Worst Ever: The OUYA Failure - Rerez

OH NO. IT'S OUYA. The indie Kickstarted video game console made us dream of a gaming world that it failed to deliver.
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[@rerez]

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[@STICKOMEDIA]

Yes sir

[@brandonkoziatek4406]

@@RandomRealm417 l

[@vagamer522]

Take a shot everytime time she says Telivision

[@avalond1193]

Sonic forces is a good game! There I said it...and those Ouija games look like something that would cause a video game crash

[@angeleocorrodead]

Krock DUDE! PROMOTION

[@LutherannoG]

"I tripped over my ouya the other day and skinned my knee. The most fun i've had with it since lauch" ~A Kickstarter user, 2019

[@qty1315]

Almost as funny as that console that, for some strange reason, was actually an extremely good knife. 0/10 console, 10/10 knife.

[@tedjomuljono3052]

@@qty1315 that's the Vega handheld iirc

[@qty1315]

@@tedjomuljono3052 Sounds right.

[@shawnfields2369]

@@qty1315 So, Vega from SF released his own handheld console? I thought the guy was too obsessed with his own looks to do anything else? Guess Vega had a secret desire to make games?

[@lionelt.9124]

In my mind I see a person sitting on the floor holding their knee rocking back and forth in pain saying Ouya over and over.

[@MattBeardPhoto]

Ouya LIED to me as well, and stiffed me for thousands of dollars. They hired my company to photograph images that were to be used "specifically" only for Press and Social Media. We had a contract stating so, and they wanted an extremely discounted rate as these photos were NEVER supposed to be used for advertising or anything other than Press. Low and Behold, a year later I'm walking though a Target store and see an Ouya console on the shelf. I pick it up to see MY PHOTOS being used on the product packaging itself, and the advertising. SMH. Anyhow, my agent sent them the bill for the additional usage, and they refused to pay and ignored the request. We threatened a lawsuit. Julie's lawyers claimed that she had sold everything off to Razer to pay their already enormous debt, and they had no money left. When they were made aware they could be liable for up to $150,000 in copyright infringement fees...they agreed to pay half...and...we decided to take the loss as a tax write off instead. Moral of the story...beware of doing business with people who lie through their teeth.

[@bendavenport4136]

And there goes any sympathy I had for the people who made this glorified paperweight.

[@redjed100]

This speaks to incompetent management on _someone’s_ part.

[@qty1315]

Wait, if they didn't have any money, how could they pay you $75k?

[@manghariz2211]

@@qty1315 probably debt, Better pay half of it instead of being liable for 150K

[@qty1315]

@@manghariz2211 Same logic applies. Probably just declared bankruptcy or something assuming they wouldn't have to pay any outstanding debt, which is why they told the guy they were out of money. But, this was a breach of contract which was a different matter, so they had to pay something.

[@KnakuanaRka]

To be fair, I think the “nothing special” line was supposed to mean that the console used common hardware, making it open to modding and hacking (back when that was still a selling point), but it was expressed very poorly.

[@SkyTreeStudio]

I think this phrase in general though is playing with fire, if you're not careful with it you get a OUYA, if you are, you get the Steam Deck

[@twofacetoo75]

​@@SkyTreeStudio Yeah, it's a slippery slope kind of deal. I get it, you're saying this isn't some super-expensive one-of-a-kind machine made out of solid gold, it's something simple and functional that ditches tacky bullshit for the sake of being a solidly working machine. But you do NOT advertise that fact by saying 'there's nothing special about it'

[@LazarheaD]

Remember all the devs that were complaining about the Playstation 3's hard to work for hardware structure

[@sorrenblitz805]

The right way to word it: We designed this console with accessible hardware in mind, allowing User modification by our use of mostly standardized off the shelf components.

[@KnakuanaRka]

@@sorrenblitz805 Yup, that sounds perfect. Way better than the Ouya people could put it. xD

[@elanthys]

I took the paper bag thing as trying to emulate Steve Jobs unveiling the first MacBook Air with a manila envelope, but utterly failing to understand how and why his delivery worked. Then again, they utterly failed to understand many, many other things.

[@Fifury161]

I guess that makes more sense!

[@blakksheep736]

It's always Steve Jobs, for fucks sake.

[@sorrenblitz805]

@@blakksheep736 when he told us all to think differently, Julie said "What if I just do what he does but lamer."

[@gracekim25]

Ah ok😅

[@anadhdguy8101]

But Steve tried to demonstrate that the Mac air is thin like a manila envelope. But Ouya are just fucking unprofessional by using the lunch paper bag as a carrier even an idiot know that putting a game console in a paper bags are just a no brainer

[@W0lfenstrike]

As a dust collector, at least the Wii U has some legitimately great games.

[@autobotstarscream765]

The Wii U Virtual Console is _beast._ 😎

[@tensaichigo2]

I'd agree. I still play mine. And strangely enough, the Wii U internet browser is so good 😁

[@memelord8769]

And luckily most of those games got ported to or got a sequel on far more competent hardware

[@sebastiangonzales46]

Plus Wii U is great for homebrew/modding

[@The_MEMEphis]

@@tensaichigo2 just use your phone

[@aliceiw1176]

Fun fact my friends got a backer console kit for 15 dollars from a thrift shop then modded it into an android streaming box. And they used it until one day it caught fire and melted.

[@jordanpowell2242]

So the OYUA could also be used as a fireplace good to know

[@EvilApple567]

@@jordanpowell2242 It's the killer app the system needed, literally

[@PlutoPebble]

The Ouya probably plays 'Light My Fire' by the Doors if it goes up in flames.

[@unitedstars1117]

I kinda wanna know why it caught fire

[@qwertyiuwg4uwtwthn]

@@PlutoPebble based

[@TheLambdaTeam]

A cutting-edge game system in which you can watch poorly animated rain, learn NOT to eat soap, and learn Esperanto. What a bargain!

