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We're gonna talk about the Ouya today. The Ouya is a new Android OS-based console where Indie devs can strut their stuff. The Ouya is a downloadable-games-only console, so those with a bad internet connection may reconsider buying.

Recently UK developer James Coote took his dev kit out to a local game store and set up a demo station to see how a real audience would respond, since the Ouya is an open console (hackers are welcome) there weren't any complications in Mr. Coote showing off the console in public. All-in-all the reactions to the Ouya were relatively positive, however Coote was having a lot of trouble getting people to preorder it.


"People responded really positively to the live demonstration, whether they were just watching myself or others play, or actively trying it out themselves," Coote said. "Also, not only being able to respond to customers' questions directly, but not being directly affiliated with Ouya, I was able to honestly address some of Ouya's shortcomings, which helped build trust and a rapport with customers."

Now it wasn't all positive, there were some negative comments, Coote goes on to tell us:
"The Ouya has also been criticised for having a laggy UI, but since there was no need to exit the game library and navigate around the rest of the UI, that particular problem didn't come up at all."

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So the Ouya made a nice splash publicly, but it wasn't very desirable, why? I'm not exactly sure. It seems people aren't willing to give out $99 for this completely open console. We'll be keeping a close eye on this as it draws closer to its release, June 25th.

I think it looks / sounds good, the problem is people in general are sheep... they just follow brand names. All it would really take is for a well known game to be released on it and people would come flocking.

I was telling my girl about it the other day, we both have an Android and both play games so we are going to get one.