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is Dekionplexis about? That Android games console project thingummy he posted last night has now raised over $2.5 million. It just keeps going up and up...
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 13:06,
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got absolutely torn apart on C&VG
www.computerandvideogames.com/357441/features/opinion-will-ouya-upend-console-gaming-i-dont-think-so/
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HappyToast Groat froth, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 13:10,
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well we'll see,
but I think they're missing the point to be honest. Mind you they're over-hyping it to say that it will upend console gaming. Certainly not on the first attempt.
Obviously plenty of people want one. Whether it's objectively "better" than anything else on the market isn't what counts. I think a lot of people attribute intrinsic value to anything that isn't mass-profit-led by the industry big boys. And good luck to them.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 13:16,
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Personally I think it'll go the way of a lot of these projects.
People will port the usual emulators to it and that'll be about it.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 13:34,
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android isn't going to disappear though,
it will probably be more about the homebrew scene in the first installment, but if that's a success it could pave the way for a next generation one using a Project Denver chip.
$2.6M now...
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 13:46,
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I've got one of these and I love it, but it's not going to change the world.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GP2X_Wiz
If it was a Linux console rather than Android I could get behind it.
I'ld love to be proved wrong as I need to build a new media centre PC and this could save me a job.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 13:57,
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I was thinking it could be an ideal media centre
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 14:00,
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Well the lack of a tv tuner is a bit of a downer in that regards though.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 14:36,
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don't they come separately these days anyway?
no idea, don't have a telly.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 14:38,
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A proper HMPC will have a Freeview card so you can do stuff like record the programs you want.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 14:47,
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now there's a decent idea
proper gap in the market still, but then again, a cheap PC is so much more versatile
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The only reason the Xbox broke Sony's strangle hold on the console market is because right from the off they were paying to dollar to get exclusives for themselves and persuading other publishers to not give exclusives to Sony.
The only reason the Wii got in there at all is because it's one big gimmick that appeals to non-gamers (i.e. parents).
So how is the Ouya going to muscle it's way in?
It doesn't have the backing or a killer gimmick... It's on an open source platform - that's it, that's it's "thing". Whoop-de-doo. So why don't PC gamers all migrate to Linux? Oh yeah, that's right, because it doesn't have a huge catalogue of games.
The MAIN reason sony, microsoft and even nintendo wont give a shit is because in essence it will be in direct competition with, not the consoles themselves, but Xbox marketplace, ps3 store, wiiware and Steam.
Doesn't stand a chance.
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mr.dogshit The world's premier anthropomorphic canine faeces, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 19:02,
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I'm from the future (2017).
You're right. It has died a death.
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sm.pl.crt.rs I don't fucking know, do I?, Wed 20 Sep 2017, 13:42,
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