Awesome. I'm very excited about the OUYA, both as a user and seeing how well it does in the market. I think they have several things going for them<p>- It should be very easy to "port" games. Since you can already hook up controllers to Android and many phones come with D-pads, many games would probably already work as they are. Although touch is essential to many games (Angry Birds) many other games suffer by having touch controls (racing games, shooter games etc).<p>- It should be possible to use a tablet or phone to provide touch if you need it.<p>- It'll run Android apps - Netflix, YouTube, Al Jazeera etc. It'll make it easy to get a huge amount of content you want from the get-go.<p>- Write and distribute apps easily. If something's missing from your console, just go ahead and write it. Hopefully they follow Google's model here - low registration fee, no reviews.<p>- unlike traditional consoles, they should be able to follow a model closer to tablets and phones - yearly hardware upgrades, keep the price low, but still sell it at a profit.
I'm more curious than anything about what the SDK they say they're going to release is going to be like.<p>Is it just the android SDK?<p>I'm honestly puzzled as to what they plan to release. It's an android device. The google SDK and NDK let you write apps for that.<p>What's the SDK for?
I'm kinda bummed I didn't get in on the Kickstarter to get one of these. I have emailed them and found out that I could purchase one for $800, but I simply can't afford that right now. It's a longshot, but if anyone out there is getting a dev console and has changed their mind or just doesn't envision having time to play with it, I'd be happy to buy it off of you... get in touch :)
Actually I'm not that excited about Ouya. I'm more excited about controllers (like Moga) you can use with any Android device, so you can play on a TV box or a tablet.
Great news.<p>I look forward to getting one of these and messing around with development for it when they are officially released, but didn't plunk down the massive costs they were asking for the early access dev consoles.<p>I might have been enticed to pay like 2x the price for the early hardware, but 7x was a bit much for an individual just to evaluate it.<p>Hope it takes off. Between this and the so-called Steambox I have high hopes for increased openness in mainstream-accessible game consoles.
Does anyone who has one already, want to collaborate on getting MOAI on it? (<a href="http://getmoai.com/" rel="nofollow">http://getmoai.com/</a>) If so, drop me an email and I'll gladly assist ..