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Ouya Dev Consoles Ship, SDK Released
An anonymous reader writes "Earlier this year, the Android-based Ouya game console project raised over nine times as much funding as they initially asked for in their Kickstarter campaign. Now, Ouya developer consoles are starting to ship, and folks on the Ouya team released a video showing what the developers should expect. As explained in the video, the console currently being shipped is by no means the final hardware, but promises to give developers everything they need to start developing apps and games for Ouya. The only surprise is that they decided to add a micro-USB port to the hardware, making it easy to hook up to a PC. The Ouya team has also released an SDK for the device (which they call the ODK — Ouya Development Kit), and have provided most of the source under the Apache 2.0 license. They wrote, 'We think we’ve got a great team of developers here at OUYA, but there’s strength in numbers and a wealth of passionate, talented people out there. We want you, the developers of the world, to work alongside us to continually improve our platform. It’s our hope that releasing a more open ODK will help foster such innovation.'"
Graphics really dont matter tho. Look at the massive success that is the Wii. People also dont want to really pay above $500, as shown by the massive flop that was the PS3 release, which is the most powerful of the 3 consoles out. I sadly cant see this going too well for them. The ease of pirating android apps will push many big name developers away. And without big budget games they will never appeal to a "hardcore" crowd. When i see a forza clone for it ill believe the hype.