[@jacaredosvudu1638]

Oh come on the rain was well made

[@erikdaniels0n]

*AGLO*

[@Chaos89P]

​@@erikdaniels0nOvo. Bonega laboro!

[@syahminorizan8064]

Kato. Kato. Kato. KATO. *KATO.*

[@Bro-cx2jc]

​@@syahminorizan8064DING DING DING

[@roberte2945]

I had a friend who was convinced the Ouya was the best console he could buy because "you can run emulators on it." Emulators, like you can easily install on the Wii which he already owned. He doesn't talk about Ouya anymore.

[@GallowglassBLADE]

Sent him a random message..one word. OUYA

[@isatunes]

@@GallowglassBLADE”hey dude do you remember when you thought that one of the worst console cash grabs was revolutionary”

[@AGZhark]

I wouldn’t say it was easy

[@mariokarter13]

"Why did the financial analysts think the Ouya had a chance against the Big Three?" Context: Those same analysts at the time were saying traditional gaming is dead and mobile is the future.

[@xian1978]

The same happened with VR and with the ill fated Stadia... they both were "the future". I cannot understand why the concept of several things coexisting is impossible for this "analysts" that are always predicting that something will be the new thing that will leave the rest outdated. Indeed mobile has grown incredibely, not in quality I'd dare say, but its moving millions of dollars every year. Yet traditional gaming still exists and has no signs of dissapearing any time soon.

[@sertiana2512]

@@xian1978 Mobile gaming is a whole different environment. It's a big pool of course, just a different kind of pool, along with its own problems.

[@pillowcasecorner7519]

They wanted to disrupt the establishment, man!

[@SparklingThunderPK]

They did not really think that it was just a headline for clicks

[@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716]

@@xian1978 vr and stadia are still there. Eventually cloud streaming will be the default, why do you think Sony and Microsoft are heavily investing into ps now and xcloud

[@Mario583a]

Me: So, is this a video games console? Sally: Nope; it's a _television_ games console.

[@IAmAleksha]

AVGN: 'What was that about TV game?'

[@TokuWaffle]

Fun fact, TV game is how the concept is called in Japan.

[@IAmAleksha]

@@TokuWaffle I hope to make it there one day

[@drakkenmensch]

Interviewer: (thinks "let's throw her a softball question) "What are the launch titles?" OUYA kickstarter lady: "I don't know." That was like being thrown a centerplate softball and not only whiffing the swing but also setting your own balls on fire at the same time.

[@lapis591]

@@TokuWaffle In America television game usually refers to those plug-and-play consoles that saw a lot of popularity in the 70s, which are still around.

[@ZeroDawnGaming91]

Good Lord! I feel like this lady was the Elizabeth Holmes of gaming… How someone fucked something up so bad is unreal. Be careful who you give your money to folks. It’s like a hiring a CEO without an interview, resume, or exp.

[@williamcharron4683]

The funny thing about her is that she's now a successful woman's soccer manager. Like...very successful. Like multi millionaire and celebrity endorsed successful.

[@spaceacepl4636]

​@@williamcharron4683 at least she bounced back

[@redjed100]

As far as we know, Julie wasn’t malicious, just incompetent, out of her depth and a bit arrogant.

[@Game_Byle]

Was the console good? No Did everything that could go wrong go wrong? OUYA

[@kimbercustompro1911]

"gamers are moving away from the televisions" It's nearly 2022 and this statement is still incredibly false.

[@TheLakabanzaichrg]

Back then you had the WiiU's gamepad mode, the short lived fad of projection TV and Microsoft tried and got laughed at for attempting to make the XBONE run as a projection only console among other funny features

[@universalperson]

People genuinely believed traditional console gaming was dying, and the future would be always online games, mobile games, games with a toy component, and VR. Then the toy games turned out to be a fad, VR became irrelevant, and always online has had numerous high profile failures in recent times. Mobile gaming is still strong, but the big money is in a buisness model that is increasingly being regarded as gambling and facing government regulation. IMHO there was a perception bubble that is now bursting.

[@Yeen125]

@@universalperson I remember when the Wii U was struggling, there were calls from the media and “experts” that Nintendo should abandon making hardware (like Sega did a decade prior) and focus on mobile games (which Nintendo has done with Pokémon Go and Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp).

[@universalperson]

@@Yeen125 In fairness, the Wii U would have sunk many other gaming companies. But everyone kept forgetting Nintendo had a lock on portable gaming that they leveraged into the Switch.

[@lapis591]

@@Yeen125 If you'll remember, those insiders and so-called 'video game journalists' have always been calling for Nintendo to step down as a console manufacturer. They've been saying it since Nintendo 64 didn't meet global sales expectations. Some even suggested it right before Nintendo Switch launched. However, Nintendo has doubled-down on mobile games by having a flagship platform that is both a home and a mobile gaming experience, even though the games are traditional home console games.

[@darkroast9907]

I remember pre-ordering an Ouya. Then I cancelled the pre-order. Then they sent me two. I contacted them via email offering to send both back and they told me to keep them. And that's my story about my Ouya(s)

[@kkkkkkkxd4692]

Did you ever use them? Like, at least once?

[@darkroast9907]

@@kkkkkkkxd4692 Yes. The controller was basically unusable so I had to use a PS3 controller. Even then, the system was just so slow.

[@JustSendMeLocation]

@@darkroast9907they hooked you up

[@troodon1096]

So you got two Ouyas for free? Sorry you got scammed so badly.

[@TheLarkaanimation]

@@troodon1096 Now you have two ugly book ends. Or a one-use blunt instrument.

[@drewhunter4347]

Honestly, the name OUYA sounds like something that a martial artist would say before they fight.

[@dorkydragon5055]

Ooh ya, a thing that existed

[@ericjohnson6634]

Randy "Macho Man" Savage

[@bhardnavares5903]

I died laughing reading at this comment 😂👍.

