Never once have I regreatted buying an Ouya, and over the last six months with firmware updates and patches, most of the blemishes and early frustrations I had with the Ouya have gone away, making it a product I can easily recommend to nearly everyone, especially the retro focused gamer.Originally Posted by Atarileaf
You ask who are hyperkin fooling with their marketing spin, but I can assure you that it's a lot of people. I run a mid-sized youtube channel with over 3000 subscribers now. Almost daily when I post a video on a classic game on on the Ouya, I get a comment from someone who says they will buy that game because they want to play it on the Retron5 and how that will such a special experience. There's a lot of people who are oblivious to how the RetroN5 even works.
What? What does the original Xbox run that the Ouya doesn't? Aside from Xbox and DOS, the Ouya runs everything that's on the Xbox, which is why the Ouya has replaced the Xbox as my emulation box of choice. I keep one around because CoinOps is still absolutely awesome, but the Ouya's got it outclassed in hardware and in capability.
Exactly like Ouya! Do you not remember how botched of a launch the Ouya had? Delays, kickstarter backers not getting their systems ahead of the retail version, the fact that the kickstarter version was inferior to the retail version, the fact that the 1.0 firmware was...well, shit, controller lag and sync issues, controller buttons getting stuck in the faceplate, the fact that Ouya's customer support was horrendous, and so on and so on. The botched launch still colors people's opinions of the Ouya in a negative way.
Hyperkin is in the exact same position Ouya was last spring. Only difference is that they aren't under extreme pressure because of angry kickstarter backers.
This. TOTALLY this. I speak of Ouya vs Retron5, but there's no reason you can't buy both. All I'm saying is that people generally won't do that. I will, and I think it would be a good idea if others did as well, assuming the Retron5 turns out to be all its cracked up to be.
What do you currently use for a media center? Keep in mind, the Ouya is more powerful than the original Xbox, and far more flexible with its emulators supporting pretty much any USB or blutooth controller form an NES to USB converter to a PS3 Dualshock 3. The open source nature of the Ouya is really the best thing about it. Hell, there's even an overclock app you can download for it that roots it and taxes the hardware to a stable point where nothing will crash yet you'll get a preformance boost at the cost of the fan running more often. The method of enabling such a hack? Simply launching the app and pressing a button.
And then there's the Ouya's own library of games. Yeah, it's a mixed bag, but there are some REALLY good games on Ouya, some of them even exclusive to it. A surprising number of them are absolutely free, while others are inexpensive, with only a handful costing PSN/XBLA prices. Everyone on Ouya is free to try, which means that you essentially get a demo with everything there is. You'll never buy blindly.
I can understand if you're holding out because you already have access to most of what the Ouya has to offer, but I tell you, as someone who was in the same boat, I'm so glad I made the leap. The Ouya really is one of the best purchases I've made in recent memory. I use it almost every day and love how flexible it is.
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