OUYA android console

Windle said:
21,042 Backers with $2,650,227 pledged of $950,000 goal and 28 days to go.

Could be a kickstarter record breaker if it carries on! I've plumped for one, way I see it it's open to hacking so offers up some funky options for peripherals etc and some mobile games are cracking fun and already there's a big benefit playing lots on a bigger screen so upping to TV size could be good if they get it right.

All 200 of the developer specials are gone which give early SDK access and early access to a rooted console which is a good sign as that's 200 developers signed up. A further 71 of the "Elite Developer" packs are also gone so assuming they have all gone to developers that's 271 potential game devs/companies already lined up.
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Unless they offer up more units, if all the slots get filled they would get less than 4 million. I know the Pebble watch got $10,000,000+


rp2000
 
rp2000 said:
Unless they offer up more units, if all the slots get filled they would get less than 4 million. I know the Pebble watch got $10,000,000+


rp2000
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Maths fail? There are 61,810 of the $99 reward left, assuming those are all in the US (outside US shipping is $20) and don't buy an additional controller ($30) if they sell all of those that's another $6.12 million plus there are the low level backers who only get their username reserved and a founder emblem for $10/25 a pop.
 
$99 seems a bit low especially concerning the specs, they planning on selling these at a huge loss or something? expect some kind of subscription come release.
 
Windle said:
Maths fail? There are 61,810 of the $99 reward left, assuming those are all in the US (outside US shipping is $20) and don't buy an additional controller ($30) if they sell all of those that's another $6.12 million plus there are the low level backers who only get their username reserved and a founder emblem for $10/25 a pop.
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Whoops, I read the $99 pledge level as 4 digits, not 5 (if you see what I mean). They could actually come close to or beat the Pebble, depending on how many low level backers they get.

Considering the exposure they have had on tech sites in the last couple of days, coupled with more interest in Kickstarter as it prepares to launch outside USA it could reach the target well before the final date.

It does look like a good punt for casual games, but I barely play my PS3 or PSP anymore so I don't really want to invest in another platform. Also the amount of updates and waiting for the fruits of my $100 would probably drive me mad!! :)


rp2000
 
Yesterday a video game project called Ouya became the eighth project in Kickstarter history to raise more than a million dollars, and the fastest ever to do so. Ouya hit the total in just over eight hours, shattering the previous record. Here’s how long it took each million-dollar project to cross the threshold:

OUYA — 8 hours and 22 minutes
Double Fine Adventure — 17 hours and 30 minutes
Pebble — 27 hours
Wasteland 2 — 41 hours
Shadowrun Returns — 7 days
The Order of the Stick — 27 days, 5 hours
Amanda Palmer — 27 days, 12 hours
Elevation Dock — 57 days

As you might expect, Ouya also has the biggest single-day total in Kickstarter history. It received more than $2.5 million in pledges from its launch on Tuesday at 8:44am to Wednesday at 8:44am. Here are the ten biggest 24-hour tallies on Kickstarter so far:

OUYA — $2,589,687.77
Double Fine Adventure — $1,064,652.05
Pebble — $863,132.92
Wasteland 2 — $555,407.84
Shadowrun Returns — $378,008.28
Amanda Palmer — $223,348.50
The Icarus Deception — $178,194.00
Elevation Dock — $161,507.00
Penny Arcade Sells Out — $151,221.17
gTar — $138,891.00

Ouya’s big day lead to another Kickstarter record: dollars pledged in a single day. On February 9th Kickstarter saw more than $1 million in pledges in a day for the first time. Until yesterday, Kickstarter's biggest day was on April 12th, when nearly $1.9 million was pledged. The amount pledged yesterday, July 10th? $3,174,820.

So what is Ouya, you ask? Ouya is a game console built on the Android operating system. Its creators pitched it as a platform for independent developers, and it clearly has big potential. In just 24 hours, 20,000 people bought an Ouya console — a product they had never heard of before yesterday. By way of comparison, Microsoft sold 326,000 Xbox 360 consoles in its first week after many millions of marketing dollars.

Congratulations to the Ouya team and their backers on the incredible debut!
 
Windle said:
So what is Ouya, you ask? Ouya is a game console built on the Android operating system. Its creators pitched it as a platform for independent developers, and it clearly has big potential. In just 24 hours, 20,000 people bought an Ouya console — a product they had never heard of before yesterday. By way of comparison, Microsoft sold 326,000 Xbox 360 consoles in its first week after many millions of marketing dollars.

Congratulations to the Ouya team and their backers on the incredible debut!
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Is that bit about MS suppose to be a smark jab at them? because it doesn't make any sense this product is $95, xbox 360 core was $299 at launch big difference also the 360 hardware wise is superior for about the same price if you was to buy one in the UK today.

This was a good idea but really pointless maybe xbmc running on this would make it worth while.
 
I'm backing, as previously said, if anything it will be a great little media streamer for any tv or monitor I might wish to hook it up to, also ideal for travelling with its small size.
 
I really, really don't like where console gaming is going. Sony and Microsoft have only themselves to blame for ridiculous development costs that has led to what is a perfect carbon copy of the events leading up to the great video game crash of 1983. Look that up. It's actually quite scary how similar it is today.

30 years on, we could see the same thing happen.
 
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I really, really don't like where console gaming is going. Sony and Microsoft have only themselves to blame for ridiculous development costs that has led to what is a perfect carbon copy of the events leading up to the great video game crash of 1983. Look that up. It's actually quite scary how similar it is today.

30 years on, we could see the same thing happen.
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What's funny is a lot of Sony/Microsoft fans trash Nintendo, yet they were the ones who pretty much saved the video game industry.
 
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