I would be interested to see if Sega ends up using this to develop some innovative or just new IP's experimenting.
I remember that N-Gage got an exclusive Sega game and we haven't seen that one appear anywhere else sadly. It would be nice to see it ported to the Ouya or somewhere else.
edit: I also reiterate that I don't understand why you're so excited for this and ask where the were you on the Indrema? That system would've been a tremendous boon to indie game developers in the way that the mp3 has been for indie bands.

What a week. While continuing to work on making OUYA, and of course now managing our Kickstarter, we’ve received thousands of excited comments, pointed questions, and lots of encouragement. Thank you to our 35,418 backers. Conversations with you have been great—bringing out the best product we can bring. A few things to share: On the product side... We spent yesterday with nVidia talking about our chips. The team is great and their support has been incredible. They’re working side by side with us, and they’ll help us maximize the performance of the Tegra 3 chipset we’re using. We’ve been hearing your questions on everything from how you’ll discover games on OUYA (we’re focused on both discovery and curation), to whether we’ll have different symbols on the buttons for the color-blind (yes, we’ll need to address that), and whether or not we’ll have an Ethernet port (stay tuned on that), and much more. Feedback on our work in progress is one of the great things about Kickstarter. Keep sending your ideas and voicing your opinions—they matter to us. Games! Today Meteor, the maker of Hawken (a great-looking upcoming free-to-play mech game), just pledged that they’re also in on OUYA. We’re really honored to have great gamemakers supporting OUYA. Thank you so much to the developers who reached out, we’re trying our best to be in touch with you -- we know we still owe a lot of you responses. @markvlong -- ‪#ouya‬ A crowd sourced, open, indie, free to play console?! Count Meteor in! And you game developers.. We know, we ran out of the developer rewards (it happened faster than expected!). We’ve assessed our ability to deliver and have refreshed both tiers of developer awards. And we had a crazy idea—if folks are interested—we might consider a reward that would allow devs to start working from the raw circuit board at an even earlier date, allowing them to get a head start on development. And maybe we’d add one more level that gives you just the software—no early console. Tell us what you think (Obviously, if you have the Android SDK, you know most of what you need to know -- we’ll just need to add in a few elements specific to OUYA—things like assets for promoting on the console and our payments API.) So, there you have it, an update! Some games jumping on board, the scoop on the progress we’ve made with the product, and more rewards for developers. This is an early-stage project here, and we know we’ve got a lot to do. We are so grateful to have your support and we will do everything we can to thrill you with the results. Back to work... Thanks! Julie

They just updated the kickstarter page with this.

Originally Posted by Sarang01 edit: I also reiterate that I don't understand why you're so excited for this and ask where the were you on the Indrema? That system would've been a tremendous boon to indie game developers in the way that the mp3 has been for indie bands.

You ing serious?

Originally Posted by Wikipedia The console was expected to be released by the holiday season of 2000, but rather than an official announcement, those subscribed to Indrema's mailing list received instead a "top ten" list in the style of David Letterman. By this time, people were beginning to suspect that the console was vaporware; Indrema had produced nothing but press releases so far.

Yea, where were we all 12 years ago when there were no crowdfunding websites and consoles were completely different in their architecture and style of game from PCs?

If they're just talking to nVidia about their chips now, there's no way this is shipping in March. I've worked on hardware development projects before... there isn't enough lead time for them to produce all the launch systems they've promised. (And this is assuming that the specs are fixed already and won't be changed...)

Originally Posted by Asgardian I think that game list demonstrates their deceptive strategies, it makes uninformed people think that the AAA titles might get ported to the OUYA.

You say deceptive marketing, I say stupidity of the general public.

Originally Posted by Genocidal You ing serious? Yea, where were we all 12 years ago when there were no crowdfunding websites and consoles were completely different in their architecture and style of game from PCs?

I remember all the talk about what their plans were, how easy it was to program for and I was all ready to make a game for it. The pricing on the beta was great and that was the model I would buy. The cost of the commercial license being $1000 and the price of the non-commercial being $500.

It had a Linux OS and if I remember right the hardware wasn't terribly different from PC if not pretty spot on.

Also, wtf are you talking about in style of game? How is that relevant? The Indrema was going to be welcome to all sorts of styles of games.

I do find it funny though that now you people are waking up. Where was everyone truly talking about and demanding "Sadness" for the Wii from Nintendo? Talk about out of the box.

I cancelled my $99 pledge.
If this comes out and delivers on what has been promised, I will definitely pick one up.
There's just too much deceptive spin attached to it right now though.

Originally Posted by bmulligan Stop fooling yourselves that these games are the shiznit because they're on a Sony or an Xbox. They're the same games you've been overpaying for - for almost 2 decades.

I disagree for two reasons:

1) Great new mainstream console games are released every day. Entertainment value is subjective, however considering the hours of entertainment that videogames have provided me I wouldn't call them overpriced.

2) Not sure why you think indie developers on a shoestring budget will be able to consistently crank out videogame hits with the same regularity as a major videogame corporation.

I think videogame corporations have done some pretty shitty things (including not paying their employees a fair wage) but they do know how to consistently crank out hits.

Kickstarter needs to take this down and those backers need a reality check!

I jumped into the hype at $95 when I saw how fast they were selling out and bought into the promises. After reading the "Saturday Soapbox: The Trouble with Ouya" article on Eurogamer, I've decided to cancel my pledge.

I still the basic concept and goal of this console, but not enough to part with any money as of yet.

Originally Posted by kraftwerks I cancelled my $99 pledge. If this comes out and delivers on what has been promised, I will definitely pick one up. There's just too much deceptive spin attached to it right now though.

This is how I feel.

I honestly just want this system as a cheap Dreamcast's generation or older emulator.

