Where did the money go?

To this.
youtube.com/watch?v=QY5yG2KyQfM

>8.5m to build a new console
Of course it was going to be shit

>a console about playing phone games on your TV
How it got to 8 million will always be beyond me.

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the amount of backers is pretty small for the sum, people that cared isn't actually high

>hire an industrial designer, a hardware engineer, a programmer, and a marketer to work out of a small rented office
>outsource all manufacturing to a cheap chinese factory
This “business” would cost $200k/year to operate tops.

Money laundering

Depends on the type of business
In tech, particularly if you’re trying to build hardware, it’s not unusual to see multi million operating costs for shit like systems, rent, components, prototyping and R&D

I still use my L.E. Ouya, see it stops my games falling off the mantle.

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>63,000 people paid over $8,000,000 for a device called the "OUYA" to be made
money laundering

Because people had no idea what it was and didn’t think beyond HURR FUCK NINTENDO SONY AND MICROSOFT

There was even a poll of what games backers wanted on the thing and it was a list full of things that would have never run on it, and that they could just buy on other consoles and PC already, like Skyrim.

Made a $99 dollar console made of 2013(?) era Android parts. Pretty much everything except for Towerfall and PS1/N64 emulation can be done on a phone which everyone has. iirc Towerfall only sold like 8000 copies too despite being far away the most popular game on the system.

You tried, retard.

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>YWN Have 5 children with Evengaline

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Top kek what a fucking idiot you are

>$135 donated per person on average

but then how were they going to do anything at all with the original goal of $950k

WATER FLOWING UNDERGROUND

Yeah, I remember the backers discussing what they'd like to see.
>What about Skyrim? I'd love Skyrim for the Ouya!
>Sure, but I'd prefer if we got Fallout 3.
>Can we get Call of Duty, PLZ?!?!

Many had no idea what was possible and what to expect.

Is there such thing like Backer's history list in Kikestarter?
Would love to see what kind of stuff those people are backing in the current year.

Cocaine

there was some kind of assumed knowledge that all games on it would be free.

I think it was based off them saying that all games would have free demos or could be trialed.

Many people legitimately thought every single game on this would be free though somehow, like they were going to pay $99, get a console as powerful as an xbox 360 and also never have to pay for games on it ever again.

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>YWN be a fucking god who have a demonbro as arm a lovely daugfu who worship you and a 13/10 elf babe who only live to breed semigods with you

Tristepan is really the god of all Chads

>ask for $950k
>recieve $8.5m
>end up with nearly $7.5m extra
Yeah, Im sure they poured all of that money into the console.

I got my Ouya the same time I started transitioning. I regret both but will admit neither.

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At least you could stick it up your manpussy to dilate.

if at the original goal it'd probably have been cancelled, and most of the money was just burned in a series of fuckups

Don't even own smash bros and shit.

Cute!

Into off shore accounts. The jewess is now working for Playboy

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Imagine thinking 8.5 mil is small.
For a handful of people to make a emulation box no less.

Uhh, uuuhhhhh... Yea Forums is stupid!

Happened with the Ant Sim devs. The head of the dev company was pissed that his staff took the money and used it on hookers, booze, and blow.

Its not even that. A /g/ user broke down the system and said it literally was a blatant infrastructure and hardware copy of a Chinese smart phone, minus the shit smart phones actually do, cramed into a plastic box that would make nes cartridge ripoffs look tame.

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Remember that there were people who shilled the Ouya?

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>woman runs the company
no wonder it failed

>tfw hacked PSTV
pretty handy thing

superjail?

That reminds me, my Vita is literally collecting dust for years, I wonder how easy it is to install Custom Firmware now.

>tranny-looking sjw
and people gave her $8.6 M? you know most of that didn't go towards the "console" that was just a ripoff of some chinese hardware. heck, she probably planned to use most of the original 950k for herself.

>hire an industrial designer, a hardware engineer-
Oh look at that, we're already at 200k/yr in overhead.

Same.
I'm going to make it GBA machine one of these days.

That’s a good use user

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it always been pretty easy, it's more a matter of being on a firmware on which it's possible

3.60 is ideal allowing you to permanently hack it easily

3.65/3.68 works too but there will be additional steps to downgrade to 3.60 after gaining sufficient access

anything above 3.68 isn't possible last I know of

>$99.99
Jesus.

