Best Buy has the OUYA on sale $99 with $10 gift card and an extra controller.

[knave]

I couldn't resist picking one up as a gift, but this is a pretty good deal if you are curious about the upstart console. (oh and free shipping!)

OUYA at best buy with $10 gift card and free extra controller for $99

It is also $89 today at the OUYA website

And there is a White holiday edition with 16 gb of storage for $129

[Slippyblade]

I sooooo wish I had money. I'd be all over this.   

[ark_ader]

Are we going to see a $50 version soon?

I hear it isn't making the splash, it was supposed to.

[Generic Eric]

I wish it had vga or DVI.  I don't have any extra TVs with HDMI and I don't get play time in the living room.

OTOH, we are getting a new TV and I just read you can sideload netflix and the kids will like that

[Slippyblade]

I wish it had vga or DVI.  I don't have any extra TVs with HDMI and I don't get play time in the living room.

Just get an adapter, they're pretty cheap.

http://www.amazon.com/SANOXY%C2%AE-Generic-Audio-Converter-Adapter/dp/B006JW6M2I/ref=pd_sim_e_4

[knave]

Eric: yes, the HDMI output is pretty standard nowadays...I'm sure you can adapt the signal...It's worth it.

Slippyblade: At least the price for the main unit will always be $99...though if it were not for the free controller I would have gotten the $129 version.

Ark...well you are being ark. useless.

Most of you who are regulars have read that I am an Ouya fan. I do not think it is the "BEST THING EVER" but t is pretty cool for what it is.

...especially for a web forum that focuses on arcade emulation.

...The OUYA also emulates NES, SNES, Genisis, Neo-GEO, C64, Playstation, and super nintendo...plus a few I'm sure to have missed. Well worth a $99 price tag. Not to mention it has XBMC and a host of original games.  I'm all over it...

...did I mention I use it to watch live tv.

...Shrug...It's ok I guess...

[Howard_Casto]

He might be "being ark" but that doesn't make him any less right.  That's a really good deal, for now, but by this time next year they'll be throwing ouya's in as free bonuses with real purchases.

If you were planning on getting on anyway, I would jump on it, but otherwise you are getting a second controller for a console that mainly features 1 player android games. 

[SNAAKE]

white one looks neat. kinda like the dreamcast. might get one just to have it lol..

xbmc might come in handy. I can just use any NTFS format hard drive for large file size movies??

[ark_ader]

I went out and bought a MK808b for the TV and I can play pretty much the same games on that, and I can use a BT or Tablet controller.  Granted the included controller looks very nice and you do get two (which as Howard already pointed out) controllers for a one player game scenario.

I'm just throwing it out there, as the MK808b is a capable device and 70 dollars cheaper.  Do these OUYA  controllers work with any other devices or are they proprietary?

I'm not always right, but I do try to be. 

[Howard_Casto]

Yeah that's what I've been arguing all along.  It isn't that the Ouya is bad, it isn't... it's just really over-priced. 

I mean all this weekend they were selling the surface RT, which runs a build of windows rt on it for just 100 dollars more.  You can play actual games on it, not just the 90% flash game saturation of the android market.  Not only that, but it's not android.  Mind you windows rt isn't going to win any awards, but it blows android out of the water.  I think it will really catch on in the future if windows will over a good license deal for mid-end hardware manufacturers and if not we are already seeing mid range tablets/laptops running regular windows 8. 

Shoot I saw tablets with hdmi out go for as little as 40 dollars on Thursday....  tablet prices go down so fast that a console based on an arm/android setup just isn't practical. 

Most of your tablets, or at the very least emulators on tablets will work with a 360 controller.  Considering the Xbone is out and the 360 controller will soon be had for peanuts, I think that will soon be a viable option. 

[pbj]

Can you do anything interesting with this device?  Watch porn?  MAME?   Does it require internet and could a 10 year old use it unsupervised without breaking it?  XArcade?

[knave]

He might be "being ark" but that doesn't make him any less right.  That's a really good deal, for now, but by this time next year they'll be throwing ouya's in as free bonuses with real purchases.

If you were planning on getting on anyway, I would jump on it, but otherwise you are getting a second controller for a console that mainly features 1 player android games.

Howard: Have you seen any of the games on the OUYA? It doesn't feature 1 player android games at all...it features OUYA games. Its a night and day difference (sure its OS is android but its also more than that.)
That and most of the top games are living room multiplayer games that you play with your friends/kids. Google bombsquad if you want an example.
Most of my play time on the OUYA is multiplayer with my kids...(so Howard no 1 player android games for me.)

That doesn't mean there aren't good single player games on there or some that are also out on android (Sine Mora) In fact some of the games are coming from XBLA just you don't have to pay for Live.
There is a good amount of crap too...just like in the arcade world. Sure a year from now the hardware will be cheap...but Using it and having fun with it for a year is worth it IMHO.

If you want to spend $100 more and get a surface great...but we are talking about playing games and consuming content on a TV with a controller. There are plenty of good tablets out there. So what.

Ark: I doubt the MK808 has the same games that you would "want" to play. LOL and the controller is proprietary but it is Bluetooth so who knows there might be ways to make it work.

Snake: yes you can use any HD...I just stream from my NAS but either way XBMC is great.