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lol, i know this is a scam since they just said how great Nvidia has been to work with. Reminded me of how Linus feels about them in regards to driver support on Linux:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_36yNWw_07g

Originally Posted by Bosamba I jumped into the hype at $95 when I saw how fast they were selling out and bought into the promises. After reading the "Saturday Soapbox: The Trouble with Ouya" article on Eurogamer, I've decided to cancel my pledge. I still the basic concept and goal of this console, but not enough to part with any money as of yet.

Yeah, the large companies sure are paying a lot of money to douse Ouya before it becomes a threat. If I were in their shoes, I'd be scared too.

Sure, there's no way to prove that's what's happening (corporate pay-offs for negative press related to Ouya in addition to astroturfing), but, let's just say, there are certain standard industry practices that make games a dirty business.

It's difficult to be confronted with negative press and not start to question the decision to support something like this. I totally understand that, but I think it's also good to have some balance in there. What is the interest of some of the people writing these articles, and are they truly independent actors? How much can we trust their knowledge and sources? What have they written in the past, etc...? In any case, Ouya shouldn't be let off the hook if they're dropping the ball in any way, but neither should every journalist with an opinion.

Originally Posted by Alcedes lol, i know this is a scam since they just said how great Nvidia has been to work with. Reminded me of how Linus feels about them in regards to driver support on Linux

Not to put too fine a point on it, but Nvidia driver support in Linux is good to excellent, it's their support for Linux developers that's somewhat lacking. The dispute is really between those who believe Nvidia should open up some of the finer specifications for their products in order to develop open alternatives to the proprietary Nvidia Linux drivers, and, Nvidia itself, which chooses to hold on to certain information they view as proprietary. In other words, it doesn't have much to do with gaming.

Just canceled my early bird pledge. I do hope this succeeds, and will support it if it does... but at the moment it's just pure hype. It's somewhat feasible, but any number of things could go wrong with this; that's inherent of all kickstarters, but this is the first project I've backed that I've really had doubts about. So I'll wait and see, and if it doesn't pan out that's $95 toward building a media center computer.

There's a new article over at Joystiq posting the thoughts of some of the key people who will help determine whether Ouya is a success or failure: well-known indie developers.

Since a large part of what encourages the success and popularity of a console is the developer support, I'm much more interested to hear what these guys have to say than some of the other idle speculation currently floating around out there.

These are the people who know the indie games market best and probably understand the risks and benefits of Ouya better than anyone.

Interesting comments Xaliqen, in the article.

I would disagree with that one developer so happy about Sony and Nintendo. I mean how much money are they taking off the top of your game sale. This has been the big concern about having an optimized platform to do your Indie game, these assholes want too much money off of your sale.

I don't think this will be the revolution, but I hope it does start an active community where it's possible to find a few niche games. If someone makes a new space exploration game for this, I'll put down $100 for just that. Some types of games just don't get any console love anymore.

Originally Posted by Sarang01 Interesting comments Xaliqen, in the article. I would disagree with that one developer so happy about Sony and Nintendo. I mean how much money are they taking off the top of your game sale. This has been the big concern about having an optimized platform to do your Indie game, these assholes want too much money off of your sale.

True, but he is going out there in public and saying that. If it were me, I wouldn't want to say anything bad to the press about the people who are going to host my game.

Originally Posted by Bosamba I jumped into the hype at $95 when I saw how fast they were selling out and bought into the promises. After reading the "Saturday Soapbox: The Trouble with Ouya" article on Eurogamer, I've decided to cancel my pledge. I still the basic concept and goal of this console, but not enough to part with any money as of yet.

I did too, but not far enough to sink the money in as the reality check hit first and then I was like "what the am I going to do with this thing....and more importantly when am I going to have time to play it, regardless of how much it costs."

Since then I've been like, I hate Ios and Android stuff, so why did I want it in the first place, then I remembered it was all because of the hype. I've done 5 kickstarters this year (all for games), was going to do a few more till I was bleedin' money too much, then was like seriously, do I care or am I interested in most of this stuff, (again reality settling in) and I was like no, could care less if game x or y gets funded, I didn't play'em in the 80's-90's, don't want to play'em now.

Originally Posted by blindinglights I don't think this will be the revolution, but I hope it does start an active community where it's possible to find a few niche games. If someone makes a new space exploration game for this, I'll put down $100 for just that. Some types of games just don't get any console love anymore.

That's just the point, they say all these awesome buzzwords like FREE, OPEN, REVOLUTION....but that is just it hype, until someone dips their toes and starts making some real money for developing for this, then there will be no support or you'll see countless crap games like in the Xbox Indie section that are a bunch of half-ass worthless crap that no one wants to play with the few diamonds in the rough.

That wasn't enough to get me to take the plunge.

And as far as space sims, I love them too, I own Privateer 1/2, Star Wars sims (all of'em), Wing Commander, and Freespace. Thing is no one buys them anymore. I even played Silpheed on X360, and even though the game stinks, lamented the loss of the good space sim, however like flight sims, I wouldn't expect a massive resurgence of the genre, other than Starlancer and Freelancer, it's been 9 long years since anyone took a chance on them (and probably won't ever again)

I know there was some ex-lucasarts guys making a space game...here it is

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...ntm?ref=search

That's your best bet to get some kickstarter project like those and support the guys who want to do stuff like that, that you want. Instead of a platform with only hope that someone will do something that you'd like to play.

Speaking of which when I was looking for that link I noticed a few other projects in that same vein you might be interested in supporting the worth checking out.

Thanks for the links I will check them out. Personally, I wish someone would make a game that is a more elaborate version of the planet exploration in Mass Effect. Just as long as it is focused on exploration and not just shooting stuff.

On topic: Does anyone find it strange that Ouya doesn't have an official website?