It actually cost $0, as I already have one of each.
Are you saying that none of the OUYA backers has an Android phone or tablet?
Are you saying that none of the OUYA backers has an Android phone or tablet?
For $100 they are offering me a console that I could also use as a TV media center.
I think you are narrowing your view to people that own multiple gadgets, in my country that isn't the norm and I know that a cheap console could have a huge impact here.
Yeah, the phone has an HDMI output. So does the tablet.
> And does anyone even make games for phones that would benefit from being on a TV?
Are OUYA making games? I'm genuinely asking, I'm not sure why people get so indignant about my question.
A open console that's easily to hack on, be it software- or hardware-wise, would only be a good thing. And judging by the insane amount of money that has been pledged in this short time there is also a good market for one.¨
I think the OUYA will be a good thing, and the main benefit over just connecting your phone to the TV is that the console is created for being connected to a TV.
The games are created for being on a TV, which changes the genre of games from Angry Birds style phone games to games like Quake or whatever else you might usually play on a console.
That's sort of what I was trying to say with my previous questions, you might be able to connect your phone to the TV and have a equally good device, but the market and community the OUYA will create is what makes it valuable to me.
There is no company that will make a videogame that suits the TV on the off-chance that you connect your mobile phone to one. :/
If it's an Android phone, then, yes, because Ouya is likewise an Android device and (unless they are tragically stupid, but I don't know for sure because they still have no developer information) is using the Android gamepad API so you could do the exact same thing with your phone.
I can't connect my phone to a TV as far as I know (SGS2), it might be possible but honestly I have not researched it because it's not something I would be interested in.
A open console with a good controller that is easy for independent developers and others to get into would be great.
The optimism is nice and all, but the console is nothing special and it has a laughably small userbase. Even XBLIG is a better bet than this, and XBLIG is terrible. There's no way Ouya, or any other "open source gaming platform", is going to disrupt, or even come on the radar of, Sony and Microsoft's game groups.
You're in "year of the Linux desktop" territory, and it's important to realize when you're doing that and stop wishcasting.
Yes, Google Galaxy Nexus HDMI Dock.
https://play.google.com/store/devices/details/HDMI_Portrait_...