Ouya Console and its Kickstarter Campaign Details

<p><iframe src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;kickstarter&period;com&sol;projects&sol;ouya&sol;ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console&sol;widget&sol;video&period;html" frameborder&equals;"0" width&equals;"480" height&equals;"360"><&sol;iframe><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ouya is a new console being developed to focus on free-to-play games&period; It&&num;8217&semi;ll also run on the Android platform&comma; be hackable and cost US &dollar;99&period; The purpose is to bring games focused on the mobile&comma; back to the TV screen&period; And it&&num;8217&semi;s pronounced &&num;8216&semi;OOO-yah&excl;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The company behind Ouya&comma; Boxer 8&comma; is looking to see the console be a form of disruptive technology by offering TV experiences for free games which are currently mobile-phone centric&period; Those who have the appropriate SDKs will be able to develop games for Ouya and set their own prices&comma; offering developers the opportunity to focus on developing games for the TV without sky-high cost requirements&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Yves Behar and fuseproject are the brains behind the design of the console&comma; which is a small cube and the console&&num;8217&semi;s specs include&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li>Nvidia Tegra 3 processor &lpar;which can support 1080p HD HDMI output&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>8GB flash storage<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>1GB worth of RAM<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>802&period;11b&sol;g&sol;n wireless chips<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Bluetooth 4&period;0 LE<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>USB and SD Card ports<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p>Ouya has been designed to be hacked&comma; meaning hackers can do all sorts to the system and create a variety of mods&comma; which seems to be encouraged as the console was &&num;8220&semi;built to be hacked&&num;8221&semi;&period;  The controller will be similar to what we are familiar with in terms of current consoles&&num;8217&semi; controllers&period; It&&num;8217&semi;ll feature 8 buttons&comma; a directional pad&comma; 2 analogue sticks but what sets it apart from the competition is it will include a touchpad for games that are more touchscreen centric&period; No rumble features or accelerometer will be included though&period; The controller can be hacked and amended too&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ouya has gained quite a bit of support from big names such as Marcus &&num;8220&semi;Notch&&num;8221&semi; Persson &lpar;<em>Minecraft<&sol;em>&rpar;&comma; Jordan Mechner &lpar;<em>Prince of Persia&rpar;<&sol;em>&comma; Jenova Chen &lpar;thatgamecompany&rpar;&comma; Ed Fries &lpar;from the first Xbox team&rpar;&comma; Adam Saltsman &lpar;<em>Canabalt<&sol;em>&rpar; and Brian Fargo &lpar;<em>Wastelands 2<&sol;em>&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ouya&&num;8217&semi;s set up a <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;kickstarter&period;com&sol;projects&sol;ouya&sol;ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console">Kickstarter campaign<&sol;a> to raise funds and suffice it to say&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s been a success&period; The funding goal was set at &dollar;950&comma;000 but within just a few days&comma; has reached over &dollar;2 million with more than 17&comma;000 backers&period; Yeah&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s safe to assume that Ouya&&num;8217&semi;s not going to have any funding issues with this much support&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lpar;Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;theverge&period;com&sol;gaming&sol;2012&sol;7&sol;10&sol;3147757&sol;ouya-the-99-android-powered-hackable-game-console-explained">The Verge<&sol;a>&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;