Ignorance, people thought it would be a $99 gaming PC/Console & could play Skyrim/GTA etc

Well I haven't touched my Vita in...probably 4 years because Soul Sacrifice Delta is the last game I remember playing

I bet she thinks shes as good as Serena Williams with her failed Console

Why would you downgrade to 3.60 to begin with?

again this shit?
srlsy

the hack isn't permanent on 3.65/3.68, meaning you need to re-hack it every time you power it off

well you could technically keep it permanently in sleep mode but well

most homebrew and stuff is intended for 3.60 too, and being on 3.60 doesn't stop you from playing games made for higher firmwares (that already been sorted out).

Eitherway downgrading to 3.60 from 3.68 is a easy step on vita, it's not something you're gonna need special tools for.

..unless of course you have a recent vita with a factory firmware that's higher than 3.60, in which case you're fucked

I've read some guides about playing PSP stuff on Vita (VHBL, TN-V) but apparently you need to have PSP game on Vita for such Homebrew to work?

This.

Do you guys have any idea how much it costs to do R&D on a fucking next gen gaming console? lmaooo

This isn't a corner store or some online shop. A tech company that deals in Hardware and Software needs a lot of cash to make any dent.

>grouped in the sega genesis classic
how embarrassing

>Actually having this many physical games

Time to swap out 50 cartridges a week because I want to play a different game.

What was the OUYA about anyway?

>next gen gaming
it's literally a fucking rasberry pi ripoff with a pos controller.

Your information is out of date.
The Vita is completely broken wide-open.
They literally extracted the encryption keys.
wololo.net/2019/02/24/ps-vita-a-6-year-hacking-journey-comes-to-an-end-as-the-very-last-layer-of-the-vita-crypto-security-is-defeated/

advertised as the Indie platform messiah and people ate it up

Enso is also on 3.65, not even mentioning that you never power off the Vita to begin with. There is no reason to stay at 3.60

>>>>

Dumbass swindler

I don't think there's hacks for 3.69 in the wild yet, so it doesn't really change anything as far as hacking it "right now" goes

based

Are you reading guides from 2012?

there is also no reason not to stay at 3.60 though, especially when a lot of homebrew is intended for it

games made for more recent firmware also run just fine on it

it's just a way to run into less trouble

These ones
wololo.net/emulators-for-the-psp-ps-vita-the-ultimate-download-list/
wololo.net/vhbl/
wololo.net/downloads/index.php/download/7672

>especially when a lot of homebrew is intended for it
Such as?

cringe

Ignore that and read about Adrenaline instead.

Remember when they posted a poll asking which game people would like to play on the OUYA and everyone was convinced they'll be able to play Skyrim on it?

Both of those decisions are reversible I thought?

Well that's much more helpful.
Is wololo dead or something? I thought it's supposed to be very informative and up-to-date when it comes to these kind of things.

medicore anime but the girls are incredible

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More or less. Certainly as far as the guides go, Hackinformer should be a much better resource.

based

It went to producing the exact product that was advertised and to delivering on all promises. Why does everyone treat the Ouya like a scam? It was a success on all fronts.

The only failure was that the idiots backing it didn't realize they didn't actually want the product.

So the company failed to live up to expectations, which means their marketing department made promises it couldn't keep. That's not a success.

No, the marketing department did not make any promises it didn't keep. They kept all promises on all fronts. Consumers are just idiots that don't know what they want.

The customers always know what they want. The company misrepresented the product and made it seem better than it ever could be. Smart people knew better. Everyone else got tricked by marketing. This isn't a fucking debate. The results speak for themselves. You're the one asking questions like you're fucking bewildered at why the product was received poorly. You're the ignorant one.

Maybe it’s cuz I’m on Molly rn at south padre but I REALLY wanna suck that anitmated females tits till she’s unable to feel out of her nipples
LMAO HAHA

Get some help.

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Lol y tho

In some fucking WALLETS Ayyyyy lmao amirite

Sometimes if you make a bad decision, it's your own fault. There's not always someone to blame, user. Your logic of "The customer is angry so clearly it's the company's fault" shows you've never worked in customer service a day in your life. Ouya did not lie once. They delivered everything they said they would. But yeah. It's totally their fault that people were upset that they got exactly what they were told they would get. You're on fucking Yea Forums. You of all people should know that sometimes, people are just fucking idiots.

>a hardware engineer
I don't even know how the guy thought of this. They bought android dev boards and put them into plastic cubes with cutouts for the ports. Same with the controller. They bought some Chinese controller board and made a plastic housing for it. They didn't create any original hardware.

Protip
If a product can't get any funding from real investors and needs to use a donation scheme, its probably a scam.

Kinda like captain marvel

This is not based and shut the fuck up you fucking weebs.

