[stcredzero]

> Ouya is a lot of promises and fluffy ideals in an industry that doesn't give two shits about them. An open machine plugged into my TV sounds cool, but what would I use it for that one of the myriad non-open options doesn't already do?

Not very friendly sounding, but this last paragraph is the very crux of the matter. If it's as open as we hope it will be, then there could be a huge number of things that it does that non-open options don't do.

[eropple]

A great deal of that "number of things" are something that most game developers don't want their consumers to be able to do on the same hardware as their games. And I can't really blame them for it.

(Seriously, the intensity with which they're pushing the "you can hack this!" angle is bothersome from the perspective of somebody who has considered, though now rejected, supporting this thing for a current title.)