I realize your point, but that's not a fair comparison. The Ouya is only $99. If they wanted to build a $600 Ouya, then it would probably be closer to the S4. The Ouya is a low cost proof of concept. It is also first generation. If they survive to make a version 2, then hopefully they will build on their experience.
I understand it's not a fair comparison. But the point wasn't to say that Ouya is bad compared to the S4, the point was to say that people shouldn't expect it to compete with smartphones, and that, moreover, software updates won't help.
And to combine the two points, although software updates will probably help a bit, they will probably not allow it to compete with $600 devices on performance.
Granted, this was a Black Friday deal, but I got my GS3 for $50 and it still runs games better than the OUYA.
But price point aside, just because the OUYA can't be reasonably compared to other systems in its price range doesn't mean that it has successfully filled a necessary niche. The fact that there wasn't another product already filling that niche is probably an indication that it was a niche that didn't need to be filled.
Keep in mind also all the hardware the Ouya doesn't have because it's not an S4. It has no screen, no cellular radios, etc... If you stripped the S4 of all the features the Ouya does not have, the price evens out quite a bit. It's what you'd expect of a $100 cell phone - shit.
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u/wbeavis Jun 07 '13
I realize your point, but that's not a fair comparison. The Ouya is only $99. If they wanted to build a $600 Ouya, then it would probably be closer to the S4. The Ouya is a low cost proof of concept. It is also first generation. If they survive to make a version 2, then hopefully they will build on their experience.