The Gaming Den

http://www.ouya.tv/

A Kickstarter project, this came to public markets about 3 days ago. It is a 99 dollar console that runs on Android. It is also open and it launched with over 195 games (nearly all were just ports).

I personally think this won't really do all that well since there really doesn't seem to have any first party titles, also it is marketed to a very niche audience and it doesn't really do anything that something that is already available doesn't already do better.

Early reports from backers said the controller had an annoying d-pad and the touch screen was overly sensitive.

The games list does not look terribly interesting to me.

To me the biggest advantage would be having something cheap that runs Android games but is easy to monitor, which could be nice if I had kids. I don't though, so whatever.

I use my PC for gaming, and hook my consoles up to its monitor. I don't have a dedicated huge TV to play from a couch. So I don't really care that much about couch ports of cell phone games, and I already have a million ways to pirate old games if I want to bother to do so.

It can probably serve its niche pretty well, but it's a niche I don't happen to be in.

It's the price difference between a PS4 and XbOne

Though I'm just gonna get a Wii-U and PS4 and a laptop that can emulate stuff.

But I want the Ouya to do well, its good for low resource developers to release their shit

ashens' review of the Ouya.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf_jmGaanuY

Honestly, it looks pretty mediocre. The hardware and graphics are acceptable for that targeted price point... but only if you don't already have a decent computer and don't plan to get one anytime soon.

The Penny Arcade comic was dead-on, too. If you just want a gaming console, why not just purchase a used smartphone from somewhere and play games on it without getting phone service?

I backed out of the campaign when they asked 40% more to get it in another color. They asked for $950k and got $8.5M. That'd have been enough to make nine color options independently. Disgusting cash grab is disgusting cash grab.