[@andrewollmann304]

To me it sounds like a Midwesterner expressing a negative response. “Ooh ya, I’m not too sure about that, bud.”

[@roland.w]

21:29 This Kato's expression accurately depicts how everyone felt about the OUYA

[@Caesim9]

It's really simple why Ouya failed: - No exclusives, no killer apps - Their store moderation and "free trial" policy led to it becoming a dumping ground for mobile games

[@pillowcasecorner7519]

I guess some quality control is good, but I really wanted mobile trash on my consoles too!

[@sabagegelashvili916]

Controller felt trash as well

[@thatpandathing9142]

i really wanted something like the ouya to take off and we eventually got it with the Nvidia shield but this thing was an absolute disaster, i feel like had they not claimed to be taking on the big three, delayed the project, got it finished properly and then put it out in the world history would have been different. the Nvidia shield was the ouya done right so the concept is great but jesus christ this thing was bad

[@G18999]

You're clearly overthinking this. The Ouya failed because it was a piece of garbage and was D.O.A. it had zero chance of ever succeeding! Zero!

[@ooonyxxx]

@@G18999 the Nvidia Shield was the Ouya done right lol

[@EarlFaulk]

The CEO honestly comes across as someone who managed to luck out with the right connections and has no clue what tf they are doing

[@tillitsdone]

Before Theranos there was OUYA.

[@sorrenblitz805]

She's the Middle School PE teacher who had to sub for the High School Principal for whatever reason.

[@gothnerd887]

Or seduce her way to the top

[@patrickharrison7839]

Women.

[@gorkskoal9315]

lol she's dropping a lot of buzzwords and her mouth keeps opening making strange noises. But none of those noises make any sense!

[@DonderNashawk]

Ouya: "Hackers can tweak the box and make it their own!" Hackers: *creates emulators in Ouya* Ouya: *Surprised Pikachu face*

[@kurtk7521]

Emulators were already a thing on Android by the time Ouya came out. Ouya became the perfect little machines to run these emulators lol.

[@patfer1189]

What I remember the most about the Ouya was just how incompetent the woman managing the company was. She was terrible and always sounded oblivion to the world of videogames or what gamers wanted.

[@dragons_advocate]

Ahh, 2012 - that golden age when mobile games still showed potential for innovative game design... how far have we fallen.

[@Odious_One]

I know people had hope for it but seeing as a huge part of the mobile gaming infrastructure was based on Facebook's Farmville model, it was always just gonna be a doomed money pit.

[@wolfetteplays8894]

It’s a shame a lot of good tech like Accelerometer and LIDAR is mostly going unused in gaming :(((

[@frog7589]

They never showed potential, at least not to anyone who cared about games. The mobile game market exploded thanks to the iPhone but it was never going to be a real games platform.

[@Chiayiklin]

@@frog7589 Genshin Impact and Warframe would like to have a word with you

[@pingu4938]

@@Chiayiklin 2 titles in a sea of shovelware.

[@teddyboukagain9985]

The crowning achievement of the OUYA, is being the star of an Rerez video.

[@Fuuntag]

Or the Mega64 video (NSFW)…

[@KudoRedfox]

More like crowbcat's legendary video on it

[@ChaseMC215]

Or Stuart Ashen's channel

[@doolanthefox]

Hard agree

[@viscountrainbows6452]

CallmeKevin tho

[@canadiangooseok7281]

Maybe the OUYA was meant to complete with the Hyperscan

[@Montesama314]

I still remember the woman saying "There's nothing special about this thing" and I laughed because apparently NO ONE said out loud to her, "Then why would anyone buy this?"

[@walmorcarvalho2512]

That's what happens when people are surrounded by either "yes men" or complacent journalists

[@puppymaroon964]

That’s a very good point. I guess they didn’t want to be rude.

[@JeffreyPiatt]

It was SXSW Tech they have a lot of Startups and a ton of technology heads who likely are just founding a company so some larger one will buy them out.

[@antenna_prolly]

It's sad 'cause that's a job interview type of question that the boss could not even answer.

[@McVaio]

Topolsky made a comment about it right there though.

[@snapchatsnacks3154]

Also another thing that made the "freedom" and "pro consumer" thing a lie. The Ouya had DRM that made it almost impossible to get footage off of it with capture cards at the time. This was around the rise of let's plays on KZbin. So according to Ouya you can do whatever you want to your games except record them.

[@Cyber_Akuma]

Oh right, I forgot that crap had mandatory HDCP for some reason. The only other system to ever force HDCP was the PS3.... (Technically PS4 as well, but they added a way to disable it in a firmware update).

[@snapchatsnacks3154]

HDCP that is what it was called.

[@antenna_prolly]

Sounds like the one thing they were ahead of the curve on--saves them the trouble of C&D-ing your Nintendo, Square, etc. content.

[@MrPsyren99]

God forbid you can't record yourself screaming at your tv for 10 minutes a day

[@snapchatsnacks3154]

@@MrPsyren99 Doesn't matter what you think. Ouya's whole philosophy was about consumer choice and doing what you want with your system. Not letting you record your game goes against what they claimed to stand for. Ironically their Kickstart campaign says "show the world,through your numbers,that you're out there" that is so funny considering the console put up a wall around recording your system.

[@PJWooperIsBack]

Rerez takes more care of the OUYA than the creator I’m impressed

[@XiaoFury]

The OUYA is one of those things you buy solely out of curiosity....then you leave it at the bottom of your closet, or in a random box of junk in your house.

[@lilacdreams0120]

“Playstation has a touchpad controller” “It’s true. They could build it for that” Lmao wut?!

[@thepunkkingkingofthederps7686]

Not could, they have! That's what blows me away

[@LumanatorRightHere]

That's a self own if I hadn't heard one before.

[@mattjindrak]

That part is so uncomfortable

[@zhazha23]

Methinks she got caught off-guard by the PS4 controller having a touchpad, which just goes to show how little research she did on the competition.

