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@@qty1315 So, Vega from SF released his own handheld console? I thought the guy was too obsessed with his own looks to do anything else? Guess Vega had a secret desire to make games?
Ouya LIED to me as well, and stiffed me for thousands of dollars. They hired my company to photograph images that were to be used "specifically" only for Press and Social Media. We had a contract stating so, and they wanted an extremely discounted rate as these photos were NEVER supposed to be used for advertising or anything other than Press. Low and Behold, a year later I'm walking though a Target store and see an Ouya console on the shelf. I pick it up to see MY PHOTOS being used on the product packaging itself, and the advertising. SMH. Anyhow, my agent sent them the bill for the additional usage, and they refused to pay and ignored the request. We threatened a lawsuit. Julie's lawyers claimed that she had sold everything off to Razer to pay their already enormous debt, and they had no money left. When they were made aware they could be liable for up to $150,000 in copyright infringement fees...they agreed to pay half...and...we decided to take the loss as a tax write off instead. Moral of the story...beware of doing business with people who lie through their teeth.
@@manghariz2211 Same logic applies. Probably just declared bankruptcy or something assuming they wouldn't have to pay any outstanding debt, which is why they told the guy they were out of money. But, this was a breach of contract which was a different matter, so they had to pay something.
To be fair, I think the “nothing special” line was supposed to mean that the console used common hardware, making it open to modding and hacking (back when that was still a selling point), but it was expressed very poorly. Edit: That, or trying to say the hardware is straightforward and simple, wanting to provide a good experience for its very low price point without excess bells and whistles.
@@SkyTreeStudio Yeah, it's a slippery slope kind of deal. I get it, you're saying this isn't some super-expensive one-of-a-kind machine made out of solid gold, it's something simple and functional that ditches tacky bullshit for the sake of being a solidly working machine. But you do NOT advertise that fact by saying 'there's nothing special about it'
The right way to word it: We designed this console with accessible hardware in mind, allowing User modification by our use of mostly standardized off the shelf components.
"Why did the financial analysts think the Ouya had a chance against the Big Three?" Context: Those same analysts at the time were saying traditional gaming is dead and mobile is the future.
The same happened with VR and with the ill fated Stadia... they both were "the future". I cannot understand why the concept of several things coexisting is impossible for this "analysts" that are always predicting that something will be the new thing that will leave the rest outdated. Indeed mobile has grown incredibely, not in quality I'd dare say, but its moving millions of dollars every year. Yet traditional gaming still exists and has no signs of dissapearing any time soon.
@@xian1978 vr and stadia are still there. Eventually cloud streaming will be the default, why do you think Sony and Microsoft are heavily investing into ps now and xcloud
Fun fact my friends got a backer console kit for 15 dollars from a thrift shop then modded it into an android streaming box. And they used it until one day it caught fire and melted.
Interviewer: (thinks "let's throw her a softball question) "What are the launch titles?" OUYA kickstarter lady: "I don't know." That was like being thrown a centerplate softball and not only whiffing the swing but also setting your own balls on fire at the same time.
@@TokuWaffle In America television game usually refers to those plug-and-play consoles that saw a lot of popularity in the 70s, which are still around.
I remember pre-ordering an Ouya. Then I cancelled the pre-order. Then they sent me two. I contacted them via email offering to send both back and they told me to keep them. And that's my story about my Ouya(s)
Back then you had the WiiU's gamepad mode, the short lived fad of projection TV and Microsoft tried and got laughed at for attempting to make the XBONE run as a projection only console among other funny features
People genuinely believed traditional console gaming was dying, and the future would be always online games, mobile games, games with a toy component, and VR. Then the toy games turned out to be a fad, VR became irrelevant, and always online has had numerous high profile failures in recent times. Mobile gaming is still strong, but the big money is in a buisness model that is increasingly being regarded as gambling and facing government regulation. IMHO there was a perception bubble that is now bursting.
@@universalperson I remember when the Wii U was struggling, there were calls from the media and “experts” that Nintendo should abandon making hardware (like Sega did a decade prior) and focus on mobile games (which Nintendo has done with Pokémon Go and Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp).
@@Yeen125 In fairness, the Wii U would have sunk many other gaming companies. But everyone kept forgetting Nintendo had a lock on portable gaming that they leveraged into the Switch.
@@Yeen125 If you'll remember, those insiders and so-called 'video game journalists' have always been calling for Nintendo to step down as a console manufacturer. They've been saying it since Nintendo 64 didn't meet global sales expectations. Some even suggested it right before Nintendo Switch launched. However, Nintendo has doubled-down on mobile games by having a flagship platform that is both a home and a mobile gaming experience, even though the games are traditional home console games.
I had a friend who was convinced the Ouya was the best console he could buy because "you can run emulators on it." Emulators, like you can easily install on the Wii which he already owned. He doesn't talk about Ouya anymore.
I took the paper bag thing as trying to emulate Steve Jobs unveiling the first MacBook Air with a manila envelope, but utterly failing to understand how and why his delivery worked. Then again, they utterly failed to understand many, many other things.
But Steve tried to demonstrate that the Mac air is thin like a manila envelope. But Ouya are just fucking unprofessional by using the lunch paper bag as a carrier even an idiot know that putting a game console in a paper bags are just a no brainer
I still remember the woman saying "There's nothing special about this thing" and I laughed because apparently NO ONE said out loud to her, "Then why would anyone buy this?"
It was SXSW Tech they have a lot of Startups and a ton of technology heads who likely are just founding a company so some larger one will buy them out.
In case anyone's curious about what Julie Uhrman is doing nowadays, she became the co-founder of Angel City Football Club, which is a Los Angeles-based expansion soccer team for the National Women's Soccer League. They've been announced this past July, and are expected to play sometime in 2022.
@F. F. believe it or not they’ve already sold 11k season tickets. I think it’s because LAFC is very popular in LA, and ACFC also has big name owners like Natalie Portman and Serena Williams. As well as the founder of Ouya lol
It's really simple why Ouya failed: - No exclusives, no killer apps - Their store moderation and "free trial" policy led to it becoming a dumping ground for mobile games
i really wanted something like the ouya to take off and we eventually got it with the Nvidia shield but this thing was an absolute disaster, i feel like had they not claimed to be taking on the big three, delayed the project, got it finished properly and then put it out in the world history would have been different. the Nvidia shield was the ouya done right so the concept is great but jesus christ this thing was bad
I know people had hope for it but seeing as a huge part of the mobile gaming infrastructure was based on Facebook's Farmville model, it was always just gonna be a doomed money pit.
Good Lord! I feel like this lady was the Elizabeth Holmes of gaming… How someone fucked something up so bad is unreal. Be careful who you give your money to folks. It’s like a hiring a CEO without an interview, resume, or exp.
The funny thing about her is that she's now a successful woman's soccer manager. Like...very successful. Like multi millionaire and celebrity endorsed successful.
One of their many mistakes is straight out of the gate, she says everyone is moving away from the television, so we're going to take the form they're moving to despite its compromises and put it in the television. And thereby create the worst of both
Yeah, that makes no sense now that you mention it. If they thought mobile and handheld gaming was rising, they should have tried to bring console-quality gaming to mobile, not the other way around!
Yep, classic example of a failure of corporate leadership to understand the product or the market. Typical big buisness tick sucking the blood out of companies and failing up.
I reached for my PS4 controller as soon as she said that. My Vita was closer. STILL! My TV would be VERY smart if it was a touch screen and there'd be no point for it to be one unless you had a long poking stick XD
@@zhazha23 The Ouya team got really cocky when their Kickstarter got successful. They thought people would support them unconditionally because they weren’t like *other* game companies! They were Ouya, what did other game companies have that they didn’t? Consumer trust. That’s what they had. The Xbox One, PS4 and even the Wii U all had the backing of companies people have come to trust and respect. Even something like the Xbox One, which had a rough launch, and the Wii U, which is the Wii U, still did better then the Ouya *because* of that trust!
I do agree that emulators were a big problem with the system but I think the real reason why 73% didn't buy games was because as Julie said "this console is ment to be hacked" people were downloading APK files of the games so there wasn't a point to buy them. One of there key features shot them in the foot.
Had she phrased it as "open source (with copyright related limitations)" instead of "hackable" the console would've been a smidge more successful. It's in the presentation, which they fail at in spades.