PBJ: Yes, Yes, Yes, no and Yes. I enjoy seeing what it can do. To clarify, you can watch whatever you want...and emulation including MAME works great.

LOL 

/soapbox

[yotsuya]

Are we still talking about the OUYA?  I thought that thread died already. 

[Howard_Casto]

Yeah I've seen em... there are like 4 ouya games worth playing... so if you want to get any gaming out of it, you side-load android games, which are single player.  Emulators are certainly multi-player, but they are available on plain old android devices.

It won't do mame, it'll do mame4all, which is optimized for cell phones really.  Don't get me wrong technically it'll run mame, but it doesn't "run great"  you have to use a super old build to keep it from chugging and even then it doesn't run mid to high end games at full speed.  This is a flaw in ALL arm based devices btw, so I'm not picking on the Ouya specifically. 

Yeah playing games and consuming content with a controller... on a surface or any tablet readily available... they are the same thing and they are comparable.  Any tablet over 70 dollars has hdmi out and Bluetooth you know. 

"We" aren't talking about Ouya... knave keeps bringing it up. 

[knave]

..."We" aren't talking about Ouya... knave keeps bringing it up. 

I like talking about the Ouya. 

[yotsuya]

We're due for a "Raspberry Pi is going to change the face of emulation" discussion soon. 

[pbj]

[knave]

We're due for a "Raspberry Pi is going to change the face of emulation" discussion soon. 

The Ouya is way better than a raspberry pi.

[RayB]

It's got a few nice indie games on it, like Fist of Awesome and Hidden In Plain Sight.
Long live indie!

[404]

We're due for a "Raspberry Pi is going to change the face of emulation" discussion soon. 

you can pretty much substitute the 'Raspberry Pi' there for just about any of the current indie products out there including the OUYA, GCWZero and the dozens of tablets that have physical controls.

[ark_ader]

We're due for a "Raspberry Pi is going to change the face of emulation" discussion soon. 

you can pretty much substitute the 'Raspberry Pi' there for just about any of the current indie products out there including the OUYA, GCWZero and the dozens of tablets that have physical controls.

[pbj]

I've got a relative that's been rocking stuff like Vegas Stakes and Super Caesar's Palace on his SNES for 20 years.  If Ouya had games that were comparable, he'd want it.  I've googled the hell out of it and can't find a good game list anywhere, though.

[Generic Eric]

I've got a relative that's been rocking stuff like Vegas Stakes and Super Caesar's Palace on his SNES for 20 years.  If Ouya had games that were comparable, he'd want it.  I've googled the hell out of it and can't find a good game list anywhere, though.

I believe this is the official list. https://www.ouya.tv/games/

Best game I found was #117  No Brakes Valet. I really enjoyed it. I played a wipeout clone, but have to pay for more than basic track and I might, I just haven't yet.  There was a drinking game that was kinda ok, but I'm in my mid 30's and find that's a young persons game. 

I'd be interested to hear about games that were worth paying for.  I see Sine Mora is there, but I already have that. 

I think Ouya would benefit from teaming up with humblebundle and having sales similar to Steam.  I'd like to see a bundle with a game advertised as working on pc via steam android phone and on the OUYA.

I want to support it, but I haven't seen any thing that tickles my fancy.

@knave could you share some of your favorite games?

[404]

We're due for a "Raspberry Pi is going to change the face of emulation" discussion soon. 

you can pretty much substitute the 'Raspberry Pi' there for just about any of the current indie products out there including the OUYA, GCWZero and the dozens of tablets that have physical controls.

I'm not knocking anyone or anything for that matter. The fact remains that two out of the three products i mentioned by name are available in some retail markets and still have completely failed to live up to any form of mainstream success. Not as stand alone game players, not as media players and not as emulation units. You can barely call them a niche. Same goes for the Pi. In the world of linux computing, they barely scrape a userbase.

It's just the truth.

[ark_ader]

Well how many sold OUYA units compared to Raspi?

Well I know the Raspi sold 1.75 2 million so far.

I don't know the number of OUYA units, but I hear the indie developers are not making the money off the user base.  This is a shame, but not the developers fault, but the delay in getting console gaming capability to android devices from the manufacturers and Google.

[kahlid74]

I was an Ouya Kickstar backer (go figure, I back everything in the world on Kickstarter lol) and I like the console.  I agree that the console is overprice and it's games are overpriced but I get great uses out of it.  From Towerfall 4 player to Bomberman 4 player, it's fantastic and just recently I put MAME4Droid on it and with four controls I had children of various sizes playing on my 12 foot projection screen and they were loving it.  Could I have hooked up a computer and got 4 Logitech controllers, sure.  But in the end this worked too and I really liked how it all came together.

[ark_ader]

I was an Ouya Kickstar backer (go figure, I back everything in the world on Kickstarter lol) and I like the console.  I agree that the console is overprice and it's games are overpriced but I get great uses out of it.  From Towerfall 4 player to Bomberman 4 player, it's fantastic and just recently I put MAME4Droid on it and with four controls I had children of various sizes playing on my 12 foot projection screen and they were loving it.  Could I have hooked up a computer and got 4 Logitech controllers, sure.  But in the end this worked too and I really liked how it all came together.

Just having the children entertained, and enjoying our classic arcade games is money well spent.