IndieGO!: A open Video Game Console compatible to classic Amigas

[phoenixkonsole]

Thank you for the corrections : )
Well i like that a machine can playback the stuff for its own.
The INDIEGO could stream the media also to a touchpad and vice versa.
But the thing has enough power to run games without the need of an extra PC.

I know.. "you say it is a PC" : )
If i run WiiLinux my Wii is a PPC-PC too. An XBOX with Linux is a PC.

Why would you stream from your PC to Ouya? Not straight to TV?
Can Ouya play a DVD? Always a PC in the background?

I like to have one device which is all in one. Onlive is nice but as long the machine can run it online (native) it is my preferred method.
Buy, install/collect and replay whenever you like.

Next consoles will block used games for example.. wow what a user oriented move.

[yssing]

Why would I buy this and not an AresOne?

[billt]

ware emulation.

While I expect to see some really cool stuff in FPGAs, I don't agree with that limitation. I still do not see an FPG-Amiga shaped like a laptop for convenient portability or using wherever in my house that I feel like sitting just then. FPGA boards still would tether me to a desk in a particular room, which has been a large hinderance to my Amiga-ing for several years now. Software emulation still has a good place to be.

I think it's interesting to dedicate a PC-as-a-console to this task on the TV. While I already have an HTPC, it has other tasks to be doing (file server, mythtv, etc) than dedication to games as this sounds. I'm interested to learn more about this.

[Lurch]

"Why would you stream from your PC to Ouya? Not straight to TV?"

You could stream from the PC to the TV, so why buy a IndieGO or Ouya? You could use an Xbox 360 controller paired with your PC too :-)

"Can Ouya play a DVD? Always a PC in the background?"

Who uses DVD's these days? At the moment most of my movies are now sitting on my 2008 server box and I stream them through my Blu-ray player.

I can even stream the movie from home to a friends place over the internet fine too so no need to carry around a portable storage device :-)

So annoying having to get up and change over a disc. As for video quality and size this isn't an issue either with compression options out there that halve the size of the files and still retain the same quality.

Of course storage space is cheap anyway and a terabyte of storage is common place.

With wireless n streaming movies is lag free so no cables.

If you really wanted to use a DVD player there's a USB connector on the Ouya so any external drive would work.

As for games since using steam I don't see a big second hand market in the future. Not when you can get a game pack for $5 and that same pack in a bricks and mortar store is $85...

[Lurch]

Another note I don't even use disks with my Amiga's anymore. I have a an SD card loaded with thousands of ADF's and a couple of CF Cards loaded with WHDLoad games.

Disk's on the Amiga are too flaky and take up too much room. If I want the old school noise (which I sometimes miss) the HxC does a good enough job of reproducing it if I turn the sound back on :-)