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I got one of these the other day with a Bluetooth controller. is pretty good for emulators, can do Dreamcast and n64 and lower. there are also some decent android games that support controllers.  No one needs to buy a special licence to make android games, if someone came up with a $300 Andriod box with hardware equivilant to a ps4 I bet it would easily dominate the console market.
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I missed out on the whole Ouya thing, why was it so bad exactly? It's basically like a crappy Retropi or something?
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It used its own marketplace instead of allowing users to sell their games on the Google Store or whatever. As a result, the sales of Ouya games were abysmal. The console itself took ages to be manufactured, ad it took years (?) for it to trickle down to people who supported the Kickstarter. The engineering was terrible, and the console would often catastrophically brick itself because the fan was placed in such a way that it was impossible for it to intake air from the outside. The performance didn't meet the promised expectations. The controller, named Stradivarius by the manufacturer, was a huge piece of poo poo with a giant dead zone. The marketing campaign was the most inept one I've ever seen - once they tried to set up a booth at E3 without a permit, got booted out, and then ran their own "anti-establishment" show out of the parking lot, which was also illegal and eventually got kicked out. Etc, etc Basically it was the Tesla of consoles. steinrokkan fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Jan 28, 2019 |
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Jan 28, 2019 23:15
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steinrokkan posted:It used its own marketplace instead of allowing users to sell their games on the Google Store or whatever. As a result, the sales of Ouya games were abysmal. The console itself took ages to be manufactured, ad it took years (?) for it to trickle down to people who supported the Kickstarter. The engineering was terrible, and the console would often catastrophically brick itself because the fan was placed in such a way that it was impossible for it to intake air from the outside. The performance didn't meet the promised expectations. The controller, named Stradivarius by the manufacturer, was a huge piece of poo poo with a giant dead zone. The marketing campaign was the most inept one I've ever seen - once they tried to set up a booth at E3 without a permit, got booted out, and then ran their own "anti-establishment" show out of the parking lot, which was also illegal and eventually got kicked out. Etc, etc the short version of this was they tried to take one of those Android media boxes you can buy for $25 on Amazon, add a goofy controller and mark it the gently caress up. IIRC it was like $200 at launch. Rutibex posted:I got one of these the other day with a Bluetooth controller. is pretty good for emulators, can do Dreamcast and n64 and lower. there are also some decent android games that support controllers. Steam tried this and it was a pretty big flop I believe But yeah Android media boxes will play 99% of Android games with no issue
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Rutibex posted:the difference is the easy to use OS purpose built for a TV experiance. this is just a paper thin piece of software, and also this is something steam big picture mode has done just as well for years
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CrRoMa posted:Everyone in this thread who appears to be angry or mad or negative about videogames probably isn't. They are either mad they have to work all day and can't play videogames or are mad the younger generation is being brought up in a world of free to play delights and limitless choice. Ahh yes, an entire aisle of sugar cereal brands just for me god bless america and the free market support the troops my soul sings amid limitless choice Rutibex posted:the difference is the easy to use OS purpose built for a TV experiance. eventually someone is going to make an android box with decent hardware for gaming and the exclusive console market will die lmbo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTqhyHuKVKA
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Rutibex posted:No one needs to buy a special licence to make android games, if someone came up with a $300 Andriod box with hardware equivilant to a ps4 I bet it would easily dominate the console market. 1. Who would buy it? 2. Who would develop for it?
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I mean, yeah, if you could make a magic box with magic specs for a magic price, people would probably buy it.
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Jerry Cotton posted:1. Who would buy it? 1) people who like fun video games 2) anyone who wants money! I'm sure it would be easy enough to port console games over. but there are already lots of great Chinese free-to-play developers currently making games for android. steinrokkan posted:I mean, yeah, if you could make a magic box with magic specs for a magic price, people would probably buy it. exactly Rutibex fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Jan 29, 2019 |
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Jan 29, 2019 00:50
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You guys also failed to remember that the loyal primary audience, as shown in this very thread, is people who pirate poo poo. You know, the same demographic that wouldn't pay a cent for ooya games if they could get grabbed illegally for free
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Rutibex posted:1) people who like fun video games 1 would not buy a console for games made by 2.
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booya
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goddamn nothing entices me more than a chinese made free to play mmo, truly the most meaningful and grounbreaking genre
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Rutibex posted:No one needs to buy a special licence to make android games, if someone came up with a $300 Andriod box with hardware equivilant to a ps4 I bet it would easily dominate the console market. plus then youd instantly have access to the entire back catalog of lovely ad-ridden phone games, on your tv
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Poo? Yeah.
