When does ouya console come out

Ouya hero shot The Ouya gaming service and all games on the platform will cease functioning on June 25th, Razer has announced. Next Up In Gaming. Sign up for the newsletter Verge Deals Subscribe to get the best Verge-approved tech deals of the week. Just one more thing! Please confirm your subscription to Verge Deals via the verification email we just sent you. Email required. By signing up, you agree to our Privacy Notice and European users agree to the data transfer policy.

Loading comments Share this story Twitter Facebook. Now both are gone. While the Ouya platform will still be able to play and discover games through the online service until June 25, , after then is more uncertain.

Owners of Forge TV and the MadCatz Mojo microconsole which could play Ouya games and access its storefront may still connect to the Google Play store and other platforms still in use. Cookie banner We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from.

By choosing I Accept , you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. But it's not an eyesore and won't look out of place in an entertainment center. And even if it did, it's so small that most people wouldn't even notice it's there.

Each is presented with large, clear fonts on a blatantly orange background. Discover is the games store. Titles are categorized into regularly updated curated channels.

Channels can range from developer favorites to games that Ouya decides to promote. There's also a search feature for finding more-obscure games if you know the name , or more useful is the Genres section, which allows you to browse through every piece of software available on the Ouya through categories like Retro, Platformer, App, Play with Friends, etc.

As a note, this list is found near the bottom of the page; it should be surfaced higher. Make has two functions: it's where you access the Web and launch side-loaded apps, and if you're currently developing a game on Ouya -- Ouya acts as a development kit once the SDK is downloaded -- Make is where you'll find your latest game builds.

Like an experiment instead of an actual finished release, or a mock-up a buddy hacked together over the weekend, just to illustrate a design philosophy. The orange progress bar for app downloads blends with the slightly more orange background, making it difficult to see. There's no list of your currently downloading apps, which would be useful after queuing up a bunch of downloads.

Sound errors were abundant and didn't always sync up when making menu selections. There are no profiles, achievements, or leaderboards and currently no online play.

The controller The controller feels like a movie prop. It's not a console anymore: it's a subset of the Android operating system that will necessarily have fewer games, due to its smaller install base and extra hurdles, than Android as a whole — only without the previous benefits of a single hardware platform for developers to target. You might liken Ouya to Netflix or Amazon's Kindle in its attempt to spread throughout the hardware landscape, but the technical requirements to read books or play movies are well satisfied by any device on the market, while games attempting to satisfy a console gamer are chasing a moving target.

Originally, Ouya planned to upgrade its microconsole every year with the latest chips, but people rarely replace their television anywhere near that quickly. It's not clear why game developers would build Android games for a fragmented Ouya instead of Android, period. And while it's perfectly reasonable for the Ouya team to adapt and respond to the market hurdles they face, this does underscore the problems with crowd-funding hardware platforms, and with the crowd getting too drawn into the hype for a product long before it's been reviewed, tested, or even fully designed and built.

To be perfectly honest, while I never actively hoped that the Ouya would fail, I didn't see it as a bastion of gamer freedom and nostalgia. Rather, the promise of "free-to-play" everything on a mobile platform strapped to the TV struck me as a step in the wrong direction for video games. Perhaps I'm too much the traditionalist.

Then again, the incredible success of the PS4 illustrates that a demand for traditional gaming consoles still very much exists.

Traditional consoles with evolving price and revenue models, for sure, but still largely following the pay-to-play model plus DLC, expansions, etc.