Author Topic: The OUYA, a new kind of console.  (Read 8299 times)

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http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/wco0r/for_everyone_hyped_about_the_ouya_this_is_all_you/
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Point for point:

Android's power management is configurable and irrelevant. A plugged-in device doesn't need power management; you just turn the service off.

You don't use hardware or software to support "AA" titles; you get agreements.

The 1.5 GHzq Tegra3 is significantly more powerful than the Wii's 729MHz single core CPU / 243 MHz GPU

"Optimized for gaming" just means the OS is deprioritized with a high kernel clock, input processing is prioritized, and the audio and video buses are given priority. These are easily configured in any linux system.

While Android is easy to emulate on a computer, you will not get anything approaching the console's clock speeds. You're obviously not a programmer, or you'd know this from some level of experience.

The claim that OUYA will be unable to emulate PC games from 1998 is, let's be honest, plain loving stupidity. Why would you emulate those games when they should be ported? Do you expect to emulate 1998 games on any other console?

Your phone doesn't have a 1.5 GHz quad core RISC and a gig of RAM. Your phone doesn't have a controller standard. Sure, there may be a lot of phone -> OUYA ports, since the barrier is low - but with 13838 backers with reserved consoles 1 day into the kickstarter, there's a good bet that there will be an audience for OUYA ports of PC and console games, as well as original-on-OUYA games from indie developers.

just sayin'





lol posted three times

  • 1GB RAM
  • 8GB of internal flash storage
I'm pretty sure that's rather horrible

Xbox has 250GB of internal storage, but I doubt this will be HDD and more likely SSD, which I bet you would be able to upgrade.

Xbox has 250GB of internal storage, but I doubt this will be HDD and more likely SSD, which I bet you would be able to upgrade.
The official word so far seems to be that you can connect an external HDD if you wish to.

the Xbox doesn't have any usable internal storage, much less 250GB

the way they're doing this, they could do cloud storage, right?

the Xbox doesn't have any usable internal storage, much less 250GB
Mine came with 100MB.
Thanks Microsoft!

A NEW CHALLENGER HAS APPEARED!

the Xbox doesn't have any usable internal storage, much less 250GB
It has the rather aesthetically integrated external HDDs though.

the way they're doing this, they could do cloud storage, right?
That would both be expensive and slow. And it probably wouldn't go too well with the way Android works. I'd say it would probably be pretty similar to Steam.

It has the rather aesthetically integrated external HDDs though.
yeah, I know, I'm not complaining about it or anything
I was just pointing out that he used the wrong term