@Felthry A year after release Razer acquired either their hardware or software division and gave existing OUYA owners some vouchers for Razer's microconsole, and the system's online service was then sunsetted.
@dzuk Razer made a console? or a microconsole, I guess. What's a microconsole?
@Felthry A microconsole is basically what the OUYA was, as well as that Gamestick, Atari VCS and any home streaming box that plays games: lower computing power (often using mobile parts), generally online distribution only, often focusing on independent or smaller releases.
The Nintendo Switch kinda arguably fits into this too, with some weirdness.
@Felthry And yeah, Razer made their own. I think it was called the Forge and I have no idea if it's around anymore?
@Felthry and TBH, the OUYA didn't do great and Razer acquiring part of them and the other ending wasn't surprising or course-altering.
They didn't really have a plan so much as 'let's release the console and hope it goes okay!' which aside from having one or two noteworthy games, it didn't. You could tell it was going to die a year later one way or another.
@dzuk Never heard of the gamestick and wasn't the VCS the original name of the Atari 2600? did they revive the name for a modern one because I simply can't imagine the 2600 being called a microconsole even if it was lower computing power
@Felthry I mean the 'new' Atari VCS, which is using the name of the original Atari VCS - https://atarivcs.com
@Felthry The Gamestick came out at about the same time the OUYA did. The difference was that the microconsole was on a single HDMI stick instead of a standing box.
@Felthry had a niche fanbase of people who liked emulators and towerfall before it got ported, and then everyone forgot about it