Razer acquires Android microconsole Ouya
Ouya has been sold to Razer, according to Ouya's founder Julie Ohrman.
Razer has acquired Android gaming platform Ouya.
Ouya’s sale to Razer was announced by Ouya founder Julie Ohrman on Twitter, where she spent the majority of the time thanking a number of people that assisted her in bringing the console to market. At the end of her long exchange, she asks Razer to look after the Ouya community and the team.
Julie also confirmed on Twitter she is leaving the company now that it’s been sold to Razer. “Ouya was a once in a lifetime experience,” she writes. “Now, I'm off to find the next.”
Razer has purchased the software assets of Ouya and acqui-hiried the company's technical and developer relations teams to help expand Razer's Android TV gaming business. According to TechCrunch, the aquisition was "an all-cash deal," although Razer didn't acquire the hardware part of Ouya's business. This was most likely due to Razer having its own hardware, the Forge TV, that it will most likely want to have expanded.
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replyDaniel Perez posted a new article, Razer acquires Android microconsole Ouya
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Ouya must own a patent or something
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A patent on effective dust collection. Razer must be making a vacuum.
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This seems like a really weird move. Why would anyone buy them?
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They only bought the software not the hardware huh? Wow.
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There is a reason
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I love this gif. This is the Sixth Sense of gifs.
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Of course, but there were people who at the outset thought Ouya was going to change the world and upset the status quo in the console market. As if the reason it was $99 and the Xbone was $399/$499 was just because Microsoft were assholes or something.
When you would point out that there was a huge disconnect between what they were claiming to offer and their business model you got shouted down as if you were telling a Jesus freak that they believed in an invisible man in the sky.
Maybe Ouya really was trying to be the next big thing and just failed like all the others who aren't Nintendo, Sony or Microsoft. But maybe they're just like Occulus - raising money for a kickstarter so they can sell to a bigger fish and get rich. But at least all their backers got a small box that can almost run an NES emulator and has a controller that hurts your hands.
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More precisely, Razer acquired Ouya's users.
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All five?
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Razer really have a hard-on for useless plastic crap.
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