[heretohelp]

Finally, some rationality.

It's usually the people who aren't actually gamers or are otherwise familiar with the industry that will breathlessly praise Ouya. Usually people who are wantpreneurs dreaming of day when they live off selling digital snake oil.

That the Ouya would be experienced by them as an apotheosis of that is not surprising.

I've been gaming since I was 2 years old (NES). The kickstarters wasted their money. We already have open platforms, we're just ignoring them.

[jerf]

"Finally, some rationality."

You say that as if people haven't been pissing on the Ouya full time since its announcement. Right or wrong this is hardly a new view, nor did anything about it immediately leap out to me as being new or even an unusual opinion.

[amartya916]

I agree with the rationality part and enjoyed the 'digital snake oil' statement.

However, I'd be happy if Ouya just creates a buzz for Android gaming. I couldn't care 2-shits for the box itself, but if playing Android games on the TV (through mirroring, through Google TV etc.) takes off, that'd be pretty neat for the Android ecosystem.

P.S. I could never put my finger on it, but something about the Ouya Kickstarter never felt right to me. If I had to guess, it was the scant tech. details and throwing Yves Behar's name around for credibility (although I think it does the opposite, the OLPC is a piece of shit). Naturally, many people thought otherwise.