@@LiEnbyThe Ouya is more aligned to consoles in the sense that profit comes from game sales rather than hardware sales. If they sell all their consoles at a loss but make their console easy as hell to put apks on them, users will go the easy and cheap route, piracy. That's why piracy kind of bit them in their arse there.
I think this is the most comprehensive breakdown of how the Ouya went wrong that I've seen. I appreciate the actual examples and not just saying "the games were bad" or something. Very well done!
But, it’s the most honest thing I’ve heard from any console manufacturer in recent time. The only console I see that has anything that isn’t accomplished by a PC is the Nintendo switch, with its tablet tweener portable system.
Actually, the Ouya is just a basic Android device in a square box that you can install regular Android apps on. Thus you can install Android games on it as well as install retro game system emulators to play NES, SNES, C64, Genesis/Megadrive, etc. games. So if you use it like a RaspberryPi with RetroPi software installed it you could use it as retro gaming device. It won’t play modern Android games very well, if at all due to its outdated hardware and old Android version but it’s not totally useless. That’s a lot better use then as a paperweight given how the light the unit is anyways. Also you can install media software on it to use it as a set top box for playing video and music.
The OUYA is one of those things you buy solely out of curiosity....then you leave it at the bottom of your closet, or in a random box of junk in your house.
Ah yes, the Ouya. A console I heard about years ago in a random podcast, and was actually pretty excited about. Then, I found out in that same podcast episode that it was also already discontinued. The phrase "take the money and run" comes to mind. Thanks for doing a recap of its history, Shane!
@@universalperson They started the company with Kickstarter money then sold the company to Razer, so I assume at least the idiot lady who was in charge went out with a fat wallet.
I actually bought an Ouya. It worked pretty well as a SNES emulator for about a week, and then it broke and I couldn't turn it on again. The SNES classic does the job much better in every way, so no loss.
I had an ouya and it worked fine for emulators and still does. The SNES classic isn't that great, congested to competing Android/PC/Raspberry PI STBs. For example, the Nvidia Shield TV is pretty good (although the official controller is crap and overpriced).
When my grandpa got his first computer in the late 90s he bought a CD ROM called "350 great games" from the budget section somewhere. It was a bunch of freeware/shareware games and they looked exactly like most of these.
I bet there were titles on it like Super Jump Marri Burger Clock Doctor Marri Marri Brother Turtle Smash Zevious Redden The Fable of Xelda Penultimate Daydream Astro Brutality Walnuts and Creamer Trinary World Iceberg Traveler Highway Battle City AB 2000 F- Racing Kommander Koras: (The Universe of Madness) Balloon Battle Zippy Drive Adolescent Deformed Fighter Tortoises
My grandma got a Windows XP machine when I was young, and she got a similar compilation of games that at least looked nice. Some were even flash games you could probably find online. But it also had some kind of virus in it that the virus scan would pick up, so that was weird.
So I had one of these bois and was an OG backer. Here is my argument for the OUYA- In 2013 for someone just out of highschool with no money the OUYA wasn't half bad for $99. There was a good sized hacking community around it so it meant you could do things like: 1. Sideload other games onto the device and I actually played a lot of GTA San Andreas on the OUYA (It was an android based device and ran most android games ok) . 2.. There was an app that let it act as a chrome cast with the addition of Netflix and youtube apps it was a good media device. 3. USB in the rear meant using any controller/ keyboard and mouse was also supported. I also hooked up a terabyte harddrive to it and ran a local network upnp media server off of the OUYA. 4. (Edit) Also forgot the thing was great for emulators! I played a lot of NES, Snes, and N64 on mine! Some other neat features: 5. (Edit) it was also super small and portable with standard full sized HDMI out and 12v adapter. Great for just throwing in a bag and taking on the go. 6. (Edit last one I swear) I'm also going to make a quick case for the controller. Buttons were very clicky, analog triggers, a middle touchpad (which the PS4 controller was doing but the controller cost almost as much as a whole OUYA), and despite the goofy shape it was VERY comfortable with removable metal plates on the front that served as battery covers and was held in place with strong magnets which made changing batteries super easy but with enough hold it never felt like the plates would come off! Was it a good gaming console? No. Was it a very versatile piece of tech that let you modify it in ways most companies won't let you? Oh yeah. In the end I think if it had been marketed more like a raspberry pie or micro/android experimental dev computer for people looking to tinker with android then it would have been way more successful. Putting it up against consoles killed it. RIP OUYA.
My Ouya was great too. It's not really "hackable" per sec, as everything you've described above is a standard feature of Android. However, I did many of the same things as you. I had to run apps from the external drive though, due to the tiny "6gb" (2gb for system memory plus 6gb for apps) of internal memory. Ouya's online shop failed, as it was easier and better to either sideload stuff for free, sideload previously paid-for apps (from Google Play) via installing backups from our phones, or even paying and then downloading apks directly from the devs. My Ouya ended up becoming a media consumption device, with some sideloaded games, emulators, etc (just like my Nvidia Shield TV pro is now).
Thing is, if you were willing to put time and effort into hacking a system, simple emulation machines were already coming to the market for a range of prices, hell the raspberry pi had come out a year earlier.
As someone who picked one of these up as an emulation box a year or so after release this is fair. It was definitely a versatile little block for its price (around 40 bucks when I grabbed it).
The only reason I could possibly think someone would need an app for this is if they have very limited data. Otherwise why not just use any of the literally thousands of TH-cam videos that do the same thing better?
One day I'll explain to my kids that in the early 2010s computer companies thought the iPad and cellphone pay to win games where going to put Microsoft and Sony out of business. I distinctly remember my sister giving me her laptop when she got a iPad because it was "now obsolete" guess what almost 10 years later I still use that laptop for surfing the web, no idea what happened to the iPad that made it "obsolete"
@@GinsengStrip-wt8bl exactly my point, during the time of the OUYA all of the leading tech people where declaring the traditional computer dead, they literally thought everything was going to be on Android and iOS.
It is in many ways a precursor of the Switch. They made a couple of bad calls. But the idea was great. It was not meant to compete with the big consoles and the Switch proved them right. Problem was, they weren't Nintendo. The controller is a stupid flimsy exercise in futility and they should never have designed their own one.
@@bjorn-falkoandreas9472 it is not comparable to the Switch at all lmao. Where did you get this idea from? This is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever read.
@@Rountree1985 In the early days of the Switch it was comparable. People forget that we had to wait a year after the initial release for some good games. It was mostly indie stuff until Mario Odyssey and Breath Of The Wild came out.
I watched ReviewTechUSA's review on the Ouya many times and thought to myself,"Why doesn't Rerez do a review on it?" Well, my wish has been granted. Thank you, Shane! :)
I tried watching his videos once as they were always recommended but he seems like a complete Jerk who exists just for trying to start drama. I mean I don't know whose worse, Reviewtech USA or The current state of Cinemassacre. Well at least Rerez puts out some decent videos.
She isn’t a leader. She should never have been the face of the system. She isn’t persuasive or charismatic or quick-witted enough to hide the system’s obvious faults. Even dug herself into a few holes she didn’t need to.
She didn't care, she saw how much money the gaming industry make (+/-34 billion annually) and wanted some of it. Thinking she was smart enough to con a tech savoy demographic into repeatedly giving up their cash for what amounted to a busted cell phone. She thought beer was more important than the games, and I'm sure no body ever told her NO before this.
in fairness to them, they have to rely on Android's underlying controller support, which doesn't seem to offer a lot of variety like way back in the day, DirectInput on Windows let you have any controller design you want. flightstick? sure. an entire airplane cockpit with multiple hundreds of realistically placed buttons and dials? no problem. there wasn't the level of standardization we see today on windows, microsoft killed DirectInput in favor of XInput, which is much easier to work with but only works with the exact inputs an Xbox controller offers. it seems to me that controller APIs in general, across most platforms, evolved in the same direction: easy and standardized, but samey and inflexible. Android likely went that way too, and the Ouya would've had to go with them
@@InfernosReaper I bet someone would say Epic, to which I'd immediately point to a certain vision-impaired rodent's work (and it's a timed exclusive on PC, to boot!).
I have the OUYA stored in my wardrobe. To me, it was the worst that they REQUIRED you to enter credit card information before you could use the console for anything else. I had to use a random credit card number generator just to bypass the card number validation. Most people in Latin America do not have credit or debit cards.
