Crowdfunded Android Console Ouya Will Be Shut Down On June 25th

'Razer, the gaming hardware manufacturing company that purchased
Ouya's software assets in mid-2015, announced today that the
crowdfunded Android console will cease functioning on June 25th. "That
date will mark the unremarkable end of what began as a runaway
Kickstarter success story: the inexpensive Ouya mini-console was
powered by Android and introduced games such as TowerFall," reports
The Verge. "But despite being positioned as the indie console, Ouya
never quite took off after its $8.5 million crowdfunding campaign. The
goal was to move Android's indie gaming scene to TV screens -- with
exclusive Ouya-only titles mixed in -- but the execution didn't pan
out." From the report:

The hardware has been discontinued ever since Razer acquired Ouya's
software assets in 2015. So it's somewhat surprising that the platform
has continued to plod along for nearly four additional years. But that
all ends next month. Accounts will be deactivated on June 25th. After
that, Razer says "access to the Discover section will no longer be
available. Games downloaded that appear in Play may still function if
they do not require a purchase validation upon launch." But by and
large, games on the Ouya platform will stop working after the cutoff
date.

Razer notes that some developers might choose to help their Ouya
customers by activating the same game on some other platform (i.e.,
Google Play) where available following the shutdown. Razer's own Forge
TV device will continue functioning as an Android TV set-top box, but
the Forge TV games store is also going offline come the 25th. Part of
Razer's thinking behind the Ouya acquisition was to propel its
long-term Android TV gaming ambitions. The company has clearly shifted
its priorities over the last few years, as indicated by the decision
to finally shut down Ouya once and for all.'

-- source: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/19/05/22/2042225

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
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