Comments on: $99 ‘Ouya’ console meets Kickstarter goal in 8 hours

By: brat81

brat81 — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:54:28 +0000

But i just bought 2 Raspberry Pi’s

By: jenkins

jenkins — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:19:11 +0000

arkanis: Pledged. This popped my kickstarter cherry. $149 for a fully open source, hackable, upgradeable, modifiable console? (including 2 controllers and shipping to AU) just think of the possibilities… there’ll be kinects, webcams, keyboards… everything plugged into this thing, and the community will grow exponentially. I can almost guarantee that someone will get PS3 and XBOX 360 games working on it (how well it plays them is still to be determined, pending final hardware specs and performance)… Open Source is the future. Always has been, always will be.

Pretty much exactly this. Broke my Kickstarter cherry. Figure the potential is pretty good. HTPC/games etc

By: plonker

plonker — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:07:38 +0000

Great idea, has the potential to shake-up the console market to a certain extent.

I’ve put my money down, not much to lose for $99, have paid more for a TF2 item!

Cheers.

By: brainbeat

brainbeat — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:21:15 +0000

fully open source, I can almost guarantee that someone will get PS3 and XBOX 360 games working on it (how well it plays them is still to be determined, pending final hardware specs and performance)…

I could be wrong but I would think a Tegra 3 likely still carries a license so it might be open source software but probably not hardware. I also doubt there will be many if any PS3 or 360 games playable on this hardware as a 4x 1.?GHz cpu is not going to have the power to run the software of a 3-7 x 3GHz of the consoles. PS2 and Xbox original will however be more probable as they are both sub 1Ghz powered.

By: arkanis

arkanis — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 23:56:38 +0000

Pledged. This popped my kickstarter cherry.

$149 for a fully open source, hackable, upgradeable, modifiable console? (including 2 controllers and shipping to AU) just think of the possibilities… there’ll be kinects, webcams, keyboards… everything plugged into this thing, and the community will grow exponentially.

I can almost guarantee that someone will get PS3 and XBOX 360 games working on it (how well it plays them is still to be determined, pending final hardware specs and performance)…

Open Source is the future. Always has been, always will be.

By: unworthyking

unworthyking — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:21:05 +0000

Yeah it’s not bad. Not really sure wtf you’re going to be playing on it though.

By: snootle

snootle — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 12:57:39 +0000

Seems really cool, but due to the chance that it’s a huge flop … I’ll wait for its official release.

By: bogus

bogus — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:46:47 +0000

cheap HTPC?

By: v4moose

v4moose — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:01:22 +0000

Pledged.

This + NAS = win

By: realone

realone — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 08:32:00 +0000

Thanks for the reminder as I almost forgot about this, Im definitely going to buy one.

By: wyld

wyld — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 07:38:10 +0000

Perfect for running old console emulators .. just saying ..

By: edward

edward — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 06:52:34 +0000

It’s an interesting idea and I hope it is successful. I would have hoped it cost a bit more to be a bit higher specs as its going to be very high res content. But its about as good as it gets for what is easily available to them, and if some game engines can be tightly tuned to it then we’ll see some pretty titles.

I also hope it aims towards more arcade plays to play on your TV.