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Watching this, I'm reminded of the OUYA. Isn't this exactly what they were trying to accomplish? In fact, it seems to me that Valve's Big Picture, combined wit

by tarice 14y ago

Watching this, I'm reminded of the OUYA. Isn't this exactly what they were trying to accomplish? In fact, it seems to me that Valve's Big Picture, combined with the ability to "make your own Steambox", completely trumps the OUYA. Why would a game developer want to create a new port of their game to a completely new system when they could just optionally add controller support and publish to Steam? Valve's got the player-base and game library, and now they're in the living room. Is OUYA's niche gone?

jonursenbach 14y ago
Why would a game developer want to create a new port of their game to a completely new system when they could just optionally add controller support and publish to Steam? Because that's exactly the same thing as the OUYA for Android developers. All they need to do is add OUYA support to their existing application and publish it on their store.
wmf 14y ago
Ouya is $100, a Steambox is ~$300, and the next gen consoles may be $400+.
- Raphael 14y ago
  In some ways, this is an advantage for selling games through Steam. If someone can't afford a decent computer, how likely are they to pay for games? And they will probably expect lower prices, especially if the assets are smaller and simpler.
adam-a 14y ago
Ouya has a much lower barrier to entry than Steam, which is none. Anyone can publish a game to the Ouya market (at least that's my understanding) but for an indie developer, getting a game on steam can be quite difficult. See the recently launched Greenlight website and how many games are on that, trying to get published on Steam[0]. I think the ease of publishing will attract a lot of developers, in the same way that iOS/Android grabbed smaller developers that couldn't get on the old consoles. [0] http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/browse/?browsefilter=mostrecent&appid=765&browsesort=mostrecent http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/browse/?browsefilter=m...

by tarice 14y ago

jonursenbach 14y ago

Why would a game developer want to create a new port of their game to a completely new system when they could just optionally add controller support and publish to Steam? Because that's exactly the same thing as the OUYA for Android developers. All they need to do is add OUYA support to their existing application and publish it on their store.

wmf 14y ago

Ouya is $100, a Steambox is ~$300, and the next gen consoles may be $400+.

Raphael 14y ago
In some ways, this is an advantage for selling games through Steam. If someone can't afford a decent computer, how likely are they to pay for games? And they will probably expect lower prices, especially if the assets are smaller and simpler.

adam-a 14y ago

Ouya has a much lower barrier to entry than Steam, which is none. Anyone can publish a game to the Ouya market (at least that's my understanding) but for an indie developer, getting a game on steam can be quite difficult. See the recently launched Greenlight website and how many games are on that, trying to get published on Steam[0]. I think the ease of publishing will attract a lot of developers, in the same way that iOS/Android grabbed smaller developers that couldn't get on the old consoles. [0] http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/browse/?browsefilter=mostrecent&appid=765&browsesort=mostrecent http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/browse/?browsefilter=m...