$99 ‘Ouya’ console meets Kickstarter goal in 8 hours
By Tim Colwill on July 11, 2012 at 3:49 pm
Ever wanted to own your own hackable, Android-powered home console for just $99? Well don’t worry, because you’ll soon have your chance – the Kickstarter goal for the ‘Ouya’ console has already blasted through its goal with $2,083,567 raised of its $950,000 target. The new console is promised by March 2013, and will feature a Tegra 3 Quadcore ARM CortexA9 + GPU, 1GB RAM, 8GB flash memory storage inside, and wi-fi and Bluetooth support. It is designed to be fully hackable, with users expected to swap their own components in and out, install their own OS, and even make their own peripherals. If you’d like to secure one for yourself, there’s still time – 28 days, in fact.
Source: Kotaku AU
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It’s an interesting idea and I hope it is successful. I would have hoped it cost a bit more to be a bit higher specs as its going to be very high res content. But its about as good as it gets for what is easily available to them, and if some game engines can be tightly tuned to it then we’ll see some pretty titles.
I also hope it aims towards more arcade plays to play on your TV.
Perfect for running old console emulators .. just saying ..
Thanks for the reminder as I almost forgot about this, Im definitely going to buy one.
Pledged.
This + NAS = win
cheap HTPC?
Seems really cool, but due to the chance that it’s a huge flop … I’ll wait for its official release.
Yeah it’s not bad. Not really sure wtf you’re going to be playing on it though.
Pledged. This popped my kickstarter cherry.
$149 for a fully open source, hackable, upgradeable, modifiable console? (including 2 controllers and shipping to AU) just think of the possibilities… there’ll be kinects, webcams, keyboards… everything plugged into this thing, and the community will grow exponentially.
I can almost guarantee that someone will get PS3 and XBOX 360 games working on it (how well it plays them is still to be determined, pending final hardware specs and performance)…
Open Source is the future. Always has been, always will be.
I could be wrong but I would think a Tegra 3 likely still carries a license so it might be open source software but probably not hardware.
I also doubt there will be many if any PS3 or 360 games playable on this hardware as a 4x 1.?GHz cpu is not going to have the power to run the software of a 3-7 x 3GHz of the consoles. PS2 and Xbox original will however be more probable as they are both sub 1Ghz powered.
Great idea, has the potential to shake-up the console market to a certain extent.
I’ve put my money down, not much to lose for $99, have paid more for a TF2 item!
Cheers.
Pretty much exactly this. Broke my Kickstarter cherry. Figure the potential is pretty good. HTPC/games etc
But i just bought 2 Raspberry Pi’s