@Quan Jiang pfft only an ipad size screen... thats weak man... my fridge got a 21.5 inch screen biatch jk... i dont actually have one... but ive seen them lol
She really meant she wanted an "all on one" system for the TV, rather than having to jump on several consoles to play the games she wanted. But it was a strange term of words she chose that confused a lot of people.
Yeah, I'm honestly more surprised of Ouya's initial success. When they released their kickstarter, "Combining mobile game graphics with the mobility of a console" sounds like a terrible idea to me. Yet people somehow think it's a genius idea, judging by their kickstarter's performance. I thought I must've missed something. Years later, I'm glad to know that I'm not crazy. Ouya IS a terrible idea.
No, not all games that are aviable on android are shitty "free to play" (pay to win) clickbaity trash designed to play on the crapper. There are some great games out there, most of the GOOD ones are ports of older PC/Console Titles or Indie Games, most of the times with Controller Support. Unfortunately the libary of good Android Titles is way smaller then it needed to be. If the Ouya would have taken really off, wich it didn't, Android could have been a fantastic Plattform for Indie Titles. Most Phones, TV boxes and other Android devices have more then enough horsepower to run most Indie Titles. I personally like my GPD XD plus quite a lot, wich is a Clamshell Android game thingy. Mostly for retro Emulation. But I like playing stuff like Stardew Valley, Limbo, GTA SA, Bully and other games on there quite a lot. Those are all fantastic games. Real games, not toilett f2p trash. It just could be a lot more of them....
It was during a time when almost all tech and game media were saying the PS4/X1/Wii U would be the final home consoles and everything would be taken over by mobile gaming. It was a silly time.
The ouya was good for a lunch time break room console. That was what I used it for at my last job. Pretty good to just grab and play real quick with a buddy during lunch. Cheap enough to leave at work and not miss it at home
I remmember By the time Ouya was developed I could just mirror those games from my phone to tv-screen and play on gamepad. Why would I need extra console to do that ?!
@@salluna1957 had a ps4 for over 5 years it never overheated on me . People have that issue because of stupid and illogical placement of the device where it cannot cool properly. It ran warm only in the heaviest of titles when the turbo jet fans come on .xbox 360 ( not the one) is the one famous for overheating with the red ring of death
The problem is mobile games are not suited to being played on a TV. They're quick fix bursts of entertainment to pick up and put down. It was at the same time analysts were predicting that the rise of mobile games would kill traditional consoles rather than the reality in that mobile and console games don't compete with each other or their audiences. They offer different experiences that the other cannot replace. 33million might have been enough to create a piece of hardware, but consoles are more than just hardware, it was never enough to create an ecosystem and give it the clout needed. Look at home even Google has struggle to make a dent thus far with stadia.
Stadia is a completly different thing. It's a cloud computing infrastructure offering and the main reason it's not succeeding is that the technology and broadband infrastructure to support it just isn't there yet. I'm sure if it came to work as well as it is intended it'd become quite popular. Anyway, it's not like console per se, this is a long term project and even if stadia might get shut down (Google loves to kill things, doesn't it?) it'll absolutely return in the future as Microsoft and amazon are both working on a similar thing and clearly see it as the future of computing more widely. Personally, I see the convenience potential - we could end up living in a "spec free" computing world where our devices could do high performance computing anywhere and simply stream it. Imagine, for example, working with CAD designs on a phone or tablet. Sadly, we'll need a lot more investment from Internet providers before this can become a reality.
Ironic that stadia is the best way to use cyberpunk 2077 and it's literally free given that the stadia version shipped with Chromecast, stadia controller.
I actually got one of them. I do believe I got the wood grain finish style, actually. I used it like once or twice and then left it alone. So much for that.
I don't get it. Is it a simple "android TV box" with the usual bluetooth controller and a game store? So why do you need a special hardware? Or were these TV boxes not available at the time?
My daughter has been playing android games on my TV for years. Steel series xl controller came out years ago, coupled with an MHL adapter, it works flawlessly. Usb-c has made it even better. Pretty cheap way to game on a TV, if your in those sorts of games. Personally my games are mostly consumed on a ps4, but some, especially kids, love mobile games
I remember wanting to love this. But as soon as I tried it, something didn't work and it took forever just to get it to work properly... I wonder if it's still laying around my parents' house somewhere lol
They werent unique lmao. Its just an android box. There are literally hundreds of these ranging in a little worse to way higher quality for cheaper. Most of the markets for these are in china.
