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OUYA Will Support OnLive Game Streaming, Controller Fully Unveiled

By Landon Robinson | 27 July 2012 | 9 Comments   

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OUYA, the successfully crowd-funded video game console, has announced a partnership with OnLive, the cloud gaming service, and will be working with them to bring a fully-featured OnLive streaming application to OUYA “when it launches next year.”

For those unfamiliar with OnLive, it’s at its simplest the Netflix or Hulu Plus of video games, allowing you to stream full, high-quality games straight to your PC, OnLive mini-console or mobile tablet for a standard subscription rate. So long as you have a workable internet connection, you’re able to play through a vast library of games without ever having to download it fully.

What does this mean for OUYA? For starters, it sort of covers their basis of every game being required to include a free trial, as OnLive already implements this feature for each and every title it offers to stream. It also means that gamers who purchase an OUYA (or backed it with enough cash on Kickstarter) will have another way of playing cloud games on their television, the only previous way being to own an OnLive console (approximately the same price as OUYA will be at retail next year).

The team at OUYA also took the opportunity in their Kickstarter update to unveil the nearly complete controller they’ve been working on, as well as the approximate design of the console itself.

“Please note that the design is still in progress–but we couldn’t hold out any longer.

We’re still deciding on the buttons. For now, we’ve stuck with the colored circles as placeholders. But don’t fret, we won’t leave out colorblind gamers. :)”

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Is it just me, or does that controller look a bit familiar?

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Yup, totally does, just more square.

[via OUYA]

9 Comments

  1. Posted by Matt on 27 July 12 at 9:58am

    Looks like the fake PS3 controller + 360 controller.

  2. Posted by Janie Egger on 27 July 12 at 11:40am

    I don’t understand the buttons. Do they rely on colors? If so, how are color blind people going to use this effectively?

    • Posted by Chance on 27 July 12 at 1:24pm

      “Please note that the design is still in progress–but we couldn’t hold out any longer.

      We’re still deciding on the buttons. For now, we’ve stuck with the colored circles as placeholders. But don’t fret, we won’t leave out colorblind gamers. :)”

  3. Posted by Stefan on 27 July 12 at 2:01pm

    God, that controller is ugly as sin.

  4. Posted by Gail on 27 July 12 at 5:06pm

    On Live, streaming application to [OUYA], sounds really exciting, i’m looking forward to it…

  5. Posted by johnxfire on 28 July 12 at 4:35am

    Still have no interest in this product.

    One has to wonder how long it can last though, at the rate mobile processing improves, the OUYA could be outdated a year after initial production.

    • Posted by Mugenite on 28 July 12 at 7:50am

      Outdated? Dude, it’s going to be running a cloud based service. Unless the Onlive servers become obsolete, this guy will be running anything from current to next gen titles. But still… I like my consoles lag free. :)

  6. Posted by Arman on 01 August 12 at 12:03pm

    ahhh it’s the ps3 moment all over again.

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