.
And having not seen the controller in years, just looking at pictures... woof that was a piece of shit. Watching that Crowbcat video where BTS video of the development process, really puts that 100+ mil Microsoft put into the R&D of the XBO controller into perspective.
And having not seen the controller in years, just looking at pictures... woof that was a piece of shit. Watching that Crowbcat video where BTS video of the development process, really puts that 100+ mil Microsoft put into the R&D of the XBO controller into perspective.
I actually think the Ouya had the potential to fill a niche as a portable local multiplayer box, but it kinda fell off before all the classic multiplayer genres and hits got proper representation. And then the Switch came out and basically filled that niche by default.
I streamed Splinter Cell: Conviction and Arkham Asylum on it through an app for about 10 minutes each. Nothing I would play over time, but it was kind of neat. It was an okay XBMC/SPMC box, but it took too much tinkering to get it going.
I bought an Ouya at a garage sale for $5. My initial reaction was "I can't believe someone wasted their money designing and building this."
That was my same reaction after 10 hours of messing with it before I just threw it out.
That was my same reaction after 10 hours of messing with it before I just threw it out.