They actually were pretty unique at launch. Obviously, there are lots of android boxes now (although less than there were 4 years ago), but the Ouya was one of the first that could actually run games. I think the Ouya is a great example of an open platform hurting the company. There was no reason everyone and their dog couldn't create a cheaper or more powerful clone that could run the same games, and that's what happened.
The OUYA was basically an Android TV box with an Nvidia Tegra 3, similar to the much more powerful Tegra X1 & X1+ SoC in the Nvidia Shield TV and Nintendo Switch. However, unlike Nvidia which could offer it's GeForce Now game streaming service and the ability to stream a game from a gaming PC on a local area network and Nintendo having it's huge catalog of 1st party games and titles from 3rd part developers, it was a very underpowered system with inadequate development backing from game studios and hardware that was basically obselete from day 1 of launch.
Part of their failure was for sure first-mover disadvantage from free riders. If they maybe went for more of a switch style console, like a controller that can hold a phone, similar to their competitors, but can also plug into HDMI for tv.
I think her mindset was to sell the idea and scam people. You know like Herbalife or 4Life. She didn't want to change the game world or something like that. Her mission was just to scam people and to do that you need to have "the way" of the talk.
Hey could you make a video about what happens when a big company is Acquiring your company. What if the CEO still wanted his shares and to be apart of the company?
My daughter has been playing android games on my TV for years. Steel series xl controller came out years ago, coupled with an MHL adapter, it worked (works) somewhat flawlessly. Usb-c has made it even better. Pretty cheap way to game on a TV, if your in those sorts of games. Personally my games are mostly consumed on a ps4, but some, especially kids, love mobile games
IRC Fserves still exist dont they? Im sure you can still find underground sources for emulation other than the surface web all the way back to the mid 90s
@@slidebean like gary vaynerchunk said, put content as much as you can. This is the best way to boost your company on the internet. Waiting for new forensics, good luck!
Several years later I still fail to understand where the Ouya stood out. I mean It was just a game-only android device plugged to a screen(Knowing android do not really have elaborated titles the likes of PS and Xbox). What is so special about this “Bring games back to TV” isn’t it the case of other consoles already. Even customs PCs the size of consoles can be plugged to TV. I always knew this project was destined to fail. What has to change is the way games are made and sold on mobile devices, not where they’re played. Why not build enticing and full experiences on mobile like back in the old days of mobile consoles, rather than quick money schemes, built to lure people into micro transactions solely made to reduce the already short amount of time you spend here and there on a mobile game.
Sorry, but Julia doesn't come off as passionate about video games. In their promotional video she just stands in front of a screen without actually showing that she is playing - and just to add insult to injury, someone is next to her probably playing for her. And no, it's not this thing that "Women can't play video games" - it just doesn't come off as sincere marketing.
See-ow-me. I know my Mandarin. "Sh" is a bit wrong since Xiao in Mandarin means small....not Shiao..... which.........well....it isn't even a word in Mandarin... Anyways, not much of a big deal.
9:26 I think hes trying to hint that they sold it knowing the company was in disrepair, and hes basically just going over why it went bad before they sold.
TL;DW: -They promised more than they delivered -Delays when sending the console -Bad marketing campaign -Failed to capitalize on success early -Left room for other companies to offer something similar and better
Ouya was baffling in a sense because a lot of people were excited by the concept of having a console that could play games, and you can put Netflix on it and watch some movies, and yadda yadda yadda. The possibilities seemed endless. Then when those who bought one actually got one, they looked at it and went "Oh... it's just a console that can play games and you can watch Netflix through it and yadda yadda yadda". Like the same things people were excited about were the things that people weren't excited about when they got their hands on one. It was a very bizarre reaction to a product that people were so excited about.
Do a video on the logictech revue. How instead of improving the product, because of low sales and a mediocre product, they cancelled it and screwed over the people who actually bought it, myself included.
Huh, it seems that projects purely backed by crowdfund almost always doomed to fail, while those who succeed also got financed from other sources. I wonder why.
This is similar to how Guitar Hero Live shut down - the whole game is based on an online library, so when they shut the servers down, I was left with a very expensive plastic guitar and only 5 songs to play. I paid, what £50, for the game? That's £10 a song. Wtf? It would be annoying enough for them to not update the library, but to completely shut it down without giving users the opportunity to download the library they PAID for?! Such bullshit.
I think part of the problem with this and the Jawbone is Yves design. Its not bad but it looks like something cheap trying to look like something luxury. This might catch the occasional walmart shopper using a knockoff Louis vitton phone case, but the general market is not going to get into it. Cheap? Make it look utilitarian and sturdy as possible, not imitate luxury items. I do enjoy the fact that this one is a nice compact cube, though. Would look really cool if you wall-mounted it under a clean wall mount tv.
