After the Ouya and Forge TV services are discontinued, it will be up to developers to shift their games to that or another service to ensure they’re still available and supported on the old hardware. Diablo Immortal reportedly made upwards of 24 million in its first two weeks, and thats with the game being banned in two European countries and delayed indefinitely in China (the game will. Owners of Forge TV and the MadCatz Mojo microconsole (which could play Ouya games and access its storefront) may still connect to the Google Play store and other platforms still in use. “Contact the game developer for confirmation,” Razer says. Downloaded games may still function after that date if they don’t require an online check-in at launch. While the Ouya platform will still be able to play and discover games through the online service until June 25, 2019, after then is more uncertain. While Ouya hung on as a brand name and publisher for Android games, Razer was supporting the online storefront with its Forge TV hardware. Ouya as a device was discontinued back in 2015, when Razer bought the startup company and merged its content library into Razer’s Forge microconsole ecosystem. A new console from an unknown company will not sell well unless there are a reasonable number of really good games available for it on the day of launch. The shutdown brings to an end the ambitious, turbulent, and mostly unsuccessful travails of the crowdfunded console for Android video games. Online services for Razer’s Ouya and Forge TV services will shut down at the end of June, Razer announced today.
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