What was its downfall?

what was its downfall?

no games

no VR, no motion controls, no cloud support

It was a Kickstarter project.

The thing itself. The niche it was designed for (low-cost console for indie games) wasn't that lucrative in practice, and it wasn't attractive enough to make a case for itself outside of that. Pile on the controller issues and the dogshit storefront that was supposed to be its big selling point, and you end up with a product that just couldn't make a case for itself at all.

People somehow thought that a console that plays mobile games would push all those evil game corporations off the market.

No one can challenge the big 3 at this point. No one. Least of all a fucking phone game machine.

Everything. The controller sucks, the hardware sucked, the game store sucked, and the only good game to come out of it has better versions on PC/console.

Blunder of the century

is this thing still going?

like can you still buy games from the store?

They've been streaming shit on Oneyplays recently, so clearly

This. I can't understand what were they thinking. Why is it important to play mobile games on TV?

It didnt have a downfall. It was a scam. It didnt have a place to fall from.

Their intention was getting indie devs on board, selling those games through their own storefront and making tons of dosh that way, the mobile gaymen capacity was never a real selling point.

The Ouya should've just been a dock and controller for smartphones. The idea itself isn't shit, and it would've been crazy affordable if you could just install an app and plug it into a "Switch-like" dock that brought up an Ouya interface to play Android games with a controller.

It would've been successful as a complimentary product to smartphones, but instead the dumb bitch in charge thought this needed to compete with the fucking PS4 and Xbox. This thing barely had the hardware to run Android itself, the operating system was barely even optimized. I can't imagine running anything above Candy Crush would result in a good experience.

Are you fucking kidding me? They pretended its capabilities are a thousand times more than what it can do. Remember when people were excited to play GTA on it and they just ran with it?

Technically you could play GTA:SA and Vice City on it. It just had shit framerate and no sound.

>"We made the very first gaming controller with a touchpad..."
>"The PS4's has a touchpad"
>"...yeah!"

If I recall people were expecting to play Black Flag(?) at the time on it and they made no efforts to dispel that notion.

>it would've been crazy affordable if you could just install an app and plug it into a "Switch-like" dock that brought up an Ouya interface to play Android games with a controller
Yeah, they should've just went the software vendor route from the get go and let the users source the hardware and controllers themselves. HDMI output would've been a big question mark though, and you can't really make an universal gaymen dock for the ridiculously varied Android ecosystem.
>This thing barely had the hardware to run Android itself
Eh. Compared to contemporary set-top boxes of the same vintage and price point, Ouya's actively cooled quad-core Tegra 3 with decent clocks was a lot more effective than the dual core setups most others were running. Yes, it did get its ass handed over by a lot of more modern SoC's, but those were attached to far more expensive devices.

>garbage games
>garbage controller
>garbage team
> TELEVISION

It also took a long time to come out at a time when mobile graphics were advancing very rapidly, so by the time it was released, even midrange smartphones already had GPUs with 2x the power.

>HDMI output would've been a big question mark though

Like 90% of smartphones have MHL, I don't think it's a big problem.

Retard CEO lady thought she was reinventing gaming on the television by having shitty budget Android tablet parts smooshed together into a mediocre console

>No one can challenge the big 3 at this point. No one.
Steam. If they can make a steam link that doesn't just mirror your desktop then steam would dominate.

Unfortunately Steam seems to be as sluggish as its founder when trying new stuff.

It was badly executed dog shit. It used android but locked itself down to its own shitty app store. The controller was badly made and as the launch approached it became clear they had no idea what they were doing

and the name is fucking annoying

>and the name is fucking annoying

Not as bad as "Bixby" though.

i (sadly) backed this piece of shit. I had little interest in the games but wanted to use it as a stream/movie box. What happened:
-Laggy, slow UI
-No Play/Android Store access
-Sideloading apps extremely tedious (worse than today's fire sticks)
-No 5.1 audio output
-Controller buttons all stick

I shelved it and try to pretend it doesn't exist

Their official advert was written by shadman and animated by spazkid.

All these other companies don't understand what it takes to break into the home console market let alone some con artist from kickstarter. Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft try various ways to get exclusives via deals and publishing while trying to make their platform seem the best. Ouya being an open source market didn't mean much when Steam already did it basically.

Steam could have fucking broken into the living room too if they released a steambox that was reasonable in any way. They were all too expensive and confusing for console gamers to see the appeal.

Challenging the main consoles is a daunting task and you can't expect to sidestep the issue when many of the credible game developers are locked into contracts and deals preventing them from moving. These deals aren't even a bad thing either since without them you get post-N64 Rare. Even Steam is losing momentum since all they did is offer a platform to sell games and when big publishers get the same treatment as basement dwelling indie developers, people start to wonder if they can cut out the middle man and turn a larger profit.

Post all the people hopes image pasta

The Television!

thank you for believing

Kickstarter nogames machine, needed decent exclusives(well,Android exclusives) which wasn't gonna happen, lets be honest.

what wasn't

Maybe not a phone game machine but phone games are more profitable then triple A games :^)