Fellow latam player here. You're right. And those that have it, are incredibly overprotective of them because we can get scammed anywhere, all the time by almost any means. Even official ATMs from banks INSIDE the bank buildin itself have scammed people by cloning their cards.
@@Chaos89P It's not the bank that does it. Scammers straight up buy off security guards or other employees to do that stuff for them. The corruption runs deep.
@@ernestoosuna4594 I've seen disguised devices people can stick on the place where you insert your card that can scan the chip in your card and record it so I'm not surprised by that
"i love video games, but more and more people are moving away from the television" Well this aged like a fine glass of milk in relation to things like the Xbox and PS5 and even the switch which yes is a portable consol but can also be docked and used on the tv
xbox will never be able to compare to playstation though lol. i mean just look at the statistics. playstation sells so much better for a reason. people just like the consoles. but the vocal minority can never stfu. so annoying how they deny that xbox is more comparable to the switch in hardware than the playstation equivalent
@NikoKuehne Comparing hardware means nothing when games is what matters for most. And I'm sorry, but Game Pass and better backwards compatibility is just better for Xbox. Not that it prevents people from owning both, after all everyone has their own needs. But it's weird you're trying to bring console wars under an Ouya video, the point was never about what's better.
Ouya looked at mobile gaming and thought that would catch on everywhere else. It didn't seem to occur to them that people didn't buy their smartphone to play Angry Birds, Doodle Jump or Candy Crush on. The reason people played Angry Birds, Doodle Jump & Candy Crush was because they ran on their phone.
there's one other thing of note: in 2013, the Steam store was still a great place to publish your indie game, and if you were particularly cheap, you could probably build a PC that could run every indie game you ever wanted for just about what the Ouya would cost.
@@Dead_Weight21 Last year I upgraded an ex-office PC (Optiplex 7050) that came with a 7th gen i5 4/8 and a 250GB SSD (not a given for office rigs, even from only a few years ago). Added another 8GB RAM for 16GB total and a 75W GTX 1650. Total cost was about 800 dollarydoos and it plays mid to late 2010's games at 1080p just fine, runs the 400Mbps jellyfish test with no problem as well.
@@wolfetteplays8894 Literally buy yourself a crappy family PC or a $100 laptop from 2010 off facebook marketplace. It will do way more for you than an Ouya
If OUYA had really pushed the "budget gaming" angle, they could've been THE indie and retro destination, and made an Ouya a fixture in nearly every gamer's home. Imagine if they'd gotten deals with Sega, Nintendo, 2k, Capcom, and Namco to put their whole back catalogs on for no more than $5 a game, and dispensed with that "every game is free to try" nonsense. Imagine if they'd gotten Hollow Knight or Cuphead as Ouya exclusives! But instead, they put all their money into... what, exactly?
It's always easy to say “Why didn't they invest in smash hit X or Y?” in hindsight. They weren't smash hits at the point where they would have needed to invest, and it's impossible to tell early on in development. If it were possible, no bad game would ever be developed. Also, none of the big name companies you listed would have even talked to an indie company like Ouya, far from striking a major business deal with them.
for all we know the ouya team tried that route, but those companies barely care about their back games themselves, their not gonna give them licensing rights for 5$ a game
I don't know. I would think most people that don't have a lot of money would instead just buy a tablet. Since that can play pretty much everything that the OUYA can and can do much more as well. Of course it's not the best experience but if you care about getting the best experience why wouldn't you just save up a little more for a PS3 or X360? Consoles are still going strong because they do a good job existing alongside tablets. For example it's cheaper to buy a PS5 and a tablet than to get a laptop of equal power. The OUYA just isn't a big enough leap over mobile gaming to really justify it's existence especially since having a tablet is almost considered mandatory today.
The Ouya makes me feel like I'm playing a modern-day version of the Action 52. Lucky I didn't buy either one. They just made not a game cartridge remake of Action 52. But a FULL CONSOLE if it came from an alternate dimension.
I recently took a basic marketing course in college and the first, most BASIC concept we ever learned was to NEVER UNDERSELL YOURSELF. Watching Julie struggle through that interview, outright saying there’s “nothing special” about her product, unveiling it from a paper bag, and not even bothering to know how many launch titles her own product would have made me cringe right out of my skin. This should go for ANY professional encounter: if you don’t seem to respect or care about your own work, why would you expect your investors, employers, or colleagues to care either?
Ah yes the OUYA, I remember being really excited when I read about it, and the prospect of playing old emulation games on it, rushed to back it, then saw the planned release date, then looked at my phone and remembered how quickly the SoC market was moving, and realised it would be a dud, and cancelled my kickstarter backing all within an hour.
What I remember the most about the Ouya was just how incompetent the woman managing the company was. She was terrible and always sounded oblivion to the world of videogames or what gamers wanted.
You should never advertise your console as 'hackable'. You should really just be more professional and say 'it's open source'. Open source implies a more positive message that you want to be able to program on it and mod on it. It's not about 'hacking' per se. That's how I see it anyway.
your comment implies that at literally any point they didnt completely and utterly screw the marketing in every single regard. the term hackable was the absolute least of their worries after they said on record as what is evidently a selling point that they've done absolutely nothing original or unique, as a FREAKING SELLING POINT IN ONE OF THE MOST HIGHLY COMPETITIVE CONSUMER MARKETS WHERE THE PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY CARE ENOUGH TO BUY THIS STUFF MAKE A POINT OF SAYING WHY ITS BETTER TO EVERYONE ELSE
@@siccoblue2112 Yeah that's really misreading what their actual point was ( that it was made from off the shelf hardware which made it a lot more dev and DIY friendly) which at the time WAS very unique.
@@jhoughjr1 I'm assuming the Lunch Bag was supposed to impress on people how small and portable it was, a la Steve Jobs iPod/iPod nano fitting in pockets.
Funny. I was telling people the Amico would be a joke when it was announced, but so many people were defending it. Tommy Telerico himself, even replied to a comment of mine saying he had enough money to make it into a serious console. Look where it is now.
@@fattiger6957 Sure, he seems to have enough money but he didn't spend a single penny from his personal account. Instead he chose to e-beg with a disingenuous crowdfunding.
I really like, how she looks out of the picture in those company-video-interviews like 4:29, showing everyone that this is a beginner level company not able to hire a pro video maker.
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Yes sir
@@NickyNickell l
Take a shot everytime time she says Telivision
Sonic forces is a good game! There I said it...and those Ouija games look like something that would cause a video game crash
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"I tripped over my ouya the other day and skinned my knee. The most fun i've had with it since lauch"
~A Kickstarter user, 2019
Almost as funny as that console that, for some strange reason, was actually an extremely good knife.
0/10 console, 10/10 knife.
@@qty1315 that's the Vega handheld iirc
@@tedjomuljono3052 Sounds right.
@@qty1315 So, Vega from SF released his own handheld console? I thought the guy was too obsessed with his own looks to do anything else? Guess Vega had a secret desire to make games?
In my mind I see a person sitting on the floor holding their knee rocking back and forth in pain saying Ouya over and over.
Ouya LIED to me as well, and stiffed me for thousands of dollars. They hired my company to photograph images that were to be used "specifically" only for Press and Social Media. We had a contract stating so, and they wanted an extremely discounted rate as these photos were NEVER supposed to be used for advertising or anything other than Press. Low and Behold, a year later I'm walking though a Target store and see an Ouya console on the shelf. I pick it up to see MY PHOTOS being used on the product packaging itself, and the advertising. SMH. Anyhow, my agent sent them the bill for the additional usage, and they refused to pay and ignored the request. We threatened a lawsuit. Julie's lawyers claimed that she had sold everything off to Razer to pay their already enormous debt, and they had no money left. When they were made aware they could be liable for up to $150,000 in copyright infringement fees...they agreed to pay half...and...we decided to take the loss as a tax write off instead. Moral of the story...beware of doing business with people who lie through their teeth.
And there goes any sympathy I had for the people who made this glorified paperweight.
This speaks to incompetent management on _someone’s_ part.
Wait, if they didn't have any money, how could they pay you $75k?
@@qty1315 probably debt,
Better pay half of it instead of being liable for 150K
@@manghariz2211 Same logic applies. Probably just declared bankruptcy or something assuming they wouldn't have to pay any outstanding debt, which is why they told the guy they were out of money. But, this was a breach of contract which was a different matter, so they had to pay something.