If you're a business and you plan to succeed you need to SUCCESSFULLY manage the expectations of your customers and ensure they understand completely what their products are so that nobody who spends money feels like they just got fucked. It's not that hard to understand. Ouya failed specifically because it did not portray its product in a realistic way. This mislead customers. This led to backlash. The developers understood that if they marketed the Ouya accurately nobody would be tricked and they wouldn't make any money. Obviously. You're trying to blame the customers who gave the company money for the failure of a company. You should be blaming the people who didn't give Ouya any money in that case. You fucking retard.

Looool fucking thot.

Based

>Weebs
>French cartoon
I hate weebs as much as you, but stop using words you don't fucking understand.

>indivisible
Is that shit actually out?

based haha poster

Obligatory:
youtube.com/watch?v=xTqhyHuKVKA

Get your nipples sucked.

So what are some other big crowd funded scams that just took everybody's money?

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Sea Lark, some game about ants, there was one related to Yogscast too I think

That looks a lot like a bootleg Raspberry

not vidya but the best one was the "Skully" smart motorcycle helmet.

>Highlights of these alleged “personal expenses” include:
>The brothers’ personal apartment rent in San Francisco’s Marina district
>$80,000 in cash paid to an unnamed co-founder, hidden as expenses for a trip to China
>A weekend Lamborghini rental.
>A Dodge Viper.
>A second Dodge Viper, after the first one was in an accident.

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mmm hary pusy

can't believe people fell for this shit, and I'm a total retard with my money so I ain't trying to be one of those captain hindsight people.

Just seemed useless and stupid from the very beginning, but reddit neckbeards were going apeshit over it.

>imagine being this stupid

>how much it costs to do R&D on a fucking next gen gaming console

You just stick in a new GPU and make sure it's more powerful for the price than the competition.

Damn, they got a shit load of money for all that.

cringe

based

Crowdfunding is advanced scam

If you think you need that much to keep the business of a glorified emulation machine production running, you need to rethink your life.

Yogscast kickstarter game comes to mind
youtu.be/eIod3ZUBpys

The shelf of shame.

Idiots who think it's easy to make a new console that can support all the new games coming out at a cheaper price.

Those segas play all music off pitch.

What sold out at $80?

For like $30 I can buy everything i need to display my phone on my television and use a bluetooth controller to do everything an Ouya can do

It was a stupid idea

>t. tech startup investard

Is that what the game was suppose to look like?

Project Penis something something

Where did all the consoles go? Weren't Target and Walmart selling them?

So why was their goal only $900K?
This was hardly next gen. Many expect Skyrim and only got Minecraft and Car Jumper

youtube.com/watch?v=JV1nidrZhsM

it just says "mobile gaming". now I'm even more curious.

Someone in one of my cal buy and sell groups is selling one of these for $70. Realistically if I were to grab one of these, how hard would it be to get all of the games on it without paying for them? Would it even work properly still? Which version of Android is it even running?

>how hard would it be to get all of the games on it
What fucking game?

That sinclair handheld thing

Why would you even want to buy one at this point? It has 2012 hardware and Android 4.1

You could buy so many things way better for cheaper

she has a smile like a cartoon villian

>letting a company decide you cant play a game you bought anymore because they dont support the digital download
Good goy

people were buying these things for $20 within the first year of release and you are even entertainment paying 70

isn't that the new google console?

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reminder that Yea Forums shilled for this shit constantly

Can you play roms or ISOs of vita games on a hacked firmware? What can you do with the custom firmware?

That bitch works at playboy now?

No wonder why they lost all the appeal. What the fuck were they thinking?

It went to R&D. Instead of settling upon an earlier design revision which was absolutely suitable and would have been perfect for a first release, they scrapped it entirely once the campaign went viral, because they thought they needed to look more minimalistic. So, that was like $800,000 gone right there.
They spent millions of dollars getting in contact with chinese manufacturers, most of whom, when they saw the rate at which the ouya was being publicized, scurried away because the hardware was more than likely just repurposed garbo phone parts. That cost them millions. Compounded with popping bottles and hiring on new staff when they were still pre-revenue just assured their failure.

I don't know, what't why I'm asking.

For the meme.

Hey that's why I'm asking.

You can pirate vita games, yes. It has a near 100% accuracy psp inside of it so anything you could do on a psp, you can also do on a vita. There's a few other wonderful homebrew apps, chiefly moonlight, which lets you stream your pc to your vita for on-the-shitter emulation of more demanding titles that the vita can't play, like gamecube and ps2 stuff that never got ported natively.

>reminder that Yea Forums shilled for this shit constantly
No. Yea Forums realized it was a scam from day 1. im sure some of the archives go back that far. it was a laughing stock on here.

