Microsoft doesn't see Valve's Steam Box as a threat. Microsoft’s Don Mattrick has dismissed the notion that Valve’s Steambox is competition for the company’s own Xbox platform. Speaking at Microsoft’s TechForum, the Interactive Entertainment Business president simply answered, “no” when asked if Valve’s upcoming hardware was a threat, according to The Verge.
“The scale of products and things that are being brought to market are probably a little bit richer when I look at Sony, Nintendo, Apple, and Google,” Mattrick elaborated, before clarifying his respect for Valve’s work. “I love Gabe, I was there for his lifetime achievement award so it’s wonderful to see what they’re creating.” Valve today announced that it intends to start providing Steam Box prototypes to customers within the next three to four months, though the company is finding the task of creating a powerful but compact and quiet gaming PC a challenge. Après les smartphones, Google s'attaque aux consoles de jeux. Saturday Soapbox: The Trouble with Ouya • Opinions • PC. This week, you couldn't dodge the Ouya. Already the most successful gaming Kickstarter yet with four weeks still left to run, it is a project that sells a dream.
A $99 console that runs on Android aiming for a March 2013 launch, at the time of writing it has captured the imagination of 35,000 people to the tune of 4.4 million dollars, and counting fast. There's just one thing: the Ouya will never appear, and even if it does is doomed. It's amazing how much has so far been written about the Ouya's capabilities without acknowledging the fact that its Kickstarter pitch is deliberately deceptive. First of all there's the use of 'free to play', with specific reference to popular examples of this model like Triple Town, League of Legends and Team Fortress 2.
The UI is very similar to the 360 dashboard layout, and its panels are filled with games that are unlikely to happen - the new Madden? OK, so that's using industry jargon in an unfamiliar manner. Here is an imaginary conversation: Ouya launching with Final Fantasy III. The new Android-powered $99 Ouya console will launch with one of the most popular franchises in gaming. Square Enix announced today that Final Fantasy III will be available at launch for the Ouya during March 2013. Final Fantasy III is a role-playing game that originally launched in 1990 for the Famicom. The Ouya version will be "optimized" for the new console, and a free demo will also be available for the game through Ouya. Final Fantasy III is the only game Square Enix has announced thus far for Ouya, though it may not be the last. The publisher said it is considering bringing additional content to Ouya in the future, though it did not specify further.
Ouya made waves earlier this month, when a Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign for the console exceeded its $950,000 funding target in under a day. As of press time, the campaign has attracted more than 45,000 backers who have together donated close to $6 million. Filed under: Final Fantasy III. Ouya responds to skepticism • News • Android. Ouya has responded to a series of criticisms leveled at it after its massively successful Kickstarter brought it into the limelight. Speaking with Eurogamer, when asked if five million dollars - roughly its current level of funding - could fund the launch of a system that could compete with Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo, CEO of Ouya Julie Uhrman responded with the following: "We've raised enough to build a great product, just as we planned.
Part of what we're doing is creating something that shows in gaming 'less is more' -- we don't need custom chips, or expensive first-party games, we just need to make an open system that supports great games. More certainly helps, though: the more we raise, the more we can create a great service for game developers, with better tools, and more gamers for them to reach with their games. More game developers means more, better games - and that's better for gamers. " Uhrman explained, "OUYA will be just as secure as any other Android-powered device.