There will always be consoles, pc gaming and mobile gaming. The latter being the only one you can play on the toilet, very few people have TVs in their bathrooms and even less have toilets in their living rooms.
Ouya project is strange. She wanted to return gaming to tv....... That was achieved by nintendo, sony and microsoft. In the end she tried to create android console and failed. It would be nice to have 1 console to play games from sony, xbox, but thats never gonna happen. Today you no longer need a dedicated android console all you need for a tv is android tv box or you can simply project your phone wirelesly onto it.
CEO:"always wanted to return to one: T.V" PC master race : throws up* Step 1 :Get a PC. Step 2: Connect PC to TV screen. Step 3: Connect controller to PC. DONE. Step 4: Call your console friends to get an college education that'll allow them to make money to build a PC.
I think what killed the project was the Mobile gaming market is just garbage. Console and core gamers have little interest in it and the Mobile Market isn't interested in a 100% upfront paid experience. It wants years of microtransactions.
The graphics were OK for the time, it was a bit underpowered... but what killed it was the controller. It was garbage... so bad that there was no recovering from it. You could use a PS3 controller, but then a lot games wouldn't work.
Why the ouya failed from a simple gamer perspective. Look at it like this: PC Gamers are willing to pay for rigs where only the graphics card costs over 6 times more than the ouya. Console Gamers often will upgrade immediately to newer versions or even collect more gear for their console, because they fanboy over it. It's not about making cheap consoles and games. People don't play games because they are cheaper. Gaming is a highly tribal and emotional sector. Gamers want to play games regardless of price. Price is just a barrier of entry. The ouya is like going to a person that wants to buy a tesla and try selling them a bike instead.
Ouya failed because it was a dumb idea. Casual gamers play games on phones / tablets, hardcore gamers play on TV / PC. There's no market in between (mobile-games on TV). Interesting that they had several competitors all vying for a chunk of the same non-existent market.
This was the dumbest project in recent memory. Return to the tv? Did she think that people no longer played consoles or what? What the hell does it even mean? You need a TV or a monitor to play any non-handheld console and PC.
So I had a look on the Slidebean website and apparently it's "An new approach to creating slides". Copy editing your text is old fashioned I guess. I can never understand how somebody can be spending zillions on their company and never read their own darned website.
"Xbox and Paystation" *FILTY CASUAL* Nintendo and PC are the true gaming markets, Nintendo pushes the hardware, PC pushes the software, the other two only follow trends
Everything about Ouya was bad. 1: The SoC was underpowered. When it was released in June 2013 a high-end smartphone such as the Galaxy S4 had 2 GB of RAM and a far faster CPU. So instead of being at the forefront of mobile performance they lacked behind from the very start and every passing year made the gap even bigger and bigger. 2: The controller was universally panned as really really bad. And since the controller is the most important way to interactive with a game a bad controller create a bad gaming experience. 3: Severely lacking standards in the app store as well as weird store policies. It was also so much crap and shovelware as compared to highly curated list of great games. 4: A CEO that seemed to know very little of what she was doing or what the community supporting her actually wanted. 5: Delays and bugs galore. I would say had the team behind Ouya delayed it another six months to create a proper marketplace, made a better controller, gotten rid of all the bugs and for free upgraded every Ouya to one with the then new Tegra 4 (released in Q2 2013) processor I'm sure the overall reception would have been much better. Because we really wanted to believe in a forth option to MS, Sony and Nintendo.
What people didn't realize is that mobile games are bad and people only play it because they have no alternative when on the go I also don't get the bring games back to tv? Maybe because I'm a gamer you could just get an old console for $100 with much more quality games
I highly doubt that this lady had any kind of passion for video games. She seemed so out of touch every time she opened her mouth. "Out of all video game platforms, I always went back to the TV." TV isn't a platform, it's a display method. A platform is a system by which games are acquired and played. Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Steam, Epic, Stadia, these are all platforms. And what other display methods was she using? The only other ones I can think of are computer monitor, smartphone and standalone portable (like 3DS). And I find it highly suspect that she was so enamored by the kinds of experiences that you typically play on a TV screen that her big idea was to make a device that couldn't dream of running anything even close to those kinds of games. It's almost like they didn't have any conception of the very basic fact that not all video games are created equal - they're the type to fall for those 600-in-1 plug-and-play consoles that you find in a sporting goods store clearance bin. In the end, she put disposable timewasting smartphone trash that mostly exists to give you something to do while waiting in a line onto a stage that is suited for long-form high-engagement entertainment. Just because soap operas have a stupidly large audience of housewives doesn't mean you air them during prime time. Takes a certain variety of clueless to make a mistake that flagrant. This whole video seems to imply that Ouya just made a few whoopsies along the way, and if they had just been a bit smarterier, they might've made it big. Make no mistake: Ouya was always going to fail. Always. Didn't matter what they promised, how they marketed, or how they delivered. No matter how appealing the elevator pitch might've seemed, it was a terrible idea that simply didn't stack up to reality. I also love the part where he brings up how alternatives to Ouya sapped interest, only to not mention that those alternatives were failures themselves or at least made about as much market impact as a wet fart. Not that every device needs to reshape the industry, but Ouya positioned itself as one that would.