The CEO honestly comes across as someone who managed to luck out with the right connections and has no clue what tf they are doing
Before Theranos there was OUYA.
She's the Middle School PE teacher who had to sub for the High School Principal for whatever reason.
Or seduce her way to the top
Women.
lol she's dropping a lot of buzzwords and her mouth keeps opening making strange noises. But none of those noises make any sense!
To be fair, I think the “nothing special” line was supposed to mean that the console used common hardware, making it open to modding and hacking (back when that was still a selling point), but it was expressed very poorly.
Edit: That, or trying to say the hardware is straightforward and simple, wanting to provide a good experience for its very low price point without excess bells and whistles.
I think this phrase in general though is playing with fire, if you're not careful with it you get a OUYA, if you are, you get the Steam Deck
@@SkyTreeStudio Yeah, it's a slippery slope kind of deal. I get it, you're saying this isn't some super-expensive one-of-a-kind machine made out of solid gold, it's something simple and functional that ditches tacky bullshit for the sake of being a solidly working machine.
But you do NOT advertise that fact by saying 'there's nothing special about it'
Remember all the devs that were complaining about the Playstation 3's hard to work for hardware structure
The right way to word it: We designed this console with accessible hardware in mind, allowing User modification by our use of mostly standardized off the shelf components.
@@sorrenblitz805 Yup, that sounds perfect. Way better than the Ouya people could put it. xD
"Why did the financial analysts think the Ouya had a chance against the Big Three?"
Context: Those same analysts at the time were saying traditional gaming is dead and mobile is the future.
The same happened with VR and with the ill fated Stadia... they both were "the future". I cannot understand why the concept of several things coexisting is impossible for this "analysts" that are always predicting that something will be the new thing that will leave the rest outdated. Indeed mobile has grown incredibely, not in quality I'd dare say, but its moving millions of dollars every year. Yet traditional gaming still exists and has no signs of dissapearing any time soon.
@@xian1978 Mobile gaming is a whole different environment. It's a big pool of course, just a different kind of pool, along with its own problems.
They wanted to disrupt the establishment, man!
They did not really think that it was just a headline for clicks
@@xian1978 vr and stadia are still there. Eventually cloud streaming will be the default, why do you think Sony and Microsoft are heavily investing into ps now and xcloud
Fun fact my friends got a backer console kit for 15 dollars from a thrift shop then modded it into an android streaming box. And they used it until one day it caught fire and melted.
So the OYUA could also be used as a fireplace good to know
@@jordanpowell2242 It's the killer app the system needed, literally
I kinda wanna know why it caught fire
@ToastyFloss based
how long 1 year? 2 years?
Me: So, is this a video games console?
Sally: Nope; it's a _television_ games console.
AVGN: 'What was that about TV game?'
Fun fact, TV game is how the concept is called in Japan.
@@TokuWaffle I hope to make it there one day
Interviewer: (thinks "let's throw her a softball question) "What are the launch titles?"
OUYA kickstarter lady: "I don't know."
That was like being thrown a centerplate softball and not only whiffing the swing but also setting your own balls on fire at the same time.
@@TokuWaffle In America television game usually refers to those plug-and-play consoles that saw a lot of popularity in the 70s, which are still around.
A cutting-edge game system in which you can watch poorly animated rain, learn NOT to eat soap, and learn Esperanto. What a bargain!
Oh come on the rain was well made
*AGLO*
@@erikdaniels0nOvo. Bonega laboro!
Kato.
Kato.
Kato.
KATO.
*KATO.*
@@syahminorizan8064DING DING DING
As a dust collector, at least the Wii U has some legitimately great games.
The Wii U Virtual Console is _beast._ 😎
I'd agree. I still play mine. And strangely enough, the Wii U internet browser is so good 😁
And luckily most of those games got ported to or got a sequel on far more competent hardware
Plus Wii U is great for homebrew/modding
@@tensaichigo2 just use your phone
I remember pre-ordering an Ouya. Then I cancelled the pre-order. Then they sent me two. I contacted them via email offering to send both back and they told me to keep them.
And that's my story about my Ouya(s)
Did you ever use them? Like, at least once?
@@kkkkkkkxd4692 Yes. The controller was basically unusable so I had to use a PS3 controller. Even then, the system was just so slow.
@@darkroast9907they hooked you up
So you got two Ouyas for free? Sorry you got scammed so badly.
I'm hoping you hacked them into Emulators for retro titles. It's about the only thing that makes them worth having.
"gamers are moving away from the televisions"
It's nearly 2022 and this statement is still incredibly false.
Back then you had the WiiU's gamepad mode, the short lived fad of projection TV and Microsoft tried and got laughed at for attempting to make the XBONE run as a projection only console among other funny features
People genuinely believed traditional console gaming was dying, and the future would be always online games, mobile games, games with a toy component, and VR.
Then the toy games turned out to be a fad, VR became irrelevant, and always online has had numerous high profile failures in recent times. Mobile gaming is still strong, but the big money is in a buisness model that is increasingly being regarded as gambling and facing government regulation.
IMHO there was a perception bubble that is now bursting.
@@universalperson I remember when the Wii U was struggling, there were calls from the media and “experts” that Nintendo should abandon making hardware (like Sega did a decade prior) and focus on mobile games (which Nintendo has done with Pokémon Go and Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp).
@@Yeen125 In fairness, the Wii U would have sunk many other gaming companies. But everyone kept forgetting Nintendo had a lock on portable gaming that they leveraged into the Switch.
@@Yeen125 If you'll remember, those insiders and so-called 'video game journalists' have always been calling for Nintendo to step down as a console manufacturer. They've been saying it since Nintendo 64 didn't meet global sales expectations. Some even suggested it right before Nintendo Switch launched. However, Nintendo has doubled-down on mobile games by having a flagship platform that is both a home and a mobile gaming experience, even though the games are traditional home console games.
I had a friend who was convinced the Ouya was the best console he could buy because "you can run emulators on it." Emulators, like you can easily install on the Wii which he already owned.
He doesn't talk about Ouya anymore.
Sent him a random message..one word. OUYA
@@GallowglassBLADE”hey dude do you remember when you thought that one of the worst console cash grabs was revolutionary”
I wouldn’t say it was easy
I took the paper bag thing as trying to emulate Steve Jobs unveiling the first MacBook Air with a manila envelope, but utterly failing to understand how and why his delivery worked. Then again, they utterly failed to understand many, many other things.
I guess that makes more sense!
It's always Steve Jobs, for fucks sake.
@@blakksheep736 when he told us all to think differently, Julie said "What if I just do what he does but lamer."
Ah ok😅
But Steve tried to demonstrate that the Mac air is thin like a manila envelope. But Ouya are just fucking unprofessional by using the lunch paper bag as a carrier even an idiot know that putting a game console in a paper bags are just a no brainer
I still remember the woman saying "There's nothing special about this thing" and I laughed because apparently NO ONE said out loud to her, "Then why would anyone buy this?"
That's what happens when people are surrounded by either "yes men" or complacent journalists
That’s a very good point. I guess they didn’t want to be rude.
It was SXSW Tech they have a lot of Startups and a ton of technology heads who likely are just founding a company so some larger one will buy them out.
It's sad 'cause that's a job interview type of question that the boss could not even answer.
Topolsky made a comment about it right there though.
The crowning achievement of the OUYA, is being the star of an Rerez video.
Or the Mega64 video (NSFW)…
More like crowbcat's legendary video on it
Or Stuart Ashen's channel
Hard agree
CallmeKevin tho
Ouya: "Hackers can tweak the box and make it their own!"
Hackers: *creates emulators in Ouya*
Ouya: *Surprised Pikachu face*
Emulators were already a thing on Android by the time Ouya came out. Ouya became the perfect little machines to run these emulators lol.
In case anyone's curious about what Julie Uhrman is doing nowadays, she became the co-founder of Angel City Football Club, which is a Los Angeles-based expansion soccer team for the National Women's Soccer League. They've been announced this past July, and are expected to play sometime in 2022.
A bit of a departure from gaming
@@ethan2246 Good, she should stay as far away from it as possible lol
@@DisDatK9 Come on, don't you want to see the "OUYA 2: Television Boogaloo"?
and spending her millions
@F. F. believe it or not they’ve already sold 11k season tickets. I think it’s because LAFC is very popular in LA, and ACFC also has big name owners like Natalie Portman and Serena Williams. As well as the founder of Ouya lol
It's really simple why Ouya failed:
- No exclusives, no killer apps
- Their store moderation and "free trial" policy led to it becoming a dumping ground for mobile games
I guess some quality control is good, but I really wanted mobile trash on my consoles too!
