Ouya founder speaks out against fan concerns – Video Games Update
Julie Uhrman, founder and CEO of Ouya, has addressed gamer concerns over the upcoming $99 Android powered Console which is currently on the Kickstarter website.
Ouya Kickstarter pager went up five days ago and since then the project has managed to raise an unprecedented amount of over $4 million from 32,000 plus backers with 26 days still left to go until funding stops.
Many people have raised concerns that all those backers are blindly funding the potential console and don’t have any guarantee that the project will ever see the light of day.
The main argument raised against Ouya is the free to play model it boasts. Having a console with Free 2 Play games is a gamers dream but it’s a publisher’s worst nightmare. People are asking questions as how they can be assured that game developers are going
to back the project. Even more so when it says clearly on the Ouya Kickstarter page that the game will fully support Homebrew.
“Those are totally valid comments. At the end of the day, people have invested in us and our success. They are personally invested in us and we are personally invested into delivering to them something great. We all have reputations on the line,” said Uhrman
while defending the project although $4 million sounds like a fair trade for a tarnished reputation.
“Funding game development is really important to us. Having great content at launch is critical. We are actively pursuing those in a much more aggressive way now because we can,” stated Uhrman in an interview with wired.com.
If there is one thing that’s certain, it’s that developers and publishers are dead against homebrew. Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo spend millions on trying to make their console hack proof so as to prevent video game p****y. Publishers and developers have
started to add Online Passes to multiplayer games to discourage gamers from buying used for cheaper. It is for the same reason that the whole video games industry is trying to push Digital Distribution over retail.
What reason would developers have to support Ouya when its success would only harm them in the long run? Gamers will have to wait and see if Project Ouya will ever become a reality and hit the market.
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