lilbabycat
2[H]4U
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- Jun 21, 2011
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Random thoughts/impressions:
-Got my Ouya, controller is decent, looks cheaper than it actually feels. Buttons, D-pad, and thumbsticks feel good. Trigger buttons are too big+cheap feeling
-I plugged in a usb keyboard which it did not detect. Lights up and whatnot but I could not use it in any of the menus.
-The Interface is utter trash. A hack job at best. I had to become a "dev" just to be able to access the built in browser, which is hidden 3-menus in.
-Network speeds are horribly slow, both wired and wireless.
-Side-loaded an XBMC build, then looked up my shared drives. Incredibly slow just bringing up each folder, then when I had it scan my main media drive it basically froze up, I checked it after 2 hours and it found some of my movies, but also detected a bunch of stuff that I don't have (this might be my own fault / functionality of XBMC).
-You cannot access the Play store, or any "basic" apps at all without sideloading
-The total available games in the Ouya store is ~150? and not very high quality. Again, the UI is slow
-There is no "power off" option that I've found in the UI, you have to get up and hold the Ouya button on the console itself, the one on the controller only acts as a "home" button ala android.
-Did I mention the UI is utter trash?
-Apparently Audio-Passthrough does not work and may never work (which means you'll be limited to stereo sound, no 5.1 DTS), so this has already soured my opinions greatly, as I intended this to be my media-streaming device.
I expected there to be a CM/hacked OS made for this by the time I got mine, but apparently development is slow (perhaps because no one seems to have gotten their units in a timely manner?) There is also a hardware-acceleration enabled XMBC build floating around that I'll be trying tonight, though I don't expect that fixing the slow network speeds magically.
All in all, I've yet to play a single piece of media or game on this thing yet.
-Got my Ouya, controller is decent, looks cheaper than it actually feels. Buttons, D-pad, and thumbsticks feel good. Trigger buttons are too big+cheap feeling
-I plugged in a usb keyboard which it did not detect. Lights up and whatnot but I could not use it in any of the menus.
-The Interface is utter trash. A hack job at best. I had to become a "dev" just to be able to access the built in browser, which is hidden 3-menus in.
-Network speeds are horribly slow, both wired and wireless.
-Side-loaded an XBMC build, then looked up my shared drives. Incredibly slow just bringing up each folder, then when I had it scan my main media drive it basically froze up, I checked it after 2 hours and it found some of my movies, but also detected a bunch of stuff that I don't have (this might be my own fault / functionality of XBMC).
-You cannot access the Play store, or any "basic" apps at all without sideloading
-The total available games in the Ouya store is ~150? and not very high quality. Again, the UI is slow
-There is no "power off" option that I've found in the UI, you have to get up and hold the Ouya button on the console itself, the one on the controller only acts as a "home" button ala android.
-Did I mention the UI is utter trash?
-Apparently Audio-Passthrough does not work and may never work (which means you'll be limited to stereo sound, no 5.1 DTS), so this has already soured my opinions greatly, as I intended this to be my media-streaming device.
I expected there to be a CM/hacked OS made for this by the time I got mine, but apparently development is slow (perhaps because no one seems to have gotten their units in a timely manner?) There is also a hardware-acceleration enabled XMBC build floating around that I'll be trying tonight, though I don't expect that fixing the slow network speeds magically.
All in all, I've yet to play a single piece of media or game on this thing yet.