Gadgetory

hey guys i'm eric franklin from cnet and today i'm taking the first look at the Ouya the ouya is a $99 video game system that hooks your TV it runs on Android hooks your TV via hdmi there's also a full USB port there's an Ethernet port there's also a microUSB port there's built-in Wi-Fi their support for 5.1 sound as well as Bluetooth so the interesting thing about we are beyond it's really low prices that is really trying to support the indie game development community every oh yah is also a development system so you can take the Ouya hook up your computer download the SDK or as they call it the odk and then you can just start making games on it and you can submit the game so we on turn around according to them is about an hour to two hours and then your game is just on their store people can download it and yes and depending on what your business model is you know you can start getting paid speaking of which every game on ooh yah is free to try so you can download your game and then try it for a little while and see if you want to continue playing depending on each games business model you'll pay microtransactions or pay for the full game the console is actually this little small box is less than a pound in weight has a power button the top also comes with a controller the controller actually looks a lot like the Xbox controller it has dual analogs but there's a d-pad in the middle there's a home button to triggers and two bumper buttons the controller felt great my hands it was pretty light it fit my hands really well the handles fit really well playing the games it was buttons were very responsive i only used mostly the face buttons there's also a touchpad on the face of the controller that is used in some games so in one game i had to kind of like scratch the touchpad really quickly in order to get something to happen which is kind of a cool thing kind of new cool thing I got to play maybe 15 minutes worth the game's most of these or just indie games also got the Final Fantasy three for a couple of seconds some of the graphics are kind of like retro pixely graphics that you see a lot in indie game these days but some had like Final Fantasy three had polygonum graphics that look pretty sharp the system outputs to 720p as well as 1080p the Ouya game consoles available to early backers right now and everyone else would be able to purchase it on jun 4 2013 it will cost 99 dollars for the box and the controller so it's going to be interesting to see how well this does this is not going to compete directly necessarily with a ps4 the next Xbox is not as powerful as those systems but for people who are into indie games for indie game developers you know ninety nine dollars in a lot of money for a console once again i'm eric franklin and this has been a first look at the Ouya game console