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Originally Posted by ktchong
Not getting it, and I hope it fails.
Ouya is largely based on the "free-to-play" or freemium model. I hate freemium. Freemium needs to die and so does Ouya.
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Wow, that's kind of extreme. While I agree with you on Freemium (more specifically, games based on IAP whether there is an initial price tag or not), I can't agree about the Ouya. While they do state that games on the system must be free to try, it doesn't necessitate freemium; developers can just as easily make demos with a single price tag for the full game if you like it, as used to be standard for PC games.
Ultimately, whether we see rampant wallet-raping IAP, or more of the classic PC game demo model, will depend on 1) the ethics and profit motive of the individual developers, and 2) the response from consumers. The situation will probably mirror what we see in Google Play.
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And I know it will fail, but due to a different reason: lack of support from major publishers and developers. Or rather, no support or whatsoever.
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Who cares about major publishers? This is a $99 Android console--it is not competing with your XBox for "triple A" $60 games; it's a system for taking the same games you're already playing on your phone/tablet and instead playing them on your TV. There is little reason for an Android developer to NOT take their already-developed games and publish them on Ouya's market.
What it will do, though, is provide a potential incentive for developers who make games on things like Steam or XBLA to port their games over to Android. It's those developers, and the players who would rather play their games over the latest Call of Duty, that the Ouya will best serve.
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The whole idea behind Ouya is to encourage open source, hacking - and (intended or not) easy piracy. Publishers and developers are not going to support a platform that encourages piracy.
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I don't see how Ouya is any different from other Android devices in this regard. Android is a fork of Linux, which exists under a license that keeps it open source. When the Ouya people say that the console will be hackable, what they're really saying is that they're not going out of their way to lock the system down and it will hence be as open as every other rootable Android device.