Comments on: GameStick Hits $100K Target in 30 Hours, Announces Support for XBMC and DLNA

By: capecodty

capecodty — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:52:00 +0000

Yeah but kudos to them for supporting xbmc. Not even consoles do that without modding.

By: Otto Dieffenbach

Otto Dieffenbach — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 07:49:00 +0000

dont forget the fan. we have only played with these chipsets in fanless phones and tablets. remember doubling the OG main processors only had a slight increase, imagine the OCing we can do with a fan cooled GPU.

By: Otto Dieffenbach

Otto Dieffenbach — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 07:47:00 +0000

remember pebble wanted to make 100k worth of watches and start their business, we sort of drove them to play with the big boys in a 10mill business model. expected growing pains should have been a no brainer. ouya on the other hand came from big industry and shrunk big industry models down. hence delays for pebble and i expect a clean launch for ouya. Plus pebble is debuting FINAL at CES.

By: KOBALT

KOBALT — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 02:39:00 +0000

I dunno. I think it looks pretty cool and promising.

By: PhoenixPath

PhoenixPath — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 21:53:00 +0000

I think this is less about “Android Game Consoles” and more about stupid stuff getting Kickstarted….(or stuff that’s *already* been kickstarted…)

By: master94

master94 — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 21:43:00 +0000

True, I too have invested into OUYA. I just dont understand why people are so mad another company has joined into the Android Game consul world.

By: PhoenixPath

PhoenixPath — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 21:37:00 +0000

This is junk. People will “kickstart” anything.

This is an Android-on-a-stick (done to death…search Amazon…they’re around $50-$60 bucks) with a d-pad (because according to their kick-starter page they don’t like clunky controllers??)

I’m with Evan on this one. OUYA at least tries to be different.

By: Ennifer Connelly

Ennifer Connelly — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 21:30:00 +0000

agreed.
blacming marketing is like saying The Thunderbolt’s battery would’ve not been reviewed as crap worked if people knew it upfront. !

http://www.youtube.com.qr.net/j38Z/watch?v=zaTzrwx6dNM

By: master94

master94 — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 19:56:00 +0000

True but competition is always a good thing.

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 17:04:00 +0000

I wonder if they think everyone will simply run old emulators on it or something.
It’s ain’t gonna run Horn, that’s for sure.

By: michael arazan

michael arazan — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 08:28:00 +0000

Sounds like they need to upload a youtube video link to their kickstarter that explains their business model and time frame and resources they already have or will need. That way you know they have a plan and model already made ready to go and not flying by the seat of their pants.

By: arthur2142

arthur2142 — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:44:00 +0000

Really? I hope Ouya sees this and kicks them to the curb.

By: Kurt Witt

Kurt Witt — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:19:00 +0000

I’m still waiting for my pebble watch and stick entertainment center….it’ll be a while before i give these small operations any more of my ca$h. I don’t think they’ve thought out there business plans well enough…to handle even a small distribution channel.

By: Stoker

Stoker — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 23:31:00 +0000

You can almost diy something along the lines of this with the chinese Android sticks that are already available for about $50 and a USB controller.

This thing is seriously underspecced… even a casual gaming device, IMHO.

By: sirmeili

sirmeili — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 23:18:00 +0000

So…only 8GB of flash? Aren’t some of the games out today pretty big? How much will 8Gb really get you?

Granted, for $69 (hehehehe) it would be kewl to just play with….. but I think the Ouya will be better just because of size. They will be able to really leverage the power of the processors and get better performance because they are able to have a larger form factor and separate power source.

I will say it is nice that it is more portable, but there is no guarantee that anywhere you go will have a big screen tv with hdmi. Having a phone or Tablet would suffice for “travel”.