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I'm not sure I understand the developer incentive for releasing a game exclusively for the Ouya. As a game developer I'm excited by the Ouya, but precisely beca
by vibrunazo 14y ago
I'm not sure I understand the developer incentive for releasing a game exclusively for the Ouya. As a game developer I'm excited by the Ouya, but precisely because it's part of the larger Android ecosystem. So I can release my games for a large screen console on the OUYA store and for millions of Android mobile devices on the Play Store. With very little engineering effort between the two (saved you already planed d-pad support in your game).
So why would I publish exclusively only on the Ouya store and not the Play store? Is there some partnership plan somewhere that I'm missing? Robotoki is getting a lot of good marketing directly from Ouya. That sounds like an interesting partnership. But is that scalable for the rest of us?
- charlesju 14y agoIf you read carefully the developer is releasing a prequel to his real game. They are trying to leverage Ouya for publicity for when it releases its real game which will not be under an exclusive deal. This is similar to movie studios providing say, Hulu or iTunes with exclusive trailers, and leveraging their platform for advertising.
- wmf 14y agoYou got it; the first Ouya exclusive is interesting but the Nth is not.