But there’s also a dirge of utter dreck.Īnd is Bombsquad going to make me $99 on the system? Towerfall, Shadowgun (a Gears clone) and Bombsquad specifically are quite well made. The next strike against the Ouya is the quality of the titles on the system. Ouya games developers can (and do) assign the functionality of the buttons pretty willy-nilly. ![]() Not the crappy zombie games (though the lack of quality control is damning for the hardware), but the total lack of standardization. The red a-button gets me halfway there, but if a developer hasn’t included a damn ‘exit’ option on the menu screen… What buttons do what again? There’s no start button. As opposed to a lot of other people’s experiences with the controller, none of my buttons got stuck.Īnyway, I realized the zombie game wasn’t very good. I got the Ouya controller to pair finally and started playing one of the aforementioned zombie games. The bad news is that, y’know, that happened to begin with. The good thing is: It went and finished downloading all the games on restart. Till I pulled the power plug out and restarted it (I tried to hold down the power button on top of the Ouya with no luck). My TV kept telling me there was a signal and then there wasn’t a signal. They were all downloading, quite quickly, which is nice … And then my Ouya went all THE RING on me. I grabbed Towerfall (excellent), Super Crate Box (probably my favorite), Amazing Frog? (so bad it’s … good? If drunk with friends), Sonic 4, Shadowgun, Bombsquad, Dig!, and a smattering of poorly-made zombie apocalypse games. I clicked Discover and set about scanning the store. Then you’re presented with a clean and sleek user interface where you can Play (access your library), Discover (hit the store), Make (every Ouya can be used to develop games - this is the best thing about it, probably), and Manage (configure settings and payment).įor the record, I plugged the Ouya into my modem. The system starts up with a nice, stern: OUYA. The specs are actually somewhat similar to Amazon’s Kindle Fire, to give you an idea. This tiny box houses the Nvidia Tegra 3 processor (used in mobile platforms, though it’s a generation behind now), a 32-bit Quad-core 1.7 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore, 8 gigs on internal flash memory, and 1gig of RAM. On the back, there are spots for the power cable, ethernet, HDMI, USB 2.0, and mini-USB. In terms of hardware, it’s a beautiful design. ![]() Surely, there’s enough room in the market.īut the Ouya suffers from too many problems for us to give it an enthusiastic: BUY THIS, YOU NEED IT. And we’re all for backing the independents in the world who can - or at least try - to tackle the big guys. The Ouya is an interesting little creature. So I gave up and plugged in a PS3 controller. But the little Android box wasn’t having it. I knew I was in a little bit of trouble when the controller wouldn’t pair. The Ouya, upper left, on top of my much much much bigger PC.
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