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>What Ouya is, is a free emulator for older games. And an OnLive box. And an XBMC box. And by default of running Android, a Netflix box.

So a regular XBMC box does that better, and does it today.

>What I don't get, is the immense hate it gets. I don't see anyone calling it "the future of gaming", except maybe the press people behind the product? And that's kind of their job. The derision it gets from people who seem to think they're on a Crusade to teach the unenlightened that they're being bamboozled is weird. It's a game console, primarily aimed at a tech-savvy audience that doesn't mind hacking their toys, and even soldering them. And yet I haven't heard that audience reach even the levels of annoyance of an iOS/Android argument. Much less one that needs to be told (repeatedly) that their toy WILL NOT change gaming! ... Who pigeonholed the OUYA as a flagship in the revolution anyway? Marketing? So air your screeds at marketing people. Not those who enjoy tinkering with computers.

Whoever it came from, there's some hype that needs addressing, otherwise people are going to be disappointed and angry when it arrives. Do all of those 60k people realise they're getting what's basically an xbox360 with fewer games but open? You wouldn't think it to hear the media reports.

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There is absolutely no comparison between the android ecosystem and the XBMC ecosystem. Android has many orders of magnitudes more apps than XBMC does.

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Few of them designed for anything console-shaped.

More to the point, your XBMC box can run ordinary windows programs, of which there are many orders of magnitude more than android apps. Plug in an Xbox360 controller and you're playing on something very like what many existing games were designed for.