Controller felt trash as well
i really wanted something like the ouya to take off and we eventually got it with the Nvidia shield but this thing was an absolute disaster, i feel like had they not claimed to be taking on the big three, delayed the project, got it finished properly and then put it out in the world history would have been different.
the Nvidia shield was the ouya done right so the concept is great but jesus christ this thing was bad
You're clearly overthinking this. The Ouya failed because it was a piece of garbage and was D.O.A. it had zero chance of ever succeeding! Zero!
@@G18999 the Nvidia Shield was the Ouya done right lol
Ahh, 2012 - that golden age when mobile games still showed potential for innovative game design... how far have we fallen.
I know people had hope for it but seeing as a huge part of the mobile gaming infrastructure was based on Facebook's Farmville model, it was always just gonna be a doomed money pit.
It’s a shame a lot of good tech like Accelerometer and LIDAR is mostly going unused in gaming :(((
@Frog Genshin Impact and Warframe would like to have a word with you
@@Chiayiklin 2 titles in a sea of shovelware.
@@pingu4938 u sure
Good Lord! I feel like this lady was the Elizabeth Holmes of gaming… How someone fucked something up so bad is unreal. Be careful who you give your money to folks. It’s like a hiring a CEO without an interview, resume, or exp.
The funny thing about her is that she's now a successful woman's soccer manager.
Like...very successful. Like multi millionaire and celebrity endorsed successful.
@@williamcharron4683 at least she bounced back
As far as we know, Julie wasn’t malicious, just incompetent, out of her depth and a bit arrogant.
One of their many mistakes is straight out of the gate, she says everyone is moving away from the television, so we're going to take the form they're moving to despite its compromises and put it in the television. And thereby create the worst of both
Yeah, that makes no sense now that you mention it. If they thought mobile and handheld gaming was rising, they should have tried to bring console-quality gaming to mobile, not the other way around!
Sally: "hackers can hack the platform and make it their own"
*people use emulators*
Sally: "NO FREE DEMOS!!!!"
Her name is Julie.
Hypocrisy is often an amazing thing ain't it?
@@redjed100 Julie, Sally, it all sounds like "Karen" to me
@@nickfifteen to me it sounds like “hey bro I got a promotion wanna make a game console?”
@@nickfifteen How was she a Karen tho?
Julie: *says people are moving away from the tv*
Also Julie: *makes a home console that needs a tv.*
Television*
The more I think about it, having her be the face to pitch this was the WORST Idea
At least Nintendo got the picture
she clearly meant cable lol
This is a woman of many contradictions…
Honestly, the name OUYA sounds like something that a martial artist would say before they fight.
Ooh ya, a thing that existed
Randy "Macho Man" Savage
I died laughing reading at this comment 😂👍.
To me it sounds like a Midwesterner expressing a negative response. “Ooh ya, I’m not too sure about that, bud.”
Amazing how Julie Uhrman cleaned her hands of this debacle and founded a professional women's soccer club. You just keep movin' on
Yep, classic example of a failure of corporate leadership to understand the product or the market. Typical big buisness tick sucking the blood out of companies and failing up.
@My Lord I don’t know but I think failed
I always thought she looked like a soccer mom
Only goes to show that she never had a clue about the video game industry to begin with
So shes not good at anything then
"Our controller has a touchpad! Does the competition have one on their televisions?"
"Yes"
"...exactly! Buy an Ouya! It's for the television!"
I reached for my PS4 controller as soon as she said that. My Vita was closer. STILL!
My TV would be VERY smart if it was a touch screen and there'd be no point for it to be one unless you had a long poking stick XD
"Stop wasting cash on crappy games"
*makes a console full with crappy games*
Seriosly, the flash games are far better than this and they are all free.
Rip Flash :(
@@oz_jones always be remembered o7
@@oppositeday429 most don't need to be remembered! Check out flashpoint.
Imagine if ride to hell: retribution was on ouya(for those who know don’t what that game it’s own of the lowest rated game)
@@The_whales RTH is a masterpiece what do you mean?
As a sort of Sonic fan all I can muster is... meh.
Kato....kato......kato...... kato.... kato..... kato.....kato.... kato..... kato.... kato...kato......kato....kato..........BANANO
Well said Renegades, well said
Lose lose. Thats all we get as a Sonic fan during those dark times
Never played it.
Sonic Forces me to eN-Gage with you.
“Playstation has a touchpad controller”
“It’s true. They could build it for that”
Lmao wut?!
Not could, they have! That's what blows me away
That's a self own if I hadn't heard one before.
That part is so uncomfortable
Methinks she got caught off-guard by the PS4 controller having a touchpad, which just goes to show how little research she did on the competition.
@@zhazha23 The Ouya team got really cocky when their Kickstarter got successful. They thought people would support them unconditionally because they weren’t like *other* game companies! They were Ouya, what did other game companies have that they didn’t?
Consumer trust. That’s what they had. The Xbox One, PS4 and even the Wii U all had the backing of companies people have come to trust and respect. Even something like the Xbox One, which had a rough launch, and the Wii U, which is the Wii U, still did better then the Ouya *because* of that trust!
I do agree that emulators were a big problem with the system but I think the real reason why 73% didn't buy games was because as Julie said "this console is ment to be hacked" people were downloading APK files of the games so there wasn't a point to buy them. One of there key features shot them in the foot.
Had she phrased it as "open source (with copyright related limitations)" instead of "hackable" the console would've been a smidge more successful. It's in the presentation, which they fail at in spades.
I think she or her whole team suffer brain damage 😅😂
I did this, just downloaded mobile games on my pc then dumped them onto my ouya. I Did buy Towerfall though
Well, you can also easily pirate games on the PC, nothing stopping you, so i dont think thats the whole story.
@@LiEnbyThe Ouya is more aligned to consoles in the sense that profit comes from game sales rather than hardware sales. If they sell all their consoles at a loss but make their console easy as hell to put apks on them, users will go the easy and cheap route, piracy. That's why piracy kind of bit them in their arse there.
That awkward moment where Big Rigs is more complete than the OUYA's racing game..
amaing you right!
I like Big Rigs just for it's truck can overpowers Dr Manhattan(even when he can access his New52 feats)
I ordered an Ouya just so I can have access to all these shitpost games. It's gonna be amazing.
I’m confident FlatOut 3: Chaos & Destruction is more fun than the racing games the OUYA had.
@@puppymaroon964 Lmao flatout 3 is forza horizon compared to the racing games on ouya
Was the console good? No
Did everything that could go wrong go wrong? OUYA
Julie's son: Aww man.. my mom packed me a Ouya for lunch!
She is lesbian
That's the point
@@RolandTemplar
Her girlfriend’s son*
Underrated comment.
@@RolandTemplar ever heard of adoption
Ouya: "I'm not feeling to well."
Rerez: "Welcome to the show."
14:06 LOL an ouya with hands and feet and a funny face!
I think this is the most comprehensive breakdown of how the Ouya went wrong that I've seen. I appreciate the actual examples and not just saying "the games were bad" or something. Very well done!
"Our controller has a touchpad; you're not gonna find that anywhere else."
[Looks at the PS4 controller in confusion]
"There's nothing special about this thing" lol. That is like the worst thing you can say about your console xD
But, it’s the most honest thing I’ve heard from any console manufacturer in recent time. The only console I see that has anything that isn’t accomplished by a PC is the Nintendo switch, with its tablet tweener portable system.
This is how you don't use reverse psychology as marketing tool.
@@hackerp49 I think the Virtual Boy did that and Sega Saturn attempted that in the US. Also the NES did that in Australia. All of those failed hard.
Especially when you (unintentionally) downplay the existence of the PS4, Xbox One and Wii U.
I remember watching this interview at the time thinking the exact same thing.
Basically, Ouya has now become a perfect paperweight
Always has been 🔫
I mean the console does look like a spare couch leg.
According to Wikipedia, it is only 11 ounces. I question it’s ability to be a good paperweight.
