Ouya

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$99 Ouya wants to bust down console gaming’s walled gardens
Controller-equipped, Android-based system gives indies access to the TV.

Since the days of the great Atari crash, the history of game consoles has been one of increasingly powerful walled gardens. Massive companies exercise tight control over what games can be released on their platform, how often, and at what price. But that model is starting to look a little outdated. We live in a world where iOS is succeeding as a game platform with thousands of lightly regulated titles, where even hardcore games like Team Fortress 2 are making the free-to-play model work, and where PC developers often make more money when they control the price of their own games.

Those are the kinds of business developments that are motivating the team behind Ouya, a $99, Android 4.0-based TV game console project launching on Kickstarter today. Ouya is promising to provide a more open, hackable, and flexible gaming environment than the console market has ever seen before.
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New Game Console Hits $1M Kickstarter Goal in 12 Hours

Remember that game console we told you about this morning? The company raised over $900k since then, beating its goal of $950k in just 12 hours.

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OUYA holding game port survey
The OUYA Kickstarter project, which proposes to make an open, Android-based home console, is still going strong and has well surpassed its initial goal. With the extra funds, OUYA is looking to find out which game ports are at the top of potential players' most-wanted lists.

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A Closer Look At The Ouya Reference Board

John Gatt, long time friend of the [H] and all around nice guy, has taken a closer look at the Ouya reference board that powers the recently Kickstarted Android based game console.

I spent over ten years working with chipset developers and have a good understanding of product development. What was shown in the video is what is referred to as a reference board; a board designed by the chipset manufacturer to allow potential customers to develop projects without having to produce their own mainboard first. A reference board will usually have all the possible chipset options on it but will not include extra chips like high end audio chips from Creative, or wireless network chips, or even high end USB controllers. Reference boards are developed specifically for technology development of features related to the chipset.

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OUYA gets first big time title commitment

[powerarmour]

Very very cool this, I hope it does well

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OUYA to get OnLive
OUYA Controller detailed

For those that have already pledged for the OUYA project over at Kickstarter, or those planning to, comes a great piece of news that Fuseproject has signed a deal with online game streaming service OnLive that will bring a bunch of top-tier games to OUYA console. In addition to the OnLive deal, Fuseproject also released a couple of new pictures showing the OUYA controller and the console in its full glory.
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[Seawolf]

Very very cool this, I hope it does well

It seems kind of ironic. It's probably $50 worth of hardware so how it would really compete as a console boggles the mind.

As a computer I'm sure it's decent.

[powerarmour]

It seems kind of ironic. It's probably $50 worth of hardware so how it would really compete as a console boggles the mind.

As a computer I'm sure it's decent.

It may be $50 worth of Tegra 3 hardware, but it'll be more powerful than a Wii, and that still tends to do ok against the PS3/360...

Actually some Android games look quite visually impressive (thinking Shadowgun, Dead Trigger, Batman: TDKR, Dark Meadow, Dead Space, Shine Runner, Mass Effect etc) and already run at >720p resolutions, so it should hold up pretty well.

[Seawolf]

Tegra 3 soc probably costs $20-30. The RAM probably costs $20. If they have a hard drive that'll add a bit.

And yeah, I've seen those games. They don't look bad, but they don't look that good either.

And beating the Wii is not an accomplishment.

[powerarmour]

And yeah, I've seen those games. They don't look bad, but they don't look that good either.

And beating the Wii is not an accomplishment.

For the limitations it has to hit on the Android market (i.e. file size), I think the games look pretty good considering the lack of texture data space etc. If they were using similar data sizes to consoles the games would definitely look better, and having 1GB RAM is double the amount of the 360/PS3 too.

Graphically in raw grunt a Tegra 3 obviously isn't going to compete with 360/PS3, but it could come close enough depending on what type of game it is, if the extra storage was there.