random thought: what happened to the ouya?

@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.

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@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 - 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.

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