Actually, the Ouya is just a basic Android device in a square box that you can install regular Android apps on. Thus you can install Android games on it as well as install retro game system emulators to play NES, SNES, C64, Genesis/Megadrive, etc. games. So if you use it like a RaspberryPi with RetroPi software installed it you could use it as retro gaming device. It won’t play modern Android games very well, if at all due to its outdated hardware and old Android version but it’s not totally useless. That’s a lot better use then as a paperweight given how the light the unit is anyways. Also you can install media software on it to use it as a set top box for playing video and music.
@@Charlesb88 Save the fact that a Raspberri Pi has pulled off PS2 emulation...
You're finally covering this disaster? This is gonna be a treat.
And hey, it's not all bad. The OUYA is still good as a paperweight.
Given the weight of the console, I think it's even doing that part really poorly...
You can throw it at someone or just throw it around the house. Probably will make you feel better!
the Ouya was so light, that it actually has pieces of metal on it so it doesn't just hangs on the cables... which are heavier than it
It has evolved
metal brushed USD 99 paperweight
The OUYA is one of those things you buy solely out of curiosity....then you leave it at the bottom of your closet, or in a random box of junk in your house.
Ah yes, the Ouya. A console I heard about years ago in a random podcast, and was actually pretty excited about. Then, I found out in that same podcast episode that it was also already discontinued.
The phrase "take the money and run" comes to mind. Thanks for doing a recap of its history, Shane!
I'm not even sure they made money.
Never trust any product whose announcement includes the words "disrupt the industry."
@@drakkenmensch The "disrupt" corporate buzzword is so annoying. I love the hippy imagery used to mock; don't think corporate types would go for that.
@@universalperson They started the company with Kickstarter money then sold the company to Razer, so I assume at least the idiot lady who was in charge went out with a fat wallet.
@@universalperson Their best selling title sold... 7000 copies. So no, they did not make money.
"His name is Oogie. He kick starts my heart man." Now that was funny as hell.
Ouyie
I actually bought an Ouya. It worked pretty well as a SNES emulator for about a week, and then it broke and I couldn't turn it on again.
The SNES classic does the job much better in every way, so no loss.
This right here a buddy of mine has one and it turned itself off one day and won't power on at all now.
@Peace To You Can you load that into an SNES Classic? I know RetroArch can, but my knowledge of the mini console scene is sorely lacking.
I had an ouya and it worked fine for emulators and still does. The SNES classic isn't that great, congested to competing Android/PC/Raspberry PI STBs. For example, the Nvidia Shield TV is pretty good (although the official controller is crap and overpriced).
Wow
a Raspberry pi does the job awesome too, and it's like $80 with most of what you need and a case
Maybe the OUYA was meant to complete with the Hyperscan
When my grandpa got his first computer in the late 90s he bought a CD ROM called "350 great games" from the budget section somewhere. It was a bunch of freeware/shareware games and they looked exactly like most of these.
Action 52 for Windows lol
I bet there were titles on it like
Super Jump Marri
Burger Clock
Doctor Marri
Marri Brother Turtle Smash
Zevious
Redden
The Fable of Xelda
Penultimate Daydream
Astro Brutality
Walnuts and Creamer
Trinary World
Iceberg Traveler
Highway Battle
City AB 2000
F- Racing
Kommander Koras: (The Universe of Madness)
Balloon Battle
Zippy Drive
Adolescent Deformed Fighter Tortoises
My grandma got a Windows XP machine when I was young, and she got a similar compilation of games that at least looked nice. Some were even flash games you could probably find online.
But it also had some kind of virus in it that the virus scan would pick up, so that was weird.
@@Bro-cx2jcnot even gonna lie Penultimate Daydream kinda goes hard
So I had one of these bois and was an OG backer. Here is my argument for the OUYA-
In 2013 for someone just out of highschool with no money the OUYA wasn't half bad for $99.
There was a good sized hacking community around it so it meant you could do things like:
1. Sideload other games onto the device and I actually played a lot of GTA San Andreas on the OUYA (It was an android based device and ran most android games ok) .
2.. There was an app that let it act as a chrome cast with the addition of Netflix and youtube apps it was a good media device.
3. USB in the rear meant using any controller/ keyboard and mouse was also supported. I also hooked up a terabyte harddrive to it and ran a local network upnp media server off of the OUYA.
4. (Edit) Also forgot the thing was great for emulators! I played a lot of NES, Snes, and N64 on mine!
Some other neat features:
5. (Edit) it was also super small and portable with standard full sized HDMI out and 12v adapter. Great for just throwing in a bag and taking on the go.
6. (Edit last one I swear) I'm also going to make a quick case for the controller. Buttons were very clicky, analog triggers, a middle touchpad (which the PS4 controller was doing but the controller cost almost as much as a whole OUYA), and despite the goofy shape it was VERY comfortable with removable metal plates on the front that served as battery covers and was held in place with strong magnets which made changing batteries super easy but with enough hold it never felt like the plates would come off!
Was it a good gaming console? No. Was it a very versatile piece of tech that let you modify it in ways most companies won't let you? Oh yeah. In the end I think if it had been marketed more like a raspberry pie or micro/android experimental dev computer for people looking to tinker with android then it would have been way more successful. Putting it up against consoles killed it. RIP OUYA.
My Ouya was great too. It's not really "hackable" per sec, as everything you've described above is a standard feature of Android. However, I did many of the same things as you. I had to run apps from the external drive though, due to the tiny "6gb" (2gb for system memory plus 6gb for apps) of internal memory.
Ouya's online shop failed, as it was easier and better to either sideload stuff for free, sideload previously paid-for apps (from Google Play) via installing backups from our phones, or even paying and then downloading apks directly from the devs.
My Ouya ended up becoming a media consumption device, with some sideloaded games, emulators, etc (just like my Nvidia Shield TV pro is now).
Thing is, if you were willing to put time and effort into hacking a system, simple emulation machines were already coming to the market for a range of prices, hell the raspberry pi had come out a year earlier.
@@Roboshi2007 emulation on the pi was in its infancy though in comparison to android . And the first pi version was very rough.
You know what? That’s fair. You took inferior hardware and you ran with it. Hacking makes sense with this thing. Props to you.
As someone who picked one of these up as an emulation box a year or so after release this is fair. It was definitely a versatile little block for its price (around 40 bucks when I grabbed it).
To be fair, Just Rain is an actual Android app to help with sleeping, meditation, etc. Not sure why it got ported to the Ouya though lol
Probably because it was easy to do?
I guess for people that like to sleep with their tv on.
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
The only reason I could possibly think someone would need an app for this is if they have very limited data. Otherwise why not just use any of the literally thousands of TH-cam videos that do the same thing better?
Must've been a boring day over at the studio
To give the OUYA the benefit of the doubt, at least the homebrew scene is pretty active. You could probably use the OUYA as a homebrew box
I was an OUYA 'free the games' developer, the thing you didn't mention about the fund is they would only pay you after the game was done!
One day I'll explain to my kids that in the early 2010s computer companies thought the iPad and cellphone pay to win games where going to put Microsoft and Sony out of business. I distinctly remember my sister giving me her laptop when she got a iPad because it was "now obsolete" guess what almost 10 years later I still use that laptop for surfing the web, no idea what happened to the iPad that made it "obsolete"
Yeah, all the "the pc is dead"-talk. As if a shitty tablet would replace a capable PC for everyone.
It was exactly that thinking that lead Microsoft to create the disaster that was Windows 8.
@@McVaio Most people don’t need a “capable PC”, they need a browser, social media, and streaming services. Maybe Turbo Tax once a year.
Tablets are dead now, not laptops 😂
@@GinsengStrip-wt8bl exactly my point, during the time of the OUYA all of the leading tech people where declaring the traditional computer dead, they literally thought everything was going to be on Android and iOS.
The worst games look like someone's first Python project, but the whole thing just feels like a fever dream.
Dude, some of those look like early 3d console tech demos
Rerez takes more care of the OUYA than the creator
I’m impressed
The Ouya is something I never heard of until 2018, and it’s an interesting piece of gaming history.
It is in many ways a precursor of the Switch. They made a couple of bad calls. But the idea was great. It was not meant to compete with the big consoles and the Switch proved them right. Problem was, they weren't Nintendo.
The controller is a stupid flimsy exercise in futility and they should never have designed their own one.
@@bjorn-falkoandreas9472 it is not comparable to the Switch at all lmao. Where did you get this idea from? This is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever read.
