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Forget the Xbox, PlayStation and Wii -- the game machine everyone is talking about today is the Ouya.If you haven't heard about Ouya, that's because it doesn't, technically, exist as anything but a prototype yet. But it looks like it won't be long before the silver and black cube designed to deliver games to your television will be made available to the public -- for $99.
That is, Ouya's creators have, in a matter of two days, raised more than $3 million to produce the machine. They had originally hoped to make $950,000 in 30 days through the crowdfunding site Kickstarter. But according to the Kickstarter blog, the Ouya project passed that mark and raised $1 million in pledges in its first eight hours -- making it the fastest Kickstarter project to reach the million dollar mark.
"We never anticipated that it would blow up like this.” Ouya founder Julie Uhrman told Venture Beat.
So what, exactly, is Ouya (pronounced like booyah without the b)? It's an Android-powered open gaming console designed by well-known industrial designer and philanthropist Yves Behar (he designed the One Laptop Per Child laptops). The "open" part of that sentence means that while game developers must get permission from the companies behind the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii and pay for expensive development kits to make games for those machines, that won't be the case with Ouya.
That is, Ouya's creators have, in a matter of two days, raised more than $3 million to produce the machine. They had originally hoped to make $950,000 in 30 days through the crowdfunding site Kickstarter. But according to the Kickstarter blog, the Ouya project passed that mark and raised $1 million in pledges in its first eight hours -- making it the fastest Kickstarter project to reach the million dollar mark.
"We never anticipated that it would blow up like this.” Ouya founder Julie Uhrman told Venture Beat.
So what, exactly, is Ouya (pronounced like booyah without the b)? It's an Android-powered open gaming console designed by well-known industrial designer and philanthropist Yves Behar (he designed the One Laptop Per Child laptops). The "open" part of that sentence means that while game developers must get permission from the companies behind the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii and pay for expensive development kits to make games for those machines, that won't be the case with Ouya.
Meet Ouya: The $99 game machine everyone is talking about
www.nbcnews.com
Pretty awesome looking, all about getting something out there for the thousands of budding young developers to craft their games for. Oh, and as of 8/27/2012, their Kickstarter page has earned over $8,500,000. So it's gonna happen. And soon.
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