Oh shit that seems pretty great. But how's the storage issue? I know my vita can't fit SD cards, would I need to hardmod it to get them to work?

sd2vita.

There's a dongle that fits in your vita's game cart slot (so no game carts while you use it) that allows you to daisychain a microSD into it, which will give you way more storage than you'll ever need.
Personally I use a 16gb card and it's plenty of space for me. I've got usually 2 or 3 big JRPGs on there, plus a fuckton of SNES and GBA games. They're not 100% cycle accurate blah blah blah but I don't give a fuck, they play fine, full speed. vita's still getting tons of newer indie games too, used it to try out darkest dungeon and stardew valley, ended up buying them both because of it.

How well/accurate dp GBA Rhythm plays on it?
I'm thinking about putting Rhythm Tengoku on it because playing that shit on touchscreen was pure cancer.

Haven't tried those games in particular, but I'm perfectly capable of getting full 16 hit combos on mother 3 through my vita, consistently. I don't think the rhythm heaven games are any more demanding in particular.

Also there's a retroarch port for vita if you don't want to use the PSP emulators, just in case I didn't make that clear. So if it runs okay-ish on a retroarch core, chances are on the vita itself it'll run fine too.
jack dickall for speedup though, given the hardware is so meh.

Sounds good enough.So you're using the PSP GBA emulator (gPSP or something)? How does the native vita GBA emulator (mGBA?) compare to it?

I have three GBA emulators on adrenaline (the inbuilt psp emulator on vita), a fork of GPSP kai that I use for some notably buggy titles. FF6 GBA, breath of fire1/2 with a fuckton of hacks thrown on, mother 3.
There's another one I use for 3D games on gba, and then the regular, most recent fork of gpsp-j for general playing.

mgba on vita is just the standalone version of the retroarch core, and they update the retroarch core more often than they update the standalone bubble (executable) so you're only hurting yourself by using it. same with the snes9x vita port. it's just using the 2005 core.

I've been doing hb shit on the psp since 2006 so a lot of the stuff I have i've had for a decade already, i'm sure someone out there has nice and cleaned up sets of emulators for you if you wanted, but generally any ol' thing will work, the psp emulation is just cause it's more comfortable for me to work with, and cause I fucking hate retroarch. mednafen tier "heheheh we're great at everything except running games" retardation.

Transitioning from what to what? If you're talking male (gender) to female (gender), it's instantaneous. If you're talking male to female, it's impossible.

>If your talking about going insane, it's instantaneous
ftfy

>anime
It's a French cartoon

>ywn have demonbro jack you off all over 13/10 elfbabe's face.
Also the fact that they admitted Rubi has watched the bang was hilarious. and Eva being shamed was cute because you know that means she likes it.

Jokes on you, Anime is French FOR cartoon.

French animation is called anime though

I'm pretty glad the Ouya exists. It's comedy gold.

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>Indivisible
Is this a Lab zero general shitpost image

Juicero

youtu.be/5lutHF5HhVA

How are people so stupid they fall for this kind of shit?

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I was gonna post this, that video was kino.

youtu.be/QY5yG2KyQfM
This guy made me happy that I didn't fall for this scam.

>stupid enough to back this thing
>single delivery attempt while I'm at work
>gets returned back to chingchong
>ouya company goes tits up
>get a refund at better dollar value

went better than expected I guess

youtube.com/watch?v=7v2isTyggRw

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>stupid enough to back this thing
>single delivery attempt while I'm at work
>gets returned back to chingchong
>ouya company goes tits up
>get a refund at better dollar value

went better than expected I guess

classic.

A roastie? A fucking ROASTIE?
OH
MY
GOD

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wakarimasen lol

basically this
I'm seeing an small trend of Kickstarter owners/leaders complaining that they didn't get enough money because they had to set their goals low because they wouldn't have gotten funded otherwise and that's why they turned out a shitty product

which is fraud

it's literally fucking FRAUD

animé

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You sure about that user?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos

Didn't the security shut them down?

It was back when Kickstarter was still new and people were throwing money at anything that seemed remotely interesting.

Star Citizen

I still can't believe people fell for it. "We want to make a gaming box that is an Android phone running games designed for touch screens but without any touch screen" is a dumb pitch, and on top of that they pitched it at a period of time when the phone market was turning obsolete 6-12 months after release. It was a ship wreck before their Kickstarter campaign has even reached its goal.

Hardware business is always expensive. If even valve need to cooperate with HTC to make vive and still need to cut staffs, imagine kickstarting a console. And $8mio is literally nothing for industrial-scale company. People are literal retard.

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this was fucking nuts, they tricked so many people for years