0:50 "...her passion led her to play on many platforms, but she'd always return to the TV"
Well, wtf did she hook up those games on, her refrigerator?
she was probably part of the statistically significant number of women who game on their phones and weren't interested in consoles.
@@ahmedhakeem1044 And that led to her making... a console
this is why female gamer have bad rep, those who speak the loudest arent even playing video games to begin with
@Quan Jiang pfft only an ipad size screen... thats weak man... my fridge got a 21.5 inch screen biatch
jk... i dont actually have one... but ive seen them lol
She really meant she wanted an "all on one" system for the TV, rather than having to jump on several consoles to play the games she wanted. But it was a strange term of words she chose that confused a lot of people.
People didn’t want to play phone games on a TV? Shocking
Yeah, I'm honestly more surprised of Ouya's initial success.
When they released their kickstarter, "Combining mobile game graphics with the mobility of a console" sounds like a terrible idea to me. Yet people somehow think it's a genius idea, judging by their kickstarter's performance. I thought I must've missed something.
Years later, I'm glad to know that I'm not crazy. Ouya IS a terrible idea.
No, not all games that are aviable on android are shitty "free to play" (pay to win) clickbaity trash designed to play on the crapper.
There are some great games out there, most of the GOOD ones are ports of older PC/Console Titles or Indie Games, most of the times with Controller Support.
Unfortunately the libary of good Android Titles is way smaller then it needed to be.
If the Ouya would have taken really off, wich it didn't, Android could have been a fantastic Plattform for Indie Titles. Most Phones, TV boxes and other Android devices have more then enough horsepower to run most Indie Titles.
I personally like my GPD XD plus quite a lot, wich is a Clamshell Android game thingy. Mostly for retro Emulation. But I like playing stuff like Stardew Valley, Limbo, GTA SA, Bully and other games on there quite a lot. Those are all fantastic games. Real games, not toilett f2p trash. It just could be a lot more of them....
@@sagichdirdochnicht4653 nihha
dOnT yOu GuYs HaVe PhOnEs????
"Tv" is not a platform. You can play literally anything that can be plugged into a display into a Tv. the Ouya want special in this regard.
Tv is just big monitor.
Exactly, this.
She tried to drown the uninitiated in jargon to peddle her shit system. Pathetic.
Yeah I have my pc plugged into my tv
I think the meaning was casual games or hypercasual games.
Still was a crappy android box
I don't understand "passion to return video games to tv". Did she not notice xbox, PlayStation, and wii?
It was during a time when almost all tech and game media were saying the PS4/X1/Wii U would be the final home consoles and everything would be taken over by mobile gaming. It was a silly time.
@@foxhound6364 Yeah xbox wanted that mobile gaming and wanted the xbox one as a tv. Those were some pretty shitty years
@@foxhound6364 That's funny, because still with all the modern mobile technology we have today mobile games are kinda lame.
@@foxhound6364 Did Steam not exist back then or something?? 🤣
@Source Dasher I think you misunderstood my comment, sweetie
4:24 “you only had to hookup power, HDMI, and synch remote”
Ummm...that’s the same with every other console ever...
The ouya was good for a lunch time break room console. That was what I used it for at my last job. Pretty good to just grab and play real quick with a buddy during lunch. Cheap enough to leave at work and not miss it at home
The problem is that they built a console rather than a great game. People want games and then they buy consoles
That`s why I bought the gamecube....Metroid Prime.
exactly
This guy games
So true
I remmember By the time Ouya was developed I could just mirror those games from my phone to tv-screen and play on gamepad. Why would I need extra console to do that ?!
Never even thought it would be even remotely successful
*They had to face already established giants such as Playstation and Xbox*
Nintendo: Am I a joke to you?
😂
No but you are
Yes, that's why they have been breaking records inc hardware and software since 2017. Yes, sure. Great analysis, pretty cool.
