Ouya

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OUYA
Logo of the current Ouya console
Manufacturer OUYA, Inc.
Type Stationary console
publication
world March 28, 2013 (Kickstarter pre-orders) June 25, 2013 (retail)
world
Main processor NVIDIA Tegra 3 T33 quad-core
Graphics processor NVIDIA ULP GeForce GPU
Storage media 8 or 16 GB internal flash memory
Controller Wireless
Online service Own platform
OUYA with controller

Ouya ([ ˈuːˌjə ] stylized as "OUYA") is a stationary game console that is based on the open source software technology of Android . The concept was presented on July 2, 2012. Regular sales started on June 25, 2013.

Despite a very successful financing campaign via the crowdfunding platform kickstarter.com and great public attention in advance, the project and the company of the same name founded for it under the direction of Julie Uhrman remained economically unsuccessful. On June 12, 2015, the hardware manufacturer Razer Inc. from San Diego took over the software department of OUYA Inc. in order to deploy its employees to the further development of its own platform Forge TV . There was no interest in the hardware. After Razer announced the agreement to the public on July 27, 2015, production of the console ceased and Julie Uhrman announced that she would be leaving the company.

history

Ouya was presented on July 2, 2012 as the concept for a new stationary video game console. Julie Uhrman started the project. She brought in designer Yves Béhar to work with him on the design of the project and Muffi Ghadiali as product manager to put together the engineering team for the hardware.

As General Manager of OUYA, Inc. , Julie Uhrman launched a $ 950,000 Kickstarter campaign on July 10th to further fund the project and to better assess the general interest in such a console before going into production . Uhrman stated that at this point he already had a working prototype. The user interface and software were still under development. OUYA, Inc. announced that it will provide its own Ouya store for apps and games. The prototype was still running under Android 4.0, but the final version should be delivered with Android 4.1.

The funding request quickly proved to be successful. The financing target was reached within eight hours and finally exceeded the threshold of one million US dollars in 8:22 hours. On August 9, 2012, the financing phase was completed with 8,596,474 US dollars, which is 904% of the originally targeted financing target. In the course of the campaign, the console set several funding records, according to Kickstarters. Accordingly, the Ouya became the highest financing in the games project division and after the Pebble Watch the second highest successful project financing of the entire website. In addition, Ouya was the fastest project to cross the $ 1 million mark in pledges, with Ouya only the eighth project in Kickstarter history to reach that mark. US $ 2.59 million within 24 hours continued to set the record for the best sales launch ever, with one sponsor every 5.59 seconds within the first 24 hours. The record for the fastest Kickstarter funding of more than one million dollars was set on March 6, 2013 by the role-playing project Torment: Tides of Numenera .

The manufacturer was able to attract well-known supporters during the financing phase. On July 19, 2012, Robert Bowling, former creative strategist at Infinity Ward , announced in a blog post and through an update on the Ouya Kickstarter page that his new studio Robotoki would be the first to develop an exclusive game for the Ouya. The game should be an episodic prequel to Robotoki's upcoming game Human Element . On July 31, 2012, Square Enix announced that Final Fantasy III would be available as the launch title for Ouya.

Ouya developer consoles

On August 7, 2012, the developers at XBMC announced a partnership with Ouya to support XBMC on Ouya. On August 8, 2012 it was announced that Bandai Namco was negotiating to bring their own games to the system. On the same day it was also announced that Plex Media Center would also be represented on Ouya.

The developer consoles were shipped from December 28, 2012. Developers who had not participated in the Kickstarter campaign had the opportunity to apply with a development project since December 10th. One of the devices was given away every day among the senders. The final version was published on March 28, 2013. The sales start was on June 25, 2013.

After critical reports on the performance of the devices and the quality of a majority of the games available for them, business developed only slowly. In January 2015, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Chinese trading platform Alibaba.com had invested US $ 10 million in the company, but it did not seem to solve the company's financial difficulties. In April 2015 it was announced that OUYA Inc. was looking for a buyer because without a new investor it would no longer be able to service the loans it had taken out. In June / July 2015, the software division was taken over by the hardware manufacturer Razer Inc. and production of the console was discontinued.

