Ouya - $99 "free to play" console!

[Shino]

Great so they are using the same colours as the 360 for buttons but in completely different places. That's not going to contuse anyone. The original mockup which was just coloured circles was setup the same as the 360 which would have been nice.

Hmmmm... never noticed that.
Guess I don't really pay attention to that since I rarely use color due to my vision issues.

It also looks like they are going with the Japanese style Ok/Cancel setup where the right most button (A) will be Ok and the bottom one (O) will be Cancel. I can go either way on that though I really wish Sony of America never screwed that whole thing up in the first place by switching them around.

Yeah that kinda drives me crazy too.

[macdude22]

But how many people have played FFIII on their TV?

And that's when I kick started ouya.

[Mister_Nep]

Not sure if everybody knows this, but there's an indy team working on a game that will release when Ouya comes out. Studio Kontrabida made a kickstarter for their Vanillaware-inspired game. They mentioned in an update that they're signed up to release it on Ouya. It'll hit regular mobile devices first, because the game will be finished before the Ouya releases.

The first video explains the game better than I could. But to me, this is more than enough to support the Ouya. I'm on board for this system.

[Shino]

Wow... I've never seen this game ... looks awesome though!

[ChryZ]

http://xbmc.org/natethomas/2012/08/0...-ouya-oh-yeah/

The XBMC team is now working with Ouya! That's pretty awesome, the little box is going to be hell of a media center.

[Shino]

I have to admit... I'm pretty impressed at the amount of support they are getting in less than a month.

Granted, a lot of it is little effort for those bringing something to Ouya, but it's still impressive to see.

Edit:
Here's the Ouya update talking about this...
But the interesting part is getting some perspective on the actual size of the box and the controller:

Cue the global countdown: less than 40 hours to go, we've got global news to share
Update #11 · Aug. 07, 2012 · 51 comments
With fewer than 40 hours remaining in our Kickstarter campaign, it’s still business as usual at OUYA headquarters. We continue to jam on the task at hand, but we’ve got four quick announcements to share with you in this update.

First: We’ve been hearing requests from all over the Internet for a media player. Well we’re proud to announce that we just partnered with XBMC.

That’s right. The award-winning, open source media player and entertainment hub is coming to OUYA. We’ve heard many of you buzzing about a potential OUYA-XBMC partnership since Day One of launch. (Something of a match made in open source heaven!) Now, with a few hours left in our drive, we’re delivering.

Believe it, friends: XBMC, on OUYA, on your TV, legit.

Here it is, straight from the XBMC team:

Maybe it was inevitable. Maybe it was because of the hundreds, if not thousands, of demands on Twitter, in blogs, on Facebook, in Reddit, and in Kickstarter comments. Maybe it's because many of Team OUYA support XBMC, and nearly a third of Team XBMC members are OUYA backers.

Regardless, we are delighted to announce that XBMC will be working with OUYA to ensure that XBMC works well on the OUYA platform. OUYA's Android underpinnings and XBMC's work on Android (soon to be merged into master, pending final sign-offs!) will dramatically speed up that effort, as will early XBMC dev access to OUYA prototypes.

The conversation between our two teams is young, but talk is ongoing and positive. We look forward to providing more exciting news on this front as it develops.

- Nathan Betzen, XBMC Community Manager

And to our friends outside the US: we hear you. XBMC runs in over 40 different languages.

But that’s not all.

We’re boosting our radio reception around the world. We’ve partnered with TuneIn, a free service that lets people listen to the world's music, sports and news from wherever they are. With over 70,000 stations and two million on-demand programs, TuneIn offers unmatched variety for listeners across 230 countries and territories.

Enough of the tell and tell, we’ve also got some show and tell: That’s right! New renders for you. Eager to answer your questions about the size of OUYA, the team at fuseproject created some images to demonstrate the scale of the console and controller. Scroll down to check them out.

And, I guess I will end this update on a housekeeping note. Throughout our run on Kickstarter, our campaign page has served as the official OUYA information resource. After the campaign closes, we will unveil a new OUYA site at http://www.ouya.tv that will serve as OUYA central moving forward.

So with that, I’d like to thank you all once more for believing in this project and supporting it from the beginning. Again, we only have a handful of hours remaining, so please tell your friends about what we’re trying to do here. It’s your support that makes OUYA possible.

-Julie

The rumors were that the console was about the size of a Rubik's cube:

Seeing it in a pair of hands makes it seem like it won't be as uncomfortable as original thought:

[ChryZ]

Kickstarter campaign is over:

• $8,596,178 raised
• 63,413 backers
• 900 percent beyond initial target

[Shino]

It's impressive.

Anyone here besides me back it?

[macdude22]

It's impressive.

Anyone here besides me back it?

Yes, if anything it will be a neat historical curiosity for my shelf.

[Mister_Nep]

I backed it as well. This'll actually be my only means to play a lot of the games that'll inevitably show up.