Yeah to anyone who grew up playing their games they are these days....they still try to screw customers like its 1990 and they still have a monopoly
Nintendo is sort of its own market as Xbox and PlayStation don’t have the titles Nintendo do
$129 sounds good till you realize you can get an engineered-to-death amazing PS4 for ~$300 (less these days). I'd just save up a bit more.
That's over double the price, not "a bit more". You can buy a Honda for $40k or you can save a bit more and get a Porsche for $95k.
Milton Waddams but this is at a smaller scale so it’s not a fair comparison. that’s like comparing $1 to $2 and $1k to $2k. very different amounts
Milton Waddams you might be right but float circus is right too why not save more for a tremendously better experience on a PS4
Amazing ps4 for $300 just to have it sit and sound like a jet and shutdown due to overheating.
@@salluna1957 had a ps4 for over 5 years it never overheated on me . People have that issue because of stupid and illogical placement of the device where it cannot cool properly. It ran warm only in the heaviest of titles when the turbo jet fans come on .xbox 360 ( not the one) is the one famous for overheating with the red ring of death
"Return games to TV" someone told her that Consoles still exist?
The problem is mobile games are not suited to being played on a TV. They're quick fix bursts of entertainment to pick up and put down.
It was at the same time analysts were predicting that the rise of mobile games would kill traditional consoles rather than the reality in that mobile and console games don't compete with each other or their audiences. They offer different experiences that the other cannot replace.
33million might have been enough to create a piece of hardware, but consoles are more than just hardware, it was never enough to create an ecosystem and give it the clout needed. Look at home even Google has struggle to make a dent thus far with stadia.
Stadia is a completly different thing. It's a cloud computing infrastructure offering and the main reason it's not succeeding is that the technology and broadband infrastructure to support it just isn't there yet. I'm sure if it came to work as well as it is intended it'd become quite popular. Anyway, it's not like console per se, this is a long term project and even if stadia might get shut down (Google loves to kill things, doesn't it?) it'll absolutely return in the future as Microsoft and amazon are both working on a similar thing and clearly see it as the future of computing more widely. Personally, I see the convenience potential - we could end up living in a "spec free" computing world where our devices could do high performance computing anywhere and simply stream it. Imagine, for example, working with CAD designs on a phone or tablet. Sadly, we'll need a lot more investment from Internet providers before this can become a reality.
Agree with both statements.
Actually better than the content of the video.
I still remember how the CEO of Ouya threw the console in the garbage bin 😂
Where did you read that?
Ouya commercial jingle: Ouya!
Stadia commercial jingle: Stadia!
What can we see in both? Both are too good to be true and have a disappointing launch.
Ironic that stadia is the best way to use cyberpunk 2077 and it's literally free given that the stadia version shipped with Chromecast, stadia controller.
"SSS-eye-oh-me"
...oh, he's trying to say Xiaomi
Ziohme
Sheao-mi for English speakers. Shiaomi for everyone else.
Exactly how I felt. Made me think, "is that how it's pronounced?"
Just pronounce it as "show me" and its ok.👍
OUYA is an appropriate name - it's the sound you make when you get punched in the gut.
now I can't even pass the wi-fi setup screen on my Ouya 😔
I actually got one of them. I do believe I got the wood grain finish style, actually.
I used it like once or twice and then left it alone. So much for that.
I don't get it. Is it a simple "android TV box" with the usual bluetooth controller and a game store? So why do you need a special hardware? Or were these TV boxes not available at the time?
not at all actually; we still were struggling with the idea of a decent Android tablet; nobody was thinking about an Android set-top box at the moment
My daughter has been playing android games on my TV for years. Steel series xl controller came out years ago, coupled with an MHL adapter, it works flawlessly. Usb-c has made it even better. Pretty cheap way to game on a TV, if your in those sorts of games. Personally my games are mostly consumed on a ps4, but some, especially kids, love mobile games
I remember wanting to love this. But as soon as I tried it, something didn't work and it took forever just to get it to work properly... I wonder if it's still laying around my parents' house somewhere lol
They werent unique lmao. Its just an android box. There are literally hundreds of these ranging in a little worse to way higher quality for cheaper. Most of the markets for these are in china.
They actually were pretty unique at launch. Obviously, there are lots of android boxes now (although less than there were 4 years ago), but the Ouya was one of the first that could actually run games. I think the Ouya is a great example of an open platform hurting the company. There was no reason everyone and their dog couldn't create a cheaper or more powerful clone that could run the same games, and that's what happened.
