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by ralfn 5077 days ago
Wait: im assuming they have a working prototype.

If no, that would be shocking.

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"And how far along are you in building OUYA?

Very. We expect to have a finished product ready to ship to you in March. (With the very first boxes – bugs and all – ready a few months earlier.)

We have a functional prototype, and we have almost completed our industrial design (the shape and materials of the product you see here)...."

That said any Tegra 3 device with 1 GB ram and a bluetooth game controller could qualify as a prototype.

I'm going to agree with mattmanser's skepticism. Ouya is exciting and I suppose I'm rooting for it but I'm 80% sure the last station for this train is CrunchPad-ville.

Ultimately Tegra 3 delivers a level of console graphics that's 8 years old. I may be wrong but it looks like no motion gaming is mentioned nor a big content solution, and those are literally they biggest console advances over the last 8 years.

Did we watch a different video?

I saw a lot of mock ups. I saw no working console.

But admittedly perhaps I'm just a cynic who only saw the worst case scenario. I only watched their launch campaign on kickstarter and have no idea where they're at but to me it looked a lot like a bunch of mock ups of what they want, not what is.