Topic: The Conduit was made into an Android mobile game. *sigh*

[BranDonk Kong]

I know more than you, that's for sure.

Really? How much Android programming have you done?

[Louieturkey]

My guess is, based on brandogg's and others' opinions on programming for the Ouya, it'd take maybe a couple of weeks to get it ported.  I wouldn't be surprised if it's one of the launch games coming by June (and by launch, I mean to the general public, not to the KS backers).

[NWR_insanolord]

Didn't somebody quote a guy saying you could get an Ouya port done in a matter of hours?

[shingi_70]

I mean the game is coming to android and porting to Oyua doesn't seem like it would be such a big shift.  All they would have to do is add in physical controls and maybe re-add multiplayer.
The audience buying Oyua may be niche but if you grab that Market quick you can make some good money. That said for all we know once Oyua hits the general public its going to sale like wildfire.
Also how would you define nIche? 

[Louieturkey]

I mean the game is coming to android and porting to Oyua doesn't seem like it would be such a big shift.  All they would have to do is add in physical controls and maybe re-add multiplayer.
The audience buying Oyua may be niche but if you grab that Market quick you can make some good money. That said for all we know once Oyua hits the general public its going to sale like wildfire.
Also how would you define nIche? 

I don't know TJ's definition but I'd look at something like Roku as niche.  I think they have around 4 million of their devices in the wild and yet they have enormous support for the system.

[TJ Spyke]

But with Roku, studios have zero work they need to do for their titles to be added to it. Even if the work for Ouya games was only a few hours, that is still additional work that studios have to put in to it.

But yeah, Roku is something that would be considered niche. It will get support, but will never have any impact on the industry and will not sell that well overall.

[shingi_70]

Alright I agree with you. I was going to use Nike+ or fitbit as an example.

[ThePerm]

I know more than you, that's for sure.

Anyways, Ouya will be a niche product at best, so don't expect any game on it to sell that well.

What you don't understand is the difference between a download economy and a publication economy. If they have a game that only needs the controls modified and nothing else all they need to do is pay a group of people for 2 weeks to make modifications. At which point they put it on the service and it costs them nothing in money to sell. Even on Ouya as niche as it is. Theres a considerable amount of userbase to make the money back and make a profit.

Selling in high numbers isn't that necessry. Thats a bonus. Lets do some math. lets say they put 8 people on a team. Each get paid about 2000 dollars for 2 weeks of their time. (This is probably more than what they would actually get paid). If they sell 2000 copies for 8 bucks then they have broke even. If they sell 20,000 copies for 8 bucks then they've profited 10x what they paid.  so that $16,000 spending for $144,000 profit. Those ratios are possible even if Ouya is a niche system.

from a business sustainability standpoint you could take 30% of that and have $43,200 which would allow 2.7 more projects of equal scale. if you were to take the remaining 60% and apply it as a bonus to the 8 employees they would make $10,800 each. That is for 2 weeks work. At that rate you could do 26 port projects. 26 projects = $332,000 a year per employee. for the company itself before paying employees it would be $3,744,000. or....$741,312 after paying the employees and the government. which is enough for 46 more projects of equal scale.

Even better is my math is fudged. Theres still an unnacounted for 10% which could be divided equally among employees and the company