Yesterday I've seen an article on Yahoo about some kind of new gaming console called the OUYA (pronounced Oh yeah?) and to be honest, I have no idea... But here's a picture of the new console with controller, can you say "COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT?"  

  

Honestly, can you at least name three or more consoles this thing has ripped off?

1. PlayStation/ Sega (controller)
2. Nintendo GameCube (design of console)

But the design is not why I want to buy this new contraption, nope, it's because there's leaks about it being opened source from what I've read from this link The Verge: OUYA A $99 hackable android game console created by Yves Behar . Does AFF knows what this means ? Every member on this forum site who's into game designing can make games for this thing!

Isn't that exciting?

And I can't wait to buy it in a year or two when the hype is calmed and the prices are lowered. So like I said before, any AFF member here who's into game designing should definitely check this thing out when it's finally released to the public.  

Here's some links to a couple of articles for further reading

News article from KickStart.com OUYA: A NEW KIND OF VIDEO GAME CONSOLE

OUYA website OUYA T.v.

So what do you all think?

Here's the Wikipedia article that explains more and better than I did Ouya Wikipedia, As well as the List of Ouya games announced and rumored to be created or ported the Ouya gaming console...

From what I understand, after reading a bit more on it, the console itself would roughly be the size of a rubix cube and have a modified version of the Android OS ice-cream Sandwich, which can be rooted. I've even read (from Wikipedia) that you can also buy a developer's version or whatever, which is really pricey...

I'm not sure if the thing takes any kind of gaming disks and I think (and fear) that you would have to download the games, unless some already available right-out-of-the-box.

But from what I've read, there's no licensing fee but any game you develop must be free-to-play, unless you develop add-ons and upgrades or etc...  So yeah I kind of want to check this thing out and hopefully be able to modify the OS or install Linux on it lol

It will never, ever deliver what it is promising.

Also, I can make a game, right now, for free, for the PC. Hell, with a bit of effort, I could make it portable to all operating systems.

This post was last modified: 08-17-2012 04:04 AM by ῦ.

Isn't designing a console to be hackable self-defeating?  It's always been my impression that the point of developing the console market was so that games could be released with inherent DRM and could not be hacked without special equipment or access to company secrets or something.

I like the black & white color scheme. I can't tell quality from the articles, as they are self-promoting.

Okay to be honest, I was hoping to catch the attention of everyone into game designing on AFF and though this console would be perfect to get their finished game idea's unto a popular console... :/

I don't know a thing about game designing, but I would definitely play any games made by AFF members.

Actually, that would be pretty cool to play a video game written and designed by a fellow AFF Aspie

Actually, that would be pretty cool to play a video game written and designed by a fellow AFF Aspie

and it wouldn't need to be limited just to console games but windows, mac or even linux OS platform if you have the software and a bit of creativity then you can probably create something awesome with it

Popped up on who's online, so apologies for the bump:

I've had a load of games ideas myself and have the technical skills, sadly I lack the artistic skills for the graphical side of things, and these days the time - otherwise i'd happily develop a bunch of games for all platforms, already got a bunch of libraries and scripts for compiling the same code for these platforms:

Linux
Windows
Sony PSP
PS3

The point of a games console is an easy to setup and easy to maintain system for playing games - the  fact it's harder to hack them to do what you want is actually a negative for the end user, not a positive.

Raspberry pi anyone?

That was my point--their design benefits the publisher.  I suppose plugging a cartridge in is easier than installing a game to run in the operating system, but why can't games be released for PC that come on bootable media themselves?  The benefit of being able to multitask and to switch games without restarting the whole system must negate that potential for the PC market.  But for consoles, it is the primary, if not the only, market.

My friend and I are good at designing. My friend is multitalented. Maybe we could collaborate?

That would be awesome.