Friday, November 1, 2013

GameStick review: the Android console battle is on


A successful Kickstarter-funded device is now shipping to retail stores and backers all over the world. Its upstart manufacturers are taking the growing world of Android gaming to the TV, with a new form factor and a price that undercuts virtually everything else on the market. But can it live up to the hype?


While the hypercompact GameStick won’t be shipping until November 8th, I could have easily copied and pasted that paragraph from a review six months ago, when we were getting our first look at the Ouya. It’s nearly impossible not to compare the two: along with Nvidia’s Project Shield, they’re the reason 2013 was declared “the year of the microconsole."


The Ouya’s launch, however, set the year of the microconsole off to...


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Source: The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/1/5046580/gamestick-review

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