[@NoahDaArk]

@@zhazha23 The Ouya team got really cocky when their Kickstarter got successful. They thought people would support them unconditionally because they weren’t like *other* game companies! They were Ouya, what did other game companies have that they didn’t? Consumer trust. That’s what they had. The Xbox One, PS4 and even the Wii U all had the backing of companies people have come to trust and respect. Even something like the Xbox One, which had a rough launch, and the Wii U, which is the Wii U, still did better then the Ouya *because* of that trust!

[@DeltaPi314]

Sally: "hackers can hack the platform and make it their own" *people use emulators* Sally: "NO FREE DEMOS!!!!"

[@redjed100]

Her name is Julie.

[@highoctanesynx7950]

Hypocrisy is often an amazing thing ain't it?

[@nickfifteen]

@@redjed100 Julie, Sally, it all sounds like "Karen" to me

[@frankhorriganfromfallout2]

@@nickfifteen to me it sounds like “hey bro I got a promotion wanna make a game console?”

[@cheeseboi588]

@@nickfifteen How was she a Karen tho?

[@Monsuco]

Ouya looked at mobile gaming and thought that would catch on everywhere else. It didn't seem to occur to them that people didn't buy their smartphone to play Angry Birds, Doodle Jump or Candy Crush on. The reason people played Angry Birds, Doodle Jump & Candy Crush was because they ran on their phone.

[@FM360]

To give the OUYA the benefit of the doubt, at least the homebrew scene is pretty active. You could probably use the OUYA as a homebrew box

[@dougsteel7414]

One of their many mistakes is straight out of the gate, she says everyone is moving away from the television, so we're going to take the form they're moving to despite its compromises and put it in the television. And thereby create the worst of both

[@KnakuanaRka]

Yeah, that makes no sense now that you mention it. If they thought mobile and handheld gaming was rising, they should have tried to bring console-quality gaming to mobile, not the other way around!

[@zacharysolano6375]

Julie: *says people are moving away from the tv* Also Julie: *makes a home console that needs a tv.*

[@boxic3608]

Television*

[@epiclionsault92]

The more I think about it, having her be the face to pitch this was the WORST Idea

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

At least Nintendo got the picture

[@robowenmikels]

At least quote her, correctly. She said "television" a dozen times, not "tv".

[@Bidwellz9]

she clearly meant cable lol

[@AtlasBlizzard]

OUYA: Tauts itself as being very avant-garde Also OUYA: Has the same exact controller as all other systems

[@Alucard-A-La-Carte]

I remember forums I was on at the time being LOADED with people who would argue until they were red in the face that the Ouya was going to "destroy" the current console market. That Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo were all "terrified" of what it represented. And I don't think they ALL could have been Forbes writers... The next time I heard about it was as a punchline in a Homestar Runner cartoon years later.

[@adamj1367]

Written in Sharpie on the bathroom wall of history!

[@elle02]

Basically, Ouya has now become a perfect paperweight

[@JBomb692]

Always has been 🔫

[@s8it]

I mean the console does look like a spare couch leg.

[@C.V317]

According to Wikipedia, it is only 11 ounces. I question it’s ability to be a good paperweight.

[@Charlesb88]

Actually, the Ouya is just a basic Android device in a square box that you can install regular Android apps on. Thus you can install Android games on it as well as install retro game system emulators to play NES, SNES, C64, Genesis/Megadrive, etc. games. So if you use it like a RaspberryPi with RetroPi software installed it you could use it as retro gaming device. It won’t play modern Android games very well, if at all due to its outdated hardware and old Android version but it’s not totally useless. That’s a lot better use then as a paperweight given how the light the unit is anyways. Also you can install media software on it to use it as a set top box for playing video and music.

[@jupreindeer]

@@Charlesb88 Save the fact that a Raspberri Pi has pulled off PS2 emulation...

[@SuperNitroZ64]

In case anyone's curious about what Julie Uhrman is doing nowadays, she became the co-founder of Angel City Football Club, which is a Los Angeles-based expansion soccer team for the National Women's Soccer League. They've been announced this past July, and are expected to play sometime in 2022.

[@ethan2246]

A bit of a departure from gaming

[@DisDatK9]

@@ethan2246 Good, she should stay as far away from it as possible lol

[@ethan2246]

@@DisDatK9 Come on, don't you want to see the "OUYA 2: Television Boogaloo"?

[@RustyX2010]

and spending her millions

[@CheesyNoodlez]

@F. F. believe it or not they’ve already sold 11k season tickets. I think it’s because LAFC is very popular in LA, and ACFC also has big name owners like Natalie Portman and Serena Williams. As well as the founder of Ouya lol

[@grizzlehatchet1]

Dunkaroos... Classic reference

[@Ethan-pd4ny]

"i love video games, but more and more people are moving away from the television" Well this aged like a fine glass of milk in relation to things like the Xbox and PS5 and even the switch which yes is a portable consol but can also be docked and used on the tv

[@streeterville773]

Also a television and a monitor are both kinda one and the same usually nowadays, so she's not even right in a technical sense

[@NikoKuehne]

@@streeterville773yet a tv will always be better

[@NikoKuehne]

xbox will never be able to compare to playstation though lol. i mean just look at the statistics. playstation sells so much better for a reason. people just like the consoles. but the vocal minority can never stfu. so annoying how they deny that xbox is more comparable to the switch in hardware than the playstation equivalent

[@iowa6646]

@NikoKuehne Comparing hardware means nothing when games is what matters for most. And I'm sorry, but Game Pass and better backwards compatibility is just better for Xbox. Not that it prevents people from owning both, after all everyone has their own needs. But it's weird you're trying to bring console wars under an Ouya video, the point was never about what's better.

[@bigbangbuddha16]

Just Rain: The Stealth Sequel to Quantic Dream’s Heavy Rain

[@W0lfenstrike]

Jason not included.

