Sounds like the kind of game best played under a bridge! count me in :D

Does it come with a game controller?

I think the remote can be held side ways like a Wii controller. I guess the advantage of the Ouya is that it has a gamepad out of the box.

Yes. Just like the headline says.

@Joe

It's another way of saying "nearly failed". Glass is always half empty stuff.

Why do you need so much ram? D:

I don't think that's why it has detractors at all. None of the reasons you list are reasons I did not support it. The big reasons for me are the following:

1. They tout being open, but are unclear how open you can be and maintain being part of their ecosystem. They also tend to be of the GPL open rather than the MIT open ideology, which I am not a fan of.
2. They didn't have a functional prototype when they launched their kickstarter.
3. Afaik they still don't have set costs for developers to plan business viability off of. Pretty sure it's rumored 70-30, which is standard, but I don't think they've announced officially, which is a problem when you are talking about projecting costs to support a business.
4. Ouya is releasing dev kits 3 months before launching the system. This is not enough time.
5. Ouya is releasing into a hugely competitive market that is only getting more competitive. It has to compete with last gen consoles with lower price points and next gen consoles as well as tablets and phones that can hook up to TVs, have controller support, have larger software libraries, and are going to be more powerful.

PA has a good writeup that I generally agree with.

http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/the-reality-of-th e-ouya-console
-doesnt-match-the-hype-why-you-should-be-ske

I wish them the best of luck, but I think it's important to be critical as the worst case scenario is very bad.

Michael,

At least in response to your point 4, The time issue is only a problem for those creating a game from scratch after getting the console. For those who have been planning since the Kickstarter, that 3 months is spent fine tuning the game to work with the Ouya specifics as the rest of the game was designed based off an Android tablet of the same specs.

There is also the fact that Unity has support for the Ouya and those using it will have a much easier time getting their games up and running in that 3 month window.

That is not to say that there won't be late game releases and such, but that it is not a doomsday scenario in the slightest.

I'm saying why people hate it, not why people think it won't work.

You're right that it comes into a very crowded marketplace, but the worry for me is that too many developers will be chasing not enough customers. I think OUYA should spent on more conventional marketing. I know people who would love it, but had never heard of it

Also, It was confirmed some time ago it would be 70-30 split, and if as Mr Knight points out, you've been developing for android, you're used to the idea of the not-entirely-open ecosystem

@"At least in response to your point 4, The time issue is only a problem for those creating a game from scratch after getting the console. For those who have been planning since the Kickstarter, that 3 months is spent fine tuning the game to work with the Ouya specifics as the rest of the game was designed based off an Android tablet of the same specs.

There is also the fact that Unity has support for the Ouya and those using it will have a much easier time getting their games up and running in that 3 month window."

I really think you should not underestimate the amount of time doing platform specific optimizations. Ideally you would take less than a month doing it, but depending on the size of your team it can take a good while just doing platform optimizations.

This time also includes whatever cert process Ouya will have. It seems like they are setting themselves up to have a slow start out of the gate. Maybe they've gotten some dev kits out sooner so they can launch with some good exclusives off the bat; I'd hope so anyway.

"You're right that it comes into a very crowded marketplace, but the worry for me is that too many developers will be chasing not enough customers. I think OUYA should spent on more conventional marketing. I know people who would love it, but had never heard of it"

That's another legitimate problem. It could be slightly temperred by being android based so porting should theoretically be simple, but often developers won't even do simple ports if the market doesn't justify it.

edit: Also is it just me or is the touch screen on the controller smaller than the one they showed originally? I thought it was pitched having a screen about the same as a mid size cell phone, but it looks so small on the controller they have now.