I'll bet you five bucks that if OUYA software takes off in any kind of way even worth mentioning you'll soon find methods of running the games on plain-old Android devices. Possibly even OUYA's store, tricked into thinking it's running on an OUYA. Only reason I don't see this is happening is because you'd have to be out of your mind to sell something on OUYA and not Android. You could see some ideologues doing non-commercial releases exclusively for it but I doubt we'll be looking at any killer apps.
That's not including stuff that launches on OUYA a bit before it shows up on Android, though.
I will remark, one great service OUYA is doing for Android games is making a credible physical controls-only (for the most part) platform. Right now too few Android games have native physical controls support - there's emulation through touch but that has some serious limitations. But if you want a game on OUYA you mostly have to use the traditional buttons. It'd be really dumb to not then enable the same controls in standard Android versions, but I shouldn't underestimate the potential for dumb decisions here..
That's not including stuff that launches on OUYA a bit before it shows up on Android, though.
I will remark, one great service OUYA is doing for Android games is making a credible physical controls-only (for the most part) platform. Right now too few Android games have native physical controls support - there's emulation through touch but that has some serious limitations. But if you want a game on OUYA you mostly have to use the traditional buttons. It'd be really dumb to not then enable the same controls in standard Android versions, but I shouldn't underestimate the potential for dumb decisions here..
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