Hm. Should I feel offended now? Nah! Seriously though, it's still a mighty gamble for an as-of-yet unproven product. Its chances of success are much smaller than its possible failure. Even more so than for first adopters of somewhat established new tech.

Very curious to see what happens with the OUYA.

Meh. I'm not sure what good this console will do except to offer free games that you'd normally find on a mobile. There's been open handheld devices before and except for a handful of emulators, they pretty much failed. Considering how cheap this thing looks, I can't imagine it faring any better.

lol OUYA did what valve is trying to do, there will be more indie console coming out in the next few years, i am better off with my computer,

#yolo

Failmongering is irrational and unethical. It's one thing to want a kickstarter pledge drive to fail (because it feels scammy or otherwise undeserving), and quite another to wish for an already crowdsourced enterprise to not deliver. As a TTRPG fan, I can assure everyone that most kickstarter TTRPGs are irredeemably awful, and I wish people spent their money on something more useful, like 30000% marked-up aluminum plates, magical jewelry, or Lore.

But once the pledge drive is successful, I do want people who paid for a collection of shitty houserules written by an illiterate prick in dire need of remedial math to actually receive their collection of shitty houserules written by an illiterate prick in dire need of remedial math, because once they have already spent their money, that's the best that can happen. (Except David A. Hill Jr. backers - those can, ahem, live in a fire. Funding that guy's kickstarters is the TTRPG equivalent of donating to WBC.)

First, I did not imply anything, learn to read. If OUYA does not deliver, people who paid for it will lose their money, or at least will have it frozen for an indeterminate period of time.

Second, even though it has nothing to do with the first statement - you're wrong, shut the hell up and stop spewing your idiocy around. Open any gaming kickstarter and look at the pledge distribution. Read the comments, too - there's a bunch of people from US saying things like "I'd have pledged $500, but then my wife would kill me". Some anecdotal evidence: a German lady struggled to find $70. My friend, a KS enthusiast from a first-world country, was extremely thankful I gifted him a $20 limited edition game because that meant he could afford a KS tier. Another friend, from the most well-to-do country in the whole world, upon hearing my hourly wage is $7, said he felt sorry for me - but his was not much higher.

So no. Quote Yancey or go back to /v/.

So when can i expect my copy of this? (forgot to cancel : ( ) ?

You are actually right. I made a bollocks assumption.

I hope Ouya succeeds. In my opinion the more competitors there are in the console market, the better. The only thing i'm skeptical about is how well it will perform on big screen. Android games do look great on a small screen, but i'm not sure if they could take it into the big screen without compromising anything.

Wishing that Ouya fails is really fucking stupid, especially after thousands of people have already paid for it.

Not sure, why there is so much hate, it's a great mini-computer for $99. Compare it for example with $79 MK803. MK803 has the same amount of RAM (1Gb), similar connectivity (it has two USB ports though), 4gb of internal storage expandable with microSD (OUYA has 8gb, but I don't get if it has microSD slot or not), only 1-core Cortex A9 CPU up to 1.5GHz (OUYA has Tegra 3 -- 4-core Cortex A9), much weaker GPU (1-core Mali 400). Not only OUYA is more powerful, but it also includes controller with a touchpad. It's a great product for that price.

Yeah, my recent tablet purchase has killed any remaining desire to try the OUYA. Still, $99 is super cheap. I'll keep tabs on consumer reaction for the sake of my own curiousity.

I want the OUYA to succeed, it would make a good, less expensive alternative to the more closed platforms.

Well the XBMC partnership should they got should at least have given the Android port of XBMC a boost so one good thing. Actually it could be a good HTPC if it is able to run XBMC in 1080p.

I hope the OUYA succeeds, because I think the console market is due for a shakeup. I mean there are only three players in the console market and they are all closed source and don't like people tinkering with their own consoles, which are their own personal property *glares at Sony*

Judging by how much support given to the project other people seem to agree. I may pick one up depending on how things go, but right now I don't have much for disposable income.