[@kildaver]

Can I still press X to "SHAUN!!"?

[@ChimeraMK]

*Slaps knee* David Cage, you've done it again.

[@ternarycode]

how about Torrential Rain: The Heavy Rain (by Quantic Dream) Remaster?

[@gutless_worm]

When my grandpa got his first computer in the late 90s he bought a CD ROM called "350 great games" from the budget section somewhere. It was a bunch of freeware/shareware games and they looked exactly like most of these.

[@nthgth]

Action 52 for Windows lol

[@Bro-cx2jc]

I bet there were titles on it like Super Jump Marri Burger Clock Doctor Marri Marri Brother Turtle Smash Zevious Redden The Fable of Xelda Penultimate Daydream Astro Brutality Walnuts and Creamer Trinary World Iceberg Traveler Highway Battle City AB 2000 F- Racing Kommander Koras: (The Universe of Madness) Balloon Battle Zippy Drive Adolescent Deformed Fighter Tortoises

[@MadameSomnambule]

My grandma got a Windows XP machine when I was young, and she got a similar compilation of games that at least looked nice. Some were even flash games you could probably find online. But it also had some kind of virus in it that the virus scan would pick up, so that was weird.

[@KevSon29]

7:06 that is an early sign of unprofessionalism.

[@brawler5760]

I think she was tryna say that this was just an android box and is open source, but you know… in a very unprofessional way.

[@ThrowawayAccountPremium]

take a shot every time she says television… 😂

[@ThePluralApostrophe]

To be fair, Just Rain is an actual Android app to help with sleeping, meditation, etc. Not sure why it got ported to the Ouya though lol

[@notatrollll]

Probably because it was easy to do?

[@triangleofdeath6246]

I guess for people that like to sleep with their tv on.

[@siccoblue2112]

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[@heavyarms55]

The only reason I could possibly think someone would need an app for this is if they have very limited data. Otherwise why not just use any of the literally thousands of KZbin videos that do the same thing better?

[@RockyFoxxowo]

Must've been a boring day over at the studio

[@CBXweb]

Amazing how Julie Uhrman cleaned her hands of this debacle and founded a professional women's soccer club. You just keep movin' on

[@andrewdriver3318]

Yep, classic example of a failure of corporate leadership to understand the product or the market. Typical big buisness tick sucking the blood out of companies and failing up.

[@RAC00NFANGIRL]

@My Lord I don’t know but I think failed

[@MetalHeartGunner]

I always thought she looked like a soccer mom

[@DiamondDead]

Only goes to show that she never had a clue about the video game industry to begin with

[@bloodeagle6458]

So shes not good at anything then

[@wesleythomas7125]

"Our controller has a touchpad; you're not gonna find that anywhere else." [Looks at the PS4 controller in confusion]

[@shostako1284]

She finally married her beloved TV. Unfortunately, the TV abused her and the marriage felt apart. She now lives in a condo, with an VHS and a Juicero. It's a juicy and well recorded liberal trio.

[@HawkbitAlpha]

34:36 - We can't sleep on the most unintentionally funny part of that tooltip: IT'S WRITTEN IN COMIC SANS.

[@zyzzy-ko4ww]

That's honestly among the least of this game's woes.

[@Simplegames124]

Julie's son: Aww man.. my mom packed me a Ouya for lunch!

[@RolandTemplar]

She is lesbian

[@wendigockel]

That's the point

[@Emery101]

@@RolandTemplar Her girlfriend’s son*

[@Videolegacy2005]

Underrated comment.

[@RockyFoxxowo]

@@RolandTemplar ever heard of adoption

[@Edrobot7]

I actually bought an Ouya. It worked pretty well as a SNES emulator for about a week, and then it broke and I couldn't turn it on again. The SNES classic does the job much better in every way, so no loss.

[@findantu]

This right here a buddy of mine has one and it turned itself off one day and won't power on at all now.

[@Chaos89P]

@Peace To You Can you load that into an SNES Classic? I know RetroArch can, but my knowledge of the mini console scene is sorely lacking.

[@primalconvoy]

I had an ouya and it worked fine for emulators and still does. The SNES classic isn't that great, congested to competing Android/PC/Raspberry PI STBs. For example, the Nvidia Shield TV is pretty good (although the official controller is crap and overpriced).

[@shawklan27]

Wow

[@grimtides]

a Raspberry pi does the job awesome too, and it's like $80 with most of what you need and a case

[@dimbusjenkins]

ouya is just the sound they expected you to make once you realized you got fucked outta your money and time

[@Yourmomgoestocolledge]

That lady has never played a video game that wasnt on a phone. Shes completely clueless. Her calling it the television over and over makes me wonder if shes ever even seen a TV.

[@thesparxeffect9734]

Ouya: "I'm not feeling to well." Rerez: "Welcome to the show."

[@zyzzy-ko4ww]

14:06 LOL an ouya with hands and feet and a funny face!

[@Mr_x_19922]

"There's nothing special about this thing" lol. That is like the worst thing you can say about your console xD

[@Mostlyharmless1985]

But, it’s the most honest thing I’ve heard from any console manufacturer in recent time. The only console I see that has anything that isn’t accomplished by a PC is the Nintendo switch, with its tablet tweener portable system.

[@hackerp49]

This is how you don't use reverse psychology as marketing tool.

[@richardadamson1438]

@@hackerp49 I think the Virtual Boy did that and Sega Saturn attempted that in the US. Also the NES did that in Australia. All of those failed hard.

[@brandonsanchez8197]

Especially when you (unintentionally) downplay the existence of the PS4, Xbox One and Wii U.

[@redslate]

I remember watching this interview at the time thinking the exact same thing.

[@Fergusand]

They could have atleast managed a brand name that sounded like a damn gaming console

[@chaos-channelgames]

I really like, how she looks out of the picture in those company-video-interviews like 4:29, showing everyone that this is a beginner level company not able to hire a pro video maker.

