A New, $99 Console Called Ouya Is Real

[502Nels]

Leaks are springing, and word is out that a new mystery home video game console called Ouya is in development. This is a real thing.

Ouya is a $99 box running on the Android platform, with a focus on free gaming, according to details spotted in a listing on a site for tech start-ups spotted by the tech reporters at The Verge. The most tantalizing detail that they report is that: "Even the underlying hardware is 'built to be hacked'—every customer who buys a retail box will get a dev kit in the bargain, the site claims."

The look of the console is being designed by Yves Béhar, who crafted the look of the One Laptop Per Child computer. The project is also backed by ex-IGN exec Julie Uhrman, former Xbox gaming honcho Ed Fries, and some other top tech folks.

Sources close to the project tell me there are even more surprises to what is an altogether out-of-left field new entrant into the home video game console wars.

We've got Xbox, PlayStation and Wii. Have we got room for something like Ouya in our living rooms?

I'll have more on this very unusual project in the coming days.

From Kotaku

A hacker friendly concole? Not sure big devs would get behind this, but more comp is always good

 

[newarkhiphop]

A New, $99 Console Called Ouya Is Real and Radically Different From Xbox, PlayStation and Wii

looks fugly in concept but its running android so

 

[Stress Welker]

An ottoman that plays video games?

 

[newarkhiphop]

pics

Gallery: Ouya Android game console press pictures | The Verge

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

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[Big Screwball]

 

[newarkhiphop]

trash... will never come out or be a complete failure.

price it at $50.. make it compatible with all droid games and ability to turn it to a media center.. then well talk.

how do you know it already wont be compatible with all games

 

[duncanthetall]

99 dollars for a console that plays games off the android market?

 

[Liquid]

A console cannot be successful without a disc drive.

 

[courtdog]

A console cannot be successful without a disc drive.

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[Why-Fi]

Hobbyist box. No dev trying to make money is going to fukk with a hacker friendly box....

 

[Kodie]

Meh... I don't think I'm their target demographic.

 

[WaveCapsByOscorp™]

i'd get it...

 

[Rain]

 

[HollywoodP]

I'll wait to reserve judgement. If the right hackers get ahold of this...and the right companies jump on board with this...it might turn out to be somewhat of a game changer...or at least a step in the right direction.