The OUYA was basically an Android TV box with an Nvidia Tegra 3, similar to the much more powerful Tegra X1 & X1+ SoC in the Nvidia Shield TV and Nintendo Switch. However, unlike Nvidia which could offer it's GeForce Now game streaming service and the ability to stream a game from a gaming PC on a local area network and Nintendo having it's huge catalog of 1st party games and titles from 3rd part developers, it was a very underpowered system with inadequate development backing from game studios and hardware that was basically obselete from day 1 of launch.
Part of their failure was for sure first-mover disadvantage from free riders. If they maybe went for more of a switch style console, like a controller that can hold a phone, similar to their competitors, but can also plug into HDMI for tv.
When the CEO talks about gaming I’m convinced she has never played... it just sounds so inauthentic
I think her mindset was to sell the idea and scam people. You know like Herbalife or 4Life. She didn't want to change the game world or something like that. Her mission was just to scam people and to do that you need to have "the way" of the talk.
Hey could you make a video about what happens when a big company is Acquiring your company. What if the CEO still wanted his shares and to be apart of the company?
Good idea! Noted!
Slidebean: Startups 101 thank you :)
Good question
"Saio me" thats a new way to butcher chinese XD
Have you heard him say "emoticon"? Watch the msn video!
I plug my console to my TV. Are you telling me I have been doing it wrong my entire life?
I remember the Ouya was underpowered, it would lag on menus.
I didn't know video games every left the tv 😂😂😂
My daughter has been playing android games on my TV for years. Steel series xl controller came out years ago, coupled with an MHL adapter, it worked (works) somewhat flawlessly. Usb-c has made it even better. Pretty cheap way to game on a TV, if your in those sorts of games. Personally my games are mostly consumed on a ps4, but some, especially kids, love mobile games
Please do something on successful startups. Maybe fitbit
Been struggling with this request. The who idea behind the series was to look at failed companies.
@@cayahere I don't think you need to because you spoke about what fitbit did when you did the forensic on Pebble.
Buy raspberry pi.
Install Retropie.
Download some roms/isos.
It's so easy to get a pi up and running. These startup consoles are so pointless.
IRC Fserves still exist dont they? Im sure you can still find underground sources for emulation other than the surface web all the way back to the mid 90s
I remember some backers still hadn't received their units EVEN though they were releaed commerially and on store shelves. Shameful.
Startup forensics are best for entrepreneurs like me. Thank you so much. There is lots of lessons
Thanks, Transfer! If you have any other content ideas, they're welcome!
@@slidebean like gary vaynerchunk said, put content as much as you can. This is the best way to boost your company on the internet. Waiting for new forensics, good luck!
Very entertaining and informative series! I'm surprised it doesn't get more views
Glad you enjoy it!
Several years later I still fail to understand where the Ouya stood out. I mean It was just a game-only android device plugged to a screen(Knowing android do not really have elaborated titles the likes of PS and Xbox). What is so special about this “Bring games back to TV” isn’t it the case of other consoles already. Even customs PCs the size of consoles can be plugged to TV. I always knew this project was destined to fail.
What has to change is the way games are made and sold on mobile devices, not where they’re played.
Why not build enticing and full experiences on mobile like back in the old days of mobile consoles, rather than quick money schemes, built to lure people into micro transactions solely made to reduce the already short amount of time you spend here and there on a mobile game.
Still use my OUYA to this day. Comfy way to watch mkv files on my TV since my old ass TV can't play only play avi.
Sorry, but Julia doesn't come off as passionate about video games. In their promotional video she just stands in front of a screen without actually showing that she is playing - and just to add insult to injury, someone is next to her probably playing for her.
And no, it's not this thing that "Women can't play video games" - it just doesn't come off as sincere marketing.
Really enjoying these videos about these companies that disappeared
The company name "Xiaomi" was pronounced as "Zhee-ao-me" not "zha-yo-me".
Xiaomi = Shiaomi, not "Xiomi".
See-ow-me.
I know my Mandarin. "Sh" is a bit wrong since Xiao in Mandarin means small....not Shiao..... which.........well....it isn't even a word in Mandarin...
Anyways, not much of a big deal.
Videogame company Razer... Oh no, I don't think they make videogames...
Did not get it... They failed because...? They sold it to other company?
Like what was the recommended approach to avoid such a disaster?
9:26 I think hes trying to hint that they sold it knowing the company was in disrepair, and hes basically just going over why it went bad before they sold.