[@OtakuJuanma2]

That awkward moment where Big Rigs is more complete than the OUYA's racing game..

[@bruhguy1064]

amaing you right!

[@Masonicon]

I like Big Rigs just for it's truck can overpowers Dr Manhattan(even when he can access his New52 feats)

[@davidabest7195]

I ordered an Ouya just so I can have access to all these shitpost games. It's gonna be amazing.

[@puppymaroon964]

I’m confident FlatOut 3: Chaos & Destruction is more fun than the racing games the OUYA had.

[@DidierDrogba1997]

@@puppymaroon964 Lmao flatout 3 is forza horizon compared to the racing games on ouya

[@miymoto128]

I do agree that emulators were a big problem with the system but I think the real reason why 73% didn't buy games was because as Julie said "this console is ment to be hacked" people were downloading APK files of the games so there wasn't a point to buy them. One of there key features shot them in the foot.

[@jmal]

Had she phrased it as "open source (with copyright related limitations)" instead of "hackable" the console would've been a smidge more successful. It's in the presentation, which they fail at in spades.

[@zakugodofwar1005]

I think she or her whole team suffer brain damage 😅😂

[@nubtublol]

I did this, just downloaded mobile games on my pc then dumped them onto my ouya. I Did buy Towerfall though

[@LiEnby]

Well, you can also easily pirate games on the PC, nothing stopping you, so i dont think thats the whole story.

[@Mosleyset2]

​​​@@LiEnbyThe Ouya is more aligned to consoles in the sense that profit comes from game sales rather than hardware sales. If they sell all their consoles at a loss but make their console easy as hell to put apks on them, users will go the easy and cheap route, piracy. That's why piracy kind of bit them in their arse there.

[@WinVisten]

The Coconut Hut "ad" reminds me of the Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing ad parody that AVGN did.

[@zyzzy-ko4ww]

Big Rigs is rated U for unfinished and it's still more enjoyable than Coconut Hut.

[@DragonslayerProd]

The OUYA: All the gaming power of a smart phone, with the portability of a console!

[@kokonbini]

"Our controller has a touchpad! Does the competition have one on their televisions?" "Yes" "...exactly! Buy an Ouya! It's for the television!"

[@Roadent1241]

I reached for my PS4 controller as soon as she said that. My Vita was closer. STILL! My TV would be VERY smart if it was a touch screen and there'd be no point for it to be one unless you had a long poking stick XD

[@Immolator772]

"Stop wasting cash on crappy games" *makes a console full with crappy games* Seriosly, the flash games are far better than this and they are all free.

[@oz_jones]

Rip Flash :(

[@oppositeday429]

@@oz_jones always be remembered o7

[@talcorp9998]

@@oppositeday429 most don't need to be remembered! Check out flashpoint.

[@The_whales]

Imagine if ride to hell: retribution was on ouya(for those who know don’t what that game it’s own of the lowest rated game)

[@Immolator772]

@@The_whales RTH is a masterpiece what do you mean?

[@antonnym214]

Most of the games looked so bad, they seemed to be parodies, but the horror is they were real? Unbelievable. Thank you for getting one of these so we don't have to. All good wishes!

[@captainthunderbolt7541]

There are bad products and there are bad concepts, and the Ouya was the perfect intersection between the two.

[@primalconvoy]

It's ironic how the boot-up sound for Ouya is similar to that of "Stadia"...

[@marccaselle8108]

The stadia bombed also.

[@madamefeast4824]

@@marccaselle8108 That's why they made the comment haha

[@miymoto128]

And they are both in the same paper bag!

[@therealanime]

So I had one of these bois and was an OG backer. Here is my argument for the OUYA- In 2013 for someone just out of highschool with no money the OUYA wasn't half bad for $99. There was a good sized hacking community around it so it meant you could do things like: 1. Sideload other games onto the device and I actually played a lot of GTA San Andreas on the OUYA (It was an android based device and ran most android games ok) . 2.. There was an app that let it act as a chrome cast with the addition of Netflix and youtube apps it was a good media device. 3. USB in the rear meant using any controller/ keyboard and mouse was also supported. I also hooked up a terabyte harddrive to it and ran a local network upnp media server off of the OUYA. 4. (Edit) Also forgot the thing was great for emulators! I played a lot of NES, Snes, and N64 on mine! Some other neat features: 5. (Edit) it was also super small and portable with standard full sized HDMI out and 12v adapter. Great for just throwing in a bag and taking on the go. 6. (Edit last one I swear) I'm also going to make a quick case for the controller. Buttons were very clicky, analog triggers, a middle touchpad (which the PS4 controller was doing but the controller cost almost as much as a whole OUYA), and despite the goofy shape it was VERY comfortable with removable metal plates on the front that served as battery covers and was held in place with strong magnets which made changing batteries super easy but with enough hold it never felt like the plates would come off! Was it a good gaming console? No. Was it a very versatile piece of tech that let you modify it in ways most companies won't let you? Oh yeah. In the end I think if it had been marketed more like a raspberry pie or micro/android experimental dev computer for people looking to tinker with android then it would have been way more successful. Putting it up against consoles killed it. RIP OUYA.

[@primalconvoy]

My Ouya was great too. It's not really "hackable" per sec, as everything you've described above is a standard feature of Android. However, I did many of the same things as you. I had to run apps from the external drive though, due to the tiny "6gb" (2gb for system memory plus 6gb for apps) of internal memory. Ouya's online shop failed, as it was easier and better to either sideload stuff for free, sideload previously paid-for apps (from Google Play) via installing backups from our phones, or even paying and then downloading apks directly from the devs. My Ouya ended up becoming a media consumption device, with some sideloaded games, emulators, etc (just like my Nvidia Shield TV pro is now).

[@Roboshi2007]

Thing is, if you were willing to put time and effort into hacking a system, simple emulation machines were already coming to the market for a range of prices, hell the raspberry pi had come out a year earlier.

