The thing is, the people at Ouya are gonna leverage this pr success to raise VC. 

@facebook-759544215:disqus Not possible due to how group invitations work. And after all, it’s sad (and not funny), because they are over reacting. Tho it’s not only about the OUYA, it’s becuase of social games and how they have failed to capitalize on that market, the mobile market, the casual market, the rumors about the steam box, etc (basically consoles as we know them will die out soon just like the Arcades did)

 Also I copy pasted my comment at PA because those guys live on product placement (and since the dickwolves thing, fuck those guys), so most probably someone paid for that “editorial”.

And nope, I don’t work for Ouya, I’ve got my own start up 
http://ludopathy.tumblr.com/page/2

You can call me a Ouya fanboy tho, i can live with that X-D

It’s a Nexus 7 tablet at half the price with more than double the manufacturing.

So you can get a sense of scale, the Xbox 360 sold 326.000 units on it’s first week (that is with microsoft’s marketing budget), and if OUYA’s 10.000 consoles sold per day rate keeps going, OUYA will hit a 300.000 consoles install base *before* it hits retail.

The fact that this will be wide a open ecosystem will allow stuff that has been removed from the apple appstore because it messes up their abusive cashgrab strategy, like the Mobius browser that used OpenAl and OpenGl in order to play HTML5 games and apps at speeds way over 1000 fps on low end hardware. (Ipod Touch, for example)

This will be awesome. It gives devs an ecosystem with a clear hardware target, and if the demoscene has taught us anything, is that you can do amazing stuff when you have a clear target.

The real hurdle for OUYA will be to develop a search algorithm that sorts the ecosystem in such a way that it’s possible to find the diamonds between all the trash that will be uploaded.

In order to be effective it has to work like a hybrid of Amazon,  IMDB and Netflix suggestions, instead of the “race to the bottom” model seen at the apple appstore, google play and facebook “social” games ecosystems, that encourage low cost, quick turnover, abyssmal quality content.

This isn’t even a full-fledged PC: it’s an android tablet, without the tablet…using a control interface completely different than every other android tablet out there.  

We already HAD a cheap, hackable dedicated gaming console: it was called the original Xbox.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_Linux

Of course, that assumes they are not being disingenuous or naive in the first place.

Truthfully, I read it as “4 mu-mu-millions!” like some gameshow host speaking. The question is, does Cory use $5KK to mean 5 thousand dollars?

The cortex a8 in the device that you pointed out is already one year old tech as well. If thats what you were trying to say after you called me stupid.

http://www.dealextreme.com/p/ak802-mini-android-4-0-network-media-player-w-wi-fi-hdmi-tf-usb-black-4gb-1gb-ddr-iii-143431?r=20144190#open%20full%20view

Number one, the device is standard android stuff. Saying it doesn’t exist is meaningless, it does exist, just not in this form factor. Its easily programmed for (java) and there is a huge android development community already. Adding physical controls to your touch screen game is much easier than porting it to a different platform.

Number two, the comparison to XBLIG is inept at best. In order to publish on XBLIG, you must pay $99 a year, and you are only permitted a dozen or so releases in that time. You also must use MS’s proprietary XNA devkit for development. If the OUYA is truly open, there would be no entry fee, nor restrictions on development environment.

You might get the schematic, but without initmate details of the Tegra3′s GPU, it’s not going to be the nippiest machine out there if you have to do all the graphics handling on the ARM cores. Contrast this with the Raspberry Pi (which has way less grunt than a Tegra, I know): the foundation can’t release details of the Pi’s GPU even with the chip’s designer being behind the project, and having the manufacturer’s support. What hope does the small commercial entity behind the Ouya have?

And to top it all off, I already need it for other things, so gaming on it is just a perk.  Most people who would buy this Ouya already have a computer that can do this stuff. 

I realize there’s the allure of the simplicity of a console, but that’s been done (quite well) by MS, Sony, and Nintendo.  And we’ve seen fantastic games published for these platforms by independent companies and small publishers.

Also, let’s see how ‘hackable’ their game store is…  That $99 price tag isn’t gonna cover their operating costs.

Now with it being popular, that tier is at 80K. I doubt that they had any manufacturing breakthroughs in the last couple of days. I think they saw all the hype/buzz/$$$ and wanted to get as much money upfront.

So maybe it’s not the product itself that’s important, it’s the meme: We want cheap, hackable, dedicated gaming consoles.  Most people who like to play games don’t want or need a damn PS3.  Why aren’t there other options?  The Ouya may not have a great answer, but it’s asking the question very loudly.

It seems like they’re overselling it in the Kickstarter video. While the idea of free to play games is nice, not every game is made for it (some game end up being free to play, pay to win and break multiplayer gaming). I’m not sure what’s so liberating for a game developer to be stuck in a free to play model… If demos are accepted as free to play, then great. Either way, they don’t quite come off as trust-worthy and there needs to be a sufficient user base in order to get games on it…

All that ‘we can do this, we can make this happen!’ with no examples of what it does or how it works…  Bad vibes.