TL;DW:
-They promised more than they delivered
-Delays when sending the console
-Bad marketing campaign
-Failed to capitalize on success early
-Left room for other companies to offer something similar and better
Ouya was baffling in a sense because a lot of people were excited by the concept of having a console that could play games, and you can put Netflix on it and watch some movies, and yadda yadda yadda. The possibilities seemed endless. Then when those who bought one actually got one, they looked at it and went "Oh... it's just a console that can play games and you can watch Netflix through it and yadda yadda yadda". Like the same things people were excited about were the things that people weren't excited about when they got their hands on one. It was a very bizarre reaction to a product that people were so excited about.
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Huh, it seems that projects purely backed by crowdfund almost always doomed to fail, while those who succeed also got financed from other sources. I wonder why.
You couldn't convince me that she actually played games lol
I have a start up that dissuades others from creating a start up. It's a money saver
There was nothing "innovative" or "disruptive" about being able to play smartphone games on your TV.
3:01 "Seduce Developers"😅🥺
This is similar to how Guitar Hero Live shut down - the whole game is based on an online library, so when they shut the servers down, I was left with a very expensive plastic guitar and only 5 songs to play. I paid, what £50, for the game? That's £10 a song. Wtf? It would be annoying enough for them to not update the library, but to completely shut it down without giving users the opportunity to download the library they PAID for?! Such bullshit.
why's all ouya footage in black and white
Probably in black and white to avoid copyright claims.👾
I think part of the problem with this and the Jawbone is Yves design. Its not bad but it looks like something cheap trying to look like something luxury. This might catch the occasional walmart shopper using a knockoff Louis vitton phone case, but the general market is not going to get into it. Cheap? Make it look utilitarian and sturdy as possible, not imitate luxury items. I do enjoy the fact that this one is a nice compact cube, though. Would look really cool if you wall-mounted it under a clean wall mount tv.
atari vcs is going to be the next ouya
I'd have second thoughts about a video game product if the "passionate gamer" CEO looked like a middle aged mom.
I don't know, reasoning seems kinda flawed to me, honestly
what's amazing is that this is what stadia has to look at for consoles outside of the norm and google learned nothjng
There will always be consoles, pc gaming and mobile gaming. The latter being the only one you can play on the toilet, very few people have TVs in their bathrooms and even less have toilets in their living rooms.
The thing is: small to medium indie developers focus on PC gaming. To change this the console needed to be great and.... Well.
I think ouya was simply naive
if you can play mini games everywhere and everytime... why hook it up to a tv for 130?
Well, at least the founder now has more money to buy other consoles and games
Ouya project is strange. She wanted to return gaming to tv....... That was achieved by nintendo, sony and microsoft. In the end she tried to create android console and failed. It would be nice to have 1 console to play games from sony, xbox, but thats never gonna happen. Today you no longer need a dedicated android console all you need for a tv is android tv box or you can simply project your phone wirelesly onto it.
I wonder if the ouya would have an easier time now as games like pubg and cod have mobile versions
Not with it's 1gb ram. I think PUBG for mobile needs minimum 2gb ram.
It was so easy it hooked up like every other better console 😂😂😂 power HDMI sync the controller what a concept 😂😂😂
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sometimes you sound really misinformed, tv is not a platform.
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How was this chick playing Xbox and PS4 if not for a TV? I don't understand what she was trying to invent here....
i know right....i dont think that was their real vision i just think this vid phrased it wrong..... games have been on TV for ever lmao
CEO:"always wanted to return to one: T.V" PC master race : throws up* Step 1 :Get a PC. Step 2: Connect PC to TV screen. Step 3: Connect controller to PC. DONE. Step 4: Call your console friends to get an college education that'll allow them to make money to build a PC.
They really made an Android TV box and called it a console
6:58 that is the worst pronunciation of "Xiaomi" I have ever heard
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thats nothin compared to "polish" @6:03... yikes lol says it like the verb polish instead of you know, originating from Poland.
You forgot to mention that their hardware is VERY poorly made. The quality is nothing like what was advertised.
I wonder if you could watch Quibi on it???
Xiaomi isn’t pronounced like that lol
Neither is Polish
I got to play with one in a video game convention
I think what killed the project was the Mobile gaming market is just garbage. Console and core gamers have little interest in it and the Mobile Market isn't interested in a 100% upfront paid experience. It wants years of microtransactions.
The graphics were OK for the time, it was a bit underpowered... but what killed it was the controller. It was garbage... so bad that there was no recovering from it. You could use a PS3 controller, but then a lot games wouldn't work.