It fills the same niche of mobile "games" at home with the gross mumber of ports it has
"Interesting" is definitely one word for it.
"Failure" is another.
@@Rountree1985 In the early days of the Switch it was comparable. People forget that we had to wait a year after the initial release for some good games. It was mostly indie stuff until Mario Odyssey and Breath Of The Wild came out.
I watched ReviewTechUSA's review on the Ouya many times and thought to myself,"Why doesn't Rerez do a review on it?"
Well, my wish has been granted. Thank you, Shane! :)
then you're a fool watching his videos
@@gamemaster2192 Oh come on, Rich is good. Not as good as Shane but I like ReviewTechUSA.
@@kenterminateddq5311 He's a shill, and a scum-bag. He can be funny on streams, but that's about it...
@@kenterminateddq5311 rich is good sure the guy is a complete joke he makes dsp a saint
I tried watching his videos once as they were always recommended but he seems like a complete Jerk who exists just for trying to start drama.
I mean I don't know whose worse, Reviewtech USA or The current state of Cinemassacre. Well at least Rerez puts out some decent videos.
This woman’s presentation on that stage is like the polar opposite to the iconic “299” press event for Sony
21:29 This Kato's expression accurately depicts how everyone felt about the OUYA
And also "BANANO" that i heard 4 million times until Ouya gone for good in June 2019. LOL. 🤣
Just Rain: The Stealth Sequel to Quantic Dream’s Heavy Rain
Jason not included.
Can I still press X to "SHAUN!!"?
*Slaps knee* David Cage, you've done it again.
how about Torrential Rain: The Heavy Rain (by Quantic Dream) Remaster?
She had the connections and attitude to start something, but didn't have the intelligence or foresight to understand what gamers really wanted
She isn’t a leader. She should never have been the face of the system. She isn’t persuasive or charismatic or quick-witted enough to hide the system’s obvious faults. Even dug herself into a few holes she didn’t need to.
her connections were her fellow tribes people and her qualifications were being a woman.
She does not seem to be a gamer, and tried to start a gaming company.
She didn't care, she saw how much money the gaming industry make (+/-34 billion annually) and wanted some of it. Thinking she was smart enough to con a tech savoy demographic into repeatedly giving up their cash for what amounted to a busted cell phone. She thought beer was more important than the games, and I'm sure no body ever told her NO before this.
What was her thing with games being on the television? Didn’t she forgot the 3DS, and PSVita existed? Also what about PCs?
I like to think everyone developing games for this thing decided "let's just make shitpost games for laughs lmao."
there was an mmo king of like WoW and it wasn't that bad. the only problem was the ouya wasn't good enough to keep it from being laggy
I have missed Rerez. I don't know any other gaming channel that does such a good job documenting the issues AND being funny while doing it.
Maybe the channel that inspired him and the entire genre 😂
@@looweegee252 Which one is that? genuinelly curious, cuz i have no idea...
@@MaroshBRuNo I was thinking the same.
Fun Fact: In Chinese English Pinyin OUYA means-sound of dogs fighting, also written 吽呀
The parallel universe where she pulls her ham sandwich out of that paper bag would have had a better console than what we got.
"Now with Mayo"
"What condiments?" "I have no idea"
The OUYA: All the gaming power of a smart phone, with the portability of a console!
It's ironic how the boot-up sound for Ouya is similar to that of "Stadia"...
The stadia bombed also.
@@marccaselle8108 That's why they made the comment haha
And they are both in the same paper bag!
I couldn't believe it when the CEO of the company pulled their new console and controller out of a brown paper bag.
I mean I was really disappointed when they showed off the PS5 and they didn't pull it out of a brown paper bag.
I halfway expected her to pull out a sandwich .
@@horpuscorpus8299 "Important prototype" Ouya lady : There's nothing special about this.
Ouya: It's what's for lunch
@@iGame3D I ate an ouya once and spent all night on the toilet with a stomach ache.
I did a presentation on the Ouya in my game design class in highschool. My teacher knew then it would be fucking awful.
You had a game design class in highschool?? Mine barely had a computer class lol
Jealous
Absolutely based!
OUYA: Tauts itself as being very avant-garde
Also OUYA: Has the same exact controller as all other systems
in fairness to them, they have to rely on Android's underlying controller support, which doesn't seem to offer a lot of variety
like way back in the day, DirectInput on Windows let you have any controller design you want. flightstick? sure. an entire airplane cockpit with multiple hundreds of realistically placed buttons and dials? no problem. there wasn't the level of standardization we see today
on windows, microsoft killed DirectInput in favor of XInput, which is much easier to work with but only works with the exact inputs an Xbox controller offers. it seems to me that controller APIs in general, across most platforms, evolved in the same direction: easy and standardized, but samey and inflexible. Android likely went that way too, and the Ouya would've had to go with them
Steam in 2010s: "We've have no quality control on our games."
OUYA: "...Hold my paper bag."
Steam today: We STILL have no quality control.
@@mercenarygundam1487 What online store does? A small minority at best
@@InfernosReaper I bet someone would say Epic, to which I'd immediately point to a certain vision-impaired rodent's work (and it's a timed exclusive on PC, to boot!).
I have the OUYA stored in my wardrobe. To me, it was the worst that they REQUIRED you to enter credit card information before you could use the console for anything else. I had to use a random credit card number generator just to bypass the card number validation. Most people in Latin America do not have credit or debit cards.
Fellow latam player here. You're right. And those that have it, are incredibly overprotective of them because we can get scammed anywhere, all the time by almost any means. Even official ATMs from banks INSIDE the bank buildin itself have scammed people by cloning their cards.
@@ernestoosuna4594 Why would a bank do that, unless it was a scammer who threw a "number copier" in the ATM?!
@@Chaos89P It's not the bank that does it. Scammers straight up buy off security guards or other employees to do that stuff for them. The corruption runs deep.
@@ernestoosuna4594 I've seen disguised devices people can stick on the place where you insert your card that can scan the chip in your card and record it so I'm not surprised by that
“There’s a hurdle to get these games on a television”
Sounds like a death cry…
I think right before that I was using a vga dongle on my iPad
"i love video games, but more and more people are moving away from the television"
Well this aged like a fine glass of milk in relation to things like the Xbox and PS5 and even the switch which yes is a portable consol but can also be docked and used on the tv
Also a television and a monitor are both kinda one and the same usually nowadays, so she's not even right in a technical sense
@@streeterville773yet a tv will always be better
xbox will never be able to compare to playstation though lol. i mean just look at the statistics. playstation sells so much better for a reason. people just like the consoles. but the vocal minority can never stfu. so annoying how they deny that xbox is more comparable to the switch in hardware than the playstation equivalent
@NikoKuehne Comparing hardware means nothing when games is what matters for most. And I'm sorry, but Game Pass and better backwards compatibility is just better for Xbox.
Not that it prevents people from owning both, after all everyone has their own needs. But it's weird you're trying to bring console wars under an Ouya video, the point was never about what's better.
Some of those games made Big Rigs look like a polished AAA masterpiece.
You probably never heard of Morphman 😂
@@flonkplonk1649 So, where's this caAAAstle?
@@jmal I'm an Eeeaaagle !
*Acts scared!*
@@flonkplonk1649 Bruh, these games make morphman look like zelda botw
28:53 Ok but whoever screamed "those darn nipples" on that game was hilarious.
Obviously julie of course 28:54 7:07
Someone needs to make that meme
Not gonna lie, "The 80's Strike Back" looks like it could be some kind of nostalgia fun. They'd have to do more than just that level, though.
They could have levels based on the 1780s and 1880s as well as the 1980s.
@@zyzzy-ko4ww That would be dumb fun. Like maybe Beethoven could appear in one of them.
but how else do you expect me to play star wars from the 2600
Ouya looked at mobile gaming and thought that would catch on everywhere else. It didn't seem to occur to them that people didn't buy their smartphone to play Angry Birds, Doodle Jump or Candy Crush on. The reason people played Angry Birds, Doodle Jump & Candy Crush was because they ran on their phone.
24:06 The fake comments in this part actually being civil was a hilarious touch.
Anyone else would have made them hate comments.
Not on Rerez. The people here are civil and know when to take a joke.
“I like your shirt.”
there's one other thing of note: in 2013, the Steam store was still a great place to publish your indie game, and if you were particularly cheap, you could probably build a PC that could run every indie game you ever wanted for just about what the Ouya would cost.
