Is Ouya a Failure?

[wastate2014]

Can Ouya be called a failure? Ouya survives today and continues to grow. One Thousand plus games and more added all the time. The company is hiring. Agreements with Xiaomi and Alibaba to extend their content and financing.

I personally find my collection of games on Ouya to be a nice respite from my Ps4. Then there is the fact that this is a place where inspiring developers can publish their work never ment to compete with Sony or Microsoft. So how does this fit the definition of a Failure?

 

[Capt.Obvious]

If change was put into motion, not a failure.

Can Ouya be called a failure? Ouya survives today and continues to grow. One Thousand plus games and more added all the time. The company is hiring. Agreements with Xiaomi and Alibaba to extend their content and financing.

I personally find my collection of games on Ouya to be a nice respite from my Ps4. Then there is the fact that this is a place where inspiring developers can publish their work never ment to compete with Sony or Microsoft. So how does this fit the definition of a Failure?

I believe to some degree a lot of individuals had a set of unrealistic goals and expectations in their minds. Ignoring all the information and facts that were presented to them. This could stem from being downplayed by premium vendors and critics . Using their negative comments to influence the easily impressionable providing a false image of a product that wasn't yet released at the time.

If people look back at it now and analyze it as a cultural and social event, I'm sure there could be many points that could be made at how this product gained momentum to an old idea that brought the possibility of change to an industry. Clearly many were opposed to the idea of change because it brought along choices and segmented control.

I believe it is still happening but the Ouya definitely put the possible change to the market in the spotlight, and made some people jump. Even if for a moment.

 

[wastate2014]

I believe to some degree a lot of individuals had a set of unrealistic goals and expectations in their minds. Ignoring all the information and facts that were presented to them. This could stem from being downplayed by premium vendors and critics . Using their negative comments to influence the easily impressionable providing a false image of a product that wasn't yet released at the time.

If people look back at it now and analyze it as a cultural and social event, I'm sure there could be many points that could be made at how this product gained momentum to an old idea that brought the possibility of change to an industry. Clearly many were opposed to the idea of change because it brought along choices and segmented control.

I believe it is still happening but the Ouya definitely put the possible change to the market in the spotlight, and made some people jump. Even if for a moment.

Well said I just always hear people bash Ouya and have to wonder if they have even owned one? Ouya could stand to be more interactive with its userbase particularly the game customers. I see a good support structure for devs but few regular gamers?

Ouya corporate needs to come out of the closet and let it's users know what is going on? I like all the recent improvements but have no news from them for the future so you sit idle month to month wondering if they are even in business? Then there is the biggest mystery of all is the current console one of a kind or will there indeed be a Ouya 2. I hope they conduct themselves better in China or they truly will be finished? Love the product but the management needs a complete house cleaning.

 

[=JKT=]

I hopped on Ouya late in the game and never even heard about the hype. All I know is that Kodi and Plex work great on it and I've played through a few really fun games on it. I bought it for $80. How could I or anyone be disappointed with it unless they thought it was going to be an $80 ps3 or something? Maybe I had more realistic expectations because I've been on android phones for so long, including various tegra chipsets. For what it is, I'm still mostly impressed haha.