Ouya!

[stridermt2k]

I pre-ordered an Ouya console during the April delivery window.

I was originally not too into the idea, as I already own a Tegra 3 tablet that easily lends itself to gaming on an HDTV, but then I experimented briefly with an Android "stick" computer that plugs into an HDTV and realized that the Ouya console itself it not much more than a glorified stick computer itself.

So while I am curious to see how it fares as a gaming console, what I'm REALLY looking forward to is installing a more standard Android OS onto the thing and tinkering with it.

Anyone else down with the Ouya?

[BLOB]

I really like how the whole system is geared toward both regular users and hobbyists who want to tinker with their device. Truly awesome idea and it's also nice that it can just stay with the tv and it's controllers like a console waiting to be played.

The greatest thing about it is now developers will take android console gaming more seriously and develop for controllers/multi-player.

[Phelsumania]

Feb 24, 2013 18:36:06 GMT BLOB said:

I really like how the whole system is geared toward both regular users and hobbyists who want to tinker with their device. Truly awesome idea and it's also nice that it can just stay with the tv and it's controllers like a console waiting to be played.

The greatest thing about it is now developers will take android console gaming more seriously and develop for controllers/multi-player.

definitely i was never keen on getting one becasue all my android devises support tv so can mimic most of the ouya features when linked in to a wireless controller. But as you pointed out blob this could help developers develop more console quality games for android which is what android currently lacks, there are quite a few out there now but there predominantly comming from gameloft and a few others. as soon as enough other dev companies follow gamelofts approach android gaming could explode.

[fzero]

I missed out on the original backing, just delayed on it then before knew it it was too late.

I do like the look of their menu though, suited for the home console experience, which is I think looks a lot nicer than the mirrored out menu you get when hooking up most Android tablets to your telly.