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hot take: no matter their similarities to PCs in terms of hardware and architecture, i am glad consoles still exist because console manufacturers seem to be the only ones able to make a decent game pad, something which has been known to be true all the way back to the 80's
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food court bailiff posted:hot take: no matter their similarities to PCs in terms of hardware and architecture, i am glad consoles still exist because console manufacturers seem to be the only ones able to make a decent game pad, something which has been known to be true all the way back to the 80's this has not distinguished consoles from pcs since the 360 gamepad
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poverty goat posted:What I'm saying is that if you're pro-fallout 4 you're the gaming equivalent of an adult who really liked star wars ep 1-3 lol if you take any sci fi "seriously". The whole point of the genre is to spend some leisure time with nonsense things that you don't have to take "seriously".
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That guy who honestly enjoys exclusive games might be the best thread title opinion yet. Is the Switch worth the cost?
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Cyberpunkey Monkey posted:lol if you take any sci fi "seriously". The whole point of the genre is to spend some leisure time with nonsense things that you don't have to take "seriously". I guess that's what sci-fi has become but I like speculative sci-fi like what Aldous Huxley did 
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lots of old sci fi is grizzly old men trying to make sense of the wars they had to go to
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poverty goat posted:this has not distinguished consoles from pcs since the 360 gamepad The 360 pad had a garbage dpad, we needed one more revision post Nintendo patent.
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I have an Xbox 360 and the pad doesn't work with Windows at all so
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You have to buy their proprietary USB adapter.
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Jerry Cotton posted:I have an Xbox 360 and the pad doesn't work with Windows at all so The wired controller is literally plug n play, and was much cheaper at launch to boot because microsoft figured no one would want it. Wireless requires a usb adapter to connect
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The most comfortable controller to hold was the OG Xbox controller. Curse freakish goon hands
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Caesar Saladin posted:lots of old sci fi is grizzly old men trying to make sense of the wars they had to go to This is a good point
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FoolyCharged posted:The wired controller is literally plug n play, and was much cheaper at launch to boot because microsoft figured no one would want it. Microsoft especially but a lot of developers seem to go between being really generous and cool because they're desperate for people to like them and cocky greedy assholes when they think they're on top and nothing can stop them (actually that's pretty much the Nintendo story) Also it's ridiculous that Valve would make a console and not call it the Steam Engine.
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poisonpill posted:That guy who honestly enjoys exclusive games might be the best thread title opinion yet. I was considering getting one but it seems most of the games on it are ports and the few exclusives I do want I can just play when I borrow one. I'd look into the current library and upcoming titles before dropping dosh on it. It's a bland console imo but some people love it.
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There's also the fact a newer revision is probably coming later this year.
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Lambert posted:There's also the fact a newer revision is probably coming later this year. People are saying this, but there's absolutely no evidence for it. Nintendo usually doesn't release console revisions unless sales are slowing or otherwise there's good reasons for it, and right now they can barely keep the things on the shelves.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:People are saying this, but there's absolutely no evidence for it. Nintendo usually doesn't release console revisions unless sales are slowing or otherwise there's good reasons for it, and right now they can barely keep the things on the shelves. nintendo is cheap, if they can figure out a port to cut in a future revision of the hardware to save a buck, they'll do it (like when they got rid of component out on the later gamecubes).
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Ghost Leviathan posted:People are saying this, but there's absolutely no evidence for it. Nintendo usually doesn't release console revisions unless sales are slowing or otherwise there's good reasons for it, and right now they can barely keep the things on the shelves. Nintendo is probably going to release a handheld version of the switch, they have sold a lot but their next intent is to have multiple switches in the house for multiple children.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:People are saying this, but there's absolutely no evidence for it. Nintendo usually doesn't release console revisions unless sales are slowing or otherwise there's good reasons for it, and right now they can barely keep the things on the shelves. The WiiU slowed down really fast and they didn't release a revision. The Wii sold like hotcakes even into the WiiU's lifespan, and they released at least 2 revisions I can think of The 3DS was and continues to be obscenely popular and there are 6 variations of it, only 2 of which are discontinued.
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Caesar Saladin posted:Nintendo is probably going to release a handheld version of the switch  Snow Cone Capone posted:The WiiU slowed down really fast and they didn't release a revision. The Wii U's an odd case because they kinda did in that they recalled a bunch of the white model with less memory to refurbish and rereleased later, but that was an obvious albatross from the start. While I can only think of one Wii revision and that didn't come until years after release. The 3DS is a bit of a different kettle of worms since it had a super long lifespan and its first rerelease was basically the same but bigger, and then the same but stripped down and cheaper. Even then, it hasn't even been a year since they released the Switch, I'd be surprised if there was a revision before 2020 at best.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:
They revised the Wii to be cheaper and not have the Gamecube ports, then they released the Mini. Your points about the 3DS stand to an extent but there's plenty of evidence that Nintendo will release an updated Switch within the year.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:
There was a wii model that was like the first one sans the gcn parts parts iirc. don't recall when it came out.
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