[@alessandrorossi1294]

@@Roboshi2007 emulation on the pi was in its infancy though in comparison to android . And the first pi version was very rough.

[@wadedevinney9681]

You know what? That’s fair. You took inferior hardware and you ran with it. Hacking makes sense with this thing. Props to you.

[@monkaWGiga]

As someone who picked one of these up as an emulation box a year or so after release this is fair. It was definitely a versatile little block for its price (around 40 bucks when I grabbed it).

[@eaglescout1984]

Thanks for including that bonus episode of "It's Just -Bad- Rain" in the video!

[@TruthSimplified.]

I've never been so pleased to have never heard about a product before in my life. Well done.

[@steamdyke]

The worst games look like someone's first Python project, but the whole thing just feels like a fever dream.

[@roland.w]

Dude, some of those look like early 3d console tech demos

[@AIRWHITEY]

I did a presentation on the Ouya in my game design class in highschool. My teacher knew then it would be fucking awful.

[@auqustfire]

You had a game design class in highschool?? Mine barely had a computer class lol

[@domeen0gt895]

Jealous

[@Emery101]

Absolutely based!

[@johncreed9433]

I used to work at a VR game pop up at the mall. I can confirm that the management of that store was the living equivalent of the Ouya's marketing campaign.

[@304Dolo]

Dude I’m glad I found your channel! Pure greatness

[@calamari_fan]

I would totally wanna see a port of Butt on the Switch.

[@sb8481]

The Switch would struggle to run it.

[@Onepieceistheworstfuckinganime]

I love how Julie uhrman just embarrassed herself and everyone else along with her then dip.

[@curleyqreviews9793]

I can see it being a cult game

[@murphmariotwopointoh7714]

Can we also have Esperanta Animaloj ported while we're at it?

[@KasumiRINA]

@@murphmariotwopointoh7714 K A T O

[@shonenderpb4760]

She had the connections and attitude to start something, but didn't have the intelligence or foresight to understand what gamers really wanted

[@guy-eg2yd]

She isn’t a leader. She should never have been the face of the system. She isn’t persuasive or charismatic or quick-witted enough to hide the system’s obvious faults. Even dug herself into a few holes she didn’t need to.

[@leon_De_Grelle]

her connections were her fellow tribes people and her qualifications were being a woman.

[@sepg5084]

She does not seem to be a gamer, and tried to start a gaming company.

[@Odious_One]

She didn't care, she saw how much money the gaming industry make (+/-34 billion annually) and wanted some of it. Thinking she was smart enough to con a tech savoy demographic into repeatedly giving up their cash for what amounted to a busted cell phone. She thought beer was more important than the games, and I'm sure no body ever told her NO before this.

[@jordanpowell2242]

What was her thing with games being on the television? Didn’t she forgot the 3DS, and PSVita existed? Also what about PCs?

[@Linuxdirk]

It basically was an Android phone without any phone features.

[@ItsLtime]

18:37 A simple, nontaxing concept expertly achieved A Well controlling platforming deathmatch game that could *bring* together *friends* for hours on *end* It utilized solid combat *mechanics* With a smart use of *physics* And has gone on to inspire *games* With similar designs to this *day* We got Shakespeare over here

[@jacaredosvudu1638]

Shakespeare with the technology available in the 17th century could make something better than 90% of the console

[@JmrUltra]

The Ouya is something I never heard of until 2018, and it’s an interesting piece of gaming history.

[@bjorn-falkoandreas9472]

It is in many ways a precursor of the Switch. They made a couple of bad calls. But the idea was great. It was not meant to compete with the big consoles and the Switch proved them right. Problem was, they weren't Nintendo. The controller is a stupid flimsy exercise in futility and they should never have designed their own one.

[@Rountree1985]

@@bjorn-falkoandreas9472 it is not comparable to the Switch at all lmao. Where did you get this idea from? This is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever read.

[@TheLakabanzaichrg]

It fills the same niche of mobile "games" at home with the gross mumber of ports it has

[@m2pt5]

"Interesting" is definitely one word for it. "Failure" is another.

[@qty1315]

@@Rountree1985 In the early days of the Switch it was comparable. People forget that we had to wait a year after the initial release for some good games. It was mostly indie stuff until Mario Odyssey and Breath Of The Wild came out.

[@Edward135i]

One day I'll explain to my kids that in the early 2010s computer companies thought the iPad and cellphone pay to win games where going to put Microsoft and Sony out of business. I distinctly remember my sister giving me her laptop when she got a iPad because it was "now obsolete" guess what almost 10 years later I still use that laptop for surfing the web, no idea what happened to the iPad that made it "obsolete"

[@McVaio]

Yeah, all the "the pc is dead"-talk. As if a shitty tablet would replace a capable PC for everyone.

[@Yeen125]

It was exactly that thinking that lead Microsoft to create the disaster that was Windows 8.

[@B.D.F.]

@@McVaio Most people don’t need a “capable PC”, they need a browser, social media, and streaming services. Maybe Turbo Tax once a year.

[@GinsengStrip-wt8bl]

Tablets are dead now, not laptops 😂

[@Edward135i]

@@GinsengStrip-wt8bl exactly my point, during the time of the OUYA all of the leading tech people where declaring the traditional computer dead, they literally thought everything was going to be on Android and iOS.

[@Odious_One]

Doesn't this sound kind of like the story of the 3DO, on a smaller scale and minus the Kickstarter BS? Same desire to change the gaming industry's status quo, with bad PR, poor console development, poor game library, bad pricing, and an attempt to put out a successor console way too soon to try to deflect and keep the money flowing in. Of course Trip Hawkins and Panasonic out classed Julie Uhrman and the ... *vomit ... Ouya in every way possible.

[@richardadamson1438]

Huh, it makes way too much sence comparing the two.