Why the ouya failed from a simple gamer perspective. Look at it like this: PC Gamers are willing to pay for rigs where only the graphics card costs over 6 times more than the ouya. Console Gamers often will upgrade immediately to newer versions or even collect more gear for their console, because they fanboy over it. It's not about making cheap consoles and games. People don't play games because they are cheaper. Gaming is a highly tribal and emotional sector. Gamers want to play games regardless of price. Price is just a barrier of entry. The ouya is like going to a person that wants to buy a tesla and try selling them a bike instead.
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How do you get over 8X the intended funding and still under deliver. Sounds like they didn’t have the right people running the business
didn't they have to supply 8x the product? meaning hardware expenses were x8.
I mean people didn't 'donate' - they ordered a console.
Ouya failed because it was a dumb idea. Casual gamers play games on phones / tablets, hardcore gamers play on TV / PC. There's no market in between (mobile-games on TV). Interesting that they had several competitors all vying for a chunk of the same non-existent market.
Guess they didn't realize that people would play games on samsung smart fridges
This was the dumbest project in recent memory. Return to the tv? Did she think that people no longer played consoles or what? What the hell does it even mean? You need a TV or a monitor to play any non-handheld console and PC.
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Copy editing your text is old fashioned I guess. I can never understand how somebody can be spending zillions on their company and never read their own darned website.
"Xbox and Paystation" *FILTY CASUAL*
Nintendo and PC are the true gaming markets, Nintendo pushes the hardware, PC pushes the software, the other two only follow trends
that's.. just.. weird.
Everything about Ouya was bad.
1: The SoC was underpowered. When it was released in June 2013 a high-end smartphone such as the Galaxy S4 had 2 GB of RAM and a far faster CPU. So instead of being at the forefront of mobile performance they lacked behind from the very start and every passing year made the gap even bigger and bigger.
2: The controller was universally panned as really really bad. And since the controller is the most important way to interactive with a game a bad controller create a bad gaming experience.
3: Severely lacking standards in the app store as well as weird store policies. It was also so much crap and shovelware as compared to highly curated list of great games.
4: A CEO that seemed to know very little of what she was doing or what the community supporting her actually wanted.
5: Delays and bugs galore.
I would say had the team behind Ouya delayed it another six months to create a proper marketplace, made a better controller, gotten rid of all the bugs and for free upgraded every Ouya to one with the then new Tegra 4 (released in Q2 2013) processor I'm sure the overall reception would have been much better. Because we really wanted to believe in a forth option to MS, Sony and Nintendo.
The video starts again at the end - this one is weird...presentation not 100%
just load the apk file in any android device and BAM!
They were a few years too early. If they had launched now, they would be more successful
This is not fail, this is scam SUCCESS
they don't have killer apps (games)
Same shit stadia is going through.
What people didn't realize is that mobile games are bad and people only play it because they have no alternative when on the go
I also don't get the bring games back to tv? Maybe because I'm a gamer you could just get an old console for $100 with much more quality games
Some people try so hard to be special.
lol just connect a controller to your phone
consider a larger shirt my guy the text should be big enough
I highly doubt that this lady had any kind of passion for video games. She seemed so out of touch every time she opened her mouth. "Out of all video game platforms, I always went back to the TV." TV isn't a platform, it's a display method. A platform is a system by which games are acquired and played. Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Steam, Epic, Stadia, these are all platforms. And what other display methods was she using? The only other ones I can think of are computer monitor, smartphone and standalone portable (like 3DS).
And I find it highly suspect that she was so enamored by the kinds of experiences that you typically play on a TV screen that her big idea was to make a device that couldn't dream of running anything even close to those kinds of games. It's almost like they didn't have any conception of the very basic fact that not all video games are created equal - they're the type to fall for those 600-in-1 plug-and-play consoles that you find in a sporting goods store clearance bin. In the end, she put disposable timewasting smartphone trash that mostly exists to give you something to do while waiting in a line onto a stage that is suited for long-form high-engagement entertainment. Just because soap operas have a stupidly large audience of housewives doesn't mean you air them during prime time. Takes a certain variety of clueless to make a mistake that flagrant.
This whole video seems to imply that Ouya just made a few whoopsies along the way, and if they had just been a bit smarterier, they might've made it big. Make no mistake: Ouya was always going to fail. Always. Didn't matter what they promised, how they marketed, or how they delivered. No matter how appealing the elevator pitch might've seemed, it was a terrible idea that simply didn't stack up to reality. I also love the part where he brings up how alternatives to Ouya sapped interest, only to not mention that those alternatives were failures themselves or at least made about as much market impact as a wet fart. Not that every device needs to reshape the industry, but Ouya positioned itself as one that would.
For her it wasn't a fail