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    Meh!!
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    I like my ouya because it's a tiny box with hdmi out, decent wireless controls, and a zillion rom files -- retro gaming done cheap and easy. A better ecosystem like google play would be nice, but would distract from the purity of how I use mine.

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    That's the only thing we differ on. I'd be all for having one if it natively and completely supported Google Play. I don't want to buy stuff twice or be restricted from using Android stuff that isn't on their shop.

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    I think even though Ouya made a myriad of mistakes, the one that truly topped them all was abandoning the hardware. (Second was probably that awful commercial they made... which was, at the very least, off-putting ).

    Once the hardware was dropped the development community took that as a sign of the end. Also, their million dollar game fund would have been far better spent on R&D of a 2nd gen product as well... instead of trying to bribe developers to build for a platform they had already half-abandoned.

    I really think Ouya easily could have learned from the 1st gens mistakes and made a very robust and powerful 2ng gen console... even if it ended up costing a $150 for that next gen.

    Also, while the initial criticism was loud, they still had a solid core audience of supporters... and I think even many of the critics would likely have bought a 2nd gen product because the core concept of what they were trying to do still resonated with a very large audience.

    However, I am not sure yet if the MadCatz thing is doing *that* much better based on some of the reviews I read at Amazon... but I think if they stick with it, it has equally great potential.

    Hopefully MadCatz (unlike Ouya) will continue to put the money into it and try to perfect it's shortcomings.
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    They abandoned hardware because they probably didn't sell enough systems in the first place, and had no money to develop. As for having a "closed" play store, and not Google Play, they had no choice. Without some licensing money, they'd be totally bankrupt.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Greg2600 View Post
    They abandoned hardware because they probably didn't sell enough systems in the first place, and had no money to develop. As for having a "closed" play store, and not Google Play, they had no choice. Without some licensing money, they'd be totally bankrupt.
    (okay, I know this reply is to an old thread, but here goes...)

    The thing is that they still had (at least) 1 million that they put into the "Free the Game fund" and that is more than enough by itself to create a next gen of hardware (mostly because a 2nd gen is FAR cheaper to create than a first gen, since they (hopefully) learned from their prior mistakes in production, manufacturing, etc).

    I mean other Kickstarters have made many electronic products with far less that 1 million... also I would be willing to bet that that was not Ouya's last 1 million to spend (since it was a big risk to take with very little payback except some promotion and marketing... which a 2nd gen would have gotten them anyway).
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    Id want one for retro purposes.
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