Nah dude, $99 wouldn’t let you build a pc to run all indie games. It would even struggle to run RPG maker. Maybe $250 but definitely not $99
@@wolfetteplays8894 You can, with second hand PC parts. Not everything has to be brand new.
@@wolfetteplays8894 you'll be surprised at how cheap computers can be, and still be effective
@@Dead_Weight21 Last year I upgraded an ex-office PC (Optiplex 7050) that came with a 7th gen i5 4/8 and a 250GB SSD (not a given for office rigs, even from only a few years ago). Added another 8GB RAM for 16GB total and a 75W GTX 1650. Total cost was about 800 dollarydoos and it plays mid to late 2010's games at 1080p just fine, runs the 400Mbps jellyfish test with no problem as well.
@@wolfetteplays8894 Literally buy yourself a crappy family PC or a $100 laptop from 2010 off facebook marketplace. It will do way more for you than an Ouya
If OUYA had really pushed the "budget gaming" angle, they could've been THE indie and retro destination, and made an Ouya a fixture in nearly every gamer's home. Imagine if they'd gotten deals with Sega, Nintendo, 2k, Capcom, and Namco to put their whole back catalogs on for no more than $5 a game, and dispensed with that "every game is free to try" nonsense. Imagine if they'd gotten Hollow Knight or Cuphead as Ouya exclusives! But instead, they put all their money into... what, exactly?
It still would have failed
It's always easy to say “Why didn't they invest in smash hit X or Y?” in hindsight. They weren't smash hits at the point where they would have needed to invest, and it's impossible to tell early on in development. If it were possible, no bad game would ever be developed.
Also, none of the big name companies you listed would have even talked to an indie company like Ouya, far from striking a major business deal with them.
They won't have got licenses to all old games for $5. A company like Nintendo and capcom won't have done it
for all we know the ouya team tried that route, but those companies barely care about their back games themselves, their not gonna give them licensing rights for 5$ a game
I don't know. I would think most people that don't have a lot of money would instead just buy a tablet. Since that can play pretty much everything that the OUYA can and can do much more as well.
Of course it's not the best experience but if you care about getting the best experience why wouldn't you just save up a little more for a PS3 or X360?
Consoles are still going strong because they do a good job existing alongside tablets. For example it's cheaper to buy a PS5 and a tablet than to get a laptop of equal power. The OUYA just isn't a big enough leap over mobile gaming to really justify it's existence especially since having a tablet is almost considered mandatory today.
Dude I’m glad I found your channel! Pure greatness
OUYA is equivalent to "when someone don't have any idea how game console works and they want to create by their own"
The Ouya makes me feel like I'm playing a modern-day version of the Action 52. Lucky I didn't buy either one.
They just made not a game cartridge remake of Action 52. But a FULL CONSOLE if it came from an alternate dimension.
at least action 52 is funny in some way.
ouya is a first hand embarrasment.
Whats action 52
@@dirtynewyorker4542 Watch AVGNs review about it.
Looks more like early 2000's Newgrounds
UFO 50 is like that second paragraph but actually great
The CEO could have at least had WRITTEN NOTES to say the list of launch titles, or at least rehearse the point of your product lol!
I've seen middle school PowerPoint presentations better researched and executed then this business panel.
It's funny because it's true. It's like the saying goes..." By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail."
I recently took a basic marketing course in college and the first, most BASIC concept we ever learned was to NEVER UNDERSELL YOURSELF. Watching Julie struggle through that interview, outright saying there’s “nothing special” about her product, unveiling it from a paper bag, and not even bothering to know how many launch titles her own product would have made me cringe right out of my skin. This should go for ANY professional encounter: if you don’t seem to respect or care about your own work, why would you expect your investors, employers, or colleagues to care either?
She's no Elizabeth Holmes that's for sure
So the ouya tried to be a Stadia, a RaspberryPi kit and a low end Steam Box, but without the perks on none of these three things.
No, raspberry pi kit, steam box and stadia tried to be a better ouya, and succeeded.
@@childbeater6973 stadia is dead though
Unlike the steam box, at least people heard of the Ouya
@@qweebey It was better, doesn't mean it was successful
What happens when you fail at Butt tho?
Not sure, Something bad I guess
Something really really bad…or really really good…depending on what you’re into.
Probably something about probes and the 7th planet from the sun.
You move on and do something more important, like your laundry.
I'd give you a detailed explanation.
But I'm pretty gassed at the moment.
You say "Towerfall" was the Ouya's killer app, but I say "Car Jump" was the definitive Ouya game.
It's never been released on any other platform.
I respectfully disagree. I believe that the Ouya-defining experience is found between two of their other exclusives: Butt and *THOSE DARN NIPPLES!*
I wonder why.
The Coconut Hut "ad" reminds me of the Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing ad parody that AVGN did.
Big Rigs is rated U for unfinished and it's still more enjoyable than Coconut Hut.
Ah yes the OUYA, I remember being really excited when I read about it, and the prospect of playing old emulation games on it, rushed to back it, then saw the planned release date, then looked at my phone and remembered how quickly the SoC market was moving, and realised it would be a dud, and cancelled my kickstarter backing all within an hour.
What I remember the most about the Ouya was just how incompetent the woman managing the company was. She was terrible and always sounded oblivion to the world of videogames or what gamers wanted.
How to use your controller correctly:
First, get your favorite real life rpg axe
7:06 that is an early sign of unprofessionalism.
I think she was tryna say that this was just an android box and is open source, but you know… in a very unprofessional way.
The problem with the OUYA is that it was developed by people who thought they were gamers because they played Candy Crush
Candy Crush: can be played on Xbox and Chromebook, making Ouya useless. 😂
@@autobotstarscream765 A version of Candy Crush comes BUNDLED WITH WINDOWS 10.
@@TheSmart-CasualGamer If Microsoft succeeds in buying ActiBlizz, they will also get King and literally OWN Candy Crush. 😂😂😂
Wahmen.
@@themonsterunderyourbed9408 There are men on the development team too you sexist!
When your CEO knows nothing about her own market you’re in trouble.
You should never advertise your console as 'hackable'. You should really just be more professional and say 'it's open source'. Open source implies a more positive message that you want to be able to program on it and mod on it. It's not about 'hacking' per se. That's how I see it anyway.
your comment implies that at literally any point they didnt completely and utterly screw the marketing in every single regard. the term hackable was the absolute least of their worries after they said on record as what is evidently a selling point that they've done absolutely nothing original or unique, as a FREAKING SELLING POINT IN ONE OF THE MOST HIGHLY COMPETITIVE CONSUMER MARKETS WHERE THE PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY CARE ENOUGH TO BUY THIS STUFF MAKE A POINT OF SAYING WHY ITS BETTER TO EVERYONE ELSE
@@siccoblue2112 Yeah that's really misreading what their actual point was ( that it was made from off the shelf hardware which made it a lot more dev and DIY friendly) which at the time WAS very unique.
@@kidthorazine Not really though. Even then you could by raspberry pis.. Their OS was just android
@@jhoughjr1 I'm assuming the Lunch Bag was supposed to impress on people how small and portable it was, a la Steve Jobs iPod/iPod nano fitting in pockets.
@@jhoughjr1 the raspberry pi isn't a games console.
Thanks for including that bonus episode of "It's Just -Bad- Rain" in the video!
24:33 I thought he will say the usual "It's Just BAD" but on a Worst Ever series. But instead we got IT'S JUST RAIN lol
The Intellivision Amico is on its way to outdoing the Ouya in becoming the biggest failure and worst video game console ever!
Don't worry I see Atari handing thier beer to someone.
Still can't beat out the ZX Spectrum Vega plus.
Downright evil stuff was going on there.
Funny. I was telling people the Amico would be a joke when it was announced, but so many people were defending it. Tommy Telerico himself, even replied to a comment of mine saying he had enough money to make it into a serious console. Look where it is now.
@@fattiger6957 Sure, he seems to have enough money but he didn't spend a single penny from his personal account. Instead he chose to e-beg with a disingenuous crowdfunding.
I'm still annoyed that the new Earthworm Jim is supposed to be an exclusive for that thing
RIP to the wallets sacrificed on the alter of the Ouya.
I really like, how she looks out of the picture in those company-video-interviews like 4:29, showing everyone that this is a beginner level company not able to hire a pro video maker.