They just sent out an email saying that they're partnering with XBMC to put it on the device, so definitelylisalover1 wrote: EDIT: Hallelujah! Looking at the Kickstarter page, it confirms that the Ouya will indeed have a USB port! Looks like this will be a valid XBMC box after all!*dances*
Two things: First, technology is always getting cheaper and less arcane to develop for. Second, the Ouya is using a fairly standard architecture that has been out for a few months already, along with a free OS on top of it. (For comparison, the Dreamcast used a newer CPU and had to pay for the Windows CE license.) The Ouya is not using premium parts to build an incredibly souped-up game console, which has been the goal of most other gaming systems in the past, to keep up with technology.Menegrothx wrote:If making consoles was that damn cheap (engineers desining the hardware and programming the software and after which a factory has to massproduce the product), dont you think we would've already seen a Dreamcast 2? A new console by Atari or SNK? Or a new console from some of the electronics/toy companies that tried their luck on the console market during the 1980s&1990s?
8 million isn't even enough to produce a 8 hour long modern FPS game, let alone create 63 000 functioning consoles and deliver them world wide.
The console itself, in terms of manufacturing, likely costs them fairly little to build. The core of the device is the Tegra 3, which is probably $20-25 for the one they're using. Right now, not next year when the thing ships. The rest of the board/ports/etc won't add too much to that, the RAM and flash literally a few dollars, and so on. It'll cost a fair bit less than the $99 price tag to build.Menegrothx wrote: 8 million isn't even enough to produce a 8 hour long modern FPS game, let alone create 63 000 functioning consoles and deliver them world wide.
lisalover1 wrote: Two things: First, technology is always getting cheaper and less arcane to develop for. Second, the Ouya is using a fairly standard architecture that has been out for a few months already, along with a free OS on top of it. (For comparison, the Dreamcast used a newer CPU and had to pay for the Windows CE license.) The Ouya is not using premium parts to build an incredibly souped-up game console, which has been the goal of most other gaming systems in the past, to keep up with technology.
I can believe that they can get the parts for cheap and that there might be enough compatibile OS software out there which they can utilize, but they still have to have engineers with the know how of how to build a console and more importantly, they need a factory of some sort for the mass production of the consoles.isiolia wrote: The console itself, in terms of manufacturing, likely costs them fairly little to build. The core of the device is the Tegra 3, which is probably $20-25 for the one they're using. Right now, not next year when the thing ships. The rest of the board/ports/etc won't add too much to that, the RAM and flash literally a few dollars, and so on. It'll cost a fair bit less than the $99 price tag to build.
They've already got engineers that know how to build the console. Aren't there working prototypes already? As far as factories go, there's plenty of factories in China that'll do small scale runs like this, just look at the Pandora/iCP people. They went full custom (i.e. made their own OS, had to design buttons, joysticks, etc., include a battery and all that) and theirs, while expensive at around $500, is still pretty reasonable, all things considered. Now considering that this is really just a simple Android device in a weird box, that brings the cost down drastically, as there's already factories churning out the hardware. Hell, I could buy a Nexus 7 at $200 and have basically the same device, with a screen, GPS, battery, NFC, etc. So $100 is pretty reasonable for this.Menegrothx wrote:lisalover1 wrote: Two things: First, technology is always getting cheaper and less arcane to develop for. Second, the Ouya is using a fairly standard architecture that has been out for a few months already, along with a free OS on top of it. (For comparison, the Dreamcast used a newer CPU and had to pay for the Windows CE license.) The Ouya is not using premium parts to build an incredibly souped-up game console, which has been the goal of most other gaming systems in the past, to keep up with technology.I can believe that they can get the parts for cheap and that there might be enough compatibile OS software out there which they can utilize, but they still have to have engineers with the know how of how to build a console and more importantly, they need a factory of some sort for the mass production of the consoles.isiolia wrote: The console itself, in terms of manufacturing, likely costs them fairly little to build. The core of the device is the Tegra 3, which is probably $20-25 for the one they're using. Right now, not next year when the thing ships. The rest of the board/ports/etc won't add too much to that, the RAM and flash literally a few dollars, and so on. It'll cost a fair bit less than the $99 price tag to build.
