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2019/05

Ouya, koja je očito još uvijek stvar, napokon odlazi u zalazak sunca

It’s been about six years since the Ouya micro-console first shipped and, this June, its reign will finally come to a close. In other news, apparently the Ouya was still a thing?

All snark aside, I legitimately had no idea the Ouya was still going in 2019 in any shape or form. Yet here I am, letting you know that the brand is only just now being discontinued. So I guess it gets an A for effort because, man, that thing was basically dead on arrival.

In case you’ve never heard of the Ouya or had completely forgotten it ever existed, it was one of the first major crowdfunding success stories taking place seven years ago. In short, the creators wanted to make a tiny console that wouldn’t cost a lot of money and would have a very open development pipeline. Rather than try and compete with the likes of Microsoft or Sony, you could think of the Ouya as a little cube that basically hosted the types of games you would expect to see exclusively on digital marketplaces. There’s nothing wrong with those games, they’re just small, inexpensive and don’t need a $400 console to run them.

So the idea of the Ouya is pretty sound, but the final product didn’t really deliver. The controller was immediately panned for feeling cheap and the console itself suffered from frustrating bugs. And while it eventually built a library of games, the Ouya never attracted enough developers to garner any real attention from the community. Its one major hit was Towerfall, which eventually ditched Ouya exclusivity and went on to become a legitimate success elsewhere.

Anyway, back in 2015, the folks at Razer decided to purchase Ouya. They didn’t want to make more consoles, but they did decide to roll the system’s content into their Forge TV platform. Now that Forge TV has kicked the bucket, Ouya is taking its final bow.

On June 25, Razer is pulling the plug. At that time, all online functionality will be lost and player accounts will be deactivated. It sounds like any game that doesn’t rely on online play that has been downloaded to the hardware, though, will still be yours to play.

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