Kickstarter Highlight: OUYA: A New Kind of Video Game Console

[wraith808]

It's time for FOSS to come to consoles...

	OUYA: A New Kind of Video Game Console
Goal	$950,000 ($4,176,987 as of this posting)
End Date	2012-08-09
Project Creator(s)	OUYA - who is  Julie Uhrman has been in games for a long time, at Vivendi Universal, IGN, GameFly, and other places. Yves Behar is the award-winning designer of Jambox, One Laptop per Child, and many others. There are plenty of other people involved, but some of them would get fired if we tell you who they are.
Excerpt	It's time to upend console gaming. Let’s open this sucker up! It's time we brought back innovation, experimentation, and creativity to the big screen. Let’s make the games less expensive to make, and less expensive to buy. With all our technological advancements, shouldn't costs be going down? Gaming could be cheaper! We're handing the reins over to the developer with only one condition: at least some gameplay has to be free. We borrowed the free-to-play model from games like League of Legends, Team Fortress 2, Triple Town, and many others. Developers can offer a free demo with a full-game upgrade, in-game items or powers, or ask you to subscribe. OUYA: The revolution will be televised OUYA is a new game console for the TV, powered by Android. We've packed this little box full of power. Developers will have access to OUYA's open design so they can produce their games for the living room, taking advantage of everything the TV has to offer. Best of all, OUYA's world-class controller, console, and interface come in one beautiful, inexpensive package. All the games on it will be free, at least to try.

Not sure if I'm onboard... but leaning towards it.  I usually don't do initiatives that are this large, or this far away.  And there's the whole Android thing that I've thus far avoided (going to the dark side).  But it is tempting...