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You mean... Unciclopedia http://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki... ?

Xbox 360 == X Square Circle. Can't be unseen.

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Form now on the console will be called Xbox Playstation

No, that was the Xbox 360, or rather, the X Square Circle.

as a console it will be compared to the existing big boys, and people will complain how it doesn't have the (expensive) things that the other consoles offer.

Despite such complaints, the Wii printed money for the first few years. I don't see how it'd necessarily stop the Ouya.

The hardware is a distant second to the software library in the list of factors which are already stopping the Ouya. There are no exclusive games worth mentioning, and no prospects of getting any. There is no in-house Ouya equivalent of Shigeru Miyamoto (the designer of Nintendo's Mario games, among others). In fact, Ouya has no game development teams at all, and has demonstrated shocking incompetence at even creating their own private app store and reskinning Android for the Ouya.

We can't ignore the hardware though. Forget about CPU and GPU power for a moment. The Wii actually did have one novel hardware feature, which enabled innovative (if ultimately faddish) titles like Wii Sports. Those titles drove a lot of the Wii's sales, particularly to people who'd never bought a game console before. But the Ouya? It's me-too in every way. The only mildly unique hardware feature is a small trackpad on its controller, and that's just for navigating the menus of quick-and-dirty Android ports. A trackpad isn't going to revolutionize gaming control schemes.

I'll give them this, though -- they sure know how to market to gullible people. All they (and particularly the CEO, Julie Uhrman) had to do was babble about how they were going to take back gaming from the Big 3, return gaming to the TV, Kickstarter funding revolution, blah blah blah. Never mind that what they're going to revolt against the Big 3 with is... the Big 3's own ideas, with less competent execution. Or that a key element of their Big Plan to "return gaming to the TV" is to be a conduit for low-effort tablet/phone game ports which will never play well on a big screen with a real controller.

as a console it will be compared to the existing big boys, and people will complain how it doesn't have the (expensive) things that the other consoles offer.

Despite such complaints, the Wii printed money for the first few years. I don't see how it'd necessarily stop the Ouya.

Anyone know why he named it XBOX?

Because when you put your thumbs on a PlayStation controller, the right thumb covers buttons marked with an X and a square (that is, a box). Even 360 refers to a circle, which is also a PlayStation button.