[@Odious_One]

@@richardadamson1438 indeed it does especially since both did the same thing for two completely different reasons.

[@thepenultimateninja5797]

I liked the device itself. I bought one when they were on clearance and used it as an emulation console for a while. It was pretty good at it, and my wife even preferred the controller to the PS3 controllers we had (didn't understand it myself). I can't speak to the rest of the Ouya experience such as the store and the games, because I didn't even bother to try them. When I discovered Retropie, I sold the Ouya on ebay for exactly what I paid for it, and used the money to buy a Raspberry Pi 3. I actually found N64 had worked better on the Ouya than on the Pi 3, but the Retropie experience was much more pleasant that navigating the Ouya OS.

[@senatorarmstrong6417]

Fun Fact: In Chinese English Pinyin OUYA means-sound of dogs fighting, also written 吽呀

[@inco-gneito7543]

"His name is Oogie. He kick starts my heart man." Now that was funny as hell.

[@B727X]

Ouyie

[@bubblegumxo]

Makes me think of and miss the Indie marketplace on the Xbox 360. 99% of the games were minimal effort, broken, barely functional, or low quality dual stick shooters, but it provided the kind of fun sitting around with friends while drinking and smoking and trying out games like Try not to Fart, or Pet Lucca (Lucca is a badly drawn cat) that to this day I haven't been able to replecate. I'm sure being younger and in highschool was a big part of it. I know Steam is ripe with the same garbage, but I honest to god don't know if ANY game on the 360 Indie Market sold many copies or made ANY profit. The ONLY good game was a Japanese release in semi broken English called Protect me Knight/Protect me Princess. Was up to 4 players and genuinely fun with a cute 8 bit anime artstyle.

[@natecw4164]

The Star Citizen joke still being accurate is equal parts hilarious and sad 😂

[@user-74652]

Some of those games made Big Rigs look like a polished AAA masterpiece.

[@flonkplonk1649]

You probably never heard of Morphman 😂

[@jmal]

@@flonkplonk1649 So, where's this caAAAstle?

[@flonkplonk1649]

@@jmal I'm an Eeeaaagle !

[@thegloriouswizard5270]

*Acts scared!*

[@captainbibbles3524]

​@@flonkplonk1649 Bruh, these games make morphman look like zelda botw

[@michaelamaya9032]

Steam in 2010s: "We've have no quality control on our games." OUYA: "...Hold my paper bag."

[@mercenarygundam1487]

Steam today: We STILL have no quality control.

[@InfernosReaper]

@@mercenarygundam1487 What online store does? A small minority at best

[@sonicboy678]

@@InfernosReaper I bet someone would say Epic, to which I'd immediately point to a certain vision-impaired rodent's work (and it's a timed exclusive on PC, to boot!).

[@jaycerrito3142]

This Julie Uhrman lady should be a meme unless she already was before this video was made. The whole television and "nothing special" quotes are practically stuck my head it overshadowed the entire Ouya video

[@demonreturns4336]

Watching this video is kinda like watching the titanic…. You knew the disaster that was coming ahead and how things would go down But still shocked and awed at it! Even if I head read this off of a fairly tale book I wouldn’t believe half the things because of how crazy and absurd it sounded with the way Julie was going on

[@give_me_my_nick_back]

The funniest part is that nowadays there are dozens upon dozens of OUYA bootleg gamepads for sale on aliexpress

[@puppymaroon964]

Maybe Rerez or Conner the Waffle can check them out sometime.

[@antenna_prolly]

vintage hipster ironic comeback

[@LeSarthois]

@Boomer_Dude85 They rip off the shell but they are not Ouya-compatible (well I guess they are, but as PC gamepads) most of them are designed to work on the Switch, actually, which is kinda hilarious. And most of them being "USB Switch" compatible (not wireless) meant that they also are PC compatible.

[@MrHamncheez]

I got one for my switch. Lasted about a month before everything broke.

[@tillitsdone]

You can buy the console & controller in the original box on eBay for around $99.00. lmao

[@blodguizer]

I couldn't believe it when the CEO of the company pulled their new console and controller out of a brown paper bag.

[@Gatorade69]

I mean I was really disappointed when they showed off the PS5 and they didn't pull it out of a brown paper bag.

[@shinyagumon7015]

I halfway expected her to pull out a sandwich .

[@Gatorade69]

@@horpuscorpus8299 "Important prototype" Ouya lady : There's nothing special about this.

[@iGame3D]

Ouya: It's what's for lunch

[@Gatorade69]

@@iGame3D I ate an ouya once and spent all night on the toilet with a stomach ache.

[@TimeLemur6]

"Just Rain: At least we're honest."

[@lewisgrant7622]

It’s funny cause 2012/2013 was essentially the death of start and select.

[@SchizoGenius]

The parallel universe where she pulls her ham sandwich out of that paper bag would have had a better console than what we got.

[@ZorotheGallade]

"Now with Mayo"

[@iGame3D]

"What condiments?" "I have no idea"

[@gameworkerty]

I was an OUYA 'free the games' developer, the thing you didn't mention about the fund is they would only pay you after the game was done!

[@coolunusual]

I remember being so psyched for this as a tech nerd and gaming fan. Was dead set on getting one, then i heard it was running on the Tegra 3 and instantly had doubts. Then as time went on i had less and less faith

[@Dr_Robodaz]

The Ouya.... A console that made me appreciate my ZX Spectrum.

[@peppyrobo7049]

This woman’s presentation on that stage is like the polar opposite to the iconic “299” press event for Sony

[@The_Novu]

I like to think everyone developing games for this thing decided "let's just make shitpost games for laughs lmao."

[@sweptapostle2473]

there was an mmo king of like WoW and it wasn't that bad. the only problem was the ouya wasn't good enough to keep it from being laggy

[@TheLambdaTeam]

It's okay, I always keep my cutting-edge game system next to my Dunkaroos 😂😂😂😂😂😂