The Ouya Store was shut down on June 25, 2019. Games can no longer be downloaded from this date. Even games that have already been purchased can no longer be started if they carry out a purchase verification via the Ouya Store at the start.

hardware

The interior of Ouya

Technical specifications

Interfaces

Peripherals / accessories

Wireless controller with two analog sticks, directional pad, eight action buttons, a system button and touchpad.

Dimensions

The dimensions of the device are 75 × 75 × 82 mm.

Details

Applications and games are offered in the Ouya Store exclusively for the Ouya platform . Ouya includes the Twitch application and access to the OnLive video game streaming service.

Trivia

Ouya is a vulgar term for vagina in the Bantu language Swahili . The developers were not aware of this when the name was given.

Web links

Commons : Ouya  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ OUYA: A New Kind of Video Game Console (Embedded FLV) Ouya via Kickstarter. 1'31 ″. Retrieved July 30, 2012.
  2. ↑ Sean Hollister: Ouya: a $ 99 hackable Android game console designed by Yves Behar . The Verge. July 2, 2012. Retrieved December 28, 2012.
  3. ↑ OUYA IS FF-Fun (ded)! . ouya.tv. May 9, 2013. Retrieved May 11, 2013.
  4. ↑ Andreas Donath, Ingo Pakalski: Game console: Razer buys Ouya . On: golem.de , June 15, 2015 with an addendum of July 28, 2015, accessed on December 10, 2015
  5. ↑ How OUYA Created a Trending Brand in Less than a Day . Momentum Media Marketing. July 25, 2012. Retrieved July 29, 2012.
  6. ↑ a b c d Launched: Jul. 10, 2012: OUYA: A New Kind of Video Game Console by OUYA - Kickstarter . Kickstarter.com. July 10, 2012. Retrieved July 29, 2012.
  7. ↑ An interview with Ouya hardware developer Muffi Ghadiali . Team Ouya. September 3, 2012. Archived from the original on April 7, 2014. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 30, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.team-ouya.de
  8. ↑ OUYA: A New Kind of Video Game Console by OUYA »Welcome Muffi! - Kickstarter . Kickstarter.com. July 18, 2012. Retrieved July 29, 2012.
  9. ^ The Mastermind Behind the Ouya Console Is Answering Your Best Questions Right Here . Kotaku.com. July 19, 2012. Archived from the original on July 22, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 29, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / kotaku.com
  10. ^ Yancey Strickler: Ouya's Big Day . Retrieved July 11, 2012.
  11. ↑ Ouya game console kicks off strong . Retrieved July 11, 2012.
  12. ↑ http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-03-08-torment-fastest-kickstarter-to-USD1-million
  13. ^ Robert Bowling: Jul 19, 2012 . In: Robotoki: The Official Blog . Retrieved July 20, 2012.
  14. ^ Square Enix, for the game platform "OUYA" new offer "Final Fantasy III" . Square Enix. July 31, 2012. Retrieved July 31, 2012.
  15. ↑ Julie Uhrman: OUYA: A New Kind of Video Game Console . Retrieved August 11, 2012.
  16. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from August 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / xbmc.org
  17. ↑ http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console/posts/283782
  18. ↑ Ouya: Developer consoles almost finished . Computer picture . December 3, 2012. Retrieved December 12, 2012.
  19. ↑ Peter Steinlechner: Android console: Ouya is urgently looking for a buyer . In: golem.de , April 29, 2015, accessed December 10, 2015
  20. ^ Razer Forge TV | Official Razer Support. Retrieved May 22, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Stephen Totilo: An All-Star Plan to Build a New $ 99 Hackable Video Game Console Requires $ 950,000 Of Your Money . Retrieved July 12, 2012.
  22. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.team-ouya.de
  23. ↑ https://www.ouya.tv/faq/#4