OUYA 900% funded

[Bells]

$8,596,475 of $950,000 goal !

63,416 People putted their money into this, and now we have a brand new console on the market.

Specifications:

Tegra3 quad-core processor
1GB RAM
8GB of internal flash storage
HDMI connection to the TV, with support for up to 1080p HD
WiFi 802.11 b/g/n
Bluetooth LE 4.0
USB 2.0 (one)
Wireless controller with standard controls (two analog sticks, d-pad, eight action buttons, a system button), a touchpad
Android 4.0
ETHERNET! (Announced by Muffi 7/18)

And By the way, you can pre-order the console righ now for USD $110 on their website.

http://www.ouya.tv/buyouya/

And here is a thing i thought was interesting

When you say OUYA is “open,” what does that mean exactly? Can I do anything I want with it?
When we say, “open” we mean it. We’ve made many decisions based on this philosophy:

Launching on Kickstarter – this isn't just a way to raise funds. It's our way of involving supporters from the get go. We want your feedback as well as your support.

For gamers, we believe that OUYA will be more open than any platform on the market to a broad range of content that is really new and interesting, from the best known names in games to exciting indies that you may be getting to know for the first time.

For developers, open means that any developer can publish a game – if you've got a game, you can put it on OUYA. You can price your game however you like – it's your game! We just want to help you bring it to life on the TV. Just make some part of the experience free to the OUYAs. We use open-source software and standard chipsets – we're on Android because developers are speaking the language. Our chipsets aren't proprietary or secretive – open OUYA up and have a look! We’ll even publish the hardware design if people want it.

For hackers: root it. Go ahead. Your warranty is safe. Even the hardware is hackable. Want to get inside? You’ll need a standard screwdriver and nothing more. Go to town. We have standard USB ports and Bluetooth, so you’ll even be able to create your own peripherals.

As with every platform, though, we have to balance openness with a quality user experience. So we'll have a standard user interface. We'll curate your games in our storefront so they're easy for everyone to get to. And we’ll require that all games we put in our store include a free experience. If you don’t like our choices, root the device and make it your own.

The full openness of a Modifiable console (in and Out) is something very intriguing that can be it's best strength and also it's major weakness ... if Hacking becomes rampant, developers may shy away from the platform, on the other hand the Hacking community doesn't really rallies too much around something with no challenge to it (as in, a completely open platform from the start).

The specs are also pretty good, the actually rival in some aspects the PS Vita! Which is actually quite nice for a open android platform turned console...

At first i don't expect much aside from this being a "Gaming Intensive Home Tablet" experience... but this could actually grow up to be pretty big and interesting to watch. Specially as more Android apps become available for it!

So, anybody here jumped on the OUYA train yet?

[Aerozord]

my main concern is market saturation. With no barrier to entry there will be alot of people releasing absolute garbage that will bury the actual gems.

[Bells]

Their main barrier for that, it seems, is to have all games have a free to play option as mandatory, which is pretty cool... but then again, the avalanche of bad games is likely to cloud the good gems...

So, i hope they really have a good Storefront!

[Flarecobra]

Reminds me of the early game development process.

[Ryong]

I'm expecting this to flop, hard.

Those specs aren't that good - the Vita doesn't involve playing a game in a gigantic HD screen, this does - and I just see any gaming over the internet on this being pants-on retarded. This will be people stealing code left and right and claiming games as their own and editing shit.

What I really expect is a bunch of cellphone-quality games.

[Bells]

i dunno man... that Tegra 3 Chip can pull off some really interesting stuff

[Arcanum]

See, when they say "every game must have a some content that's free to play" I just think "demo" and look at the PSN Store and XBLM and all the demos they have. The only difference is that every game will have a demo, and there will also happen to be free games.

But then I look at those specs, and the whole droid software thing and I think about XBL Arcade games and how they are required to have a demo. So basically nothing new, and the whole Ouya thing has failed to impress me in any way.

[Ryong]

I'm seeing a bunch of at best PS2 graphics there, Bells.

Imagine how bad these will look in a HD TV.

This is a console being advertised as, among many things, being able to run Crysis 1 at maximum settings.

They're going on about how it's so fucking incredible that it'll have OnLive, internet radio, twitch.tv and a fucking media player.

You're going to have what's essentially a cellphone hooked up to your TV for you to play cellphone games with a gamepad. Think about it.

[Ramary]

The problem is that the concept of this is a bit flawed by design. A lot of games on this thing will be ported from phones or have a "phone game design" mentality to them ie relatively simple games that you are able to play for short bursts at any time.

Games to play on the toilet basically, as many people put it. Not every game follows that rule but the more successful ones do.

Playing a game on a console or PC means you are setting time aside solely to play a game, and you want something with meat and substance to it. It does not mean you still might not want to play the short burst games, you just won't be playing much of them. Because of this I do not see this thing being a big hit.

I mean seriously, there are people expecting to play bloody Skyrim on this thing, this is not gonna end too well. Unless it gets an amazingly awesome exclusive killer app or big name support. (which won't happen considering the whole open source thing screams piracy.)

[Ryong]

Originally Posted by Ramary

The problem is that the concept of this is a bit flawed by design. A lot of games on this thing will be ported from phones or have a "phone game design" mentality to them ie relatively simple games that you are able to play for short bursts at any time.

That reminds me, Square apparently said they were releasing FF3 for the Ouya. But FF3DS has a port to android already and it's getting a slighty enhanced port to the PSP.

For some reason, wherever I saw anyone talking about the Ouya version, it was always getting called "Final Fantasy 3 HD".