Ouya is being billed on Kickstarter as a "new kind of video game console." Slated to run Android 4.0 on a console environment, Ouya promised to be a huge free-to-play experience, bringing plenty of top-quality titles to your home entertainment system with the option to purchase more content down the road. The hardware, the experience, the controller, and everything else needed to get started was billed at only $99 (USD).
So off went the Kickstarter for the project. Even with 23 days to go, people have been lapping up the prospect of a "free" console environment to the tune of $4.9 million (USD). The problem is, the Ouya developers are already seeking out additional funding from outside sources, leading many to believe that their Kickstarter is a huge scam or just a way to prove to investors that there is a higher than average demand for such a console to be made. Keep in mind that they only wanted $950,000 in funding, meaning that anything above that mark would show a strong desire from potential consumers.
Julie Uhrman, founder of the Ouya team had this to say:
Kevin Dent, CEO of Tiswaz Entertainment remains skeptical about the entire venture:
Right now it seems as though there isn't a clear budget in mind. If more funding is needed as it nears $5 million on Kickstarter, why was the initial goal so low to begin with? Plenty of questions are being raised with Ouya, something that may end up being nothing more than yet another means of playing Angry Birds.
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So off went the Kickstarter for the project. Even with 23 days to go, people have been lapping up the prospect of a "free" console environment to the tune of $4.9 million (USD). The problem is, the Ouya developers are already seeking out additional funding from outside sources, leading many to believe that their Kickstarter is a huge scam or just a way to prove to investors that there is a higher than average demand for such a console to be made. Keep in mind that they only wanted $950,000 in funding, meaning that anything above that mark would show a strong desire from potential consumers.
Julie Uhrman, founder of the Ouya team had this to say:
"This is a really big undertaking and it's going to be expensive. We're looking for additional funds of money but more importantly we wanted to take it to Kickstarter regardless.
"It is unbelievable validation where gamers really demonstrate their enthusiasm with for what we're doing with dollars, and those numbers demonstrate that there is a market.
"[Developers and gamers are] switching focus from TV to mobile platforms. Gamers find hardware and software still to be super expensive and developers feel that it is still complicated and expensive to bring games to the living room."
"It is unbelievable validation where gamers really demonstrate their enthusiasm with for what we're doing with dollars, and those numbers demonstrate that there is a market.
"[Developers and gamers are] switching focus from TV to mobile platforms. Gamers find hardware and software still to be super expensive and developers feel that it is still complicated and expensive to bring games to the living room."
Kevin Dent, CEO of Tiswaz Entertainment remains skeptical about the entire venture:
"It's not going to ship. It's just not going to ship. It just costs too much to develop this. $4 million is nothing. They've got to pay fabrication. They've got to pay designers. They've got to pay manufacturers. They've got to market it. It's a business. $4 million is nothing."
Right now it seems as though there isn't a clear budget in mind. If more funding is needed as it nears $5 million on Kickstarter, why was the initial goal so low to begin with? Plenty of questions are being raised with Ouya, something that may end up being nothing more than yet another means of playing Angry Birds.
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