captaincharisma :
i still don't see why people would buy this. all it has is android games and some TV services. this is turning into nothing but an ouya with a 500GB hard drive
Right, Ouya has 4K, Tegra X1 (2x xbox360/ps3 power), runs unreal4 etc...C'mon, you can't be serious, that junker runs a Tegra3...LOL. We're talking 4 revs later in chip tech. You won't be running any of the games made for T4 on up on a ouya. You'll never do 4K, etc. Full OpenGL 4.5, Vulkan etc on this. Do you really not understand the graphical differences here? Available bandwidth in each?
So in your mind, ah well, 980ti is just a 3dfx card from a decade ago...LOL.
LMAO ok so you get
https://www.ouya.tv/games/
Look at the types of games/graphics they have on ouya, then come back and say that junk again. Most of ouya's games look like something from pre-c64 days. Maybe some fun for super poor people, but Android TV finally has the power of a regular console with lots of bonus features. Crysis 3, Borderlands Prequel, Doom3BFG etc..You're not going to ever run this stuff on ouya, nor the tons of games that will follow that use X1's power.
Xbox1 is just another Xbox upgrade too...So what, if you want better looking games it's a heck of an upgrade from the first xbox right (not 360)? We are talking an HUGE jump from ouya to X1 in shieldTV, and not just power but ability to play games with far more realism (effects) that Tegra3 just can't do. Ouya should have been made with T4. They said they'd rev yearly, but I guess that idea died.
For a price of $200 here you get access to GRID too, which can be an endless source of top games without needing PC hardware to stream from either. As long as GRID service isn't more than $15 or so (1080, maybe <$10 for 720p streaming), it is great for poor people that can't afford 1. a $350-400 console, and 2. $60 games a whack. You could only buy 3 xbox1/ps4 games for $180 each year, but think of all the gaming you can get on GRID (50 games+ now?, supposedly 100 buy xmas). This will grow and grown and can constantly be upgraded by NV as needed to keep up with the latest games. Nothing has to be done to your box at home, NV just upgrades servers as needed. You get a LOT more here for the extra hundred (thought I'd buy the 500GB model myself, but I'm not dead broke).
You're NV hate is showing
I could go on but you should get the point. I don't want to keep playing PS2/xbox level games for life (less?). I'd like to run 4K without buying another bluray etc, etc...